Supper on the sofa?

We always ate on the sofa as couldn't be bothered to use the dining room until we moved to a smaller house two years ago with a big enough kitchen for our table.
It's a bit of a novelty but we're still eating at the table and no one is more surprised than me!
However, I do get confused with what we mean by supper or is it dinner?!!

Always at the table, not because I think it's 'shameful' or anything else to eat from a tray whilst on the sofa, but because it always gives me indigestion if I do that.

confession time for me

since my dh died last November, (other than Christmas at my ds and dil) I have not eaten at the table, main meal and all.

I just can`t...

Almost always sit at the table, mostly because it's easier.

Always Eaton sofa unless gravy is involved. Or if we have visitors.

If I have company (which obviously isn't right now sadly) I set the table (table cloth only comes out at Christmas for some reason ??‍♀️).
But alone I sit on my sofa to eat. I use my coffee table, my lap isn't big enough... (large boobs and short legs that prevent me from seeing the plate ?)

Kittylester I had a chuckle imagining you eating on your knees! Realised then what you were meaning.

Never eat on the sofa, I have enough digestive problems without adding to them.
I started with family rules as soon as the DC could sit in a highchair. Meals are taken at the table and we can interact as a family, discuss their day or any problems.
I have noticed that DS follows the same rules in their house so he clearly did not think it was harsh.

Ha ha Westcoaster. Recently started eating on lap. Had to buy an APRON to wear cos kept dribbling onto my clothes. Very childish!

Whats a BOILED fruit cake?

Yes,sofa all the time now,use table for putting some of delivered shopping on after wiping it down.my 2boys 21&17, just disappear up to their rooms with theirs, though we did make a bit of an effort for 17th birthday other week

I am still working part time from home, and sitting down with a good meal and something we have been looking forward to watching on television is a treat at the end of the day.

If we have family to lunch, then on course we sit at the table.
I light candles, put flowers on the table etc.

I don’t know what the fuss is about.

my dining table is only used at Christmas and when my grandson stays (his parents insist he eats "at the table")

I only use the table at Christmas or if we have company for dinner, which isn't very often. Prefer to eat in the lounge on the sofa

Sometimes we do, sometimes not, depending on what we’re eating. It’s our house so our rules. When we have visitors we usually eat at the table, especially if there are children to cater for.
One daughter’s family always eats at the table, but then, they have a TV in the bedroom. I don’t tell her I don’t like that idea and she doesn’t comment on us munching on the sofa. Relax there are worse things to fret about.

Always have meals on trays on our laps. No room for a table anyway.

I only ever ate at the table until i moved in with 2nd dh.
He used to sit at the table but now it`s the sofa for us.
Strangly enough i eat less than i did when i sat at the table.

I would eat at the table but by evening it’s covered in painting stuff, books & heaven knows what so I tend to eat supper/dinner in front of the TV and use a tray with polystyrene bobbles which nestle into the knees. I have found that my ‘table’ manners are becoming somewhat slovenly and to protect the arms of my chair, unfortunately a light duck egg blue, I now cover the whole chair in a fleecy rug which is easy to wash if the odd splat of sauce or flying spaghetti occurs . Sitting in this position I tend to miss my mouth encouraging dribbles & splatters down my front. No hope. This isolation business has a lot to answer for ?

Always at the table for me. I find it much more comfortable and easier to clean up any mess. But that is just me.

My OH always eats at the dining table and I generally sit and watch tv.

My MIL gave me a napkin ring and passed on OH’s, which I think was a christening gift. I’m not sure where they are now though.

Dh and I use a tray on our laps if it's just us.
Any family with us which is every Sunday under normal circumstances is in the dining room with a tablecloth and table protector. Still using Chr*****s paper napkins. Guess I had too many.

For a great many months months I was eating in my bedroom!

When I was recovered enough to be downstairs I would be brought a tray into the sitting room where it was warm and I could sit comfortably in an armchair, but now I'm well we've gone back to eating at the table in the dining room and I have to say I do prefer it. Dining at the table provides a sort of punctuation mark between the busyness of the day and the more relaxed evenings.

Also I spill thing less often when I'm sitting properly.

I must go starch and iron the napkins, shine the crystal goblets and polish the silver cutlery ready for tomorrow's repasts.

I gave the butler and housekeeper the day off as it's a Bank Holiday.

We tend to eat in the sitting room with trays now, the sort of trays with the beany bags underneath, so they balance on our knees. When the children were at home, we normally ate in the kitchen at the kitchen table, and on high days and holidays we ate in the dining room, consequently all our adult children still eat at the table. Now if the grandchildren are eating with us we revert to eating at the kitchen table, and if we have the whole family, or part of the family we revert to eating in the dining room. Or the garden if it’s a barbecue.

phoenix
Have very dare you, no linen napkins