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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 woĆ¹ld 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....... š
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 š
Still waiting for youngest to come back from football training. Soo hungry
You eat your young? šÆ
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 š
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner! late smaller dinner called Supper is acceptable too
brunch or elevenses are descriptive and accurate so just about ok too š
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.
Whenever the butler awakes from his afternoon nap.
People who talk about civility whilst sneering [s]remind me of[/s] are arseholes
How are all these posters managing to have dinner at 5 or 5:30??
What time do you finish work that you can pick up the kids, get them sorted and start cooking dinner so you can sit down to it at 5?
Sneering? Weird thing to say.
1700 - 1730 usually . Brekkie is at 0500 , brekkie #2 at 0830, lunch at 1200.
If I can squeeze in a ride or windsurf after work then sometimes tea is 7pm .
curto80 - Member
Sneering? Weird thing to say.
Not when he's sneering at other people himself, though. Or should that be, a REALLY weird thing to say as a result of that?
No idea, my brain hurts!
It's tea FFS and a bath is a bath, not a barth. Bloody southern/posh shandies š
How would you know, Jim? Everyone knows Northerners don't wash.
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Genuine question: up norf would you phone a restaurant to ask for a table reservation for tea?
Tea is taken in the afternoon.
Supper is when we are ready, 7pm to 9pm.
We go out for dinner.
No, you just join the back of the queue.
The chip shop doesn't take reservations.
Neither does Greggs.
Cougar - ModeratorYou eat your young?
Only on a super moon
Genuine question: up norf would you phone a restaurant to ask for a table reservation for tea?
I'd ask for a table reservation for X people at Y time. I might request a bottle of red or brown sauce at the table.
A Northern restaurant, pictured earlier this evening;
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[i] CougarĀ -Ā Moderator
Thanks! I do try so.[/i]
Well, you could start by trying to practice typing your smileys the way everyone else usually does. You know?, eyes first, smile last...
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Keeping with the secondary theme of the thread...
People who refer to dinner as "[i]tea[/i]" remind me of.....Nope! I'm not going to insult them.
After all, they already know they're wrong and lets face it. Who needs to argue?
Oh dear Lord.
Protect us from the Vikings, The Hungarian arrow and those who refer to the evening meal, using a word we use to describe a drink.
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Again though, how the hell are people managing to sit down to [i]"evening meal"[/i] at 5??
Especially the southerners who apparently spend hours commuting every day?
Are you on half days or do you just start at 5am?
Especially the southerners who spend hours commuting every day?
Commuting? None of us work down here, Graham. We're all too busy counting our money.
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[i] Trailrider JimĀ
MemberĀ It's tea FFS and a bath is a bath, not a barth. Bloody southern/posh shandies[/i]
Oh, no, it is Barth. But fear not, None taken.
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Dinner / tea / evening meal, what every you want to call it, normally 19.30
6am actually.
and I go to work to work, not piss around posting on STW every 20 mins, So i get to finish at 3ish . Home by 4pm most days , eating dinner at 5.30pm is normal to me.
[i] I might request a bottle of red or brown sauce at the table.[/i]
Nice, like your style, ordering your drinks in advance of your arrival.
Do you request the bottle be served at a specific temperature?
One DRINKS Tea, then one EATS Dinner. One does not EAT Tea.......
Except High Tea, naturally. Otherwise I concur.
[i] I go to work to work, not piss around posting on STW every 20 mins[/i]
One of the best posts on STW, EVER!
LMAO!
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6am actually.
So how do the kids get to school/nursery? Or are they older?
Ours are 5 and 2. The earliest our wraparound childminder and nursery will take them is 8am.
Genuinely interested in how other people manage this as I think our routine is crap (half 9 now and we've just got the kids settled. We'll probably flop into bed within the hour)
Tea at 17.30 sounds good to me. Then another one at 21.00 (a bit like breakfast, but that's 7.00am and 10.30 š )
How are all these posters managing to have dinner at 5 or 5:30??
What time do you finish work that you can pick up the kids, get them sorted and start cooking dinner so you can sit down to it at 5?
This!
Days the wee one is at nursery leave work at 5, get him 5:15, home for 5:30 to rush something onto the table for him as he's proper starving by then. Wife gets home at 6 (works out of town) and we eat together at 7:30. Days he's not at nursery I work later to make up my hours, get home 6:30-7 in time to see him before bed, wife and I still eat at 7:30.
The thing that pains me most is not getting to eat as a family during the week but its impossible to make it work with our current arrangements, I guess it will get easier as he gets older and can eat later.
Again though, how the hell are people managing to sit down to "evening meal" at 5??
I don't do 9-5 and I work from home.
In our northern household 'tea' is before 7pm 'Dinner' is after. Oh and my husband says I'm posh because I refuse to eat in the street.
Evening meal is 6.30 - 7pm depending on what I've cooked
On night ride night 5.30pm
At weekends when we look after our nephew its 5-6pm
As a kid with northern parents dinner was at 12, tea was at 4:30pm and supper was at 7pm. Obviously there was a breakfast in the morning. I don't know if that's typical behaviour for northern folk.
I've now managed to switch to calling the mid-day meal lunch (otherwise that oddity of brunch wouldn't make sense) and the evening meal dinner. I've come to accept it's not normal for dinner to occur before 6pm (unless kids are involved) and usually a lot later. I do struggle not to have food in my hand when the clock hits mid-day though!
Every evening I drive home from work, open the door at 5:45 , hang up my jacket, walk into the dining room and sit down at the head of table, surrounded by the adoring faces of my waiting children, at which point my wife appears from the kitchen and sits my dinner on the table in front of me.
Sounds idyllic doesn't it?
Before anyone blows a gasket about how this sort of mysoginistic chauvinism should not be tolerated in the modern world let me explain.........
If I DON'T arrive from work at exactly the right time and immediately bolt down my dinner, then whichever of the kids is due to be at football / music lessons / swimming / Boys Brigade / Girls Brigade will be late and, crucially, it will be ALL MY FAULT! Domestic bollocking ensues.
The carefully timed routine of kids activities / baths / stories / brushing teeth etc. MUST NOT be disrupted.
I'm a victim of the system, yer honner!
[quote=Bunnyhop dijo]In our northern household 'tea' is before 7pm 'Dinner' is after. Oh and my husband says I'm posh because I refuse to eat in the street.
Evening meal is 6.30 - 7pm depending on what I've cooked
On night ride night 5.30pm
At weekends when we look after our nephew its 5-6pm
not it's bloody not, tea is after I get home from work, dinner is what I eat AT work.
cue arguments about dinner ladies and me sleeping in the spare bedroom tonight...
[i]not it's bloody not, tea is after I get home from work, dinner is what I eat AT work. [/i]
I have lunch at work, dinner usually between 6:30pm and 7:30pm. I ride home from work most days so don't get home till 6:30.
Breakfast 6
Lunch 12
Dinner 8
Supper in our house (not posh) was something light to eat near bedtime.
Tea is a drink. High Tea is eating out for old people.