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Mealtimes
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How do other couples/families work out their mealtimes?
DD comes in from school at 3, and is normally hungry. I can put her off until about 4.30 when we'll have dinner.
OH comes home and is ready to eat normally around 6.30pm.
How can we try and eat together?
What do other people do?
DD comes in from school at 3, and is normally hungry. I can put her off until about 4.30 when we'll have dinner.
OH comes home and is ready to eat normally around 6.30pm.
How can we try and eat together?
What do other people do?
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How old is your DD? Could you maybe give her a snack when she comes in from school and then all eat together at 6.30?xxx Nikki xxx0
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Make her wait. Mine have always waited.0
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Mine have a snack after school, then we eat together between 6:30 & 7:30 depending if DH is working or not.
They always seem to be starving at 3:15 & this is long enough before we eat the main meal.
When they were younger DH was on nights so we ate around 5:30. Children just had something very small after school.Truth always poses doubts & questions. Only lies are 100% believable, because they don't need to justify reality. - Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Labyrinth of the Spirits0 -
Same as above - kids have a snack after school and we then all eat together. But DH is home at 5.45 so a little bit earlier than yours. Alternatively depending on bedtime give a bedtime snack which is eatten with your/OH's main meal?0
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How old is your DD? Could you maybe give her a snack when she comes in from school and then all eat together at 6.30?Make her wait. Mine have always waited.
She is 13.
Sorry I didn't mean it to sound as though she was demanding her dinner at 4.30. She isn't it's just that's when both her and I are ready for our dinner. She would quite happily have a snack and then her dinner later on (and again before she went to bed - I can't fill her at the moment :rotfl:)
Like today, I was so hungry, come 4.30pm I couldn't wait to eat.
So it's not just my daughter, it is me. If I had a snack at 4.30 thought I wouldn't want any dinner.
Just wondered how other people dealt with it.Forty and fabulous, well that's what my cards say....0 -
You might just need to adapt your own eating habits so that you are hungry later...could you move lunch to be later?0
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You might just need to adapt your own eating habits so that you are hungry later...could you move lunch to be later?
It's just a relatively new thing. I'm not very well at the moment and on a phased return prior to my op in February.
We did work it quite well, with DD coming in from school, having a snack and then when I came in from work, making dinner and we'd all sit down.
With my finishing work at 12 now, and in the house by 12.15, my body seems to have switched and I am so hungry.
I suffered many years ago with VVS and so would get sweaty and shake when I was hungry and it doesn't get that bad now, but come 4.30 I know I really want some food.
Like I said DD isn't the problem here, it's just trying to get everyone (me mainly) to eat at 6.30pm. Plus because I'm not very mobile, eating so late at night makes me feel really full and just not 'right' at the moment.
Hopefully after my op and when I'm back to full time it won't be an issue any more, but it's always good to read how people do things.Forty and fabulous, well that's what my cards say....0 -
She is 13.
Sorry I didn't mean it to sound as though she was demanding her dinner at 4.30. She isn't it's just that's when both her and I are ready for our dinner. She would quite happily have a snack and then her dinner later on (and again before she went to bed - I can't fill her at the moment :rotfl:)
Like today, I was so hungry, come 4.30pm I couldn't wait to eat.
So it's not just my daughter, it is me.
If I had a snack at 4.30 thought I wouldn't want any dinner.
Just wondered how other people dealt with it.
really? not even some toast for a snack? a banana? that wouldn't fill you up too much would it?0 -
The boys have a snack and then dinner together later, they have a piece of fruit or a yog that type of thing not enough to put them off their dinner but if we can then we all eat together, there are some nights because of OH work it would not be possible but it is best to eat together if poss, much more sociable, chatting and catching up:D0
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