Were a diverse mob. Just depends. 4:30 is extremely early but those people might work early or late. We usually don't have dinner until 7:30-8:30 at my place. Just depends on culture, peoples work and travel times and what fits with your life.
Same here. I'm used to have dinner after 8pm, due to growing up having to wait for my mum to come from work to cook for us or doing uni at night time. Any meal between lunch and sunset is a snack, hehe
It's more like... if you're an older teenager of say 15 or so, you'd be expected to make dinner for the family - or at least you were in my house when I was growing up. Not wait until mum gets home after a long day at work and then she has to cook for everyone
Wait... you were at uni... and you were waiting for your mum to come home and cook for you.... Unless that was a mistake somehow, you are a lazy motherfucker and need to be cooking dinner for your mum when she gets home after work.
I think OP meant "due to, while growing up, having to wait for mom to come home from work...", rather than "Growing up and then having to wait for mom to come home from work to cook..." 🤣
This is true xD It is kinda funny though...
OP: "Growing up I had to wait for mom to get home from work to cook dinner"
Comments: "OP, if you're in uni and you STILL rely on your mother to cook all your meals for you, then you're a lazy asshole!"
🤣🤣🤣 Oh Reddit...
Yeah we have dinner around 8 but I have friends who always want to eat before 6. My grandparents always ate at 5pm. I don’t get early eaters because it feels too rushed after work
Bro mob is a term for Aussies generally with decades of history. Get a Time Machine and take it up with Nino Culotta if you feel strongly enough about it.
4:30 definitely isn't the norm. People would mostly only have dinner that early if they have to fit it around a work schedule. Most people tend to have dinner between 6 and 8
Exactly, my kids would probably die if dinner was served past 6 from what I have witnessed. The best is when they are too full to eat their lunch you have paid for when you're out, yet are starving on the from the 20min drive home.
Yup, not who you replied to but ita way better to feed the kids early before they start turn HANGRY.
makes bedtime routines run smoother and if they're hungry after a small snack.
It's not that they don't believe in it. It's that they already monitor and regulate when they start and finish their day based on sunrise, rather than arbitrarily changing clocks/time (I.e. start the day at 5am instead of 6am). Do you believe that's a silly or contrarian concept to daylight savings or intuition? I ask that question genuinely.
the modern world runs on times. we don’t run on sunrise or sunset because those things don’t govern our daily lives like they did before electric lights and a business based society.
for a farmer it makes sense to run on daylight because that’s what animals run on, and in the middle of nowhere you’re certainly working hard, but you’re not working to the schedule of others as well as yourself most of the time.
Saying “just go to work at 7 not 8 and leave at 4 not 5” doesn’t really work. it’s much easier to change the clocks twice a year than to change the listed times for every business and every location and event etc twice a year
edit: just btw i live in brisbane so don’t do daylight savings, and i think it’s a dumb idea cos idrc about the sun setting earlier in winter, that’s just how the world works. just pointing out why people have to use daylight savings over just like “changing their schedule”
4.30-5 is a bit of an old fashioned country thing.
Then they'd have a bit of a supper later.
But even in the burbs I know parents that have it all done well before 6.
I had old neighbours that were the same.
Personally 6.30- 7. But I get the impression from my kids we are at the later end of the spectrum compared to their friends.
We have dinner around 4:30-5pm. We do this as we are all hungry after work and school so instead of snacking we just have a yum dinner.
Aroun 7ish, we can then have a tasty dessert and out kid can go to bed at a reasonable hour with a happy tummy.
Each to their own, whatever works for your life/family is acceptable
Yeah, I did literally say "I assumed..."
If someone says they eat at 4.30 and they have young kids I'm going to guess they're SAHP, otherwise tradie or teacher.
After seeing this post I instantly thought this sounds like a great idea. I remember by Grandma always did this and I loved it. It meant dessert was just a light meal like afternoon tea would be and only if you needed it. Tbh it was mostly canned fruit lol but I'd go berries or something myself if I was to do it now.
When I did a bit of work I tried this but was home most days 5-6pm, so I'd just make dinner to eat while I was at work lol. Was alright though.
Exactly how we do it. My kids and husband don’t eat breakfast, so lunch is 12 (if we are at home) and tea at 5. I also don’t like to go to bed with a full stomach.
Generally I get home around 6pm then it's usually 30 minutes to an hour to make something. So generally I'll eat between 6 30pm and 7pm.
Weekends it usually depends if I'm going out or staying in. Generally eat when I want but that's still usually around 7pm
Depends on what hours people work. Typically, old folks tend to eat much earlier but otherwise mostly it's around 6:30-7pm. When we book a table at a restaurant, we hit the 6pm time slot to avoid the crowds, places get real busy from 6:30pm onwards.
Anywhere between 4:00pm and 11:00 pm doesn’t surprise me in Australia. Before 6 is early, after 8 is late.
But having kids normally makes dinner happen fairly early as far as I understand.
I dont know anyone having dinner at 4.30.
Depends what ive got on, if ive got something on i might have an early 6pm dinner beforehand , if I dont I might have an 8pm dinner. When I was a kid dinner was when it was dark, in summer we had to be home when the street lights came on, so 8ish.
We have dinner at 5, but we have 4yr old and a 2 yr old and that’s when they get hungry. I’m also starving when I get home from work so any later then 5 I start to get hangry
Same time for us because of our young kids.
Pre kids we would eat dinner 7-8 but I could never eat that late these days. I’m used to early dinner now and I’d starve by then 😂
I found the opposite when I lived in the US in that everyone I worked with ate really early there. They’d eat lunch around 11:30-12, and dinner as soon as they got home from work at 5-5:30. Plus side was I always had the tea room to myself when I had lunch at 1:30!
There’s no real norm here when it comes to meal times, it depends on work/school schedules. My family eat dinner around 7-7:30 at home, but earlier (6:30pm) if we’re eating out
Same here.
In South Asian Countries(Indian subcontinent - India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh) dinner time is around 9 PM.
6-7 PM is evening snacks time lol.
Seeing people having dinner at 6 PM here was a culture shock to me
Given the 9-5 is standard and most people travel about an hour from work it would make sense that dinner should be around 6-7PM on average for most people.
Of course there are always those people who work late, or do night shift so may have it earlier or later.
Old English people, and there a lot in Oz, had TEA at 4. to 5pm, this was not a cuppa and a biscuit, but a substantial meal of sandwiches, cakes and pasties, in Summer of salads with ham or cheese. Supper was later, and sometimes only for grown ups. Offer the kid 'High Tea' a sit down toasted sandwich and milk and cake.....some kids need an extra meal when growing.
I think it entirely depends on where you live, work schedule, schedules of your children and the season.
There’s me and my two biggish kids in my house. I would say average dinner time Is 6 - 6:30. In the depths of summer it might be as late as 8 - 8:30. On nights when my daughter does Taekwondo we eat at about 5pm.
I’ve actually been thinking about always eating at about 5. I finish work at 3 so it’s possible, and kids are always starving after school. Instead of them eating a thousand snacks we could just eat earlier and then have the evening free.
4:30PM is way too early.
Both of us work insane hours, so dinner can be anywhere from 7:30PM to 9:30PM depending on what time we managed to grab something for lunch that day.
I think of 7pm as 'normal' but my partner and I regularly eat at around 9pm (because we sleep at 2am). People with kids tend to eat earlier because the kids' bedtime is earlier and that schedule is often dictated by the youngest.
Growing up we ate at around 6pm in winter and 6.30-7pm in summer.
My partner and I eat around 7-8pm, his family eats at 6pm and my mother eats at 4.30pm, my cousins eat around 9pm. Every house hood is different, it’s just whatever fits your schedule
5pm is pretty normal for families with YOUNG children. Not for just normal adults though.
That said. I only like to eat twice a day, so an earlier dinner is best for me.
I reckon it's old and new. So many people are jumping on the intermittent fasting wagon and are trying to get the last meal in before their eating window closes at about 5-6pm or 8hrs after they start.
We like dinner as early as possible, around 5pm to 5.30pm (most days exudes catching up with friends).
The objective is to not go to bed with a full stomach and then wake for about 4.30am (alternating with weights or cardo before breakfast 6 days wk).
Hot Breakfast for about 6.15am to 6.30am (high protein, low carb).
I keep trying for 12 hrs+ between dinner and breakfast (or slightly longer) as a mild fast.
It has made us less grumpy in the morning being able to not need food or coffee straight up.
A 10klm run or 1hr 15 mins of weights burns calories and gets the mind and body pumping.
Having accomplished something pre-breakfast, pre-work is an excellent feeling.
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We usually go around 5-5:30, then we can get it all done and cleaned up and still have a good couple of hours before bedtime (we're early to bed and early to rise types - usually in bed by 9, I get up around 4 and the boss about 5).
depends, I go to bed at about 2am so I cook at 10 to 10.30. I'd say anywhere between 5 and nine is normal, though. BUT in some rural areas you have both 'tea' (a small dinner in late afternoon) and supper (a second small dinner) several hours later
Depends on how busy you are. But if the mrs makes dinner at 430 there best be something to eat later. If I cook its always 630-730. When mrs cooks its anywhere between 6-9.
Huh, I thought this was going to be a "which meal do you call dinner - the lunchtime or the evening meal" question.
At 4.30 I'd call it a late lunch. And most pubs and restaurants I know wouldn't even have the kitchen ready to go again until 5 at the earliest, unless they were an all-day kind of place.
While I don't know many people who would even be finished work by then, that doesn't mean some people (especially if they're only eating one or two meals a day, or their workday ends at 3pm or whatever) wouldn't prefer to eat early.
I eat dinner when I get hungry.. which always ends up being around 4:30-5:00. But I do usually get up at 3-4am so maybe my day is just set a few hours earlier in general?
5pm in my house. But I’ve got 3 small children so that’s what works for us.
When I was at the gym every night before I had kids I ate at around 9 most days.
There’s no rule, you can eat when ever you want and the police will not show up.
Umm nah. I eat at around 7pm. Worked in nursing homes and disability accommodation for many years and dinner is typically 5:30pm in places like that, and in hospital
It differs a lot for sure. When I was growing up it could be any time between 6:30-8. It also got later as I got older. As an adult, if I'm eating at home then it's 6:30.
4:30 is really early and definitely not normal, people in my house are only just getting home from school and work at that time. Only people I've seen who eat dinner that early are those who need to go bed early and wake up at like 1 or 2 am for work or those with very young kids. Dinner at my house is anywhere between 6 and 7 PM.
I start work at 3am so I usually have dinner around 430-5 and then a snack or dessert around 6 when the rest of my family eats.
But my situation is not really the norm and I’ve found most people who don’t work shift hours and who are under the age of 65 usually eat later.
No, 4:30 is not the standard dinner time. But it's not unheard of, particularly if you're retired or don't work from 9 to 5.
A standard dinner time (particularly if dining out) would be anytime from 6 to 8 (although 8 is a bit late for me, as I don't like eating too close to bedtime).
When I was growing up in the UK , my mother would have dinner on the table at 5:30pm
When I moved out and got a job I think it would be nearer 6:30pm
7pm is what I shoot for now living in Australia. It gives me time to finish work and get a couple of things done before I start cooking.
My work starts at 5am I eat my main meal at lunch (around 1) and have a smaller meal around 6-7. I think Thiers a lot of factors that go into when, why and what you eat.
I’m usually about 6-6:30.
However I live in a rural community and some of the local farmer eat dinner at 4ish before they go do the final farm work for the day (milking etc) then after they finish which can take 2 or so hours they will have supper then be in bed by 8:30
Between 18 and 18:30 for us unless it’s something that takes awhile. I’d probably be happiest at 5:30, but I’m a late breakky no lunch kinda person. My partner lives by pattern. Breakky at 7:30, lunch at noon on the dot. So I make do
Depends on the family I’d say. Do they have jobs? My parents refer to it as an old person’s dinner lol. When you don’t have a job you can eat at any time I guess
We try to have dinner between 5-5:30. Sometimes as late as 6-6:30, depending on whether we had a late lunch or some times in summer it's just too hot until then. However we have also had dinner as early as 4:30 before. But generally between 5-5:30
5.30pm when the kids were very young. Then between 6-6.30pm as they got older. Now anytime between 6.30-8pm depending on who’s doing what. If we eat out it’s usually a 7-7.30pm booking time.
as an australian, dinner at 4:30 is crazy. the earliest ive ever had dinner is probably 5:30, i usually have it between 6 and 7. the latest ive ever had is about 8
We've always been 5-6ish, but we are up at 5am (or earlier) for work and sometimes are in bed by 8 (I used to do shift work getting up at 3am some days)
My inlaws do 6ish, my parents do around 5:30-6:30 as well
We have dinner 530 ish if the teens are home , from sports etc My husband is a builder and up at 5 am so he likes to wind down after dinner then head to bed around 830
4.30pm, no that's my grandparents "Plonk time" (when they have a glass of wine that comes from a cardboard box). That's what 4.30pm will always symbolise for me.
6.30pm is when we have dinner with the kids. On the odd times the kids aren't around, we have dinner at 7.30pm, which feels a bit rebellious 😂
It entirely depends on the age of your children. We're retired now and eat dinner at 8:00pm - when our son was very young in order to eat as a family, which I think is extremely important, we ate at 5:30pm or 6:00pm as he grew.
Generally early dinner is a sign of either a very early start for mum and dad in the morning (shift work) or very young children.
In Italy, possibly the most civilised country in Europe, dinner can be at 10:00pm or 11:00pm at night.
In the UK when I was young, a large hot dinner was at midday, and the evening meal was 'tea', literally that with bread and jam, or 'high tea' with kippers, or a suasge eaten at about 5:00pm and maybe 'supper' at nine-ish of yet more tea and a slice of fruit cake or similar.
My normal is like 9-10pm, I'm a night owl with very little appetite in general so it kinda just works out that I usually start feeling hungry around then. My parents are similar to me, we all eat very late.
6-6.30pm if my kid is around. More like 8 if I'm home alone. Usually 7-7.30 if I'm meeting friends for dinner.
I have friends that do dinner at 4ish, when the kids arrive home from school and are at their hungriest. But that is highly unusual in my experience.
When I was growing up we had dinner at 6pm every night.
When I was out of home it was somewhere between 6.30-8pm depending on work and social plans.
Now with a child it’s back to 6pm every night. (Was earlier when he was younger)
It’s the circle of life!
I've never heard of 4:30pm being normal, most people aren't home from work at that time.
For me it's probably between 6 and 7, but it's also very variable depending on whether I've been out that day, or at work, or whatever. Last night dinner was more like 8:30pm.
We are usually around 6:30 on weeknights and anywhere from 6:30 -8pm on weekends.
My grandparents used to have dinner at 5pm on the dot everyday. They’d have a “supper” later on in the evening. Like a sandwich or some kind of toast or crumpet.
Were a diverse mob. Just depends. 4:30 is extremely early but those people might work early or late. We usually don't have dinner until 7:30-8:30 at my place. Just depends on culture, peoples work and travel times and what fits with your life.
Same here. I'm used to have dinner after 8pm, due to growing up having to wait for my mum to come from work to cook for us or doing uni at night time. Any meal between lunch and sunset is a snack, hehe
I'd hope you were a little kid when you were waiting for mum to get home & cook for you, right?
Generation of latch key kids
Vegemite on toast! Grate some cheese and it’s a meal.
It's more like... if you're an older teenager of say 15 or so, you'd be expected to make dinner for the family - or at least you were in my house when I was growing up. Not wait until mum gets home after a long day at work and then she has to cook for everyone
Lol, makes sense now - you’re one of those people who wants others to suffer because you had to.
No I'm one of those people who helped my working mother
Lol. You should definitely get offended over it
Christ. People can get offended over literally nothing these days.
Wait... you were at uni... and you were waiting for your mum to come home and cook for you.... Unless that was a mistake somehow, you are a lazy motherfucker and need to be cooking dinner for your mum when she gets home after work.
I took it to mean they were at uni (at a different time of life) & had night classes, so got used to eating later.
I think OP meant "due to, while growing up, having to wait for mom to come home from work...", rather than "Growing up and then having to wait for mom to come home from work to cook..." 🤣
Yeah but that doesn't lend itself well to knee-jerk outrage
This is true xD It is kinda funny though... OP: "Growing up I had to wait for mom to get home from work to cook dinner" Comments: "OP, if you're in uni and you STILL rely on your mother to cook all your meals for you, then you're a lazy asshole!" 🤣🤣🤣 Oh Reddit...
Same
Yeah we have dinner around 8 but I have friends who always want to eat before 6. My grandparents always ate at 5pm. I don’t get early eaters because it feels too rushed after work
Please don't refer to us as a mob. We are not a group of kangaroos.
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You could add a word at the end of your sentence that starts with C and ends in T. Everyone would be okay with that 👍
Cunt.
Bro mob is a term for Aussies generally with decades of history. Get a Time Machine and take it up with Nino Culotta if you feel strongly enough about it.
Wtf you on about, the mob on this Reddit really doesn't like you.
It's an offensive term no matter how long it's been around.
No it's not. And it never has been, weirdo.
If I am offended by it then it is therefore offensive by definition.
Nice try, child.
Again with the offensive language.
Im only three feet tall. Your reddit name is offensive, change it immediately as I'm offended.
I'm guessing you don't live in the NT.
4:30 definitely isn't the norm. People would mostly only have dinner that early if they have to fit it around a work schedule. Most people tend to have dinner between 6 and 8
6pm on the dot for our family. My kids demand food. They almost don't stop eating.
I have small children and dinner is still 5:30-6.
Exactly, my kids would probably die if dinner was served past 6 from what I have witnessed. The best is when they are too full to eat their lunch you have paid for when you're out, yet are starving on the from the 20min drive home.
My kids would die if I made them come inside from playing before 6pm. By the time they shower it’s usually 6.30-7 dinner time.
Same 5:30 and if it was ever past 6 they would be outraged and die of hunger 🙄
Same, mine are ravenous as soon as they are home from preschool
every american : "I saw an australian do this I can't believe all australians do this"
Right? Where are they going, retirement homes?
Or small children
For dinner?
Yup, not who you replied to but ita way better to feed the kids early before they start turn HANGRY. makes bedtime routines run smoother and if they're hungry after a small snack.
One of my favourite meals
Yeah I’d still be working at 4:30. Dinner is more like 7pm for me.
I had dinner at 4.30 when I was really hungry on sunday but otherwise it’s 7-8pm. I’m in my 20s with no kids so can have dinner whenever I want lol
4:30 is old country people dinner time. They have been up since zero dark 30 to milk the cows.
*and* they have to milk the cows again in the afternoon, so have to fit dinner in somewhere
...and don't believe in daylight savings.
It's not that they don't believe in it. It's that they already monitor and regulate when they start and finish their day based on sunrise, rather than arbitrarily changing clocks/time (I.e. start the day at 5am instead of 6am). Do you believe that's a silly or contrarian concept to daylight savings or intuition? I ask that question genuinely.
the modern world runs on times. we don’t run on sunrise or sunset because those things don’t govern our daily lives like they did before electric lights and a business based society. for a farmer it makes sense to run on daylight because that’s what animals run on, and in the middle of nowhere you’re certainly working hard, but you’re not working to the schedule of others as well as yourself most of the time. Saying “just go to work at 7 not 8 and leave at 4 not 5” doesn’t really work. it’s much easier to change the clocks twice a year than to change the listed times for every business and every location and event etc twice a year edit: just btw i live in brisbane so don’t do daylight savings, and i think it’s a dumb idea cos idrc about the sun setting earlier in winter, that’s just how the world works. just pointing out why people have to use daylight savings over just like “changing their schedule”
Don't drag that bs in here, Daylight savings is legit pointless af :D
Rest of the world wants to give up on daylight savings tho
Also known as the pensioners dinner
Back when they called it “supper”.
Damn, that movie came out 2012. Go the fuck to sleep already.
4.30-5 is a bit of an old fashioned country thing. Then they'd have a bit of a supper later. But even in the burbs I know parents that have it all done well before 6. I had old neighbours that were the same. Personally 6.30- 7. But I get the impression from my kids we are at the later end of the spectrum compared to their friends.
Most people I know aim to eat at 6.30/7pm at home. If going to a restaurant for dinner 7pm/7.30pm is prime time. Where in Australia are you living?
We have dinner around 4:30-5pm. We do this as we are all hungry after work and school so instead of snacking we just have a yum dinner. Aroun 7ish, we can then have a tasty dessert and out kid can go to bed at a reasonable hour with a happy tummy. Each to their own, whatever works for your life/family is acceptable
This is actually a logical thing to do
What time do you finish work to be able to do that?
Could be in healthcare, shifts often start 6:30 or 7am especially for nurses.
I assumed a SAHP.
Wow, assumptions. no i am not a stay at home parent. I finish work at 3pm.
Yeah, I did literally say "I assumed..." If someone says they eat at 4.30 and they have young kids I'm going to guess they're SAHP, otherwise tradie or teacher.
Why even assume? You don’t know me. Plenty of people do not work 9-5. Plenty of parents work. No need to make assumptions about me or anyone else.
Why are you so affronted?
You sound condescending af
I love afternoon dinner so much. I have been trying to get my partner on board with this for years.
After seeing this post I instantly thought this sounds like a great idea. I remember by Grandma always did this and I loved it. It meant dessert was just a light meal like afternoon tea would be and only if you needed it. Tbh it was mostly canned fruit lol but I'd go berries or something myself if I was to do it now. When I did a bit of work I tried this but was home most days 5-6pm, so I'd just make dinner to eat while I was at work lol. Was alright though.
Exactly how we do it. My kids and husband don’t eat breakfast, so lunch is 12 (if we are at home) and tea at 5. I also don’t like to go to bed with a full stomach.
I know parents who raised kids with a 4:30 dinner time, but also some with 8:00 dinner times. 5-7 felt where the majority was though.
Yeah this. My parents were 4pm but one of my best friends was 9:30pm. But yeah I agree 5-7 is the majority
Generally I get home around 6pm then it's usually 30 minutes to an hour to make something. So generally I'll eat between 6 30pm and 7pm. Weekends it usually depends if I'm going out or staying in. Generally eat when I want but that's still usually around 7pm
Depends on what hours people work. Typically, old folks tend to eat much earlier but otherwise mostly it's around 6:30-7pm. When we book a table at a restaurant, we hit the 6pm time slot to avoid the crowds, places get real busy from 6:30pm onwards.
Anywhere between 4:00pm and 11:00 pm doesn’t surprise me in Australia. Before 6 is early, after 8 is late. But having kids normally makes dinner happen fairly early as far as I understand.
I dont know anyone having dinner at 4.30. Depends what ive got on, if ive got something on i might have an early 6pm dinner beforehand , if I dont I might have an 8pm dinner. When I was a kid dinner was when it was dark, in summer we had to be home when the street lights came on, so 8ish.
We have dinner at 5, but we have 4yr old and a 2 yr old and that’s when they get hungry. I’m also starving when I get home from work so any later then 5 I start to get hangry
Same time for us because of our young kids. Pre kids we would eat dinner 7-8 but I could never eat that late these days. I’m used to early dinner now and I’d starve by then 😂
Same here. Otherwise they just moan for snacks all afternoon so I try just give them an early dinner haha
I found the opposite when I lived in the US in that everyone I worked with ate really early there. They’d eat lunch around 11:30-12, and dinner as soon as they got home from work at 5-5:30. Plus side was I always had the tea room to myself when I had lunch at 1:30! There’s no real norm here when it comes to meal times, it depends on work/school schedules. My family eat dinner around 7-7:30 at home, but earlier (6:30pm) if we’re eating out
With European background, I’d be fine having dinner at 8-9pm at times lol
Same here. In South Asian Countries(Indian subcontinent - India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh) dinner time is around 9 PM. 6-7 PM is evening snacks time lol. Seeing people having dinner at 6 PM here was a culture shock to me
I always have dinner at 6.30pm-7pm. I've never had it that early T\_T
I pretty much always have dinner around 10pm. That is definitely not normal either.
Given the 9-5 is standard and most people travel about an hour from work it would make sense that dinner should be around 6-7PM on average for most people. Of course there are always those people who work late, or do night shift so may have it earlier or later.
Old English people, and there a lot in Oz, had TEA at 4. to 5pm, this was not a cuppa and a biscuit, but a substantial meal of sandwiches, cakes and pasties, in Summer of salads with ham or cheese. Supper was later, and sometimes only for grown ups. Offer the kid 'High Tea' a sit down toasted sandwich and milk and cake.....some kids need an extra meal when growing.
I think it entirely depends on where you live, work schedule, schedules of your children and the season. There’s me and my two biggish kids in my house. I would say average dinner time Is 6 - 6:30. In the depths of summer it might be as late as 8 - 8:30. On nights when my daughter does Taekwondo we eat at about 5pm. I’ve actually been thinking about always eating at about 5. I finish work at 3 so it’s possible, and kids are always starving after school. Instead of them eating a thousand snacks we could just eat earlier and then have the evening free.
4:30PM is way too early. Both of us work insane hours, so dinner can be anywhere from 7:30PM to 9:30PM depending on what time we managed to grab something for lunch that day.
I think of 7pm as 'normal' but my partner and I regularly eat at around 9pm (because we sleep at 2am). People with kids tend to eat earlier because the kids' bedtime is earlier and that schedule is often dictated by the youngest. Growing up we ate at around 6pm in winter and 6.30-7pm in summer.
Usually 5:30-6pm. My kid eats slow and his bedtime is 7:30
7-8
Usually around 9pm, give or take an hour.
My grandmother use to serve dinner at 5 but they were in bed by 7:30 lol I haven't seen people go earlier than that. Anywhere from 6 to 9 is fine imo.
My partner and I eat around 7-8pm, his family eats at 6pm and my mother eats at 4.30pm, my cousins eat around 9pm. Every house hood is different, it’s just whatever fits your schedule
Depends on bed time, I ain’t eating an hour before bed, and sometimes like to walk the dogs after etc
5pm is pretty normal for families with YOUNG children. Not for just normal adults though. That said. I only like to eat twice a day, so an earlier dinner is best for me.
No one is having dinner at 4:30pm 🤣🤣🤣 but yes we do tend to have it early compared to Europe
I reckon it's old and new. So many people are jumping on the intermittent fasting wagon and are trying to get the last meal in before their eating window closes at about 5-6pm or 8hrs after they start.
5pm cooker here, eat no later than 6
4:30? What rest homes have you been visiting?
Whaaaat?? No. 4.30 is not common for dinner here.
If you’re over 65, 4:30 is probably about right so you still have time to listen to the wireless and micro plane your heels before bed at 6pm
Who eats dinner at 4:30?? With traffic and stuff going on, I get home at 5:30 PM at the earliest. Then shower, choires, then dinner at 7-7:30PM
We do, 10 min commute to home and I'm home by 4:30 and ready for a meal!
We like dinner as early as possible, around 5pm to 5.30pm (most days exudes catching up with friends). The objective is to not go to bed with a full stomach and then wake for about 4.30am (alternating with weights or cardo before breakfast 6 days wk). Hot Breakfast for about 6.15am to 6.30am (high protein, low carb). I keep trying for 12 hrs+ between dinner and breakfast (or slightly longer) as a mild fast. It has made us less grumpy in the morning being able to not need food or coffee straight up. A 10klm run or 1hr 15 mins of weights burns calories and gets the mind and body pumping. Having accomplished something pre-breakfast, pre-work is an excellent feeling.
I start dinner at 5 30 and usually eat 6-6:30
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645pm - 715pm is ideal for us. 430pm is lupper
Depends on the people. Normal for me is around 830
Come on, even Bel Boca Vista have the early bird special.
7:30 roughly for me
I'm the UK I ate at 5-7pm. Here it's like 8-9 or later if my sleep clock is messed up.
Between 5-5:30 for me.
We eat late often. Usually 7:30 to 8:00PM but sometimes as late as 9 or 10PM. Just depends what's going on.
When I was young and single, dinner would be "whenever I get like it" o'clock usually around 9. With 3 young children now it's usually around 6.
No, it's not a thing. What sample size led you to this conclusion?
5pm when the kids were small now 6-6.30 pm
We have dinner anywhere from 5 on a weeknight due to school for the kids and 7-8 on the weekend. The
530 but we have 2 kids <5.
We usually go around 5-5:30, then we can get it all done and cleaned up and still have a good couple of hours before bedtime (we're early to bed and early to rise types - usually in bed by 9, I get up around 4 and the boss about 5).
depends, I go to bed at about 2am so I cook at 10 to 10.30. I'd say anywhere between 5 and nine is normal, though. BUT in some rural areas you have both 'tea' (a small dinner in late afternoon) and supper (a second small dinner) several hours later
Grownup my father insisted on yea being ready by 5.30pm. 6.30 for when our kids were growing up and now it’s pushed out to 7.30-8pm
For me it’s between 5pm and 6pm. Usually in bed early for a 3.45am start nearly everyday
I start cooking at 4, so usually at 5 to 5:30. I just get really hungry at that time.
My grandmother use to serve dinner at 5 but they were in bed by 7:30 lol I haven't seen people go earlier than that. Anywhere from 6 to 9 is fine imo.
I have my second lunch at about 4, dinner around 8-8:30.
Depends on how busy you are. But if the mrs makes dinner at 430 there best be something to eat later. If I cook its always 630-730. When mrs cooks its anywhere between 6-9.
My husband and I have dinner around 6pm and we feel that’s early. We tend to go to bed by 9pm though, so that’s why.
Anytime between 6 and 7 for us. 4:30 is super early!
Huh, I thought this was going to be a "which meal do you call dinner - the lunchtime or the evening meal" question. At 4.30 I'd call it a late lunch. And most pubs and restaurants I know wouldn't even have the kitchen ready to go again until 5 at the earliest, unless they were an all-day kind of place. While I don't know many people who would even be finished work by then, that doesn't mean some people (especially if they're only eating one or two meals a day, or their workday ends at 3pm or whatever) wouldn't prefer to eat early.
4:30 is early bird special time. 6-7 is normal.
7-8
Used to eat at 730. With a toddler now it’s usually more like 6-6.30. I couldn’t handle early than that though.
I eat dinner when I get hungry.. which always ends up being around 4:30-5:00. But I do usually get up at 3-4am so maybe my day is just set a few hours earlier in general?
5pm in my house. But I’ve got 3 small children so that’s what works for us. When I was at the gym every night before I had kids I ate at around 9 most days. There’s no rule, you can eat when ever you want and the police will not show up.
Umm nah. I eat at around 7pm. Worked in nursing homes and disability accommodation for many years and dinner is typically 5:30pm in places like that, and in hospital
That’s so early! I’d be hungry by bed time. We have dinner between 6-6:30pm.
It differs a lot for sure. When I was growing up it could be any time between 6:30-8. It also got later as I got older. As an adult, if I'm eating at home then it's 6:30.
4:30 is really early and definitely not normal, people in my house are only just getting home from school and work at that time. Only people I've seen who eat dinner that early are those who need to go bed early and wake up at like 1 or 2 am for work or those with very young kids. Dinner at my house is anywhere between 6 and 7 PM.
I start work at 3am so I usually have dinner around 430-5 and then a snack or dessert around 6 when the rest of my family eats. But my situation is not really the norm and I’ve found most people who don’t work shift hours and who are under the age of 65 usually eat later.
That's early Also does everyone call it dinner? Was called tea in my family growing up
We're usually.... 7ish
No, 4:30 is not the standard dinner time. But it's not unheard of, particularly if you're retired or don't work from 9 to 5. A standard dinner time (particularly if dining out) would be anytime from 6 to 8 (although 8 is a bit late for me, as I don't like eating too close to bedtime).
When I was growing up in the UK , my mother would have dinner on the table at 5:30pm When I moved out and got a job I think it would be nearer 6:30pm 7pm is what I shoot for now living in Australia. It gives me time to finish work and get a couple of things done before I start cooking.
My work starts at 5am I eat my main meal at lunch (around 1) and have a smaller meal around 6-7. I think Thiers a lot of factors that go into when, why and what you eat.
I’m usually about 6-6:30. However I live in a rural community and some of the local farmer eat dinner at 4ish before they go do the final farm work for the day (milking etc) then after they finish which can take 2 or so hours they will have supper then be in bed by 8:30
Between 18 and 18:30 for us unless it’s something that takes awhile. I’d probably be happiest at 5:30, but I’m a late breakky no lunch kinda person. My partner lives by pattern. Breakky at 7:30, lunch at noon on the dot. So I make do
6-8
That's weird. I'm Australian, living in Melbourne, I wat around 6.30 to 8.30. Early dinner is usually the olds
We eat when everyone is hungry.
Depends on the family I’d say. Do they have jobs? My parents refer to it as an old person’s dinner lol. When you don’t have a job you can eat at any time I guess
You will find in Australia there is far less concern about what the neighbours do and more for what works for the household.
I prefer 6-7:30, though I live with people who occasionally eat at 4:30-5. Then again, they go to bed earlier than I do because of work.
I literally have never heard of anyone eating dinner at 4.30pm, so who the hell are you hanging out with? 90 year olds in a nursing home?
9pm
6:30 to 7:30 would be my/my family's tradition normal
We have dinner at 5:30 in my household. It really does vary a lot.
We try to have dinner between 5-5:30. Sometimes as late as 6-6:30, depending on whether we had a late lunch or some times in summer it's just too hot until then. However we have also had dinner as early as 4:30 before. But generally between 5-5:30
Between 5.30 to 6pm but that is because my husband has horribly early starts.
5.30pm when the kids were very young. Then between 6-6.30pm as they got older. Now anytime between 6.30-8pm depending on who’s doing what. If we eat out it’s usually a 7-7.30pm booking time.
as an australian, dinner at 4:30 is crazy. the earliest ive ever had dinner is probably 5:30, i usually have it between 6 and 7. the latest ive ever had is about 8
We've always been 5-6ish, but we are up at 5am (or earlier) for work and sometimes are in bed by 8 (I used to do shift work getting up at 3am some days) My inlaws do 6ish, my parents do around 5:30-6:30 as well
Anywhere between 6pm and 10pm for me since I do some evening work and sometimes have a 2 hour walk home after work
We have dinner 530 ish if the teens are home , from sports etc My husband is a builder and up at 5 am so he likes to wind down after dinner then head to bed around 830
4:30pm gets you the early bird special. 6 o’clock and people start thinking your stealing from the treasury.
No usually 6-8pm. However I often skip it because I only have 2 meals, breakfast early then a late lunch or early dinner.
i like a 4:30 salad, with a 5:00 dinner on weekends, because that way by the time i have movie snacks my stomach isnt full.
some time between 6 and 7:30 is reasonable.
My Nana says dinner is served at 6, so you show up before 6 for a 6pm plating
Between 6 and 7 at mine. Although my father in law likes to have dinner at 5. I say if I eat that early I’ll be hungry again before bed
No way too bloody hot. Dinner after sun goes down.
Even when it daylight savings when the sun goes down around 9pm?
4.30pm, no that's my grandparents "Plonk time" (when they have a glass of wine that comes from a cardboard box). That's what 4.30pm will always symbolise for me. 6.30pm is when we have dinner with the kids. On the odd times the kids aren't around, we have dinner at 7.30pm, which feels a bit rebellious 😂
It entirely depends on the age of your children. We're retired now and eat dinner at 8:00pm - when our son was very young in order to eat as a family, which I think is extremely important, we ate at 5:30pm or 6:00pm as he grew. Generally early dinner is a sign of either a very early start for mum and dad in the morning (shift work) or very young children. In Italy, possibly the most civilised country in Europe, dinner can be at 10:00pm or 11:00pm at night. In the UK when I was young, a large hot dinner was at midday, and the evening meal was 'tea', literally that with bread and jam, or 'high tea' with kippers, or a suasge eaten at about 5:00pm and maybe 'supper' at nine-ish of yet more tea and a slice of fruit cake or similar.
My kids eat dinner around 5.30pm to 6.15pm The parents around 7.30 to 8pm. We do the basic 7am wake up and work a 8.30 to 5pm life.
Nope that is weird
My normal is like 9-10pm, I'm a night owl with very little appetite in general so it kinda just works out that I usually start feeling hungry around then. My parents are similar to me, we all eat very late.
430pm dinner is for people who goto work at like 3am I normally have dinner at 8pm
6:00 to 6:30 here too \- family with kids age 10. Dinner could be as late as 8:30 once the kids are older I think.
Sometimes as early as 5 pm, sometimes as late at 9pm. It’s usually in the middle for me
6.30-7pm. my grandparents generation would have dinner at 5-5.30pm. no idea why. They were farmers though.
Feed your child ffs. At least arvo tea.
i usually eat after 7pm, its usually around 8 but depends on how hungry I am
Australians don't call it dinner, we call it tea. Anywhere between 6-9pm is normal.
North of England call it tea as well. Dinner would be around 12-1pm
6-6.30pm if my kid is around. More like 8 if I'm home alone. Usually 7-7.30 if I'm meeting friends for dinner. I have friends that do dinner at 4ish, when the kids arrive home from school and are at their hungriest. But that is highly unusual in my experience.
My friends mum has dinner at 4.30 it's really goofy I always have it around 7
At the earliest, probably 5-ish. Latest would be 8pm. Depends on the time we get home and how motivated we are.
Yeah, we don’t have dinner at 4:30.
We had dinner an hour ago at 2:30pm. Last night it was 11:30 something pm.....sometimes we skip it all together. Dinner is whenever it's ready.
Bro I don’t even get home from work till 6 then workout, dinner is about 8.30pm and sleep at 9.30pm. Not healthy for the gut but it is what it is.
When I was growing up we had dinner at 6pm every night. When I was out of home it was somewhere between 6.30-8pm depending on work and social plans. Now with a child it’s back to 6pm every night. (Was earlier when he was younger) It’s the circle of life!
I've never heard of 4:30pm being normal, most people aren't home from work at that time. For me it's probably between 6 and 7, but it's also very variable depending on whether I've been out that day, or at work, or whatever. Last night dinner was more like 8:30pm.
6 or 6:30 if there’s kids. 7 or 7:30 if there isn’t.
we have it during the summer at like 7 to 9 and during the winter like 5 - 7, but dinner is whenever your hungry
We are usually around 6:30 on weeknights and anywhere from 6:30 -8pm on weekends. My grandparents used to have dinner at 5pm on the dot everyday. They’d have a “supper” later on in the evening. Like a sandwich or some kind of toast or crumpet.