What time do you do dinner?

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I always have dinner with my children since my dd started having proper meals, she is 4.9 now. Dh usually has dinner to unless he is at work, he is self-employed so works different hours.
Before children we used to have dinner around 8ish but changed to 5-5.30ish so we could eat as a family. Start kids bath somwhere around 6.30 then everyones had stories and are pratically asleep by 7.30pm.
DD has just started reception and I'm thinking how to organise everthing re food, after-school clubs and bed?? How do you fit it all in? What age do they begin going to bed later?
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DD is 4y5m and also started school last week. We (me, DH and DD) have dinner together at 6:30pm. I get it ready for about 5 minutes after DD gets home from work.

DD is having a school dinner so I do know that she has always had a cooked meal at noon. She will then have a light snack around 3:30ish - fruit, biscuit, etc. And then eats with us later.

DD goes to bed around 7:30(ish!) She no longer has a bath/shower every night. She does always have a story though.

I try and fit her reading homework in between dinner and bed time. At least that is only about 5 minutes woorth max at moment.

Not sure what will happen about after school stuff!

five otherwise they would eat tons!

if at all possible, i make it the night before OR from frozen.

we eat at 5.45PM promptly b/c DH needs to leave for work at 6.30.

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About 7 we eat together but there are only 3 of us,later at weekends

6.30 so that dh is home from work. They go up for a bath straight afterwards.

DSs have dinner 5-5.30pm and DH and I have ours later. DS1 has started reception as well so not sure what I'm going to do when he gets into the full days swing of it. Would love to cook only one dinner!

My DS1 started school last week too - and following on from my 'do I need to cook a meal each night thread - I seem to be cooking for 5/5.15pm. Gives me an hour after we get in from school to get it ready. Not sure what I'll do from next week when he has an after school cluob til 4.30pm - prob just cheese on toast that night! After tea DS1 watches tv till about 6.30/7pm before bath/stories/bed. I eat with the DSs as H is home late. It is quite early for me, but if I dont, then I often dont get rount to eating in the eveneings, which isnt good for me. Homework starts tomorrow though, so will have to fit that in as well...

DS's (2yrs and nearly 6) have always gone to bed at 8pm - we started it with DS1 when he was a little baby and trying to get him to sleep and it's just stuck.

We usually eat dinner around 6-6.30...........but I have to confess I'm still sat on the computer while the turkey stir-fry is waiting to be cooked.

With DH working in the evenings I have to confess weekdays it's generally 6.30-7 that we eat.....sometimes later (weekends it's always 6-6.30).

I'm guessing if I go and cook after posting this we'll eat around 6.45 (ish) - maybe sooner....then I'll give them a bath, story and quiet play then bed at 8.

On Friday's if it's bath day (they have baths every other day) I'll bath them before dinner as I take them to choir practice at 7pm.

oh and sometimes I eat with the boys - but often I'll wait until DH gets in from work around 9.30 (particularly if I was working the night before as my eating pattern get out of sync.......I've only been up since 3pm today!). If I'm working that night I'll eat around 8.30 after they've gone to bed. Weekends we all eat together......except on the Sundays where I have an evening service to play for so DH eats with the boys normal time and I eat later.

Usually between 5.30 and 6.

Dd1 is in primary 2 and gets home at 3.20 on the bus, and does her hw as soon as she gets in (about 15 mins normally). I usually start tea around 5 but have tried to be more organised eg putting on the slow cooker in the morning etc as 3 days a week I am not back from college until 5 ish so it can be a bit of a rush.
We do our best to eat as a family every day, though sometimes the kids and the adults will eat different things. Dh is always ravenous when he gets in. On Fri night dh and I have a nicer meal later on, adn on Sat we sometimes get a take away once the kids are in bed! But on Sat we would always have a sandwich lunch together and we always do a proper sunday lunch (though sometimes we eat it a tea time) when we get home from church.

Our kids dont have a bath every night (though ds usually needs a good scrub round the fingernail and knee departments, and as dd2 is still potty training she quite often will have a wash down to freshen up). They go to bed at 7.30 have prayers and stories and song and lights out by 7,45

My biggest organisational tip is freezing! If you can freeze a meal, take it out and put it in the fridge in the morning then it is ready to cook at teatime!

generally the children eat around 6. dh and I eat later. We sit down to a family breakfast everyday, but evenings aren't practical for us, youngest 2 are starving by 6, dh not often home from work. feel a bit guilty about it

All of us at about 6.30 can be a lot later. Kids go to bed between 8 and 9pm. They might have fruit or the occasional chocolate but no substantial snack before dinner.

We are fairly flexible because of clubs and work, cub night we eat earlier, dance night it is a bit later and DD has a snack at dancing to keep her going

We have a very early dinner I start feeding them between 4:30 and 5pm but then they are both in bed and fast aslepp by 6pm

6 to 6:30 then ds goes up for bath afterwards.

This is a nightmare for us - I wish I could find a simple solution - I dream of being what I call a "marmite family" - all sitting round the table every night at 6.30 discussing our day and sharing insights on the current state of world affairs. I reality, the curlew week goes like this. Monday - pick ds up from afterschool club at 6 - rush him home for a jacket potato and beans and a bath, the bed for 7.30. Brother brings ds home from Brownies at 8.00 (she's been at their house since the end of school eating rubbish grr but that's another thread!)Another jacket potato and bed. Tuesdays, pick ds and dd up from school, go to gym where both eat peanut butter sandwiches, dd does homework,ds has trampolining then dd has gym and I take ds to the park. Home by 7.00 - casserole from slow oven in winter, pasta and vegetable sauce in summer. Wednesday dd has clarinet straight after school then home for dinner at 5.15 before she goes to trampolining at 6.30. Thursdays straight home after school, dinner's at 6.00. Fridays dd goes home with a friend then to dancing. DS has dinner at 5.30, then we pick dd up and she has dinner when she gets home at 7.00. DP and I eat later when he gets home from work - he works for himself so he doesn't have a set time. Sounds like a complete disaster put like that - no wonder I'm obsessive about us eating together at the weekends -the children dont' even eat together every day! I always sit with whoever's eating though - I have a cup of tea, a glass of wine or a G and T depending on need and a chat.