Time for Dinner

Dinner at 3:30?!? Wow, that's even earlier than most "early bird specials" that seem to start from 4:00 Why on earth do they want to eat so early? Do they start their days earlier than "average"? I remember my father used to start work at 7AM and he'd get home about 4:30PM. He always expected my mom to have dinner on the table or almost ready when he got in the door. My sister and I hated it because we weren't even hungry yet but, because he was hungry after work, we ALL had to eat. My father wouldn't tolerate anyone not being seated at the same dinner table so we were bound by his schedule. I'm the opposite now... I prefer to eat around 7PM and it works fine for my daughters because they are both in post-secondary studies and there are nights they don't get home until about that time. It allows us to sit and eat together and I really like that.

That's early! In my family that time is for afternoon snack. It helps fill in the hunger for just a while. Then we have dinner at around 6pm. I don't usually eat anything else after dinner, even if I sleep at around 12 midnight. It's hard to resist but I have to. Haha!

That really is early. There's no way you could convince her to have a good snack then and another one a few hours later? That's probably what I'd wind up doing anyway. I wouldn't be hungry for a meal that early, but I'd be hungry before bedtime.

Wow!! Have your dinner at 3:30??? That is a few hours after you have your lunch! Here we can have about meals anytime we want as we don't need everyone to sit and dine together. Usually my mom and I have our dinner at 6:30 or 7:00 pm. If I feel hungry after that I will have light snack with me. I know very well that eating right before sleep is bad so I think 6:30 is fine.I think it depends on what time we sleep. You eat early if you get to your bed early~(^^)

3:30 for dinner, that's very early, unless you go to sleep not later than 8 p.m. or so... I can't imagine that I wouldn't be hungry at night after that, I guess I would eat snacks too. For me the earliest I have dinner is between 5-6 p.m. I have it between 6-8 normally, and it's usually something light, but at least doesn't leave me hungry at night.

Occasionally, I don't get to eat at lunch time so I'd eat around your dinner time. It would be a combined meal of lunch & dinner because I won't be eating more later... Perhaps just having a cup of tea with biscuits if I fell hungry again.

i work at night so im used to eating my dinner at an odd hour.. i eat my supposed breakfast around 4pm and eat lunch by 10pm. when i get out from work around 3am, thats about time that i grab somethin for dinner then.. guess it's ok to eat twice or more than that. i used to do that before when i had morning schedule and its ok.

Wow that's early. But the earlier the better so whenever one wants to have an early rest in preparation for the next day, she or he can go to bed early. But for me, the earliest was 5:00 and I woke up at 12 and felt so hungry. I just drink a glass of milk and slept again.

I think the earliest I ate dinner was 4 or was it 4:30.between that. Whatever time, however early I eat I still feel hungry afterwards anyway. Even if i eat at 7, i'd still feel hungry an hour later..i think the best time would be 6 pm.

I know that feeling, but I find no sooner have you eaten really early, then people still are hungry a few hours later.I find that eating early means that we also tend to snack all evening and that puts all the weight on again, defeats the object.

3:30 is too early to eat dinner heheh sometimes i would even have brunch (breakfast and lunch)at that time - yeah i know it's bad right? i need to change that habit. we usually eat dinner around 6 - 7:00 in the evening. well that is good of you to be eating snacks at night, since you eat dinner so early. you would really get so hungry by the time the night comes.

Well, 5:00pm is the earliest I have eaten dinner. 3:30 is way too early for me.

hahahaha. If it were me then, I wouldn't be able to call it a dinner at all. That time is for my afternoon's snack! hehehe. But I guess, it that is your situation, then you don;t have much of a choice. Just tell them that what you're eating is your midnight snacks since your dinner is so early! LOL

Having a dinner for 3:30 is so early. It's a snack time for me and my family. We usually eat dinner together around 7pm.As far as I remember, our earliest dinner would be 5:30pm -6pm when there was a blackout when I was a kid.Sometimes, 3:30 is my lunch especially when I am busy having my duty in the hospital.Dinner dutring that time will make you hungry again in the evening.

Yeah, I think 5 pm should be the earliest in order not to get hungry the whole night. If you eat your dinner at 3:30 pm, your stomach is already crouching at 9 pm.

My family usually eat dinner at 5:00-5:30 pm. I think 3:30 is way too early for dinner. You will wind up eating again 3 to 4 hours later. :D