Anyone else eat their supper on the sofa in front of the TV?

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Summer/light-nights - always at the table with cloth, napkins, water jug and glasses, cruet, place mats etc. Lovely views of the garden.

Winter/dark-nights - on large cushioned lap trays watching something on catchup.

All year - Lunchtime sandwich or wrap and yoghurt whilst comfortably watching an episode of something interesting. At the moment it's 'Clocking Off' from the BBC iPlayer. In a few weeks it will be the new series of 'Clarkson's Farm' on AmazonPrime.

It's your life and your home. Do what the heck you like as long as you don't frighten the horses (as my Nana used to say!)!

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I don't have room for a dining table, but I do have a fold up one. I make a mess eating off my lap. My house is too small for entertaining, I don't know if that's a good thing or not.

Even though I'm on my own now I invariably eat at the table, mats, napkin etc. Possibly not a serving dish. I do have the radio on. Kindle to hand or possibly Netflix on laptop in the evening. If snacks then yes on the sofa. I hate eating from my lap or in bed.

My DCs were brought up the same. DD does same. DS not so much.

Yes often. Since my husband died in 2017..he hated eating on his knee so we never did. I love it! Watch TV or Netflix !
I'm from the South.. its dinner 6pm...lunch 1pm !!!

Life in the fast lane, here, wellbeck
Now I've got to get the damn vacuum out.
The wages of my sin.

MissA, you're always such a rebel !

the trick is not to eat anything that requires more than one implement to be used, usually a spoon.
with soup i add the bread or crackers directly into the soup bowl/mug while in the kitchen, so all can be dealt with just a spoon.
wasn't it the french who said, the english do their butchery at the table.
i prefer to do all prep inc any necessary cutting or mixing, while still in the kitchen.
then sit down, relax to eat with spoon and bowl, while reading GN; paces it nicely.

Yes and breakfast and lunch too.

I've just enjoyed eating some flaky crackers for lunch, in the comfort of my sofa

yes Katie, we do too, ..not even a tray..a cuppa and whatever we fancy with it ...sometimes a take away...

Everyone to their own - however I can't think of anything worse!! Even though I live/eat alone I still lay the table for meals as I always have done, including linen napkins as I can't bear paper ones! Might sound a bit too much but old habits die hard. The way people are shown eating on TV and lack of basic manners, would put me off my food if I was eating in front of it!!

No never, I live alone and all my meals are eaten sat at the table. I don’t enjoy it balancing on my lap.

I'm with Cossy!

the sofa bistro !
i like that. sounds like all those hookah places, with people lounging out back on divans.
meant to be outside due to smoking regs . . .

If a meal needs a knife and fork, I (and my young grandsons) eat at the kitchen table, also eg soup, when there’s both a bowl and a plate for bread. And breakfast is always eaten in the kitchen.

Later in the day I might have yogurt or a slice of cake on the sofa in front of the tv. Very rarely the grandchildren have a pizza in the sitting room, with tea towels strategically placed for crumbs and messy fingers!

Eating tends to be a social occasion so when I have company it's always a meal at a table. As I live alone however, I find the TV a good companion at the sofa bistro.

Yep every single day at dinner time
On our laps. Tea for me is in the afternoon tea and cake. I don't partake in supper I like to leave 12 hours between dinner and breakfast.

I do occasionally when we're on our own.

Absolutely, we very rarely eat at the table, in fact I can't remember the last time we did. The dogs know to leave well alone, and it suits us so that's what we do.

it can be arranged on a cushion to get the best posture.
i am from the south, and i just call it food, or something to eat.
i rarely use the word meal either, suggests to me of canteens, catering signs.
dinner to me suggests a grand feast, or special occasion, eating out, if in the evening.

Bending over a tray can give you indigestion unfortunately.

We call it dinner, have a glass of wine and eat at the coffee table in the sitting room watching tv! We have a wood burner and it is so cosy. Eat in the kitchen during the day. Can’t imagine wine in there, it’s always tea!!

Why would it give you indigestion, J52? Purely because you would be appalled at the mere idea? (That is, if you would be.)

If we’re on our own we sit with a tray, sometimes watching tv sometimes just chatting.I do shifts at work, all kinds of odd times so sometimes eat alone.
When the family come round we eat at the table together.
There’s no right or wrong way, it’s what suits you and your lifestyle.

Yes we do. We are always very active during the day, then when we get home from our jaunts I cook a meal, put the 6pm news on and eat our dinner whilst we watch. Used to feel guilty about doing it as I drummed into my daughter that meals should be eaten at the table, but at the ripe old age of 77 I now couldn’t care less 😂😂