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

Gorgeestwo

Over the school holiday's we've all been eating together at between 6-7pm, but once the kids are back at school they'll need to be in bed by 7.30 at the latest, so they'll have their tea at around 5-5.30pm then I'll wait and have my food with DH once he's home from work and the kids are in bed, so about 8pm ish.
I'd love for us to all by able to eat our dinner together every day, but as DH doesn't get home from work till 6.30pm it would just make bedtime too late for the children.

itzmee

Evening meal time depends on whether DH is working or not as he does a 4 on, 4 off shift from 2.00 am - 2.00 pm. He usually gets home from work around 2.30pm and is in bed for around 7pm so the family have to eat by 4.30 as I don't want to do separate sittings. I hate cooking this early as it means that I'm pigging out again later in the evening when DH is in bed . When he's not working then we eat between 5.30 - 6.00.

Caroline73_2

We eat together at the table at about 6.30/7pm. Dh gets home about 6.15 so it works well. Ds2 (5) then goes to bed about 8.

Nimeth

OH gets home from work about 6ish, so we usually eat around 7/7:30. We don't have any kids to worry about (yet).

Makes a bit of a change from when I was a kid, my dad would get home from work between 7 and 7:30, so we'd eat together between 8 and 8:30!

onlyroz

Some time between 6:30 and 7:30 depending on what we're cooking. I get in from work at about 6:15, and hubby around 6:30.

Considering the "normal" working day is 9AM-5PM I'm amazed at how so many of you manage to have dinner at 5PM. Do you all live next door to your work-place or something?

I think that a family dinner is very important and so we try to all eat together if possible.

VfM4meplse

Depends on what's going on in the evening and whether I've had lunch. Usually around 8pm if no lunch, any time after 10pm it's too late to bother at home, although adnittedly I made some toast at midnight yesterday.

If going out for dinner, never before 8.30pm.

Today I've eaten a load of carbohydrate, so will skip dinner and go for an intensive swim instead.

Nimeth

onlyroz wrote: »

I think that a family dinner is very important and so we try to all eat together if possible.

I very much agree with this statement! I think it's an opportunity to spend time together as a family and facilitate family bonding.

It frustrates me no end if I'm round my in-laws to see them all parked in front of the TV watching rubbish reality shows and youngest SiL slumped over on the sofa getting spoon fed by MiL. SiL has numerous difficulties and the dietician who saw her told them all that the best way to get her into a routine of eating and feeding herself would be to sit her up in her high chair at the table proper. They didn't follow the advice and now she's 13 and still can't feed herself, no does she understand that the dining room table is for eating.

balletshoes

onlyroz wrote: »

Some time between 6:30 and 7:30 depending on what we're cooking. I get in from work at about 6:15, and hubby around 6:30.

Considering the "normal" working day is 9AM-5PM I'm amazed at how so many of you manage to have dinner at 5PM. Do you all live next door to your work-place or something?

I think that a family dinner is very important and so we try to all eat together if possible.

I work til 3pm, just in time to pick up DD from school. My OH works away in the week, so when he's off he's home for dinner when we're ready for it at 4.30ish or within an hour or so of that.

euronorris

We usually eat sometime between 7 and 9pm. It's been as late as 10 before now though. There is only the two of us at the moment, and OH is not usually home until 7, but we always eat together (even though we have no dining table at the moment - no space - well, we have one, but that is where some of the kitchen gadgets are housed).

The sun has been cooking our apartment today, so I am not sure what to make for dinner (as turning on the oven etc will make it unbearable).

joess

All 3 of us eat together at 7pm