DH has complained that he doesn't want his dinner on the table when he gets in from work!

[Dragonbutter]

He says he i'm a bit too prompt.
He gets in at 6.30pm and the kids have usually already eaten. I'm usually starving, but want to eat with him so try to have dinner timed for 6.30pm.
But he wants me to time it for a bit later.
IHBU?

your squash wasn't as big as your swede?! Jings.

I take it you post on that fruit and veg topic regularly, bex? If not, get yourself over there sharpish. They'll love ya

DH has his dinner ready for just after he comes in from work. He arrives home from work at 6:30pm and we all eat together, with DD, at about 6:45pm. Dh likes how it all works, and hae to say it is far easier for me - only one meal to make, no clashing with DD's bedtime, no rushing about after she has gone to ed, etc. Means once she is in bed we can just relax fror the evening.

DD just has a small snack aftr coming in from school, so around 3:45-4pm.

Don't see Dh until 10-30/11pm and only then if I can stay awake to drag his supper out of Aga. Being married to high flyer not all it's cracked up to be....it gets lonely but I am in no position to grumble....

Well this won't do at all will it.
We DID have a lovely dinner cooked by DH but it was so late we were a bit pissed by then.
So, by the time i'd sobered up a bit later eating pudding (yes, we do pudding too), he's gone off to bed because he has to be up really early in the morning.
And it's taken me til 11.30 to finish tidying up the kitchen and fold the laundry.
And i've probably missed the BARRRRRRRRRR, it's so late.
No this will not do at all.

...but this thread did make it to hot topics on the mumsnet parenting news email!!!!so that's good.

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The bar
This thread usually pops up around teatime until late. It's a virtual bar thread, good chat.Usually has too many rrrrr's in the title.
And watch out for the virtual fight outside the kebab shop!

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nah, you've got me stumped on that one.

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I think you may have to resign yourselves to cooking twice until kids are older tbh. We tend to do really quick things for us like salads, stirfrys, fish etc if the children have had something different. Just you wait until you're trying to fit in post 6pm activities like Cubs as well

There is no way I would cook more than one dinner a day and I won't eat reheated food, so we eat together.
Plus the DC's don't see their Dad all day so it's nice to have a family meal, they all have breakfast together and then dinner later.
I understand not wanting to eat as soon as he gets in but I'd just make dinner slightly later.
In our house it goes like this.

3:30; Pick kids up from school, let them have a snack of some sort.
6:00; DP gets home
6:30; Dinner is on the table
6:50; Kids in bath whilst washing up is done.
7:00; DC's have milk and biscuits
7:30; DC's go to bed.
My evening is then free.

About once a week DP & I will have 'a date' (as named by DD) where the DC's eat before us and we'll have a nice dinner together with wine and pudding.

Ah, WEBATUM?
No dummy there's a list.

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FFS, it's at the top of this page under 'useful stuff'.

Gosh, this has made me think! I tend to have DH food ready soon after he comes in - as I work more locally, i pick up kids from after-school club and nursery, make their tea, hear reading, etc, and get v hungry - but if I ate anything at all it'd wreck my appetite for my evening meal. DH can arrive home anytime from 6 - 8pm, so hard to plan to eat together - he phones when he's leaving, so I know when to aim for, but m-way probs can cause huge delays - I start making it as soon as I know he's on his way. Our kids require less than average sleep, so we either put them to bed late - which means we have no evening - or persevere trying to put them to bed at a more reasonable time. We do the the latter, but it can take ages - so it's essential we eat before, while we're in the mood. This does mean his food's on the table soon after soming in. He's never ocmplained yet....

What fruit & veg topic? Guess what we are growing in our yard?