Dinner ettiquete

[Hillbeans]

If you don't have dinner on the table when you get home from work do you snack before dinner?

If you don't like what your spouse makes for dinner yet you eat a "thank you" portion but you're still hungry, will you eat something else like cereal later and then does your spouse get upset with you for not eating dinner?

 

[laurie31]

I get home from work around 2am, so dinner is long over.

DH gets home at 5pm and (on my off days) we cook dinner together. We eat at 6pm. Before we had kids we didn't eat until 7, as DH wasn't hungry until then, but with kids there's no way to get all the after dinner stuff done if we eat that late.

The kids get home from school and are "starving" so I try to have a snack ready for them. Some days it's healthier than others.

DH and I plan the meals together, and although sometimes we cook alone (we each have "special" dishes we make) we never fix anything the other one doesn't like. Since I'm dieting, we plan his favorite "bad" meals for nights when I'm at work so I won't be tempted That way he's mostly eating healthy, but isn't totally deprived of his hi-cal faves.

Laurie

 

[golfgal]

If you don't have dinner on the table when you get home from work do you snack before dinner?

If you don't like what your spouse makes for dinner yet you eat a "thank you" portion but you're still hungry, will you eat something else like cereal later and then does your spouse get upset with you for not eating dinner?

Well, no one ever has dinner on the table for me when I get "home" but, yes, it bugs me when Dh pulls out a snack when he gets home when he can clearly see or smell that dinner is in the oven. I don't care so much that he eats but it's when the kids see him and I get to hear "why can DAD eat something now????" You know the drill. I don't care if he eats later. It isn't because I made something he doesn't like (except spaghetti which the rest of us like and he doesn't) it's because he is hungry.

 

[Christine]

I am the "cook" and I start cooking immediately when I get home. We eat early (usually by 5:00 p.m.) so there are no snacks. I don't really care what my DH does.

As for if they don't like what I cook, I don't care if they eat a minimum and then have a big snack later. As long as they made an attempt to eat it.

Heck, sometimes I hate my cooking and will have to have an extra Ho-Ho in the evening to make up for it!

 

[Just2554]

Well, I typically don't care if my boyfriend snacks before dinner. It's only me and him usually and if I'm in the middle of something and dinner gets delayed, he usually will grab a snack. It doesn't bother me though because he's a bottomless pit and will still eat anyway. If I have to have a snack before dinner, I try to make it a small one because otherwise I won't eat. There's also some nights I just won't cook and my boyfriend will just make himself a sandwich or some frozen pizza or something. I am a college student, so I don't always have oodles of time to cook.

Now this being said, if I had kids or anything, I would care that my boyfriend was snacking. My 12 year old sister is staying with us this week because my parents are away and my grandma is bed-ridden so I don't let him snack if I'm cooking because then she wants to and all she'll eat is junk food if I let her snack.

After dinner, I don't care what anyone eats, as long as I don't have a mess of dishes to do right when I'm getting ready to go to bed.

 

[Hillbeans]

I'm asking because my DH didn't like what I made for dinner the other night and he barely touched his meal, but then I heard him eating cereal at around 8 pm when I was upstairs giving our son a bath. I guess i'm just glad he didn't say he didn't like dinner and pretended to be nice for my feelings.

I prefer when DH doesn't snack right before dinner, it seems as if we're always snacking. Growing up, my mom would "close" off the kitchen, she was a lot more strict about that than I ever was.

 

[froglady]

My DH will snack if dinner isn't on the table when he gets home, but that's because he rarely has time for lunch, and he's HUNGRY.

If DS says anything, I remind him that their are lots of things that adults do that he can't do.

 

[sweet angel]

I don't think I've ever had dinner on the table when I've gotten home from work. It'd be kind of weird since I'm the one who does a majority of the cooking.

I also can't imagine having "dinner on the table" for DBF when he gets home from work.

It annoys me that, even though there are two us here, plus my son, I'm always the one who has to figure out dinner, make sure it's defrosted, etc.

If I were single/kidless, I'd probably survive on Cheerios and frozen pizza. I hate to cook.