I get up and wash and dress somewhere between 8 and 10 a.m. and drink lots of coffee, listen to the news, do the washing-up and bed making and then take a slice or two of bread and marmelade or some yoghurt. Very rarely eat in the middle of the day - lunch is only a thing if we have visitors. Can' tremember when that last happened!
Dinner, which is our main meal of the day is eaten somewhere between 9 and 11 p.m.
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(129 Posts)Okay, another thread to see if there is any interest. Anything which takes us away from The News at present!!!!
So, for those of you who are home, retired, when do you have your meals. Obviously, we are no longer governed by going to and getting home from work, and unlikely to have children around us.
Once I retired, I found that without the alarm clock my body-clock woke me around 8.00 am each morning. I get up and have my breakfast immediately, getting showered and dressed much later (between 9.00 and 10.00 am).
I then have a very early, light lunch, soon after midday.
Do have a hot drink (winter), cold one in summer, during the afternoon, but then have my main meal soon after 5 pm. I know this is very early, but I am a long-time ostomist and find that eating early helps me have less interruptions for loo visits during the night.
The only thing I have later is a Green Tea.
My children & g.children find my meal times quite difficult, as it does mean (when we are permitted) that it is difficult to arrange going to a restaurant. When we do, they always try to book the earliest possible sitting - usually around 6 pm. They are all very good about this, but I know find it mildly irritating, that I just will not eat later.
I was surprised today when I phoned someone at midday and they said they would phone me back as they were just having the lunch. Thought it was only me that ate that so early.
Just be interesting to know what other retired people do about mealtimes.
Up about 8.15, cuppa and toasted tea cake about 9 a.m. Lunch around 12.30 - sandwiches, something on toast, or soup and rolls followed by fruit. Main cooked meal around 6.30. Sometimes a light supper snack around 9.30 (few biscuits, crackers, small bowl of cereal) and bed around 11. (I usually listen to an audio book in bed for around 30 mins to an hour though, till I get sleepy or actually doze off.)
I try to eat fairly regularly. I'm never hungry when I get up at 8am, it's just a cup of tea then. I might have crumpet or toast about 9am or a bit later. Then soup and a cracker at about 1pm. Or sometimes cereal for lunch. I cook my main meal abut 5.45 - 6 pm depending on what it is.
I have coffee or hot chocolate at any time that I feel like it.
I get really annoyed with myself because I am a nibbler in the evenings. I try hard to stick to nuts or fruit, but the chocolate hidden in the cupboard beckons...
I usually have breakfast about 11o clock then a small bag of crisps from a multipak in th afternoon. Tea is usually about 5 o clock. One night we'll have a proper meal then the next night a sandwich.
I’m not retired but have worked from home four days a week since March .
I’m up at 6.30 as that’s when DH goes to work . I get a drink - iced coffee or fruit juice and a yoghurt and oat cakes and start work . As I sometimes have zoom calls in the morning , I make sure I have a drink hot or cold and some fruit I can pick at . Unless I have a meeting ( zoom again ) booked , I have lunch anytime between 12 and 1pm , this is soup or a sandwich . More fruit or a packet of crisps helps me through the afternoon and I finish unless I have a meeting at 3pm. I then relax with needlework or knitting or catch up on tv on iPad till 6.30 . DH gets home about 4pm . I prepare tea (dinner) between 6.30and 7 and then we eat . I then drink soft drinks or tea and maybe have biscuits or a piece of cake before bed anytime between 10.30and 11.30 . I ‘speak’ to my daughter on messenger (she’s at Uni )during the day and up to bedtime depending on what she’s doing .
5am Cup of tea in bed.
6am Breakfast.
11.30-12md. Snack lunch.
3.45pm Main meal.
7pm Wine o'clock.
8.30 Hot choc. then bed.
Seem to be getting up and going to bed earlier these days.
For us up about 8 am
Breakfast 8.30 - 9am
Coffee 10.30 - 11 am
Lunch 12.30
Coffee 3.30pm
Tea 5.30pm
snack 8pm
nibble 10.30pm
bed 11. - 11.30 pm
I was semi retired but Covid saw to that now back almost FT, although as I work from home I start later than anyone else as I hate getting up! 1 ish for lunch, 7 - 8 for dinner which I only start to cook when I come out of the office about 6 - 6.30, weekends may be slightly earlier. Pre Covid most Sundays meant family round for dinner so that was usually about 4pm. I dream of that again, my DGS sent me a hand made card saying that he missed me and he missed my roasts! Also dream of seeing my DD and family who live in Spain and is about to have a second birthday since I've last seen her.
What do you reckon are my chances of having them all here for my 70th in November?
Breakfast at around 6:30 (could be earlier); lunch at noon (although sometimes I don’t eat lunch if I’m busy); tea (I’m northern
) at 5ish.
If we have friends over for dinner, or go out, we tend to eat at around 7:30, but that generally leaves me feeling uncomfortable during the night.
I generally go to bed quite early - 8:30-9, then read for half an hour, so on a usual day, 5 o’clock for tea works out about right.
I have a couple of coffees to break my fast and prefer my main meal mid afternoon...sometimes have an early brunch then a snack late afternoon, sometimes a main meal between 5 - 6 pm..rarely eat after 7 due to digestive issues...
It all depends on what I am doing and ehat I have eaten the day before. Have been low carb, healthy fat now for nearly four years
*myself x2 typo?
Have noticed only eat twice a day myself at most myself..one son eats less, youngest seems to eat more.?
We have breakfast anytime between 6.30 and 8 depending on how early my husband gets up or if its my work day. Lunch is 12 to 1 and dinner anywhere between 6.30 and 7.30.
All in all we are pretty flexible with meal times, my husband snacks on fruit during the day and I have morning and afternoon tea.
Cup of tea in bed usually between 6 and 7 am, cup of coffee when I get up, maybe a bowl of cereal around 1pm, tea and cake or biscuit around 4pm, then something around 7pm. I’m not a big eater. Since losing DH I can’t be bothered to cook.
I eat when I'm hungry and drink when i am dry.
Never miss breakfast, often skip lunch. Usually have evening meal before 7. Never know until the day what I will eat. I like seeing what I have and making things with what I've got. Snack on post Christmas goodies and plan to eat more healthily....Tomorrow?
I do try to structure my days far more now though.
If I am alone I lunch well after 1, but if DH is around, he is in the kitchen preparing something by 11.50. We normally eat dinner at 7.30, so my two Zoom meetings this week make for what we regard as an early one at 6.30.
Hubby who is the main cook serves our main meal at 4pm. I go along with this but don't have much at lunchtime and definitely not cake in the afternoon otherwise I can't face the meal. Downside is snacks all evening.
Coffee at 8am ish
Brunch 11am ish
Dinner between 4pm and 5pm
Terribull, am same, cant usually bother early with breakfast but oddly, when we used to have a hotel stay would happily munch about 9am.?
Breakfast when I wake, usually between 8&11
Coffee sometimes
Light lunch sometimes between 12&2
Tea with cake sometimes about 3
Dinner between 4&7
Drink before bed sometimes and about 10
I usually get up about 7.30, prepare DH fruit and cereal and have a cup of tea.
Most days I'll have my breakfast around 9 some days I don't bother with breakfast just a second cup of tea. DH wakes any time from 8 to 10 depending on what sport he's been watching overnight and has his breakfast straight away.
Coffee mid morning.
DH likes his lunch around midday but Idon't have mine until about 1 ish.
Cup of tea and biscuits around 3pm.
We have dinner around 5.15 to coincide with Pointless but that is DH choice and as it is the only meal where we eat the same thing I go along with that. I would happily eat later or sometimes not at all.
Coffee around 8pm. Bed around 10 but watch tv until about midnight.
I'm not a fan of eating by the clock and would rather eat when I'm hungry which could be 3 times a day on some days or once a day on some days.
I have my main meal for Brunch at about 11am. Them a light meal about 4 after walking the dog. I have warm milk and Banana before bed at 10.
Goodness me what a lot of virtuous eaters. Breakfast around 0900, fruit, seeds and milk, lunch probably 1 to 2 pm, today lunch is homemade tagliatelle bolognaise, possibly a slice of cheesecake, tea around 6 to 7 crackers and cheese or a smoked salmon open sandwich and fresh salad veg, then a slice of Tunisian lemon cake. Partner enjoys the red wine, I prefer tea or very dilute squash. Most things batch cooked from fresh. Enjoy an evening meal out circa 7.00 pm. Can always be elastic about eating but get very hungry if it gets too long family trait is anger if too hungry, try not to show it, or too precious at time. Life is too short for Prima donnas.
I eat when I am hungry. Breakfast (usually toast but sometimes cornflakes) eaten when I get up, sometimes 7am sometimes 9 am, Lunch usually homemade soup (recently got a soup maker) or a sandwich anytime from 12 midday to 2pm. Evening meal, sometimes, if I feel hungry at 4.45 - 5.30 other days it can be 6pm . I drink black tea several times a day plus no sugar fizzy drinks too. so I have no regular times for anything really.I am disabled housebound so doesn't matter what time I do anything really.
With the pandemic& lockdowns & various 'shut-ins' for tier levels(we normally level 4 lanashire) our food times have largely gone to pot! There was a lot of different meals going on before but now its worse- 3 of us (2 sometimes eating same stuff,but not always, & one very picky) its been a nightmare! We get up different times too so eating (foods/times) is chosen accordingly..But still, at least we're all still here to tell the tale and be awkward so that's the main thing really, time is precious and so long as we are all safe (and youngest logs online for college by 9am 3days a week!?) then im not going to be a 'clockwatcher' nag when theres nowhere to go?
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