When Do You Normally Eat Dinner

[ssandy_561]

For us it’s any time between 5 and 8. But the one thing that’s always the same is if we are eating at home it’s ALWAYS together at the dinner table or table on our deck. We have lived together for 29 years and we have NEVER eaten dinner anywhere but at the table when we’ve been home.

[Finster]

We have always done that as well, excepting for the occasional "picnic" in the living room when the kids were little..

[Mosca]

We rarely do. But that is because I often worked past 8PM. During the summer we eat together on the deck, but otherwise it’s wherever.

[texastweeter]

1830 typically, during the kids soccer season it's 1930.

[Dan Deter]

Anywhere between 5:30 and 7:30, depends on how well we time things and what else is going on. We do always eat together if we're all home. Used to be on trays in front of the tv, but the new furniture means we are back eating at the table now

[Troutman]

When the food’s done.

[HawkerXP]

I used that...................once.

[HawkerXP]

Like others, when young we ate when Dad got home. 17:30. Eight of us in that household.

The past few years we've drifted later and later. Mrs. H has stated "No later than 19:00." So, this is what we work towards.

Now that I'm retired, I can see this time moving more towards 18:00.

[rlozinak]

usually between 5:30 and 6:00. Same as when I was a kid in my parents home.

[radiodome21]

Growing up it was around 8:30 because we had to wait for my dad to get home. I thought this was normal until a girlfriend (now my wife) invited me over for a meet the family dinner at 5 on a Sunday. 🧐.
My wife does most of the cooking during the week so we will eat around 6 o’clock. I do work in the office three days a week so I don’t cook too much during the week but I try to stay true to this during the week. However, I cook on the weekends and I usually have dinner on at around seven.

[jfmorris]

Well, growing up, my mom had dinner on the table somewhere between 6 and 7, because my dad usually got home around 5:30 or so. BUT, then she started working the 3-11 shift as an RN, and we had many crock pot meals, for my 6th to 12th grade years. I actually grew to despise pot roast for many years - probably because the cheap select grade meat from the store in those days was tough even after all day cooking.

In college, often dates and dinner were as late as 9 or 10, which boggles my mind these days! I would starve to death if I waited that late to eat dinner...

I would say for most of my marriage (34 years), dinner has been 5:30 or 6. If we are busy, traveling, or going out with friends, it may vary. On weekends if going out, we like to catch an early dinner or late lunch around 3:30 or 4 before places get crowded, and sometimes while they still have the lunch menu out. But those days, we have had a big breakfast, and skipped lunch.

[Finster]

Most nights it's between 6pm and 7pm, sometimes a bit later.
That's just how schedules work out where we're all together at the same time.

[Spinaker]

I try to eat at 7 PM. I only eat once a day, so I am usually looking forward to that meal. I skip dinner altogether on Monday nights. It makes it really easy for me. I only have to worry about making one big meal a day. It's great.

[Dick Anderson]

5:00-5:30, no snacks afterward. Haven't had acid reflux since.

[Huskee]

That's dedication! That would be hard for me. Even when I was dieting (and it was working) and we ate dinner early I 'had to' have a snack around 9-10, usually it was pork rinds and fresh salsa.

[Chuck in Charlotte]

Our family always called an evening snack "nightlunch." My wife thinks that term is hilarious, anybody else call it that?

[Murdy]

Between 7 and 8. Unless were sitting outside grilling, in which case we usually eat later.

[RichardCullip]

6:30pm now days. However growing up in Detroit Lakes, MN we ate dinner around noon and supper around 6PM. Not sure when dinner became lunch and supper became dinner. Perhaps when we moved to California in the mid-60's

[Huskee]

Growing up I occasionally ran into folks who called lunch dinner, and it always confused my little mind. We were a "supper" family, although I don't use that word today, it reminds me too much of a "pass them there taters, Paw" kinda thing.

[Huskee]

Growing up it was always 4:30 or 5, my dad was a night shifter and woke up at 9 pm so we had to eat before he went to bed (at 530 ish). My parents were more structured than I am today.

Nowadays my own family is the furthest thing from a structured dinner time family, we eat anywhere in the 6 to 9 range, often when whatever's outside cooking is done. Yep, even as late as 9 & beyond. I usually aim for 7.

[PGH_RAM]

Between 7pm and 8pm for us.