Has the covid "work from home" changed your preferred dinner eating time-

lousubcap

I do not qualify as I am old and every day is Saturday for me but my son's family has dialed it earlier to accommodate their 17 month old child.  Instead of feed the child and enjoy a later meal, it all happens around 5 PM.
I have been solidly in the 8-9 PM dinner hour for as long as I can recall but that recall only goes back so many years but does include raising kids when their extracurricular activities drove the schedule.  
For those of you who know of a chapter in my previous life, once I was in a position to impact the schedule, I rolled the watch reliefs and meal hours off of the standard 6-12-6-12 cycle to 8-2-8-2 schedule.  You would have thought I F'ed with the most sacred of shipboard life.  After a couple of weeks, it was "all good".
Be well-

SciAggie

Our evening meal is always around 6:30 and has been for years. The pandemic hasn't changed that.
Just a few weeks ago my wife asked me, "When is supper?" I said, "How about 7:00?" She said, "How about 6:30?"
I though to myself, "Then WTF did you ASK when I wanted to eat?" I thought this to myself mind you - I've been married long enough to choose my battles...

texaswig

We eat around 8 or 9 pretty much all the time. 

hoosier_egger

7ish is our unofficial dinner time. The pandemic hasn’t changed that. 

lousubcap

@SciAggie - SWMBO has sorted out the FTC and the flexibility.  I have lost a bit of an edge when it comes to the standard, "When it's finished"  response.
I still aim for the same window and she is quite good with that approach.  

JohnInCarolina

No change for us.  We aren’t savages.

Mattman3969

We eat around 5:30 everyday. With the time switch it was earlier for a bit till my gut adjusted to the new eating times.  

Sheldon_Nigel

We eat between 430 and 900 depending on the day and my level of laziness.  Plus the cow drives the cook.

It has changed my lunch significantly.  No more eating out or cold sandwiches.  I will cook much better food now.

TEXASBGE2018

We usually eat between 5:30-7 depending on the complexity of the meal.

dmourati

Ours has pulled in for a few reasons. One, we pulled in our son's bed time. Two, end of daylight savings time has cut out our daylight. We typically eat dinner at 6pm now.

lkapigian

1-2 in the afternoon. , in bed early, up @ 3 am out the door by 330

JustBuggin

We have moved to a later time after all this. We used to east about 5 or so but now it is usually after 6. Odd considering I'm home more so I technically could start cooking earlier...

CornfedMA

Not Covid related, but we tend to eat earlier during daylight savings because it’s dark by 415 and there’s nothing more that can be done outside. Daylight savings also aligns well with hunting season. This year, I hunt more days of the week than I don’t and that is 100% Covid related. Dinner is usually 6-630, in bed by 830-9pm and up between 3-430am. In the summer we rarely eat before 730. 

northGAcock

We are traditionally a 6:30 - 7:00 ish sit down dinner plan..... here in our advanced age. We have laughed on occasion as we recently had a couple of early dinners (for us) in the 5:00 - 5:30ish time frame while out and about doing necessary things. We laugh cause we figure we have entered the old age group. 

Seriously....I think what matters is some sort of consistency with your eating times and diet. I am much better at the time regiment than I am the diet.

fishlessman

noon on weekdays, 3 on weekends

Legume

On average we’ve been eating a little earlier since the change back to standard time, but I’ve been wfh for several years.

xfire_ATX

We tend to eat between - I AM HUNGRY RIGHT NOW and I DONT THINK I WANT DINNER or I ATE YESTERDAY IM NOT HUNGRY.

but seriously when my Daughters were toddlers and my wife stayed home Dinner was at 6.00 when I got home from work.

Now that one is in HS and the other home from College we dont have a set time unless the younger one is starving when she gets home from school (pre-school closed as a precaution).  Even then we cant have dinner ready generally before 6.

SmokeyPitt

It has changed my preferred eating time to "always".  

ryantt

My wife worked 12s at the hospital so typically we would eat around 7:30. Now that she’s changed to 3 8s we eat much earlier.   I tend to get home (if working in the office) around 5:30 and NGT is always hungry...so we now eat earlier.   

johnmitchell

No change here. Dinner is served after the last pre dinner libation normally around 7.00

JohnEggGio

8:30-9:00 is the general target - we sometimes drift a little later.  Been that way for close to 30 years.

nolaegghead

8-9PM.  Sometimes earlier and sometimes later.  Depends on a number of factors.  No change with the pandemic.

Battleborn

Some of you folks eat as I’m going to bed. I try to have dinner ready, when I cook, around 5:30-6. If my wife cooks it is closer to 7:30-8, with her goal of it being ready at 5-5:30. 

builderdawg

Our dinner time has probably moved up some.  We traditionally eat between 7:00 and 7:30 but that has moved up to around 6:30.

1voyager

No change. 7:00 - 8:00.

SciAggie

Battleborn said:

Some of you folks eat as I’m going to bed. I try to have dinner ready, when I cook, around 5:30-6. If my wife cooks it is closer to 7:30-8, with her goal of it being ready at 5-5:30. 

Ha! My wife's maiden name is Menke. So I have learned with her entire family on holidays that we eat on "Menke time." That means that they tell you a meal is at a certain time - but it will actually be served 30 minutes to several hours later. You fill the interim with alcohol.

GrateEggspectations

8-9pm is a civilized dinner hour. Sounds like you’re doing it right in my books. 

I have a son the exact same age as your son’s child, plus a six year old daughter, so usually venture to feed them in the 5-6pm range. Our schedule is all over the map right now as a function of my wife’s Covid work schedule, which sees us eating at different times from one day to the next. Sometimes we eat with the kids, just for the togetherness, sometimes I serve my wife dinner later into the evening after she finishes work, around 8pm, and sometimes she and I eat together later just because we value the quiet time once the kids have gone to bed. 

Were our schedules more stable from one day to the next, I would favour a 5-6pm dinner hour with the kids Sunday through Thursday and a 8pm dinner time with my wife once the kids have gone to bed Friday and Saturday. Maybe we’ll get there one day. 

YukonRon

I have been making roasts and soups, allowing us to generally graze throughout the day off of what I have cooked.

We try to get together as a family unit in the evenings, about 7-8pm. stay in and play Drunk Scrabble. I cheat, I do not drink, so I win a lot more than I should.

Nobody remembers though.

Sea2Ski

You can almost set yourself clocks by us if we are home all day. 

4:00 am out of bed
5:30 am breakfast.
11:15 lunch
4:20-4:30 dinner 
7:00-7:15 ice cream or popcorn
8:00-8:30 bed. (9-9:15 in the summer)

COVID has further cemented those times for us because we are less likely to be out and about.
Less variables= greater consistency. 

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Mark_B_Good

No change our dinner is anywhere between 5:30 pm and 8:30 pm ... because of our crazy lives ... lol ...