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It’s been a while so I will start us off…….whats for supper and why?

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Sago Mon 27-Apr-26 18:56:06

This evening it’s chicken risotto as I needed to use up some leeks and yesterday’s roast chicken.

It’s happily cooking in the Thermomix whilst I waste time on SM!

Risotto is my go to comfort food, I just love it and I always have ingredients to cobble one together.

Allira Mon 27-Apr-26 20:18:15

Chicken and vegetable stir fry followed by plum crumble and custard.

tanith Mon 27-Apr-26 20:27:36

I had breaded plaice, chunky chips and fresh runner beans. Dessert was a small cherry pie with cream.

Witzend Mon 27-Apr-26 20:37:24

We had a fairly substantial lunch out, so I’ve just had some toast and pate, and dh is going to make himself a couple of eggs on toast.

paddyann54 Mon 27-Apr-26 20:54:09

Supper in my neck of the woods is a before bed snack/meal.A sandwich or toasted cheese or something similar .Around 9.30 or 10 pm.
We have breakfast ,lunch and dinner no suppers these days as we don’t eat after 8pm oh and I don’t do breakfast ,my first meal is around 1 pm

kittylester Mon 27-Apr-26 21:01:32

For rea we had cold roast pork, bubble and squeak and pickle because we had roast pork yesterday.

No idea about tomorrow, for once it is unplanned.

Sago Mon 27-Apr-26 21:09:29

boheminan

Right! I think I may be herded out of town for this, but here goes anyway...

What is supper? Meals for me used to be: breakfast/dinner/tea up until I left London in the 70's, then when I got married and moved to Oxfordshire it became breakfast/lunch/dinner, but I've never knowingly prepared a supper. From what's being said it sounds like lunch or dinner to me, I always assumed supper was a light meal, like sandwiches or a slice of cake sort of thing.

For us supper is an informal evening meal, usually eaten around 7.00pm.

Dinner would be a more formal meal.

SpinDriftCoastal Mon 27-Apr-26 21:13:16

We have lunch. Supper is usually soup, cheese or ham sandwich followed by fruit or yoghurt.

MissChateline Mon 27-Apr-26 22:03:17

Im currently enjoying my retirement present to myself and am staying for 6 weeks in my favourite place in Portugal. Dinner was a fabulously tasty salmon steak from a lovely market in Tavira. fresh salad with tomatoes that actually taste good washed down with a bottle of vinho verde. Delicious.

Sago Mon 27-Apr-26 22:07:50

MissChateline

Im currently enjoying my retirement present to myself and am staying for 6 weeks in my favourite place in Portugal. Dinner was a fabulously tasty salmon steak from a lovely market in Tavira. fresh salad with tomatoes that actually taste good washed down with a bottle of vinho verde. Delicious.

We love Tavira, my happy place.

lixy Mon 27-Apr-26 22:15:30

Pasta and tomato sauce this evening after a busy day. So good to have fresh herbs from the garden again to give it all a lift.

No pud when it’s just us. When gchn are here we have fruit or a fruit crumble depending on the weather.

Kate1949 Mon 27-Apr-26 22:35:14

We don't eat supper. I always think it's for 'posh' people.

Rocketstop2 Mon 27-Apr-26 22:35:45

Ours was 'Tea' around 5.30pm ,but just a memory now ! We had cheddar and caramelised onion tart,baby potatoes,carrots and peas .For dessert we had fruit and Greek yoghurt

Allira Mon 27-Apr-26 22:37:16

Kate1949

We don't eat supper. I always think it's for 'posh' people.

Supper used to be Ovaltine or hot chocolate and a couple of biscuits.

Sadly, we no longer need the extra calories.

Scribbles Mon 27-Apr-26 22:40:20

For me, it's breakfast, lunch and dinner - except when the last meal is served late, say after 9pm when I call it supper.
No, I don't know why. It's just the way my mind works.
Tonight, supper was smoked haddock in mushroom sauce with new potatoes, baby carrots and English asparagus . Followed by a ready-made crème brûlée. Why? Because I was cooking and that's what came to mind when I was planning menus - and it's asparagus season.

MT62 Mon 27-Apr-26 23:20:42

GrannyGravy13

DH is out so I am having a fish finger sandwich all f with a big bowl of mixed salad, yummy.

Oh that was our tea last night, cod fishfingers on sourdough bread, with mutti ketchup.

Wyllow3 Mon 27-Apr-26 23:28:01

Late eater - using up frozen broccoli, salmon microwaved/poached with dill and cream,

Having had salad and sandwich around 2.

9pm Got hungry so had a mini pork pie. Fruit salad home made or a or a plate of chopped salad and mayo dip, grapes to snack on.

I love raw food.

Whitewavemark2 Tue 28-Apr-26 02:34:58

Turkey Enchiladas.

Tomorrow I have planned

Porridge with chai seeds and tinned peaches in juice
Savoury vegetable rice, piece fruit
Broccoli and cauliflower pasta gratins, Greek yogurt, frozen berries, tsp. honey.

Greyduster Tue 28-Apr-26 06:25:13

Smoked haddock, new potatoes and wilted spinach. Yesterday was a salmon (tinned) sandwich and an apple as I wasn’t particularly hungry.

Allsorts Tue 28-Apr-26 06:32:28

Tonight its a surprise as I have something unlabelled and unrecognisable out of the freezer.

PamelaJ1 Tue 28-Apr-26 07:00:43

Kate1949

We don't eat supper. I always think it's for 'posh' people.

I thought dinner was for the posh folk unless it was eaten at midday. 😂

Sago Tue 28-Apr-26 07:58:01

Allsorts

Tonight its a surprise as I have something unlabelled and unrecognisable out of the freezer.

I love the freezer lottery game!

Last week I took out something that was completely unrecognisable, it was a delicious lentil, spinach and coconut dhal.

I have a marker pen in my kitchen drawer to label the freezer bags, heaven knows why I didn’t use it.

boheminan Tue 28-Apr-26 08:04:33

I'm with you on that Kate1949!

Whitewavemark2 Tue 28-Apr-26 08:08:07

My fisherman always uses sticky labels on the fish he brings (6 different sorts a month) and they invariably come off - most I recognise but two have foxed me. One lot will be turned into fish cakes I think- the other I’ll defrost and see if that helps- if not into a bouillabaisse they will go 😊.

Maggiemaybe Tue 28-Apr-26 08:22:16

I like the word supper for evening meal, though for us it’s tea. For ours yesterday we had a courgette, pea and mint risotto followed by melon and blueberries with plain yoghurt. Menu chosen by DH because he’s our chef.

We’ve an afternoon with grandchildren today so tonight’s will be microwaved leftovers from Sunday’s roast dinner. Not too much as there’ll be food to tempt us at our pub quiz later (always billed as a free supper).

Samsara1 Tue 28-Apr-26 09:32:29

Dinner for us and its sausages for us as that is the first pack that fell out of the freezer this morning.