What time do you typically eat dinner?

[disneysteve]

We usually eat dinner sometime between 5 and 6:00. When we get home from work/school, we're hungry. We may have a little snack - fruit, pita bread and hummus, etc. when we first get home and then make dinner.

We are going out to dinner with friends tonite. They suggested we meet at 7:30. We just consider that way too late. That means closer to 8 by the time we are seated, have our orders taken and get our food.

It is just us or do others eat earlier dinners too?

 

[Crankyshank]

Usually around 8pm.
My Grandparents eat early. Gramps starts frothing at the mouth if dinner is later than 4:30

 

[disykat]

Usually between 5 and 6, but in the summer it's more like 6:30. I wouldn't want to eat dinner at 8 pm - especially a big meal in a restaurant. We'd probably have a big snack in the late afternoon to compensate so it would basically cause us to eat an extra meal.

 

[NAB]

We to get dinner between 5:00-6:00. Usually closer to 5. Swimming , baseball etc. start at 6:00 most times so we want to get done eating then run.

 

[Binkrin]

Hardly ever before 7/7:30. If we are going out it's usually later because we don't like waiting...

 

[Minnesota!]

We don't get home until close to 545, so I start cooking around 6. Depending on what we are having...close to 7 when we eat, usually.

 

[dcgrumpy]

At home around 6:30, if we go out to eat it's usually around 7:30-8:30.

 

[NMAmy]

I get home at 4:30, dinner is usually ready between 5 and 6.

I get cranky if I wait too long to eat. There's no way I could meet someone for dinner at 7:30. Really, it's in everyone's best interest to keep me fed at regular intervals.

 

[Laura]

About 6pm. I don't like late dinners, either.

 

[Meriweather]

DH usually doesn't get home until 7:30, so dinner is between 7:30 and 8:00.

 

[Pdowning98]

Wow, I wish I could have dinner done by that time. Unfortunately dinner for us in like 6:30 or 7, on a night that we get to come home after work. We have been known to eat at 8 or later at times, especially when we have soccer and baseball season in full swing or just nice summer nights when we can go out and ride the horses after work.

 

[crz4mm2]

We eat early. Just after getting home from work. As soon as we can get something on the table. 5 or 6.
I agree, 8 is way too late.

 

[azgal81]

6 or 6:30 during the week and 7 or 7:30 on the weekends!

 

[pearlieq]

Egads! The early bird special ends at 5:30!

Kidding aside, we usually eat between 6:30 and 7:30pm during the week, and sometime between 7pm and 8pm on the weekends. Then again, we're 20-something DINKs who don't finish work until 6ish and don't have hungry little mouths to worry about.

If we were making plans with friends for a weekend dinner, I would suggest 7:00pm without thinking anything of it. Of course, if our friends wanted something earlier we could certainly compromise.

Was that the only time the could get a table?

 

[monarchsfan16]

At home, between 5 and 6:30, if I'm not working some wierd hour (which may be a lot this summer). At school it's pretty much whenever we're hungry, but it's generally earlier rather than later. To be honest I've actually gotten sick if I eat too late

 

[disneysteve]

Was that the only time the could get a table?

Not at all. It's actually much harder to get a table after 7. Apparently, that's when more folks are going out. When we go out to eat, we generally try to get to the restaurant before 6 as there is usually no wait. Get there after 7 and the places are packed. The 7:30 idea was their personal preference (I'm not sure what time he gets home from work, though, so that might be what influenced their decision). I only work until 4 so I'm home by 4:30 generally.

 

[Pixiedust34]

We eat early, around 5:00. My kids have dance and TKD in the evenings. We eat early to give them a chance to digest their food before they go to their classes.

 

[KimR]

We usually eat between 6:00 and 7:00 during the week and depending upon how crowded the restaurant is, anywhere between 8:00 and 10:00 when we go out on the weekends. My kids are used to eating later and if they get hungy during a long wait, we just order an appetizer for them from the bar.

 

[ely3857]

Usually within 30-60 mins after getting in from work so between 6-6.30 but I have no problem grabbing a snack if I need to then waiting until later.



Jodie

 

[LoraJ]

I usually eat around 7pm.
But lately we haven't been getting home until 8:30 - 9:30pm. My system is all out of whack now.

Just have a sback at around 4pm to help tie you over. That's what I usually do. Either some fruit or veggies or something.