Evening Meal | Pad Patter 3/15

Firstly whatdo you call it? Dinner, Main Meal, Supper or something else?
Middag

When do you typically have it?
When hubby (or we) gets home from work. Usually around 5pm.

What sort of things do you eat at your evening meal?
It varies a lot, depending on how I feel. Usually pasta/rice/potatis + protein + veggies and maybe some sauce. I love to cook, and try new recipes. Or just wing things from what I have at home. When we work late, I prefer to have a big lunch, and the we just make some kind of cheese platser in the evening.

 

Firstly what do you call it? Dinner, Main Meal, Supper or something else?

When do you typically have it? between 6 and 6:30 usually - depending on load shedding.

What sort of things do you eat at your evening meal? I was brought up with a meat (protein), three veg and a starch. Unless I am doing keto that's what we aim for. When I am doing low carb, I have low carb veggies and forego the starch they have.

 

I grew up calling the last meal of the day dinner, and have continued calling it that. Growing up it was usually around 5:00 because my dad got home from work about then and was either a meat/starch/veggie or casserole. I followed that, basically, until I had my second baby, who turned out to have multiple food allergies, which makes casseroles and other one pot meals more difficult. Also, my husband's work hours varied so much that I gave up early on the idea of eating dinner at the table as a family and the kids and I just ate sometime in the evening whenever it fit into our schedule. We also had their classes (piano, gym, etc) to work around.

Most recently, with the pandemic leading to my husband working at home and eventually me working outside the home full time, we have switched to him cooking all the dinners, usually around 6:00. At the same time, I have become vegan, but my family has not, so he cooks for them (or they cook for themselves, as they are ages 16 - 21 and feed themselves most of the time nowadays) and I make my own vegan meals. So they're still doing a lot of meat/starch/veggie or pasta or taco nights while I do my own thing. Actually, I frequently just snack (mostly healthfully) in the evening because I front load my nutrition everyday and I'm really not hungry in the evening. My biggest meals are breakfast and lunch.

My favorite thing to eat at dinner time nowadays is my deluxe avocado toast, which I probably make about three times a month. It's not just avocado. I spread some oily sauce like vegan pesto on the toast first, then top the smashed avocado slices with whatever veggies I have, such as onions, bell peppers (cooked or not), sauerkraut, and add nutritional yeast (the yummiest way to get B12 for vegans), and sometimes drizzle with balsamic glaze and/or sprinkle on some dried seasonings. It's different every time and so yummy. My mouth is watering writing this paragraph even though my belly is full of the oatmeal and walnuts and berries I just had for breakfast.

 

Dinner ... when my kids were young, and then when the older grandkids were young we'd eat dinner between six and seven depending on what I was cooking. Meals ranged from pot roasts with sides of mashed potatoes and peas to fish sticks/chicken nuggets and a side. It all depended on what we had going on in the evening.

Nowadays with just me, DD, and my youngest grandson at home we get take-out way too often. DD (47) and Chase (17) are super-picky and I am sick and tired of cooking dinner. Plus my DD usually refuses to eat anything I cook b/c she is contrary.

Growing up "dinner" was your main of the day. So if your main meal was at noon, it was dinner, and your evening meal was supper. If your mean meal was in the evening, then your noon meal was lunch, and your evening/main meal dinner. And then there's brunch (breakfast/lunch) or lupper (lunch/supper). Clear as mud, lol!!!

 

Always called it dinner. Growing up it was usually around 5:30 or 6:00 depending on when Dad got home from work. He worked construction and some job sites were farther away from home so even with a quit time of 3:30 he may not get home until after 5. He always took a shower before we ate so that was also another reason for a delay. After he retired, it became a more normal schedule of around 5 or 5:30. Except when I worked 2nd shift or didn't get off until after 7, I also have always eaten around 5 or 5:30. These days I fix whatever I'm having so that I can sit down and watch a news program that I enjoy that comes on at 5.

As for what I eat, since I'm cooking for one, it is hard. I very rarely have a full meal of meat, potatoes and side dishes. If I do, I have meals for a week! One of my favorite meals is scrambled eggs with cinnamon toast. I've got a meatloaf thawing for tonight.

 

Dang, now I want meatloaf ...

 

Firstly what do you call it? Dinner, Main Meal, Supper or something else?

When do you typically have it? Between 6:30 and 8pm. My youngest daughter (18) works until 7:30 on weeknights, so sometimes we wait and eat with her. Other nights, we eat before she gets home and save some food for her to eat when she gets home.

What sort of things do you eat at your evening meal? We have tacos, gyros, burrito bowls, big salads with grilled chicken, quiche, seafood or homemade pizza. I have been dieting so I watch the amount of food that I eat, and we tend to have leftovers for my husband to eat for lunch the next day. I have a salad for lunch each day.

 

We call it supper normally or dinner

And we eat what ever... it varies on mood or day it can be anything from a casserole to pizza to take out. And also varies on time of day... when I was a kid it was always 5 pm on the dot...
But now my husband works and his night schedule messes with his hunger so we tend to eat later.. sometimes 7 or 8... sometimes earlier.. so I'd say 430 to 8..lol.. somewhere in there .. lol... and anything goes for dinner..from breakfast foods to a huge 4 course meal. I do love to cook and when I do cook.. I cook

 

We call it dinner and we eat around 6-6:30 pm, when DH gets home from work. We subscribe to the HomeChef meal kit which takes care of 2 nights/week with a pretty good variety of meals. I'm partial to chicken breast, salmon or other lighter meats with veg, or pasta. We usually eat out at least a couple nights a week and do one night called "every man for himself night" where everyone just fends for themselves. When we do cook, our go-tos are shrimp with rice, tacos, chile, brats, steak, turkey burgers.

 

Growing up - my mom called it supper so that's what our family said.
After dating and then marrying my husband, his family and he all called it dinner. So now that is what we call it in our home.


When the kids were young it was between 5:30pm - 7pm when hubby got home from work, and then he or I cooked and we ate together.
Now that they are 18 & 17 they fend for themselves most days, because they have those "teen" sleep schedules where they don't even wake up until 2-3pm in the afternoon and they don't like most of the things we cook. So normal times for hubby and I is around 6pm every night, except weekends when we don't work, then it just varies depending on what we have planned.


We eat pretty much whatever sounds good. I mean, we plan meals to cook, but it doesn't have to be anything specific. Sometimes we have "breakfast" foods sometimes we have more traditional "dinner" foods.

 

We typically have DINNER anytime between 5:30 & 7pm- it really just depends on what's going on in our crazy schedules. Sometimes not all of us are here for dinner due to sports & activities.

I use a weekly meal planner that we go through together on Sundays & figure out who is where which nights, who is making dinner & what we are cooking. We billet 2 17yr old hockey players- so we go through A LOT of food and they eat A LOT of dinner! lol

This was last week's:

 

Firstly what do you call it?
Dinner

When do you typically have it?
My oldest likes to eat right at 5 so that’s what we do unless we have to plan around an activity.

What sort of things do you eat at your evening meal?
These are our go-to meals lately: pasta, chili, breakfast casserole, waffles, pancakes, roast, tacos, burgers, grilled cheese, quesadillas, ramen, chicken & rice.

 

We call in dinner... or just din as my DS would say when asking what we're having lol.
If there is nothing going on after school, we eat around 5 or 5:30. If other things are going on, it could be any time between 4:30 and bed time.
I try to have good things to eat, but honestly I am so tired of trying to figure out what's for dinner I sometimes just say "fend for yourself" and call it a night haha.
If I've planned ahead of time, I'll put something in the crockpot. Tonight it was chicken pot pie. Yesterday we had Fettucini Alfredo. Our usuals are subs, burgers, tacos (beef and chicken), spaghetti, and beef tips or cube steak and gravy.
We probably eat out 2 or 3 times a week just because we're running around a lot.

 

We mot often call it Supper, unless it's linked with some qualifier (Turkey Dinner, Sunday Dinner, etc). We eat about 5:30-6 most nights, depends on kid activities. The little one goes to bed 7:30ish so we don't like to eat too late.

 

Firstly what do you call it? Dinner, Main Meal, Supper or something else? Dinner

When do you typically have it? Depending on schedules. We eat anytime between 5 and (yikes!) 9pm

What sort of things do you eat at your evening meal? The things we make the most of are, taco, tacos, tacos, chili, salads, soups, grilled cheese & tomato soup, hamburgers, ham bbq sandwiches, grilled chicken w/ veggies, breakfast for dinner, and more TACOS

 

Firstly what do you call it? Mostly dinner, but sometimes supper.

When do you typically have it? Between 6-8. I don't like to eat much later than that (unless it's a late-night snack!)

What sort of things do you eat at your evening meal? Lots of pasta; soup; tacos; baked potatoes with various fillings/toppings; sometimes a stir-fry; and often leftovers from dinner the night before!