When do you eat Dinner/Supper?

[NAB]

Was on the cruise board and people mentioned that dinner is either to early or too late. Someone mention people eating at 5… we have been know to go to a restaurant at 4:30 - 5 .

Here we eat supper between 5-6 . Can even be earlier since I usually start cooking at 4:30. This is because my husband has to leave for work for 6 or when the kids were younger we had baseball or some other event we had to be at by 6:30.

 

[kanerf]

5:30. It was dinner time when I was growing up and I mostly stick to around that time, between 5 and 6. I dislike eating later, like around 8 since it seems to cause my trouble sleeping.

 

[MGMmjl]

Usually around 5:30 pm. We have a 5 year old who goes to bed around 8 pm, so we don't want to eat too late. And that is around the time I usually ate growing up, so it is good for us.

 

[DLgal]

Between 6 and 7.

I'm now at the age where I can't eat within like 3-4 hours of going to bed, or I deal with indigestion. So, 6:30 is the sweet spot.

 

[Disneylover99]

Between 4pm and 6pm. It depends on our schedules and who gets home first to start dinner, so it varies. But earlier is always preferable to us.

 

[CdnCarrie]

5-6 for supper. Especially when kids were young to hard to eat later with evening activities.

 

[disneydreamer1980]

Around 7:30-8. I grew up with a French mother and they eat dinner late there, so she always served a later dinner and now I do too. My DHs parents eat dinner at 4:30 which I think is insanely early

 

[E&Cmom]

Between 5 and 6. DH doesn’t like to eat too late or he has trouble sleeping. He is more relaxed about that on vacation though. We have done late/second seating on cruises.

 

[RangerPooh]

Whenever we have time.

Honestly, we have very little time between when we get home from work and when we have to be at scouts or when the kids have practice. So dinner time will vary. It could be between 6:15-6:30, eating as you go out the door to scouts, or around 9pm after scouts and lacrosse practice (cause no one wants to eat dinner at 4:15 then go running in the heat).

On the rare occasion where we have a free evening dinner is somewhere between 6-7pm.

 

[Boopuff]

We used to eat dinner around 6:30-7 when the kids had activities, now just the two of us we eat 5-5:30

 

[Moliphino]

Usually somewhere in between 6 and 8. I get home from work around 5:30, later if I stop to run any errands.

 

[nw6675]

Around 6. DH gets home st 5:30 three nights a week so we just kind of stick to the same.

 

[lovesmurfs]

Around 6 p.m. It's just DH and me. When we go out to eat, I try to make reservations for a bit earlier.

 

[EveV]

7:30 - 8:30-- we work longer hours and have always eaten later. Works out well in the US for us (save for major cities) and not so well in Europe, because it's prime time for dinner reservations there.

 

[LoveDaisy]

By the time I get from work, feed the animals, do a few things then start dinner it ends up being around 7

 

[AndreaDM]

Between 6-7, I would eat later, DH would eat earlier so we compromise.

 

[Moliphino]

7:30 - 8:30-- we work longer hours and have always eaten later. Works out well in the US for us (save for major cities) and not so well in Europe, because it's prime time for dinner reservations there.

Unless you're in Spain, then it's still pretty early.

 

[jalapeno_pretzel]

Weeknights we often eat around 6pm because we frequently have evening activities that go from 7-9. Sometimes we have things from 6-9, and we don't even really eat a meal, just kind of a good snack at 5pm and another small one after we get home. On weekends when there is no rush to get anywhere it's usually more like 7pm. Growing up we would often eat at 8:30pm after my sibling got finished with activities.

Even though at home we regularly eat closer to the main dining time on the ships, I choose later dining when we cruise. In general we're eating larger and later lunches while cruising, so we aren't hungry as early. Plus I really like the pool deck when the early diners head to dinner (we don't do many of the shows). If they had a seating at 7 or 7:15 I would maybe like that. But 5:30 or whatever it is is just way too early for us on a cruise.

 

[BrianL]

Usually about 7 PM, give or take.

 

[goofyernmost]

When it suddenly occurs to me that I am hungry. Usually between 5:15 and 6:30.