What Time Do You Eat Your Meals?

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Lon

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After coffee within 15 minutes of getting out of bed I will eat breakfast any where between 7:30 AM and 10;30 AM. I prefer lunch when I eat it, between 1 & 2:30 PM. If I skip lunch I will have a snack of cheese/fruit/ wine around 4 PM.
Dinner for me is between 5:30 to 7:30 PM.

My deceased brother in law insisted on eating his evening meal at 6 PM no matter where he was and became quite distressed if he could not be accommodated.
 

I'm a lot like you Lon, coffee soon after I get up, and breakfast (banana or greek yogurt) normally by 10:30am too. Never eat lunch, and dinner for us can be anywhere between 4-7 pm, depending on what we're doing that day. No hard set rules on meals by us.
 
I generally get up around six. My wife gets up around nine-thirty or so. Normally we have breakfast and a first coffee by ten. Lunch is generally 1:30 to two-thirty and dinner around seven to eight. Tonight for dinner I had a cup of tea and a small apple. I'm trying to encourage my wife to quit cooking heavy meals, period. If we want/need something like a full course meal we can have a late lunch, early dinner combination at one of the restaurants.
 

In retirement, my life is still structured around mealtime. Breakfast (around 7:40) is bacon, eggs and English Muffins. Lunch at about noon is a sandwich and some kind of dessert. Dinner is whatever I can find to cook, all the while dreaming of those wonderful steak fajitas offered at a nearby Mexican restaurant.
 
Up at 7:30ish to get coffee going and feed kitty (otherwise she paces and gets very loud). Breakfast 8 – 9. Snack about 2, dinner usually 7 – 8.

When I was a kid dinner was 5:30 during the week, Saturdays were more casual. Sunday dinner was earlier – usually about 3. Some type of dessert or jello later.
 
Try to get up around 8:30am. Coffee. No breakfast---don't like food first thing in the morning. Lunch whenever I get hungry, usually around 11:00. The rest of the day, whenever I feel like eating. Totally unstructured, e.g., I've cooked and eaten spaghetti at midnight.
 
But,........but, why would we be interested necessarily in when others eat? I should think that knowing what they eat when they eat it, would be more pertinent. Just MO, sorry.

:eek: imp
 
Breakfast in bed around 7.
Skinny cappaccino later
Post gym snack about ten
Lunch around noon
Salad around 4pm
Dinner at 5
 
Breakfast useally 8 am , lunch when I feel hungry somewhere between I- 2 tea as we call the evening meal 5.30 - 6
I would be interested to know what others eat for breakfast , I useally have either Oatbrits with warm milk in winter and either a banana or some of my home grown stewed fruit OR Yoghurt I have made myself
 
I don't have a structured eating pattern. I have never been able to face food in the morning.. it always made me ill..and now I have to take medication on an empty stomach every morning and can't eat anyway until at least an hour after..by which time I'm usually at work, and don't get to eat then...

Late morning I may have a half of a banana...and lunch if I get it will consist of the rest of the banana or a small salt beef sandwich on wholemeal bread..

By the time I get home in the evening I'm usually ravenous, so I'll eat about 7pm, almost as soon as I get through the door I put the dinner on....


On days when I'm working from home like today..or it's my day off..I have a much more balanced diet...chocolate for breakfast, chocolate for lunch....and perhaps a little chocolate with chocolate frosting for dinner...:coffeelaugh:
 
As a pilot for United, I ate when I had the chance. This is why I have been able to stay so slim over the years. As for coffee, I think that was probably my main staple. I know that we have all seen some very overweight pilots walking through the airports and I, along with many of my friends never quite figured out how the worse got past their FAA exams.
 
Red said:
Lon, no offense, I love your posts, but I am curious, you come up with all these questions and start lots of topics, but I don't remember seeing you talk on other people's posts. Curious mind here! :confused:
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That's a good question, Red; I've wondered that, too.
 
imp said:
But,........but, why would we be interested necessarily in when others eat? I should think that knowing what they eat when they eat it, would be more pertinent. Just MO, sorry.

:eek: imp
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When I have been in Europe I was surprised how many Europeans eat their evening meal so late, like 9 or 10 PM & so I was curious about Americans and others on SF.
 
Lon said:
When I have been in Europe I was surprised how many Europeans eat their evening meal so late, like 9 or 10 PM & so I was curious about Americans and others on SF.
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I don't like to eat that late. In Uganda we ate at 6pm and the locals thought that was strange as they all ate at about 9.
 
I have no fixed meal time schedule. I eat a bit in the morning, afternoon and evening, but usually am done all my eating by 8 or 9 pm.
 
I don't like to have meal time (or anything else really) at a set time. My husband gets up about 4 or 5 a.m. usually and he brings me coffee in bed when I ask for it, somewhere around 7 a.m. Then I read and/or write in my journal for an hour or 2. He makes BF for he and the 2 little dogs and watches the morning news till I get up. I eat whenever, between 9 and 11 a.m. usually. We try not to eat after 7 p.m.
 
My late husband always though that breakfast was when you first get up and then lunch was at 12:00. Supper was always when he got home from work at 4:30. Now that I am alone I have no set time. I usually have coffee when I get up and then breakfast between 9 or 10. Lunch can be anywhere between 2or 3. Supper time varies anytime after 5:30.
 
I used to work at a place where everyone had to go to lunch at 12:00 sharp. I didn't like it because I'm a late lunch eater, and this was in the downtown area where everything was crowded at !2.
 

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