What time do you dine ?

[hammerman]

What time do you folks have your main meal....is it at lunch time (12pm - 2pm) or later in the day.

When i lived with my parents many moons ago, dinner was 5.30...as soon as everyone was in from work. I can always remember watching the cartoon (willow the wisp, Ivor the engine, the clangers etc) and then the news at 5.40 whilst eating my dinner.

But now days, with a family of my own, i sometimes don't even think about cooking dinner until 6.30-7pm.

We mostly sit down at around 7pm...sometimes later but rarely earlier.

What do you do in your households ?

[lilacben]

Well when my daughters where younger and at school it would be about 5.30. Then when they left home it was the same for years. But now after 37 years we can have it anytime up tO 8.30.

[Jugglering]

Hi H...

I don't even get home from work until at least 7pm, then the beastaloids have to be fed and watered (they get a bit noisy and bite my ankles when they are hungry.....) so I don't even start cooking until at least 7:30pm..... so I usually eat my main mean about 8:30-9:0pm.... I only have a sarnie or a salad at lunchtime (1pm) but do have breakfast (fruit and toast). Obviously this only applies during the working week... weekends take on whole different feeling !

[wiggal]

We have dinner any time really!

Hasnt even gone in the oven yet this evening, although it is only pizza!

Sometimes can eat as late 10.30pm on a Friday or weekend, however in the week can be anything up til around 9.30!

[messyjessy12]

i have breekie at 7am then by 1 im starving,ive got a very physical job. then later on about 8-9 we have a snack of wt we call supper.the saying is breakfast like a king,lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper.

[theonlyone]

Normally about 6-7pm ..

[natalie_1982]

When I was a kid we would have our main meal at about 5.30 when mum got in from work. Before my daughter was born my husband and i would usually eat early, 4.30ish, as we'd be going out to the gym or something in the evening and would never feel like cooking or eating when we got in. Now I have a baby though I have knocked all that keep fit malarky on the head (well for the moment anyway), and we tend to eat once she is bathed and in bed which is about 6:30-7.

[funnygirl]

Because I work, we like to eat around 7ish in the week.

I eat lunch at about 12:30


On saturdays we eat about 5ish and on Sundays we like to eat about 3pm.

[janetsflower]

We usually eat bout 8-9pm, depending whether its a quickly prepared meal or a more lengthy one. When we we were kids we usually ate about 6pm. Never have we watched television whilst eating our meals, unless its a takeaway and a film

[4getmenot]

about 5 half past when younger, watched either grange hill or fun house, byker grove :-) Now I have it ready for about 6

[fabemmy]

When I was at school it used to be around 4.30 but know I am older and working at is around 6oclock.

How old are you 4getmenot because I watched them TV shows like fun house and byker grove when I was a kid. like you say in your answer.

[polyanna18]

I have always kept to the English way of meal times - lunch about 12-1 and tea/dinner between say, 5 and 6 and perhaps something later for supper about 9 to 10.

But in Spain they do it different - lunch is between 2/3 pm and dinner between 9/10 pm. Having lived there for a bit I always felt there was something missing around 5 or 6 pm. I was glad when I came back and got back to my normal routine of meal times.

[4getmenot]

I;m 30

[realaleman]

Sinatra sang:

She gets too hungry, for dinner at eight
She loves the theater, but doesnt come late
Shed never bother, with people she'd hate
Thats why the lady is a tramp

which sort of suggests that sophisticated people eat later than slags.