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Evening meal - you know - supper/tea/grub etc etc...
For us it's usually 1730 with the kids.
It's been like this for a few years, so now I'm used to it.
If I'm going out for an evening meal, or working a late shift (like now...) then I'm proper starving come 1800!
I'm like a child who can't wait.
Chatting to friends at the BBB, they won't eat until gone 2100. I'd be digesting my own innards if I were to wait until then!
It just got me thinking what time most people had the evening meal?
And don't get me started on my riding buddy who comes straight from work to a night ride, and won't get back till after last orders, and won't have had tea!
DrP
Depends on what time I had my dinner.
anywhere from 4.45 to 10pm
if I'm riding I can wait but not if I'm just kicking round the house.
Come home, spod for half an hour, make tea, eat it. So anywhere between 6:30 and 8:30pm really, usually somewhere in the middle.
Though, I don't generally eat lunch till at least 1:30 and often later if I'm engrossed in something at work.
I work 10-630 (well, i'm [i]at[/i] work then...) so often 7-730 is tea time, but if going out then later than that. rarely later than 9 though.
I do tend to graze through the day though.
somewhere between 8-9.30
unless there are external child activities on, it's 1730. On the nail. Couple of days a week it's 1815, or 1835 on another day. We like routine in our house..
Don't usually leave work till 7ish, 30 minutes to cycle home, so probably most nights don't eat until well after 8pm.
You don't eat tea, you drink it.
I am starving by the end of work, quite happy eating whn my kids are hungry ie 1730-1800. I like to think it is because of the power draw of my amazing brain and how hard i am thinking all day, 8) also well-known in my field that doing the eating disorders clinic makes you proper hungry as if 'by proxy'.
I too have a couple of mates who have tea after the night ride. I just don't think i would finish the ride with no tea! Sometimes i have a tiny little second dinner (in France this is quite seriously known as 'le cinquieme repas') after a night ride too.
6pm whilst watching the evening news.
Yup, 6pm. But no Telly, enforced family conversation, which normally means one kid talking whilst other 2 just make random noise in some sort of weird competition.
one kid talking whilst other 2 just make random noise in some sort of weird competition.
Sounds like some threads on here...
7pm would be early, 10pm late. 8.30 average I guess. No kids. Bedtime is about 11-midnight.
7-8 if working from home
8-9 if working in London
9-10 if riding after work
Any of those times at weekend
When the kids were smaller it used to be 6-6.30 (I was never home much before 7 so always ate alone).
Now they are teens its crept later and later, much to my wifes displeasure (she likes routine!). Great for me as I'd rather do stuff like go for a walk or get on the running machine after getting home and before dinner - otherwise i just want to veg. So its usually about 7.30 - 8.00 now. I'd be fine with 8.30-9.00 especially in summer.
Thursday nights i just skip it altogether when riding, just have a nana before and usually get some free chips at one of our friendly pubs. Then a cooked breakfast at work the next morning!
Between 5 and 6, depending on kids activities and whether I'm riding home.
Well looks like about midnight tonight as I'm still waiting on the Mrs getting home.
Supper is 6 with children, go out for dinner. I drink tea all day.
Depends.
I'm still in the office now (7pm). I'll probably be home in 20 mins.
If the kids haven't eaten yet then I'll eat with them then. If they have eaten then I'll get involved in getting them ready for bed, reading stories etc and have my dinner once they are down (often after 9pm).
No way 1730 would work for us. On days we are both working we don't pick up the kids till 1800 and even that is a rush.
About 6.30, give or take. Earlier if I'm heading out for a night ride, or training or something. Later if something gets in the way. Much after 7 and I start getting ratty. No way I could do a night ride without having tea first
I heard somewhere that you're meant to eat ''supper'' no later than 6:30 due to the digestion and breaking down of carbs.
Probably due to your metabolism slowing later on in the evening.
Around 1600 or so. Not always taken, but when it is, it's between lunch and dinner.
Just after 7. If we leave it too late much of my family can't eat and then it all goes grumpy. Any earlier and not everyone is home. Seems to work ok.
Dinner is around 8pm in our house, no kids and as I do the cooking Mrs Lunge has to wait for me to get home to cook it.
Supper? Usually around now. Call it between half past seven and eight.
Term time everybody around the table about 6:30pm, later in the summer hols.
Eat too late and the evening's gone before you know it.
tea time! The reptiles need feeding no later than 5 or they start to eat the furniture, I'm not usually home by then but occasionally get to eat with them when WFH/skiving other than that I eat a cold plate of leftovers about 8 or sometimes actually sit down with the wife and eat a meeeyal. Freeder neet's curry neet though. No exceptions.
Tea usually around 4-5 on weekends mainly, usually have supper later in the evening. In the week we have dinner around 8pmish.
People that say "dinner" when they mean lunch and "tea" when they mean dinner remind me of my MIL. Shudder.
People that pretend they're posh remind me of my mother in law.
A bit of a sore point for me. I woùld love it to be 6pm with the family but due to work I dont get in til about 7.30pm. I cant eat straight away and tend to catch up with the kids until their bed at 8.30 so not eating until about 9pm most days.
One DRINKS Tea, then one EATS Dinner. One does not EAT Tea....... 😆
17:00 to 18:30 is when dinner shall be served at Solo Hall....
Unless I'm at the 19th hole, in which case dinner is probably overlooked, in favour of another drink, hic!
OP your initial post provides an image of domestic bliss, to think of Family 'P' all sitting around the table, enjoying dinner [b]together[/b]
After all, a family that eats together, "sticks" together.
🙂
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One does not eat "dinner" at all these days, due to its inherent ambiguity. One eats lunch around the morning / afternoon border, and tea in the evening.
It's the future, you know it.
Still waiting for youngest to come back from football training. Soo hungry
I've always been in a regime whereby I eat when I get home from work. This is normally in the range between 1630-1800. I too can't stand eating late, anytime after my 1800 closeout and I'm starting to eat the sofa and the Mrs's Pants.
All stems form training years ago, never eat after 1900 and make sure a balance of protein and carbs.
When sailing, often take to eat when you can and sometimes over eat which means by 2000 "curry o'clock" and I'm done for the evening.
No help that MrsBouys munching time tends to be 2100-2200 is it 🙄
Still waiting for youngest to come back from football training. Soo hungry
You eat your young? 😯
teas for wimps 8)
Cougar, you are so horribly wrong amd misguided.
People who think that any basic sort of level of civility means being "posh" also remind me of my mother in law.
Thanks! I do try so.
Firstly Tea is a drink 😉
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner! late smaller dinner called Supper is acceptable too
brunch or elevenses are descriptive and accurate so just about ok too 🙂
In hospital far to bloody early, the whole food day is too compressed imo, breakfast 9, lunch 12, dinner 17-17:30.
At home, dinner if eating with the little man 5:30-6ish before bed at 7-7:30.
Nursery days where he has dinner there, the wife and I eat about 7:30-8 after bed time.
Oh hang on, this was a trick question. A bit like the old "plane crashes on the border between two countries, where do you bury the survivors?". Very good.