What time do like to have dinner - Page 4

Sooner · ‎03-10-2010

Retired and between 6:30 and 7:30 usually.

Sooner · ‎03-10-2010

@151949 wrote:
When I was working I didn't get home until 8 PM or often much later. I had to get up at 4:30 to go back so I rarely ate , just quick shower & go to bed. I kept putting on weight & the doctor said it was because I wasn't eating and my body would go into starvation mode and slow my metabolism way down - then it takes a few days of regular meals to reset it. So I started taking trail mix to work with me to grab handfuls through the day so my body would not think I was starving.Oddly this made me very hungry all the time.
Now I am retired I rarely eat breakfast , just coffee and a piece of toast or an english muffin. We have lunch at noon and dinner at 5:30 every day.I'm rarely ever actually hungry - which is a wonderful thing after all the years of work & being half starved most of the time.

Isn't toast and coffee breakfast?????

151949 · ‎03-09-2010

If we go out to eat we prefer top go out for lunch. The portions are more normal and the prices better. Then we have soup or a sandwich for dinner. It is better for our digestion to eat our largest meal mid day and eat light for dinner.

gidgetgh · ‎03-09-2010

We really don't have a set dinner.

We usually eat lunch out and that's our big meal for the day.

I usually have microwave popcorn for dinner or some yogurt. My husband might microwave a frozen meal or have cheese and crackers.

When we DO eat at home, our main meal still is at lunch.

Why is it, when I have a 50/50 guess at something, I'm always 100% wrong?

mollybgood · ‎03-02-2017

In my family, dinner was always at noon and supper was at 5 p.m.

I eat anywhere between 11 and 2 for my early meal and 4 and 6 for my late meal.

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mima · ‎03-14-2010

@151949 wrote:
When I was working I didn't get home until 8 PM or often much later. I had to get up at 4:30 to go back so I rarely ate , just quick shower & go to bed. I kept putting on weight & the doctor said it was because I wasn't eating and my body would go into starvation mode and slow my metabolism way down - then it takes a few days of regular meals to reset it. So I started taking trail mix to work with me to grab handfuls through the day so my body would not think I was starving.Oddly this made me very hungry all the time.
Now I am retired I rarely eat breakfast , just coffee and a piece of toast or an english muffin. We have lunch at noon and dinner at 5:30 every day.I'm rarely ever actually hungry - which is a wonderful thing after all the years of work & being half starved most of the time.

If your trail mix had any dried fruit or sweets in it, that would be what was making you hungry.

FrostyBabe1 · ‎05-09-2016

If I'm eating at home, between 6:30 and 7:00 PM. If we're going out, usually between 7:30 and 8:00 PM. When I was working, I rarely got home and got something together before 8:30, so 6:30 is early for me.

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CelticCrafter · ‎03-09-2010

Another one for 5-5:30 and never later than 6.

I just don't want to be out in the kitchen cleaning up and washing pots and pans at 7-7:30.

blackhole99 · ‎08-22-2013

My husband and I eat when we are hungry, but if I'm having guests it's 5 or 6pm.

occasionalrain · ‎03-10-2010

Dinner is at 8. We watch Jeopardy at 7; it ends at 7:30 and we have dinner after that. We aren't snackers, don't care for chips and other snack food, maybe some fruit. I suppose those who go to bed early need to eat earlier.