[Growster...]

Since I retired properly at Christmas, we've taken to eating mid-day and just having the normal light breakfast and evening snack, as we used to do only at weekends.

We actually don't eat that much, although a few tinctures are always on the cards, and as our veg growing is getting very much into providing the nicest (and easiest) and simplest new potatoes, beans or leeks and stay seasonal, a mid-day operation seems to work well for us - so far!

It is changing a lot of the way we make the day up, and I wonder how other chums here, who have found themselves in the same position, have coped, or did they revert to their previous regime!

[GrannieAnnie]

We still eat in the evening Growster, as Brian likes his dinner at 6pm! 

I find that if we eat dinner at lunchtime, then I don't feel like doing much in the afternoon.  We also eat at 6pm weekends, so same every day!

[tosca100]

We eat our main meal at lunch time because I can't sleep if I eat a main meal at night. In summer we don't do anything in the afternoons as it's too hot so less of a problem to us, we do more early and late.

[Springlands]

I tried that for a while Growster - but by the time the evening came OH said he was hungry and wanted a full dinner again!!. So back to light lunch and main meal in the evening.   

[Mrs Bee]

We still have our main meal in the evening. Mainly because I am usually busy in the kitchen or in the garden and don't want to stop to eat.
 
I usually have coffee for breakfast and lunch and a meal in the evening.
 I have to get Mr Bee something fairly substantial for his lunch too although he has to get his own breakfast.

I am considering buying him a shed for the allotment so I can send him off with a flask and a packed lunch when the weather gets better so I don't have him under my feet in the kitchen. 

[Growster...]

Interesting comments, thank you!

We do like the 'witching hour' of 12.00 when we maybe have a glass of wine, but all this goes back to when the girls were at home. The 'regime' started because once, when we were all on holiday, they insisted that we all sat down with a glass and a bowl of bits and chatted, which was always marvellous! This continued and the 6.00 pm additional 'witching' hour began a day or so later, when we all made sure that we met up and chatted again!

So I suppose this is all down to habit, and although the girls have moved on down the road, Mrs Growster and I still make the two times the important parts of the day! I think, so far, that I enjoy the big meal at lunchtime, but this is partly because my old job entailed a lot of lunches, some formal, some disgraceful, and the haven of a home-prepared dish still beckons! Luckily Mrs Growster agrees...

We'll see how we get on anyway!

[Fairy Plotmother]

Like you Mr Growster, we have changed to dinner at lunchtime. I don't like it much as I prefer to complete my chores in the morning and do more restful things in the afternoon. Also, with a lighter evening meal, I get a bit hungry by bedtime. But Plotfather likes it this way! However, if it really doesn't suit my day to cook for midday, either he has to do it or he has to wait for the evening!

[tosca100]

We go to bed at 9 and get up at 5 almost as we did in the UK, so no chance to get hungry. We be country folk now.

[Fairy Plotmother]

 

[Goosegirl]

Aha - found your topic despite my continuing site probs of which can't be helped and am certainly not complaining about! Mr. Gander and I have always had our big meal in the evenings because it can take him all day to make a sphagetti blog or curry which is so well worth waiting for. I suppose it all depends on your current metabolism and what your body get used to but, even so, it's the evenings for us!

[chrissie B]

We started eating around 5 instead of 6 and ive been sleeping better but tonight hubbys on 4 till 8 in the evening so no avoiding it today .
chrissie b

[catllar]

We have our main meal at lunchtime - I can get a meal on the table from scratch in under 45mins generally  so time isn't a problem.  Evening is usually something like soup and a salad , or omelette.  Sleep better and digest better, we find!

[madcat]

We are part retired but we are always reluctant to waste the light, particularly on nice days.  There is always something to be getting on with.  So dinner tends to be late (doesnt help the waist line one bit! )  and lunch light, although we are tending to sit longer after it.  The days of half hour lunches are gone, now particularly if sat in a patch of sun or with a good book, it can be difficult to keep it to an hour!   

[jaydig]

Now that we've both retired we tend to have our main meal at lunch time, and just a light snack in the evening. I think that its being active for longer after eating at lunchtime has helped us both to lose a little weight, rather than going to bed on a full stomach. I also find that now I'm getting older, if I eat too late I get terrible heartburn, but a light snack earlier in the evening doesn't give me any problems.  Oh, the joys of getting older! Remember those little catalogues with the nose hair trimmers, jar openers, tap turners etc., that when we were young we used to smile at?  Why is it that now they seem to be full of useful things?

[Auntiemogs]

I've never been much of a morning muncher, so tend to have brunch around 11am.  Evening meal for us tends to be between 8 and 9pm, as we stay up fairly late, and I sleep better on a full tummy.