Mealtimes

Sambucus_Nigra

Gillyx wrote: »

:rotfl: :rotfl: Oh My. Cannot stop laughing, gypsy!

I'm 'snorking' at Direct Debits coming in from school. :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:


This man is wasted being single.

newcook

scheming_gypsy wrote: »

Northern thing is to have dinner at dinner (lunch) time and the southerners call their evening meal dinner. Which is quite strange as they went to school and had dinner ladies at lunch time, and then they'll have Christmas dinner at lunch time as well...

lol! I have lunch at 12 (unless its sunday and then its around 3) and call my evening meal tea - unless I am eating out and then I call it dinner! I dont know why I do that...!

liney

We eat our evening meal at 6pm: this means my son can have an afterschool snack and still eat his dinner, and my husband has time to get home from work.

I wouldn't worry about filling your daughter up too much as long as it's proper food, not sweets. DS7 will have a snack, then dinner, then be asking for supper an hour later and he's built like a whippet!

Svenena

newcook wrote: »

lol! I have lunch at 12 (unless its sunday and then its around 3) and call my evening meal tea - unless I am eating out and then I call it dinner! I dont know why I do that...!

For me, whichever meal is hot is dinner. Cold meals are either lunch or tea, depending on which time of day. So it's either dinner then tea or lunch then dinner.

*max*

For what it's worth, in France people usually have dinner around 7/8pm together. Kids finish school later than they do here, around 4/5pm, so they usually have a (sweet) snack when they come home (nutella on bread, fruit, or a hot chocolate maybe) - this has its own name, it's called a "goûter".

geoffky

13yrs old 4pm fed, wife 5 pm fed, me 7pm fed i hate eating early so that's what we do..different meals every night as well...Sunday and midweek roast 6pm..

Lunar_Eclipse

Both my kids have a snack after school. Youngest (10) is ravenous and can barely make it to the car. Most people struggle to go beyond 4 hours without food, which isn't particularly healthy either, especially for children.

You're lucky that your husband is home at a reasonable time for you all to be able to eat together during the week. So I'd go for an after school snack (drink, flapjack & banana, or something more substantial if necessary) and dinner at 6.30pm. DH is home later, so kids eat around 6 and I either eat with them or DH later (8.30ish) depending on how hungry I am.

I also don't get that hung up on how much is eaten at specific times. So if youngest needs a 'meals worth' of food at snack time and only eats a very small dinner, it wouldn't bother me (I prefer to keep her mood cheerful!), but she would be expected to sit at the table with us and engage in conversation (which is the real benefit of family meals, not the food that is eaten.)

My personal philosophy is that as long as everyone's diet is balanced and reasonably healthy, we manage to eat the same food together often and there isn't excessive food waste, I'm respectful of our different metabolisms and changing hunger levels as the children grow.