Is anyone else here eating late today?

[MichelleVW]

Is eating late a regional thing? I'm from the Deep South and I don't know of anybody who eats Thanksgiving dinner at 5pm or later. My mother always had the meal done around 3(if we were lucky!) Mine is always on the table between 1:30 & 2pm. I like to eat in the early afternoon so we can go back at 6pm and have Second Thanksgiving!

I'm from Ohio and we never ate until 5 or 6.

We're eating late today....but it's just the 4 of us and it's not a big production. Just tossed a ham in the oven about 20 minutes ago, I'm going to make some mashed potatoes and that's it!

 

[jlmarr]

We prefer to have T-day dinner at 2 or 3, but DS doesn't get off work till 4:30 so we're postponing till 5:30.

 

[donac]

I have cooked , packed up the food, traveled to inlaws, ate, cleaned up, had dessert, packed up again and drove back home. I am now thinking about having a piece of apple pie with my cup of tea.

If we aren't sitting down and eating by 2 at fil's house then he gets upset. I had dinner on the table by 1:50. By 4 we were on our way home.

 

[Katieinwonderland]

We're not eating til midnight!!!

Pretty much all of our friends work at Disney and you are more than likely going to be working Thanksgiving. So a friend does a Midnight Thanksgiving every year, so everyone can make it! Everyone brings a dish or a bottle of wine, and we play games until the early hours...then we get up and go shopping for Black Friday!

 

[Tinker-tude]

Growing up, we always ate around 2-ish. So I felt pressure for the last twelve years to make sure I was up at the crack of dawn to have everything done by 2 or so. This year we had no guests and didn't travel anywhere, so I gave myself a treat and slept in. I started cooking when I felt like it, really enjoyed myself in the kitchen without all the self-imposed pressure of the past, and had a big dinner on the table at 5:30. My husband and I both feel like this was the best Thanksgiving we've ever had. It was so relaxing and nice!