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Re: What time do your kids eat dinner? Do u family mealtime?
« Reply #15 on: October 01, 2008, 11:35:32 am »
I try to do dinner together at 6 everyday but to be honest, it often doesn't happen and I am ok with that knowing that it's just our reality with dh and i having full-time schedules. Sometimes I can't get it together to have everything organized for our dinner too, but when that happens, one of us always sits with ds so he doesn't eat alone.

We have friends over for dinner about 1x per week and I try to schedule them to come round at 5.30 so we can all eat together at 6 and luke can enjoy those dinners too.

Melsy, if we ate at 5 I would be so hungry later but 6 is usually ok. My internal hunger clock has totally adjusted so that now I can't even wait until 8, which is when dh and i used to eat.  If I do get hungry i have a light snack like carrot sticks, and apple, pretzel sticks, etc in the evening. I guess it depends on your bedtime though, i try to make mine around 10 in bed to read/10.30 lights off so dinner at 6 is perfect.
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Re: What time do your kids eat dinner? Do u family mealtime?
« Reply #16 on: October 01, 2008, 12:56:27 pm »
Dinner for our children is 4.30pm. My husband is not home at this time monday to thursday but I sit with them and have a light snack. Then when dh comes home at around 5.30pm he gets to play with the children for a bit. They have supper at 6.15pm, then get them ready for bed by 6.30pm and have stories in bed. At weekends we all eat together at 4.30pm, then myself and dh will have a snack when children are in bed.
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Re: What time do your kids eat dinner? Do u family mealtime?
« Reply #17 on: October 01, 2008, 14:23:31 pm »
Mine do have a snack at 7 before their bath but it is usually a small one.  So dinner at 5 and then snack at 7 ;D


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Re: What time do your kids eat dinner? Do u family mealtime?
« Reply #18 on: October 01, 2008, 14:46:31 pm »
Tonya's right.  It's nice and all to be able to eat together as a family every night but reality doesn't allow it to be.  At least for now.  Some of my mom friends do have family meals together every night but their children goes to bed at 9/10 pm.

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Re: What time do your kids eat dinner? Do u family mealtime?
« Reply #19 on: October 01, 2008, 14:51:29 pm »
I would love for us to all eat together, but it's just not possible right now and I'm okay with that.   My boys are early risers so everything is early....breakfast, lunch,  and dinner.   They eat dinner around 4:30-5:00 and then snack around 6:30-7:00.  If they eat a good dinner, they get a small snack and if they didn't eat well I may offer some cinnamon toast and fruit or oatmeal.  I do eat early with them and find it works out well for me.  Sometimes I'll have a snack in the evening when the kids are in bed while DH eats dinner.




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Re: What time do your kids eat dinner? Do u family mealtime?
« Reply #20 on: October 02, 2008, 01:46:10 am »
Wow thanks for all your responses guys!!!  I think I will happily stick with the 6pm dinner time - it seems to be going ok!  He has his bath before dinner so that he can still be in bed for 7pm.  I tried a 5pm dinner the other night with a snack at 6.30pm and he thought I was nuts!!!   ;D  I was trialling that to see if we could "tank him up" a bit before bed to reduce our 5am wakings ( ::) ) but it didn't help.  I love hearing what everyone else does though!!

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Re: What time do your kids eat dinner? Do u family mealtime?
« Reply #21 on: October 02, 2008, 10:40:05 am »
I had high hopes that a evening snack would help with early wakings too.  No such luck!   ::)



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Re: What time do your kids eat dinner? Do u family mealtime?
« Reply #22 on: October 03, 2008, 00:28:59 am »
DH works afternoon shift (2 pm - 10 pm), so he is rarely home for dinner during the week. Sometimes he can sneak home and we all eat together. Regardless, Ella and I eat together at 5:30 pm during the week and we all eat as a family at that time on the weekends. I try to cook a full meal as much as possible, but sometimes when it's just Ella and I and we feel more like pancakes, we will have that instead. After dinner (which usually ends at 6/6:15) it's right up to the tub and getting Ella ready for bed because she goes down at 7 pm. She does not eat anything between dinner and bed, I usually have a light snack sometime in the evening before I go to bed at 10:00ish.
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Re: What time do your kids eat dinner? Do u family mealtime?
« Reply #23 on: October 03, 2008, 23:47:10 pm »
I agree Stacy. Mealtimes are important in our house and no one eats alone. Ella gets some choices with breakfast and lunch and once and a while dinner, but the meal is the meal and there are not second options. There is no option of leaving her seat until everyone is done. Because we started this from the beginning, mealtimes are nice and relaxing for the most part and a time to connect and enjoy each other. Thankfully, we can take Ella to restaurants and she behaves. Tonight it was just Ella and I and we had oatmeal with bananas, yogurt, and milk for dinner. She gobbled it up!
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Re: What time do your kids eat dinner? Do u family mealtime?
« Reply #25 on: October 04, 2008, 01:08:11 am »
I am the worst.  We don't eat any meals together.  We are between living situations so we have the bare minimum here and the rest in storage.  Simply wasn't enough room for our dining table.  I know its just an excuse.  When we get settled again the end of this month I would like to eat dinner with Vee around 6pm.  And on the weekend have the whole family sit and eat together.
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Re: What time do your kids eat dinner? Do u family mealtime?
« Reply #26 on: October 05, 2008, 02:04:06 am »
Supper is at 6 PM
Mon/Wed DH and Nick eat together while I'm working
Tu/Thur/Fri we all eat together as long as I'm home in time...
(we work opposite shifts to avoid daycare- I'm only PT, but it's hard)
Sa/Su we are together all day- hooray!!!
No snacks, maybe some milk before bed, but Nick usually eats very well at supper.
If I miss supper time, I don't usually get to eat until 9 PM.
Bedtime is at 8-8:30 if we're lucky...
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Re: What time do your kids eat dinner? Do u family mealtime?
« Reply #27 on: October 05, 2008, 03:16:09 am »
dh goes to work before 6:30 most mornings, so we don't have a breakfast together with him and although i sit with the kids at breakfast, I usually eat something on the go after they are fed, changed and dressed and breakfast is cleaned up.   the 3 of us also always sit to lunch together, and dh is home  msot nights by 5 and we sit to dinner all together.   we try really hard not to eat too much after dinner before our own bed, but some nights we do need a snack.  kids don't eat again before 7pm bed, so they go quite a stretch (willingly) from 5:30 dinner to 7:30-8ish breakfast.

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Re: What time do your kids eat dinner? Do u family mealtime?
« Reply #28 on: October 06, 2008, 02:08:30 am »
well, i have to say i have been having mommy guilt about this very subject.  i decided today that from now on we would all eat together.  ds eats at 545 and goes to bed at 7 ish.  i hate cooking while he is up and driving me crazy in the kitchen, but i was feeling bad about that.  so, i went to the store and spent hard earned money to make a humungo batch of vegi chile.  and i prepped and cooked this afternoon only to burn it and ruin the entire batch.  and as stupid as it sounds, i have been crying for the past hour over it. :(
so, we may just be going back to the original routine.

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Re: What time do your kids eat dinner? Do u family mealtime?
« Reply #29 on: October 07, 2008, 01:37:46 am »
Everynight we eat dinner together at 5.30/45pm when DH gets home except Wednesday when girls have swimming so the girls eat at 5pm and DH and i eat after swimming. I find the girls eat alot better when we all eat together.

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