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Usually, I eat when I get home from work. On weekends, I tend to eat slightly later.

I'm almost like clockwork, three meals a day around 7:30, 11:30, and then as soon as soon as possible after my workout after work, so around 5:30. I try to take a mid-afternoon snack, too. Though there are times during the weekend when I throw all those times out the window--wake up at 10, eat around 1, then again at 8 or 9 that night . . . I definitely feel less inclined to gorge myself when I'm on schedule and don't eat my meals too far apart. For example, you wrote that you eat dinner at 7:30 or 8, so I'd hope you're not eating your lunch at noon. Eight hours is like a full workday's wait before the next meal!

I eat at a pretty regular schedule.
Breakfast around 8, lunch at 12 and dinner some time between 5:30 and 6:30 (depending on how long it takes to cook). After work we always come home hungry so we start cooking right away.
On the weekends it's more leisurely and we usually eat dinner later, but that's simply because we always make bigger breakfasts on weekends and so we aren't as hungry as early in the evening.

@OneWallKitchen - while I do eat lunch noon(ish) and dinner tends to fall around 7:30 or 8, I do enjoy a nice snack around 4:30 or 5pm like a piece of fruit, some carrots, or a homemade granola bar. That way I'm not hungry while I'm cooking!

My lunch also tends to be my largest meal of the day so I'm not starving by dinner time if I don't get my snack.

I'd love to have dinner earlier, but I simply don't get home from work until 7pm most nights, which pushes the 'on-the-table' time to 8pm, if not later. Maybe that crock pot is a better idea than I'd originally thought.

We're early birds. Usually as soon as my husband comes home from work I've already started cooking and we're eating about half an hour later. 6:00-6:30.

I didn't realize I was such a relatively late eater -- like Michelle, I usually get home from work between 7 and 8, and dinner is definitely ready for a while. My husband is particularly busy at work now, so we've been eating closer to 10. I do have some fruit and a slice of cheese when I first get home, so I don't gorge myself by the time dinner is ready though.

I really need to move to Spain, because that is the eating schedule I am on.
I eat a late lunch, because I have a small snack in the early afternoon.
I work until 6, so by the time the workout, cleaning, cooking, and anything else I want to do is done, my dinner time is 9 on the dot.

OneWall,

I WISH I got home early enough to eat at 5:30! I don't even leave the office until then, though. So yeah, usualy totally starving by the time I do eat but that's the way the cookie crumbles. My usual times for food are 5:30am, glass of milk, 9am something breakfasty, 11:30am, lunch, 7ish dinner.

Work kinda interferes with eating at normal hours. On weekend, though, I tend to eat once around 10am and again around 6 or 7 pm.

definitely an early bird here. i have to be at my desk at 7am, so i'm usually eating breakfast at 6am, lunch at 11am, and dinner around 5-5:30pm. so i guess it's actually a pretty normal schedule--my who day just happens to be shifted about an hour earlier than everyone else's. :)

I wish we could eat earlier by we eat late due to our jobs and the time we get home. But hey - at least we have jobs, right? :)
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I have the world's wackiest unpredictable job schedule, but on the rare evenings I have off, I tend to eat dinner about 8. Otherwise, I really just eat when I get breaks from work.

It's so funny. I grew up in the midwest, and dinner was always between 5:30 and 6 p.m. It's a habit I've stuck to. As soon as I get home from work, I start prepping dinner. Living in San Francisco, it makes me an oddity. My friends all plan dinner for 7 or 8 or even 9, and that's too late for me! I get hungry early, and if I have a snack to tide me over, I'm liable not to eat a full dinner with friends.

One good thing about eating early where others don't is that if I want take out, there's usually little to no waiting time.

I grew up eating dinner at 5:30. it was nice and predictable.

now I get home from work around 6:30, and by the time I change and walk the dog, it's 7:15-7:30. So we're usually eating around 8 or 8:15 -- some days it's more like 8:30 or 8:45. Which seems really late, now that I type it out.

I'd love to eat by 7, whereas my boyfriend usually doesn't want to eat before 10. We've compromised somewhat - when I cook, we eat no later than 8, and when he cooks it's closer to 915 (by which time I've completely spoiled my dinner by gorging on snacks...).

I usually eat 5:30-6:30 when I get home from work. I'm usually starving and don't want to snack but dive right into cooking to relieve some work stress. Nothing like chopping up stuff for therapy!!

Breakfast: 6:30 am
Lunch: 12:30-1 pm
Dinner: 6:30-7:00pm
When the kids go to bed at 7:30 and 8:00 pm, we can't eat any later!

I do have kids and this year we switched to a 5-5:30 dinner time depending on what I am making. Since my husband most of the time can work the hours he chooses he usually makes it home just before dinner as well. If he doesn't make it home, we dish him up and pop it in the fridge to wait for him.

I have to admit I am very bad at keeping track of my meal times (yes I know it's bad) but I am very unlikely to set foot back home before 8 pm so if I don't manage to grab something before that I'll end up eating dinner with the night news.

it's funny, were I am from (Italy), if you are eating dinner (supper) around 6 it means one of the following, you are either:
- younger than 3;
- in hospital;
- in prison;
before 6? you couldn't even call it 'dinner', that's your afternoon snack :)
we usually end eating dinner around 8 (or later) which is the 'normal' time I always ate dinner at home, even as a child. In the country were I live now it's considered late but here I have seen people ating dinner regularly at any kind of hour, from 6 to midnight.
While I was in England, my landlady prepared dinner at 6, while I could eat it, having had just a light lunch at noon, I found myself again starving around 9 pm... my stomach was defenitely not happy!

Living in L.A., add a one-hour commute to both ends of your 9-hour work day and "dinner" becomes a....nuance, at best.

I leave at 7, eat a banana in the car, arrive at 8 (after 12 grueling miles), usually lunch around 1PM, leave work at 6PM. I usually snarf down an energy bar on the way home. We usually eat dinner around 9 or 10 PM, stay up until midnight and then start all over again.

For my mother there were 6 meals to every day:
breakfast, elevenses, luncheon, tea, dinner and supper - all spaced roughly 3 hours apart

I tend to have dinner anytime between 7 and 9 - and quite often I'll have a snack before bed too - theres no way I could have dinner at 5.30pm and then go for 14 hours without any food before waking at 7.30 - to leave the body without food for that long is really bad for it!

I'm an really early eater.

Breakfast: 8am
Lunch: 11:30am
Dinner: 5pm
Snack: 9pm

cheryl k- we have the same eating schedule!

sometimes I think that I eat way to early but I must feed the grumbling tummy when it beckons. :)