What Time Do You Eat Dinner?

I can’t believe how many of you guys are already done with your Christmas shopping! Nice work guys! I should probably follow suit, but I usually wait relatively last minute. Anywho, moving on…

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Ahhh…this time next week, I’ll be on vacation! Woohoo!

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Till then, I’m hard at work 9-to-5. Since I WFH yesterday, I celebrated Starbucks Monday today with a grande gingerbread latte.

Work has been really crazy lately, but I totally had a Devil Wears Prada moment. Remember the scene where Andy has the manuscripts all ready and is on top of everything to the surprise of Miranda? Well, I had a phone conversation today that reminded me of that scene except I was Andy. Woohoo! It wasn’t quite as cool as the movie, but it still reminded me that when you’re faced with a challenge, you have a two main options: give up and fail or fight and win. If you work in a stressful job, you know how easy it is for the every day grind, or a difficult co-worker, or a impossible deadline or a combination of forces to beat you into submission. But, if you can, I urge you to pull everything within you together to fight. Your career will thank you and you’ll learn you’re tougher than you think you are.

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After work today, hubby and I went to a friend’s place to pick up some furniture because they’re moving out of the country. We’re not sure exactly where we’re putting it just yet, but we’ll figure it out. 😉

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We didn’t get home till about 9:30pm, so we had a late dinner around 10pm. Whoops.

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Hubby and I both would like to work on eating earlier, but we were at least happy to be eating in, considering we’ve been eating out quite a bit.

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And speaking of eating in, would anyone else be interested in doing Eat in Month again!? Hubby and I are thinking of doing again this January. It could become an annual tradition!

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Anywho, we had a great dinner of spaghetti with meat sauce, steamed organic broccoli and I even found some leftover focaccia in the freezer (which we re-baked)! It tasted like new…Score!

What time do you eat dinner?

29 thoughts on “What Time Do You Eat Dinner?”

  1. I’m such a culprit of eating late. If its 10pm though and I haven’t had dinner, I skip it – which is so bad for you! So to combat this, I’ve started eating mini meals in the evening. At 4pm, I’ll have a mini meal of fruit, turkey jerky or cheese and crackers. It holds me over and by dinner time, I usually just want another mini meal – nothing I have to cook.

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  2. I personally prefer to eat later at night. I hate being hungry at night and I disagree with all of this stuff people say about having to eat before 7pm. So I eat when I am hungry and I am usually hungry at 9 or 9:30 at night so I eat dinner then!! 🙂

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    • Eat before 7! Is that what people say now? lol I have no clue. I’ve always tried to eat before 9pm, but I’ve been eating pretty late lately because of my Zumba schedule. I think you’re right to stick with what works for you. Everyone is different and the same rules/guidelines don’t work for everyone. 🙂

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  3. When Im on day shifts (0700 to 1515), I usually eat dinner no later than 530, most times earlier. I don’t like to be full when I go to bed or I can’t sleep. Of course I go to bed ridiculously early, especially this time of year, and wake up at 0445 cause I putter around all morning and like to get to work at least a half hour early to eat breakfast and relax. And I won’t even explain my night shift (1100 to 0715) eating schedule cause its all over the place:)

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  4. I used to eat dinner at 6 (like, 5 yrs ago), then 6.30, then 7, then 7.30…it’s about 7.40 atm, and even then I’m hardly hungry, but I can’t sleep if I eat later 🙁

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  5. Wow, and I thought eating after 7 was late!

    The eat-in month would be easy for me- the challenge is definitely my husband. He likes the McD’s…although he has been a lot better since we started working at the same company again. He lets me pack his lunch every day except Friday, which is his McD’s day. I think he’s getting tired of the turkey/PB&J rotation, but he refuses to heat anything up at work.

    We don’t go out to eat often, but he orders the occasional pizza for himself. I feel like I’d have to have different rules for him on this challenge!

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    • Hmm…maybe if I came up with some fun new lunch ideas he’d go for it? Creative lunches are a challenge for me, too, but I bet I can come up with some good things. 🙂

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  6. I am so in for Eat-In Month! I think it is a great idea to do it annually in January, because I am always shell-shocked when I look at my budget, after all the holiday expenses.

    I love the new(ish) furniture and I’m sure you’ll make it look fabulous!

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  7. we were on a eat late kick all of last year and we have been working on it and now we typically get dinner in by 7.

    I don’t get home till 6:30…and it’s so hard to drop my purse and hit the kitchen with a toddler to say Hi too and catch up with everyone’s day.

    So we’ve been doing a lot of his/her cooking, cooking ahead, some pre-made meals (instead of going out) etc.

    it’s not perfect but it’s better.
    and some days we eat at 9 (not the baby) but us big kids.

    and YAY for your ANDY moment. NICE.

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  8. My dinner time varies almost every day it feels like. But I try to eat before 7pm but that does not always happen. Sometimes I eat as late as 9pm… which I am not a fan of – especially my tummy does not like it. But I go with the flow and just enjoy my food no matter what 🙂 HAHA

    hugs
    ~Lori

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  9. Goodness, I could never make it 10pm to eat! I am much too hungry by 5 or 5:30pm! I love the eat-in challenge month. We do that occasionally. When you have eaten out so much, it just gets easier and easier to continue eating out. I’m in if you host for January!

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  10. I like to eat between 5 and 6, but our work schedules often prevent this and it turns out to be more like 7.

    I would so be up for the eat in month-long challenge! 🙂

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  11. I like to eat dinner around 7. Then I have something sweet about an hour before I go to bed and it’s all good.

    P.S. I LOVE The Devil Wears Prada. My boss could pretty much be Miranda except I like to say “The Devil Wears Lane Bryant” 😉

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  12. so late on this, but i thought it was a fun question 🙂

    we usually eat around 7-8. on nights josh is working, i will eat at 6 — honestly i usually come home from work hungry, even if i snack on something! and at that point i’m ready for a meal (rather than nibbling my way through our cheese & cracker stash 🙂 ).

    i go to lie down by 9ish usually and read for a bit, sleep by 9:30 or 10!

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