Meal times. Why?

isthisallthereis Oh how I wish I could get my parents to understand the concept that there is no longer a weekend. Having not worked for over twelve years now my mum is still of the opinion that certain things belong to certain days. She totally begrudges my dad going to a football match on a Sunday (as its a Sunday for goodness sake and the only possible day you can have a roast) and shopping has to be done on a Saturday. I have tried and failed to make my mum in particular understand that everyday is the weekend for them and that meals can be eaten at any time dictated by only when you are hungry.

I so love being able to please myself, after years of getting up at 6am, hurling into the shower, making packed lunches and all the rest. My second marriage was to a chap who 'had' to have 2 hours sleep every afternoon, a cooked lunch and dinner at 6.15 - not 6.10 or 6.20, please note.

I never eat breakfast, but like to brunch around 10.30. I love having a bath in the morning and taking my time about it. I tend to eat dinner around 7, depending on what I'm doing, and then I just ignore all the dirty dishes until the following morning when I shove them in the dishwasher.

I'm not the world's best sleeper, but if I'm having a really bad night, I get up again (without anyone asking why), stick on a DVD and do the ironing. If I have a couple of bad nights, I'll catch up on my sleep in the afternoon.

When I was a young woman I used to clean the house as if I was expecting a visit from the Good Housekeeping Institute who were going to grade me on the dustiness of my skirting boards. Now I have much more sense. My house is clear and uncluttered (apart from all the morning dirty dishes) and I can clean the whole thing through in a morning.

nanaej I also do 'sudoku' in bed when I can't sleep.Sometimes if I wake too early I make a mug of tea and a thick slice of toast with marmalade and sliced banana and take it back to bed on a tray. Yum-Yum

I'm so pleased to find someone else who combines marmalade and banana, Maniac!

anno I like to add marmalade to cheese on toast.

Cereals are indeed carbs, which is why I never have any after 6 (lol, as per my post0

It was just me thinking supper came after the evening meal, jura. Because it used to when I was a kid. Don't have supper nowadays. Confused as usual, eh?

In my Nana's house in Darlington it was
Breakfast approx 7:30-8:00 a.m.
Dinner 12:30 on the dot
Tea 5:30 on the dot
Supper any time after 8:30 & before you went to bed!

Have you tried marmalade on ground rice pudding? - much nicer than the usual strawberry jam.

Marmalade and/or grated orange rind and thinly sliced marzipan give a zing to bread and butter pudding.

Maniac That sounds delicious yum yum!

I wish people would stop giving me delicious calorific ideas! I adore marzipan.

Marmalade on hot, grilled bacon. Try it, it's fab. May sound odd but pork is eaten with apple sauce ie pork and cooked, sweetened fruit (I know when I make my own apple sauce there's no sugar added but have you seen the ingredients of the Coleman's bottled stuff!?) And yes annodomini squillions of calories.

Ah! Not tempted, because demi-veggie which precludes bacon. Wonder if marmalade's any good with smoked salmon. On second thoughts....eugh!