Something I don't get about BLW...

[OneTiredFox]

Do you eat your evening meal at the same time as your baby? Personally, I don't want to eat my tea at 5pm or 6pm...

No, but I didn't do BLW and just gave DD our leftovers for lunch the next day...

You can if you want, but you don't have to.

Our evening meal was ds' evening meal the following day. Lunch and breakfast we always ate together.

Yeah, we have dinner at 6pm when DH gets in from work. I'll be buggered if I'm cooking dinner twice.

But if you don't want to, then you just sit with them, have a cup and some cake.

Have 2 dinners! that's what I'm planning

yes, I always eat with the children.

We all eat together at 6.

Meh, it's not ideal but it's the best compromise that works for us.

Yes. I also like to eat with my children.

Is eating as a family not common in the UK? As a general rule we all eat together between 6 and 7, have done since we started weaning (a year ago). It works really well for us and IMHO it's really important for DCs relationship with food, and for us all as a family too.

DD has a snack at about 4 or 5 and then milk and bed between 7 and 8. She's only just starting to reduce the evening milk now (she's 18 months).

and erm, why is this specifically aimed at people who do BLW? surely you'd have the same issue however you fed your child?

We eat at 5.30 with dd, you get used to it after a while.

It's just a logistical thing, really. DH doesn't get home from work until 6.30pm, so he would have to eat alone every night if I had tea with DD. And if I eat dinner early then I'm starving by 9pm and end up snacking!

I like the two dinners idea, though ChocOrange

Actually, yes, I suppose it's not just aimed at BLWers - but it was reading up on it that got me thinking about it, which is why I posted aimed at them. I was just interested in what you do, is all. Plus I'm thinking ahead to when I go back to work and how I will also get home late and that will complicate things further.

Sometimes I eat early. Sometimes I sit with a glass of water and a piece of fruit and then eat properly later.

We eat more or less immediately when DP gets home, which is usually between 6 and 6:30. The timing can be a bit tricky but we find it worth the effort (for us).

We tend to eat dinner between 7 and 8 and DS goes to bed at 8 or 9. That way I get a lie in in the mornigns!

Well I'm glad to see we're not the only people who eat as a family - out of everyone I know - and I mean literally EVERYONE - we are the only family I know who eat together for all our meals - everyone else eats one main meal a week or so with the children and then lunch and breakfast if SAHM but all eat separately in the evening - and no it's not just a time thing - many of their DHs get in the same time as mine.

I tend to have a snack between 5 and 6 which is when DS has his meal (normally leftovers from our previous night's dinner) It's really nice to have a proper dinner with DH when DS has gone to sleep. DH does bathtime at about 6:30 while I prep dinner and then I take over and give milk and settle DS while DH finishes off. When I go back to work and DS is in nursery he'll have a 3pm snack, get collected by DH about 5:30 so probably have his dinner closer to 6. I'm not likely to get home from work much before 6 so i think it would get quite frantic if I tried to keep DS up longer to join us for dinner.

We all have breakfast together. Whoever is not at school or work has lunch together. Occasionally we have early dinner together but usually the children eat at 5.30 (they call it supper) and Dh and I eat any time between 8.30 and 10.30 so we can sit and talk - and usually have some wine. Sometimes he lights candles too, the old rogue.

We too eat together at the table.
DH gets in from work about 5.30 and dinner is around about 6ish. I usually start preparing dinner before he is due back so its almost ready for when he gets in.

Its so nice to sit together and talk about our days. We sit in the dining room with no TV on. DD is only 9mths but we serve our dinners out from a dish in front of her and she enjoys eating the same as us (BLW).

She has much better control of her fork and spoon that other friends the same age which comes from A) BLW- Lots of practice and b) eating together and watching us.

Ds1 now 21 months, has always eaten dinner on his own. He feeds himself now, so sometimes if I do a big cottage pie or something like that we will all eat early together and then me and dp will have a sandwich or something later, but in general ds1 eats at 5ish and me and dp eat after they've gone to bed, normally around 8/9 depending on how they settle.
I do sometimes put some of our leftovers in the fridge for ds1 to have the following day, and in the earlier stages, I used to chuck a few extra veg bits in the steamer and leave them in the fridge overnight for the nect day.
You'll find the way that suits you all

We all eat at 6pm too, it's the only way for us with four children to feed, baby to bath etc. I'd rather eat then and be able to relax once DS is in bed than have to cook again. I like eating with them anyway

i'm so jealous, DH is a tv-dinner man, I wish I could get him to sit and eat dinner with me....

I eat breakfast and lunch with DS (8 mths) but he eats his tea at 5pm by himself (I don't mean alone in a room) and is in bed by 6pm. DP and I have our tea after DS has gone to bed. We use our leftover tea for DS's lunch the following day.

When he's a litle older and has a later bedtime then we will all have our tea together.