3/17/23 - what time is your preferred dinner time?

[newwifenewlife]

What time is your preferred dinner time and why?

[OnlyByGrace]

Dinner, which we call tea, is usually sometime between 6-7pm, when I've arrived home from work and prepared something. Earlier if I have a slowcooker ready in winter.

[Lookin2Him]

I like to eat as early as possible once I get home from work. But I prefer a light dinner. My job keeps me active and on the move (3-5 walking miles per day), so I like a good breakfast, and a larger lunch. No need to eat a large meal once the majority of my activity is over IMO.

[Brynna]

We usually eat at 6 these days. Like someone else mentioned, that's really our supper hour and dinner is at noon. We have a child who has almost a 1.5 hr drive to and from school every day for several months this winter. So we eat earlier since they get home earlier then when they are working. We always eat supper as a family, so unless someone is going to be home quite late, we wait for everyone.

[eldorado]

Maybe a little off topic but great damage is being done to this country by all kinds of activity crowding out meal time with children present.

[Pearl]

Well, ideally around 6-6:30, but recently it's been later than that because the time change has us all off, and I've been getting a garden up and running, so later afternoons outside.... Thank goodness for the flexibility of homeschooling and not having to be up at the crack of dawn to meet a bus!

[vazny]

In our Czech culture, home dinner time is at 6 p.m. But I'm often at work until 8 p.m. or longer, so we rarely eat together. The main meal is also lunch, and we have it at work. Wife with children in kindergarten.

Even on the weekend, we often make something of our own for dinner. The adult daughter who lives with us in the apartment does not eat much of my wife's food.

The DW often brings healthy food cooked by cooks in the kindergarten. It has strict state standards for ingredients, etc.

[olafthewise]

There's preferred and reality. Preferred is 5:30pm. Reality is 7:30pm. With 8 kids and a big house and property, There is much being done and once the kids go to bed (4 are under 5), we can actually get things done, cleaned, etc without the kids getting into mischief.

[Moonlight]

To me, the ideal *supper* time is 6:30pm. It’s not too early in the afternoon and not too late in the evening, in my opinion.

[Oldbear]

We enjoy dinner between 5 and 6. Both of us are early risers, so a light breakfast is over by 7 AM. Lunch is simple and taken at 11:30.