Do REAL people truly eat their dinners in "courses"?

Hahaha my sister does this, she serves the salad first, then the meat, then the pasta. She acts like she's having dinner at the White House. LOL I want everything on the same plate so I can eat it all together.

LOL! hockeygal you aint weird neither is the family who is eating dinner in "Courses"! it just shows they have too much time on their hands. Looks like me and you share our meal routines! i also dont eat dinner in "Courses", i will sometimes have dessert at the end of dinner and salad at the side of main dish.

My dinner varies from day to day as sometimes I eat my meals in courses and sometimes it is individually. My dinner patterns are never the same as sometimes I am not as hungry as other evenings or do not have a lot of time. Yesterday I had steak and veggies along with a salad. Sometimes I eat just a tv dinner or something really simple like cereal or eggs.

Until I came to the States dinner was always served in courses and the first course was removed before the second course was brought to the table. In the States what with buffets and B-B-Qs everthings is so much more informal. I think for people nowadays mom ,or the hostess, dont want to keep get up to fetch things so it is all put on the table at once (with exception of dessert.

We're lucky if we even get to eat a meal together as a family with the hours my husband works. Usually, if I have a salad, it's a meal on it's own. If I were to eat a salad and then try to eat the entree, etc., it just wouldn't work; I'd be too full and would be a waste of good food.

I only eat my meals in courses if I have them at a restaurant. That's how they serve the dishes anyway. But if I am at home, I just have everything in one go. But then again, I don't have starter or desserts usually - just the main course. :P

I guess it depends if the meat is still in the oven, then I would eat my salad first (only if I was really hungery) but I usually eat my salad with my meal and dessert I eat way later in the night so the meal will digest and I will not over eat and get sick. The only time I really eat in course is at a restaraunt but that is only on dates and fancy meals. It just seems silly.

You are perfect.Why shold you follow what others do,as long as you are notviolating any societal norms.In inda,most people are veg and among them too you will find different eating habits.If you catogorise them then they would exceed thousand.Enjoy your food.

Courses are for formal dining. You know when you eat in restaurant and they bring the bread first, then the salad, then the soup then the meal, then the dessert. That's all it is. You often see it portrayed in TV households of people who have a lot of money and servants. This may be the norm for the moneyed and TV and other people who eat in fancy restaurants all the time. But NO, REAL people grab what they can, shove it in their mouths and run. Once in a while I can persuade my three teenage boys and husband to sit down to a decent meal, usually Sunday's middle meal (dinner) and occassionally for supper during the week. I have never considered us normal or real by any means, though. LOL. My life is just a Fig Newton of my imagination.

Until I came to the States dinner was always served in courses and the first course was removed before the second course was brought to the table. In the States what with buffets and B-B-Qs everthings is so much more informal. I think for people nowadays mom ,or the hostess, dont want to keep get up to fetch things so it is all put on the table at once (with the exception of dessert).

Until I came to the States dinner was always served in courses and the first course was removed before the second course was brought to the table. In the States what with buffets and B-B-Qs everthings is so much more informal. I think for people nowadays mom ,or the hostess, dont want to keep get up to fetch things so it is all put on the table at once (with the exception of dessert).

I can't ever remember having a dinner in courses unless a course was not done yet. I like my whole meal at once. Even if I have a salad or soup.

I don't ever serve in courses unless it is a very formal dinner with guests and then it would be so rare...I do serve salads on the table before the main course is placed...but that's for my own convenience..not to insist that anyone eat the salad first...and when dessert is served it usually is a bit after the dinner is done..but not in a formal way...sort of because we want to enjoy the dessert and therefore wait a few minutes to "digest"...but the overall answer is "no"...I don't serve in courses on a normal day...LOL..in fact some days the pot of soup is the entire meal and is served from the stove!!!!

yah sometimes it happend when im attending a birthday or a special ocassion the foods served in courses... but if im in the house i dont care which food i eat i will start ...

The only time I've eaten in courses was when I'd go on a cruise. They would serve the meal that way. Your appetizer, soup or salad and then the main meal were served to you. At home we eat like you do. Perhaps a salad on the side but usually it's the meat, vegetable, startch, possibly a bread and then afterwards maybe desert if we have it. We don't do courses either at home.

no i dont eat in courses especially on restaurants its costly cant afford to have one just plained one in fast food if i got the time and the money.

In my whole life i have eat in courses just twice, that was in some fancy restaurants. I was young then and remembered wondering why we were only served soup. Little did i know it was only an entree and the main dish would follow. Too bad, i was filled up with too much asparagus soup when the main dish was served. At our house, we put everything in the table at once when we sit down to eat. Sometimes we have desserts, other times none.

Well honey u are not weird because if you are there are alot of weirdos out there and i am one of them. I believe most people eat as we do. I always thought of the social elite and the rich and famous to be the ones to eat in courses. They in turn are not weird either it is there thing. But the only courses that are at my dinner table is my little girl singing sometimes while we dine lol.

Not unless we are having dinner with some guests or durnig, but any other time we usually just eat everything at one time.

hi!!! me coz im in a diet, im on a low carbo. i just ear veggie meat but absolutely no rice/potato. i havent eat rice/potato for almost 5 months already.