Here's One everyone can play: What time is Dinner?

What time do you usually eat dinner?

At our house, it is normally 7-7:30PM, sometimes later, but never earlier.

'Winger

The children have dinner at 6:00pm on weeknights, my husband and I usually have dinner around 8:30-9:00 on weeknights.

On weekends, we have a family dinner at 6:30pm.

7:00 PM or later. Occasionally, if one of us is unusually tired and want an earlier bedtime, we eat at 6:30.

9:00 pm; after theater, around 11:00.

We often attend events with a couple who normally eat at 7:00 leading to some fascinating arguments between Janet and Richard.

Usually around 6:00-7:00, but sometimes later, sometimes earlier.

7:30-8:30, depending on when I get home from work.

My husband works 45 min. from home so weekdays it is usually between 6:00 and 7:00. This varies depending on traffic, crises at work, etc. Weekends it is whenever we get hungry or go out with friends.

Somewhere in the 6:30 - 7:30 range, om weekdays. Saturdays and Sundays can be earlier or later, depending on what's being cooked, the other activities of the day, who's coming over for supper, etc. The priority on weekdays is making sure Isabella's homework gets done and she gets to bed by 9:00-ish, so that plays into it, too.

5:30 Unless we have dinner at noon. Then we have supper at 5:30.

7-7:30, except on rare occasions when we have early dinners at 6.

Mark Lipton

During the week, if I am not out of town on business, usually 8:45-9:00 PM. My friends tell me I am in for a big change if/when I have kids.

All over the clock but rarely early. I often don't eat lunch until 130 or 230.

Tonight dinner was around 830 coz I worked late. Earlier in the week it was even later due to other events. Tuesday night we both had meetings at different places; mine included pizza so there was no dinner at home. Both of our schedules are quite fluid so timing is very random.

Weekday dinners are often leftovers from the weekend. On Sunday, Cindy made a big pot of jambalaya which was quite good. Leftovers have been dinner Monday and Thursday. Weekend dinners usually are more involved. And the wine is usually of higher quality too.

During the week, if I am not out of town on business, usually 8:45-9:00 PM. My friends tell me I am in for a big change if/when I have kids.

Well, the first question I get when I come home at 6:00 or so: "Daddy, what are we having for dinner? I'm hungry!"

Any time between 6:00 and 7:30, depending on what we have been doing during the day and how early we had lunch and whether we are planning to go out that evening.

Bob:
after theater, around 11:00

I could never hold off till 11:00! We eat before the theatre, even if it is only a quick snack!

Bob:
after theater, around 11:00

I could never hold off till 11:00! We eat before the theatre, even if it is only a quick snack!

Me too. Because if I don't then I'll just sit through the show getting hungry and not enjoying myself.

Usually sometime between 7:30 and 8:30pm.

If I'm alone, it's usually earlier and then I get back to work in the evening. If I'm with my wife, I stay in the office later and then we eat later but don't do much work after dinner.

When I'm finished cooking it.

My mother, to this day, eats at 5:00 sharp. Not 5:01. And that rigidity has caused more arguments than anything else whenever I visit.

[David M. Bueker]

7:00-7:30, except on Fridays which are our go out nights. Then we go much earlier to beat the crowds at our favorite hole in the wall Mexican place.

7:00 PM weeknights. On Friday, Saturday and Sunday there's no set time. It was 9:30 PM last Sunday. Sometime the cheese and wine is out a 4 PM and we never even get to dinner.

Nobody posting from Madrid then?

Nobody posting from Madrid then?

You beat me to it Warren. I was going to say that those who don't want to a 11 pm better not go to Spain, unless they want to live on tapas.

Interestingly, we had a very hard time finding dinner in Barcelona at 10pm, and not because it was too early.

I see some really late dinner times....how do you get up and go to work the next day?
Perhaps you day starts later?

The whole time I was growing up, we ate at 4:30. My father wanted to have supper ready when he walked in the door from work, and I think he was working some in the evening at home as well. I don't think that was terribly unusual in Virginia in the 1950's, but of course I didn't maintain the habit after I went off on my own.

But I'm usually hungry when I get home, I have a snack and then we probably eat most often around 6:30.

When traveling in Europe we have had to adjust. The first time we went to England (1980) we kept forgetting to have "tea" at 3 PM and as a result we were starving at 6 PM and there was nothing to eat anywhere. You were expected to have supper at 8 or 9, and England in 1980 was a much more rigid place than nowadays. Every shop was closed on Sunday and most shops closed at 5 PM on weekdays. It was like American decades earlier. Now it's much more American, whether that is a good thing or a bad thing.

in Italy our suppertimes got later and later and finally we realized we had were the last people in a restaurant in Padua and realized we had to dial it back a little.

F