Do you have a full cooked meal every night?

I can't be tied to the oven or cooker due to health so when I'm up to it I cook and when I'm not I order sandwich food or soups or cheese and lovely bread. We have occasional ready meals and take away but not much as it leaves me feeling worse afterwards sometimes. Or I will eat out if I am already out and eat light later on in the day, my DS sorting himself out for food. We just do as we please really, always have.

In Germany it is very common to eat lunch warm and evening meal cold and We go along with it. Then its all washed up -kitchen tidy, before we take our siesta. The afternoon is then free and in the eveing we each make our own sandwich with or without salad I drink tea and DH drinks beer.

DH likes a cooked meal every evening, but he's not fussy, he eats whatever he's given!
We usually eat late, anywhere between 7 and 9-30 pm, I think this is due to him having always worked shifts, when our meal times were, by necessity, weird!
Normally it's fish or meat with potato/rice/couscous/quinoa and fresh veggies/salad, or a pasta dish.
Last night however, was mince and onions over thick toast, he spent the whole day telling me that was what he really wanted, I have to admit, it was lovely!

riverwalk you are a woman after my own heart! I eat and cook as I do because I enjoy my food and enjoy trying out new food stuffs and recipes. When I lose my relish for food I will know I am on the way out.

My day has gone

Breakfast: soft cheese spread on marmite rice biscuits with cucumber slices, fruit juice and lemon tea.

Lunch: vegetable pilau with tomato salsa and stewed apples

Supper: smoked salmon salad and fresh fruit.

No wine though, as I am a very light drinker, but a good long walk this morning, some gardening this evening and a morning spent racing around the shops.

I have a full cooked/uncooked meal three times a day! Toast or soup for a meal just wouldn't do it for me - today I've had

Breakfast: Slice of ham, poached egg & tomatoes, coffee

Lunch: Prosciutto, avocado, coleslaw & rocket

Supper will be: cod loin & vegetables, plus wine

I'm soon off for a 2-hour riverwalk so hope to 'walk-off' the coleslaw and wine!

Yes we still have an evening meal as my husband is out 12 hours a day. It's often a healthy eating ready meal as we're on a diet but other days it might be mince or chicken with veg etc. Lunch is just low fat cheese spread on crackers or an omelette and he takes the same or soup. Breakfast is always fruit and cereal although this morning I deviated a little and had toast! As we have to get up at 5.30am I'm aways starving by 9am! My husband was on holiday for a fortnight so I was on my own - I only ate when I was hungry and sometimes it would be 2pm when I would have lunch. I lived on salads and beans on toast - bliss

Still eat main meal in the evening usually cooked from scratch by me ,though I do a lot of batch cooking and freezing .I have never really enjoyed cooking except when entertaining but like to eat healthily !Pudding only if one of our DDs is home .
Saturday night is an 'instant'meal though as I insist on a night off. Often M and S £10 for two .
I go out a lot in the day and a proper meal at lunch time wouldn't work for us
We don't eat out a lot but as it happens Sunday will be my fifth dinner (and one lunch) out this week .Darent get on scales...

We now eat a main meal at lunch time, usually cooked from scratch, although the other half likes things I do not, so he occasionally has these ready made. We also always have breakfast, but after the mid-day meal we now just have a piece of cake and a cuppa during the afternoon, and that is it. Can' even imagine eating the huge meals we used to get through!

DH and I still both work full time so we tend to eat our main meal
In the evening. Almost always cooked from scratch by either me or both of us together . At least one night a week we have a "make do" dinner of fish fingers and mashed potatoes or something similar. I cook for the DGC twice a week too but they will eat anything. They're not fussy eaters at all. Their favourites are Sunday/Monday roast dinners and curry or pasta.

Like some others we eat our main meal, which I cook, at midday. We gradually eat less as the day goes on. Small tea and supper which suits DH as he gets reflux if he eats late. Breakfast which he makes is toast or porridge, fruit and nuts. We hardly ever eat out so I cook large amounts and freeze quite a lot.

We do eat too much when we are away on ships and then spend the next three months trying to get rid of it just to go back and do the same thing.

I had visions of it waving cudgels and bashing the hell out of the rest of the veg.

I cook every night or we have something I have previously frozen. About once a month we have takeaway curry on Saturday night. I reckon that Saturday should be easy food so it might be a frozen pizza or something like that.

M0nica ""brutal corn on the cob"" ..... as in it was really big/massive and looked totally out of place on the plate.

Yes we have a meal each evening but no starter and no pudding. My husband was a chef so does all the cooking ( I hate it )
We often go out for lunch though then just a quick sandwich in the evening. It's nice to have time now we are retired to relax and enjoy a meal.

brutal corn on the cob

We have a very light lunch and a cooked from scratch meal every night with fruit ( strawberries at the moment ) for pudding. I would never get away with anything less.

We have a cooked meal most nights. H has his signature dishes curry and steak and he cooks breakfast at the weekend. The rest of the time it's down to me, must admit I do sometimes find it a chore. Saturday night is my night off, we will have something like homemade burgers from the freezer in a bun or pizza from the freezer. That's the only time we eat in front of the TV.

Similar to Newquay but in this case I am the cook not DH, but he likes to cook steak when we have it and always does the barbecue.Men of a similar age have been brought up this way , no takeaways ( don't live near any) but now and then a good M&S ready meal .

DH is the cook in our home. He likes his traditional cooked meal early evening. I'm not complaining but I would eat differently. He's a meat and two veg man. I would like salads, jackets, pasta, fish.
I eat whatever is put in front of me and I have finally convinced DH that I only want a small portion and this is no criticism of his cooking.
I agree with Liz46 taking it in turns. A chap I know and his wife do that-he simply cooks whatever he is told to
We're not averse to the odd ready meal and we often freeze half of our meal for another night.
We do always eat together at breakfast and evening meal.

Yes, we have dinner together each evening, the timing changes according to our plans. Usually once a week we eat out, not posh. On a Saturday night it's either takeaway or Asda 2 for £7 rib eye steaks.

DH does breakfast each morning for both of us which might not materialise until about 11am so often we don't have lunch.

This evening I did 2 salmont fillets in the oven for 20 minutes, served with wild rice (Uncle Ben's microwave) and some stir fried asparagus/mushrooms and sugar snap peas. There was also a rather brutal corn-on-the-cob on the side of each plate but it was delicious.

Mostly. It's a habit left over from when we were working I suppose. We will have meat or fish and vegetables; chilli or risotto, or home made quiche and salad. But sometimes it will just be an omelette or home made soup. I find I like cooking less and less these days though.

Yes most evenings, mainly I cook from scratch, but if my husband produces a meal usually on a Saturday, it will be a curry via a box or two from M&S although he does the accompanying rice, unaided and from scratch

Because of my condition, can only eat once a day, usually early evening.

I have quite a lot of days when I don't feel like cooking Monica.

Yes. But sometimes it has already been cooked by Mr Waitrose.

Tonight my DD is cooking. It will be delicious but will take ages. So I am munching chocolate covered raisins to keep me going.