What time do you have dinner?

OldMrBrennan83 · 07-10-2016 03:44PM

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GLaDOS · 07-10-2016 04:14PM

JupiterKid wrote: »

I'm amazed at the amount of people who eat dinner at 5.30. I thought people tended to eat dinner a little later these days.

I'm wondering where all these people work that they get home and dinner made by half 5

OldMrBrennan83 · 07-10-2016 04:27PM

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SarahMollie · 07-10-2016 04:28PM

We have our dinner whenever its ready.

My OH's family are very regimented about dinners, they're always at 6pm sharp, and 7pm if its a fancy affair with people coming over. So that was a fun when we first moved in - him looking at me as if to say "wheres my dinner, its 6pm"? Sure I only get home around 6pm most days and I'll be dammed if I'm going to end up being the sole cook, so that got knocked on the head pretty quickly.

I'd say dinners are more likely between 7-8 most nights - sometimes you just don't feel like cooking the second you walk through the door. We always make something proper though, and I'd often batch cook things and freeze them so that we always have freezer options if cooking feels to hard on a given day!

07-10-2016 04:29PM

GLaDOS wrote: »

I'm wondering where all these people work that they get home and dinner made by half 5

They are the same people who are very well acquainted with Scratch

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 07-10-2016 04:36PM

GLaDOS wrote: »

I'm wondering where all these people work that they get home and dinner made by half 5

Now retired, but worked 10 minutes from home. Left work in town at 5 or earlier some days and straight out to the countryside for dinner at home. My wife finished at 4.30 and was home in 20 minutes. Simple.

hannible the cannible · 07-10-2016 11:21PM

I have it every day at half 5 , when herself moved in it took me a while to get it to sink in that that's the time I like it , so now she's good as gold and has it on the table every day for half 5 , bless her little cotton socks

foxy farmer · 08-10-2016 09:46AM

Depends on the time of year and length of the days. When the clocks go forward the hour in summer i have a longer working day so i stop and put on the grub around 12.30. Do a few small jobs before its ready,say around 1.30. Would have a small tea around 6.00 then back out for a few hours.
With the clock going back in a few weeks I'll resort to a quick bite around 1.00 and have the dinner around 6.30 or after. Not much gets done here after dark. Hit the sofa and have a 1-3 hr food induced sleep.
Dinner for me is spuds veg and meat. I often work with contractors at silage time and its rare to get a proper dinner. Usually its salads. One day a few years ago we called to 4 different yards. Got fed in each. 4 salads in the one day. My stomach was in bits.
My neighbour has his around 5.00 then out milking. Only found this out recently. I spent a few day with him 2 yrs ago reroofing a shed. I had my breakfast around 8.30 struck down to him around 10.00 on the first day. Saw no bite till nearly 5.00 that evening. Nearly blew down the door going in with the height of hunger. Needless to say i left a bit later the next day and had a snack beforehand.
The late Jackie Healy Rae claimed that the "plain people of Ireland who ate the dinner in the middle of the day". I'd totally agree.

893bet · 08-10-2016 09:49AM

I generally have two dinners every day. 12.30-1.00 and then 6.30-7.30.

KERSPLAT! · 08-10-2016 09:50AM

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alroley · 08-10-2016 09:50AM

Between 7 and 8 on weekdays and around 6 on weekends.

08-10-2016 10:40AM

Some time between 7:30 and about 10:30 depending on the evening and what time I get in. I'd say between 8 and 9 would be the most common. Weekends would be similar enough time, including Sunday. It would be take away or eating out about 2 or 3 times a week too though rather than cooking at home.

I usually eat twice a day a big lunch and a big dinner during the week and a big late breakfast (fry etc) and a big dinner every sat and Sunday . I don't know how people can not have dinner, if I was having dinner any earlier than 7 I'd be hungry again have to eat again before bed so even if I am home earlier I wouldn't eat dinner until my normal time.

r93kaey5p2izun · 08-10-2016 12:55PM

Usually between 5 and 6.30. If I'm off work then I like eating a bigger meal at lunch time, but eating a main meal in the middle of the day then having to run around straight after would make me sick, so it's not an option on working days.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 08-10-2016 01:20PM

foxy farmer wrote: »

Depends on the time of year and length of the days. When the clocks go forward the hour in summer i have a longer working day so i stop and put on the grub around 12.30. Do a few small jobs before its ready,say around 1.30. Would have a small tea around 6.00 then back out for a few hours.
With the clock going back in a few weeks I'll resort to a quick bite around 1.00 and have the dinner around 6.30 or after. Not much gets done here after dark. Hit the sofa and have a 1-3 hr food induced sleep.
Dinner for me is spuds veg and meat. I often work with contractors at silage time and its rare to get a proper dinner. Usually its salads. One day a few years ago we called to 4 different yards. Got fed in each. 4 salads in the one day. My stomach was in bits.
My neighbour has his around 5.00 then out milking. Only found this out recently. I spent a few day with him 2 yrs ago reroofing a shed. I had my breakfast around 8.30 struck down to him around 10.00 on the first day. Saw no bite till nearly 5.00 that evening. Nearly blew down the door going in with the height of hunger. Needless to say i left a bit later the next day and had a snack beforehand.
The late Jackie Healy Rae claimed that the "plain people of Ireland who ate the dinner in the middle of the day". I'd totally agree.

I thought silage outfits were seriously fed!! I remember them in my own house, massive dinner, my mother all but put sideboards on the plates - proper dinner like meat veg potatoes etc. Think that was the norm around here too, neighbours would have been the same.
Farmers getting into all that healthy eating paelo stuff now eh!

PandaPoo · 08-10-2016 01:38PM

I love cooking and cook a nice big dinner every evening, we eat at 7. Growing up dinner was 6pm on the dot, and we all ate together as a family at the table. I'll keep that traditional going, my husband would have us all eat in the sitting room but that's my idea of hell

08-10-2016 01:59PM

PandaPoo wrote: »

I love cooking and cook a nice big dinner every evening, we eat at 7. Growing up dinner was 6pm on the dot, and we all ate together as a family at the table. I'll keep that traditional going, my husband would have us all eat in the sitting room but that's my idea of hell

I love eating in front of the tv or while reading the paper etc. Might sound a bit strange but there are some tv shows that I save for watching while eating, often stop watching when I'm finished eating and take it up again from where I left off at the last meal when having the next. Usually eat meals at home on the couch in the living room.

08-10-2016 02:12PM

Lunch is around one, dinner around 7 or 8 at the latest. I'd lean towards 7 when I'm on my own.

If I'm on my own I eat at my kitchen counter with the tv on, if the chap or anyone else is with me we eat at the table and turn off the tv. It's nice to chat and catch up over food. If I'm alone I'm done in 20 minutes, but if I've company dinner can last hours.

Deub · 08-10-2016 02:16PM

Dinner time time is different in winter and summer. In winter it is around 19h30 but in summer it is around 20h30.

08-10-2016 02:24PM

Between 5.30 and 9.. Usually 6.30 though. About 33% each for cooking, ordering and eating out.

ChikiChiki · 08-10-2016 02:54PM

My mother does have it ready at 1pm because it's the way country people do it apparently. I do be only getting out of bed on the weekends at that time.

harr · 08-10-2016 03:21PM

Dinner at 5.30 ...I am a stay at home dad so lucky I can have a dinner ready on the table when OH gets home ..kids have a quick snack when in from school (2.30) normally toast...I like cooking for winter dinners it means I can do a nice big cottage pie or similar earlier in the day then pop it into oven around 5 ready for 5.30 ... slow cooker is a god send as well because if people are running late the grub stays warm and family can help themselves.

FizzleSticks · 08-10-2016 03:44PM

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Lucashood2016 · 08-10-2016 03:49PM

ongarboy wrote: »

You live off sandwiches, cereal and noodles for your main meal most days of the week?? What about vegetables, meat or fish or staples like pasta, rice or potatos? Doesn't sound like a very nutritional diet. Dinner doesn't have to be like a formal Sunday type roast with starters and desert. A simple, healthy main meal can be cooked and served in under 30 minutes (stir fries etc)

I try and eat before 8pm most nights as I don't like going to bed with a full stomach - not good for calorie burning either although in France and South America, I believe eating dinner at 10pm or later is considered fairly normal.

thats bull****

byte · 08-10-2016 04:09PM

Usually between 6 and 7pm, an hour earlier on Sundays (for no apparent reason).

meeeeh · 08-10-2016 08:04PM

FizzleSticks wrote: »

I aim for 7.

Where's all the weirdos who think dinner is at lunch time gone?

Where I come from main meal some time in the middle of the day. People often work 7-3 and main meal would be in usually no later than four or five. Similarly Italians close for long break in the middle of the day to get a decent meal (1 to 4). I got used to having main meal in the evening but I actually think middle of the day is better because you get breakfast, one big meal and another small meal instead of breakfast and then two big meals.

Sue Pa Key Pa · 08-10-2016 08:21PM

Earliest would be around 6 on Wednesdays and Fridays as we usually have to be somewhere by 7pm those days. Other than that, anywhere between 6.30 and 8pm, depending on the cooking time of what we're having. Anything later than that and I'll start snacking

Caoimhgh1n · 08-10-2016 08:32PM

Between 5 and 6. Couldn't eat a meal any later than 6:30.

Voodoomelon · 08-10-2016 08:34PM

All the country folk have dinner or "tea" at lunch time. Everyone else has it 5.30-8.00pm.

Thems the rules.

What time do you have dinner?

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