Supper on the sofa?

We have breakfast and lunch at the table but dinner is always on the chairs in the lounge, it’s been this way ever since the kids left home. Only time it changes is if we are looking after one of the grandkids at night then we have dinner at the table

We ate supper on the sofa while DH's broken collar bone was mending, as he was more comfortable there than sitting at the table.

But we have moved back to the table now for dinner, at least, as we both prefer eating there.

We eat all our meals at the table, although when younger we ate off trays. I now unfortunately suffer with reflux and I find it exacerbates the problem if I try to eat from a tray balanced on my lap.

We always eat at our kitchen table. The proper table in the front room only used high day and holidays.

My OH did shift work until he retired so we often had our meals separately and always used the dining room even when eating alone. We still do as I dislike eating when I'm all scrunched up on the sofa.

More comfortable at the table, less messy. Wipe the table when done, then head for sofa with a cuppa, feet up. Rarely eaten dinner on my lap, not when a table is available.

No rule here.

If there are just me and DH we will eat at the breakfast bar. If DS is here (which he is right now for the forseeable) then there is n't room for that so we eat at the dining table. Sometimes though if it's late and there is a tv show we need to catch up on then will eat in the lounge - with plates on laps.

Today's lunch was outdoors as it is a beautifully sunny day and there may be a shortage of those after today.

After re-reading the thread title - does supper mean evening meal? As in dinner? We would refer to a pre-bed snack as supper here, so a cuppa and biscuits. Which would likely be on the sofa.

Rocking chair for me...always eat with food on lap. I do have a table but never use it.

Supper is late evening here too,dinner around 6pm at the table .

Use the sofa when it’s just two of us..... if grandchildren come to eat and stay we use the table..... must keep the standards up that they have been set.... and I set my kids. But if we have a ‘bargain bucket’ from KFC .... everybody hunkers around the coffee table and eats from the bucket with fingers..,, else what’s the point,of the take-away.?

Yes Ethelbags in your own home do as you please ,a lot of judging on here by some .

Breakfast and lunch ... or brunch have been on the patio this weekend as it is so glorious to be outside. Like some others, dinner is at the table, unless it is pizza when it is enjoyed whilst sitting on the sofa

Dinner (evening) at the table. Lunch and breakfast, depending on what it is can be at the table or on a lap tray. Cooked usually eaten at the table, easier to avoid mishaps. At the end of the day, it’s your home so do what is best for you.

Just the two of us so we always eat sitting on the sofa with trays on our laps. Our kitchen isn't big enough for a table or breakfast bar, We do have a large formal dining table but that is only used when we have visitors, I do enjoy making a meal for friends and family and have everyone sitting round the table but for everyday I couldn't be bothered to set it up.

Always eat evening meal at the table. Mainly because I need a lot of condiments. Impossible whilst sitting on the sofa.
Mayonnaise, tomato ketchup, Worcester sauce, etc, always put away after each meal.

Lunch is usually a sandwich and for that I always sit on the sofa. Evening meal always a cooked affair, so more formal.
Have Lounge/diner, so can watch t.v. As well.

We do...but if we had a lounge/diner or a kitchen/diner (where we could put up a tv) we would eat at table

Thank you for your posts. It has been interesting to read and it seems we're all pretty much the same. Just to clarify, I sometimes refer to dinner as supper which for us is after 7pm which is habitually eaten on the sofa. However, breakfast is at the dining table. Any extra people and grandchildren we eat all meals at the table.

In common with MiniMoon , we eat our main meal just after mid-day and that will be seated at the table (with a tablecloth)! However, breakfast is usually toast for hubby, and either crumpets or a toasted bagel for me, eaten on the settee, watching TV! Our supper, usually a sandwich for hubby, who will eat that on the settee. I prefer something cooked, as I don't like cold food much and it rather depends what I have, as to whether or not it's eaten at the table. Our dining table is in the living room as the kitchen is not large enough for one. We don't have a Dining Room, although we did eat in the Sun Room when we first moved here. This is now the province of our two cats!

Breakfast and evening dinner on my recliner chair so that I can relax and put my aching legs up. Midday snack at kitchen table.

Always ate at the table when our children were at home. Now eat in the dining room high days and holidays only. Eat at the kitchen island or at a table outside in good weather.
I make no judgement about eating on the sofa, I just don't find it comfortable or easy but happy to have a drink and nibbles in front of the tv in the evening.

Every night comphy eating on the sofa just the two of us, anymore up the table

We used to eat on trays on the sofa in front of the tv until my dh got bad stomach and back pain we went back to eating at the dining table in the dining room and his digestion improved we do have a light supper on a Sunday on our knees tho

Well said etheltbags1, one of the main reasons I don't post on this site

Each to their own as they say. We always eat at the dining table, seems sloppy to me to eat on a tray in the lounge. Put a clean tablecloth on every few days. I can hear my mother saying to me "It is standards"