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What Time do you have you Main Meal?

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    #32
    Gloomtastic!
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    earlytobed wrote: »
    During the week 4.45
    Weekend or any day I'm off 1PM

    Apt username! :)


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    #33
    MissFlitworth
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    Sometime between 7 & 9 during the week and normally around 10pm on Saturdays, because we tend to go out for lunch or brunch and are stuffed but still want to cook something nice


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    #34
    StripedBoxers
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    Anytime from 6-9 midweek, depending on our mood, what we're having for dinner, and also gym/sports etc.

    Weekends 7-10pm, depending on what we're having, etc. and again sports are taken into account too.


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    #35
    earlytobed
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    Gloomtastic! wrote: »
    Apt username! :)
    Growing up, my Dad's dinner was on the table at 12.15 every day, 12.30 Saturday and Sunday. As D'unbelievibles say, it gives you a "good run at the day"


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    #36
    mary90
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    earlytobed wrote: »
    Growing up, my Dad's dinner was on the table at 12.15 every day, 12.30 Saturday and Sunday. As D'unbelievibles say, it gives you a "good run at the day"

    Sounds like a good ol Farmers dinner! It's the same with my father and brother at the minute 12:30 is dinner time and then 6:30 is tea time and they'll only have something small.


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    #37
    Curry Addict
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    we our eat main meal between 12 an 1 pm. I would be starving all day if i had to wait. eat early and burn it off during the day works for me.


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    #38
    the beer revolu
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    About 7 is typical for us.
    If I eat a big dinner at lunch time, I'd eat another one in the evening.
    I don't really like to eat after 8 or so.


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    #39
    Miaireland
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    earlytobed wrote: »
    Growing up, my Dad's dinner was on the table at 12.15 every day, 12.30 Saturday and Sunday. As D'unbelievibles say, it gives you a "good run at the day"

    I have an Uncle who is the same. He is in despair at the moment as there is a new priest in the parish and they are never out of mass in time for half twelve dinner on Sundays recently. He did not take very well to the suggestion of going to an earlier mass and is thinking of writing to the Bishop!


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    #40
    Boulevardier
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    I live on my own and hate cooking. The canteen at work does a decent lunchtime meat and 2 veg for 5.50, so I usually make that my main meal. I am usually ravenous by midday, so I try to take the earlier of our 2 lunch rota slots.

    My evening meal usually is something like a burrito or noodles.


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    #41
    GBXI
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    I can't believe the times that people in here eat their main meal at!

    Assuming everyone works close to the normal working hours, would you not be at your hungriest around mid-day/lunch-time? Eating your main meal at like 7 (seems to be about the average here) and then hitting the hay at 11ish, I dunno, just seems a bit daft to me!


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    #42
    The Hill Billy
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    When I have my main meal midday I just get snoozy in the afternoon. Not great if I am working. :o


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    #43
    Miaireland
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    The Hill Billy wrote: »
    When I have my main meal midday I just get snoozy in the afternoon. Not great if I am working. :o

    I am the same, if I have my main meal during the day I am falling asleep in the afternoon.

    I remember when I had a summer job we were taken out to lunch by the boss. He asked me later that day would I mind waiting in a little used office to supervise an IT guy. I kept falling asleep and banging my head off the table, the poor IT fella must have thought that I had a liquid lunch.


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    #44
    seamus
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    GBXI wrote: »
    I can't believe the times that people in here eat their main meal at!

    Assuming everyone works close to the normal working hours, would you not be at your hungriest around mid-day/lunch-time? Eating your main meal at like 7 (seems to be about the average here) and then hitting the hay at 11ish, I dunno, just seems a bit daft to me!
    It really depends on what you get used to. People who come from rural backgrounds where everyone could gather together for dinner in the middle of the day would probably find it odd to eat large meals at the end of the day.

    But I know for us at least, I could have my main meal in the middle of the day, but I know my wife won't have time to sit down and eat a big meal. So then it would be a case of me sitting down for a sandwich in the evening while she makes herself a big dinner. We'd never get to sit down to a meal together :D


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    #45
    GBXI
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    seamus wrote: »
    It really depends on what you get used to. People who come from rural backgrounds where everyone could gather together for dinner in the middle of the day would probably find it odd to eat large meals at the end of the day.

    But I know for us at least, I could have my main meal in the middle of the day, but I know my wife won't have time to sit down and eat a big meal. So then it would be a case of me sitting down for a sandwich in the evening while she makes herself a big dinner. We'd never get to sit down to a meal together :D

    Fair enough - hadn't considered a couples/time thing!


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    #46
    The Hill Billy
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    Not to mention the fact that if I had my main meal midday I would miss out on the family meal in the evening after work with my wife & kids. Usually the highlight of my day.


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    #47
    Faith
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    The Hill Billy wrote: »
    When I have my main meal midday I just get snoozy in the afternoon. Not great if I am working. :o

    Yep, if I have anything larger than a sandwich at lunch time, I'm like a zombie for the afternoon. My ideal lunch is sushi, but the nearest sushi place is just a tiny bit too far away to make it viable for a 30-minute lunch break.

    Plus, naturally, I love cooking so I like to come home in the evening and make a big meal (... or go out for a big meal, which is equally pleasurable!). Either way, I want to relax with my food. I hate eating under pressure.


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    #48
    MrWalsh
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    Mostly I only get home from work after 6, except gym nights where its closer to 8 - so I have developed a routine whereby the dinners for gym nights are premade the previous nights - leading to an overall time of 7-8 for dinner on a weeknight, much earlier at the weekend, 4-5ish, unless I am going out to dinner for the evening. I dont like eating so late on weeknights as I got to bed around 10-10.30 but such is working life :(


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    #49
    Toto Wolfcastle
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    GBXI wrote: »
    I can't believe the times that people in here eat their main meal at!

    Assuming everyone works close to the normal working hours, would you not be at your hungriest around mid-day/lunch-time? Eating your main meal at like 7 (seems to be about the average here) and then hitting the hay at 11ish, I dunno, just seems a bit daft to me!

    To me the idea of eating a big dinner at 12 seems mental, but I suppose it depends on what you're used to.

    We eat at 7ish. My husband gets home at 5.30 and by the time we've had a chat and sat around for a bit we're ready for dinner. The last couple of weeks I've been starving all the time though so my main meal has been at anything from 3.30 to 8.


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    #50
    GBXI
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    Bobblehead Panda wrote: »
    To me the idea of eating a big dinner at 12 seems mental, but I suppose it depends on what you're used to.

    We eat at 7ish. My husband gets home at 5.30 and by the time we've had a chat and sat around for a bit we're ready for dinner. The last couple of weeks I've been starving all the time though so my main meal has been at anything from 3.30 to 8.

    See I'm looking at it from a health/hunger point of view, less a practical one I admit. But breakfast or lunch should be your main meals, with a smaller meal in the evening from a health point of view. Also, I am ravenous at lunch-time because, even after an average sized breakfast, I'll have been asleep for 8+ hours before that, meaning I've had 1 meal in about 12 hours!


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    #51
    Toto Wolfcastle
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    GBXI wrote: »
    See I'm looking at it from a health/hunger point of view, less a practical one I admit. But breakfast or lunch should be your main meals, with a smaller meal in the evening from a health point of view. Also, I am ravenous at lunch-time because, even after an average sized breakfast, I'll have been asleep for 8+ hours before that, meaning I've had 1 meal in about 12 hours!

    Ah well then we're totally different. I don't eat breakfast and I still wouldn't be hungry enough for a big meal by lunchtime. :)


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    #52
    Dizzyblonde
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    If I ate my dinner during the day I just wouldn't know what to eat in the evening and I'd probably end up having another dinner. A sandwich or similar light meal would never keep me going until the morning.


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    #53
    Tom Dunne
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    I purposely avoid having a dinner during the day, usually bringing in pasta or some other concoction for lunch.

    I get home around 4:30 and have dinner with Herself around 6:30-7:00. Which usually means I get a case of the nibbles around 5-5:30. But then if I have dinner earlier, I get the nibbles later.

    It can be quite tricky being me sometimes. :(:D


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    #54
    MissFlitworth
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    I would completely KO if I had my main meal at lunch, even a particularly big sandwich runs the risk of knocking me out. Light breakfast, light-ish lunch & dinner, which is the meal I actively look forward too, around people I like being around works best for me.


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    #55
    Miaireland
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    I find I would eat much more in my main meal if I had it in the middle of the day. I have a much smaller dinner in the evening.


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    #56
    Tarzana2
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    The Hill Billy wrote: »
    When I have my main meal midday I just get snoozy in the afternoon. Not great if I am working. :o

    Yeah, I eat as little carbohydrate at lunchtime as possible for this reason.


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    #57
    Tarzana2
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    GBXI wrote: »
    I can't believe the times that people in here eat their main meal at!

    Assuming everyone works close to the normal working hours, would you not be at your hungriest around mid-day/lunch-time? Eating your main meal at like 7 (seems to be about the average here) and then hitting the hay at 11ish, I dunno, just seems a bit daft to me!

    No, I love to have a big dinner and will quite happily eat less during the day to compensate. I hate having a big lunch as, as mentioned above by others, I get very, very sleepy and groggy if I do. Postprandial somnolence, my friend! :) I probably get it in the evening too, but at that time, it feels right to feel a bit tired as one is winding down for the day.


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    #58
    Tarzana2
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    GBXI wrote: »
    See I'm looking at it from a health/hunger point of view, less a practical one I admit. But breakfast or lunch should be your main meals, with a smaller meal in the evening from a health point of view.

    Just to point out, it makes no difference how you distribute the eating of your calories in the day, the overall figure is the important bit. Except maybe that it wouldn't be great to eat a big meal right before bed, as digestion won't work as well with the body in a resting state. But it's an absolute myth that you should eat little in the evening to lose weight or be healthy.


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