What time do you and your family sit down for your evening meal?

Bella79

Cooking at 8pm ? omg , im in me jimjams by then watching tv lol, i like it all out the way by 6.30 latest!

Guinea_2

If we eat between 5-6 then by the time I've put little one to bed & come back downstairs it's 8pm. The last thing on my mind is cooking dinner, although in the early months of having little one, we were eating late & hated it. I felt so bloated. I might have a snack now but seem to get bloated if we eat really late. After all the jobs that need doing I tend to sit down for a bit of carp telly at about 9pm & up to bed at 10am but do tend to read/use Internet until late! Lol

shellsuit

Between 5pm and 6pm also.

Unless my husband is on call, when sometimes I'll stagger the dinners, ie, toddler at 4.30pm, 2 teens at 6pm and hubby whenever he rolls in as I'll cook something different for everyone.

Most of the time though, I'll cook the same for everyone and we'll all eat at the table, and anyone who is missing will have theirs plated up for when they get in.

mummyplus3

When we had a dining table I usually had tea on the table for 6ish no I stagger meals for the kids and us due to no table, moving and laziness really! But cannot wait to have a dining table again and sit down together! I will aim for 5-6pm with an 18month and a 3 1/2 year old.

balletshoes

Even if I go out for dinner, I prefer to eat at around or before 8pm - any later than that and usually it would still be sitting on my stomach when I went to bed :rotfl:.

I can't imagine cooking at 8pm - thats when my DD is winding down ready for bed, my dishes are washed by then and on the draining board, and I've usually had a cup of coffee or 2 after dinner by that time.

mildred1978

During the week it's just me an LO (just turned 1). He eats pretty much the same as me, at the same time as me (around 8-8.30pm).

On weekends we only eat twice a day (LO has breakfast but we wait to have brunch).

shellsuit

mildred1978 wrote: »

During the week it's just me an LO (just turned 1). He eats pretty much the same as me, at the same time as me (around 8-8.30pm).

On weekends we only eat twice a day (LO has breakfast but we wait to have brunch).

8-8.30pm to eat for a 1year old?!

What time does he go to bed for the night?

Make-it-3

My dishes get left for the next day. If there's something good from prime time TV I catch it on one of the +1 channels, probably why I'm still up now, its not till Cinderella hour that I get my "me" time these days.

mildred1978

shellsuit wrote: »

8-8.30pm to eat for a 1year old?!

What time does he go to bed for the night?

Anytime between 10pm and midnight. He's never up before 10am. I was exactly the same as a baby. It suits us.

shellsuit

mildred1978 wrote: »

Anytime between 10pm and midnight. He's never up before 10am. I was exactly the same as a baby. It suits us.

Until he's a toddler, into absolutely everything and is still running around till midnight driving you mental :eek:

It's none of my business, but I'm really shocked at that.