https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 12 May 2026 07:35:55 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-do-dinner/page/2#post-2245743 Sat, 25 Jul 2015 13:14:10 +0000 Cherrybee 2245743@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>E has her dinner at daycare at 3pm. I then give her a snack (usually porridge) at about 6pm, before bed. We then cook and eat after she goes to bed. We did try having a proper meal all together at the table just before bed but E struggles to nap in the day and is already overtired by the time she gets home - so trying to make her sit at the table and eat real food is a recipe for disaster. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-do-dinner/page/2#post-2245528 Fri, 24 Jul 2015 23:02:06 +0000 PinkElephant 2245528@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We do almost exactly what you do. If DH will be home for dinner with me, I prep our meal at the island while the girls eat at the table. If he won't, I eat my dinner with the girls early. On Sundays we eat a late big breakfast and early dinner all together. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-do-dinner/page/2#post-2245446 Fri, 24 Jul 2015 20:06:03 +0000 2littlepumpkins 2245446@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>If DH is off, we usually all eat together. If he works, we either all eat together and dd goes right in the bath after or we feed her and eat later. Sometimes on his off days we eat after bed just because too. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-do-dinner/page/2#post-2245159 Fri, 24 Jul 2015 13:55:38 +0000 BKCaribBaby 2245159@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yeah, LO goes to bed pretty early (usually by 7:30pm), and DH does not get home until somewhere between 7-8pm. DH and I usually eat pretty late, around 8pm. I’m sure I’ll eat with LO soon, but DH’s erratic work schedule plus occasional work travel is too much to plan around. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-do-dinner/page/2#post-2245082 Fri, 24 Jul 2015 12:46:42 +0000 snowjewelz 2245082@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We pretty much eat together every night. If he doesn't make it home for dinner, he misses dinner completely so I'd eat with DD and my mom usually. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-do-dinner#post-2245078 Fri, 24 Jul 2015 12:42:06 +0000 MOMTOLITTLEB 2245078@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We all get home by 5:30 and I usually prepare dinner while my husband and son play outside. Then we eat together and have family time with all three of us. I'm very grateful for that. My son goes to bed early, before 7 every night so when one of us works late we may not see him so I'm glad it's not often. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-do-dinner#post-2245043 Fri, 24 Jul 2015 12:25:50 +0000 psw27 2245043@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO eats at 6:30 and DH and I eat around 7:30. I would like to eventually get us all together, but LO goes to bed at 7 and I don't really think I could get a full dinner prepped since we get home at 6. I need to work on it... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-do-dinner#post-2245034 Fri, 24 Jul 2015 12:21:11 +0000 ShootingStar 2245034@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH picks DS up at 5:30ish and then we try to eat around 6. We all eat together as a family at the table. Usually we're hungry by then and I have no energy for preparing a dinner for DS and then eating after he goes to bed. Usually when he's in bed we watch some tv and chill out and go to sleep ourselves. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-do-dinner#post-2245027 Fri, 24 Jul 2015 12:16:12 +0000 mauxie 2245027@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>M W F - we eat together around 6:15pm.</p> <p>T Th - DH works til 6:30 so I eat a small dinner with the kids, and then I eat again after they go to bed haha </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-do-dinner#post-2244914 Fri, 24 Jul 2015 10:47:40 +0000 Smurfette 2244914@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I tried to eat with her during the week. But lately we get home around 5:15 and she asks for dinner. So I reheat up something for her quick. DH and I try and do family dinners with her on Sat and Sun. But it depends on all we have going on. But she usually can wait till 7 to eat on those night cause we can give her a small snack 430ish to hold her off till then. DH and I both don't like eating at 530/600. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-do-dinner#post-2244902 Fri, 24 Jul 2015 10:38:30 +0000 su9su9 2244902@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We all eat around 5:15ish. Sometimes the kids might start eating first while I clean up the kitchen and join them half way through. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-do-dinner#post-2244753 Fri, 24 Jul 2015 08:34:22 +0000 FaithFertility 2244753@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We eat together around 6ish on the days DH works he will be get getting home around 7 so me and DD will eat and he will eat when he gets home! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-do-dinner#post-2244750 Fri, 24 Jul 2015 08:31:06 +0000 CakeLady 2244750@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>During the week DH usually feeds DS dinner when they get home at 5:45/6. DS is usually hangry and tired. Some nights I don't get home until 6:30 and DS is in bed by 7, so there is no way to make eating as a family work. It makes me sad, but we sit down for breakfast together every morning. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-do-dinner#post-2244742 Fri, 24 Jul 2015 08:18:40 +0000 kiddosc 2244742@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH works until 8:30, so right now I sit with E when he eats at about 6:30. He either gets leftovers or something quick I make for him. Then I make dinner for DH and I after E goes to bed and eat with DH at like 9. I'm not a fan of the arrangement, since a lot of my night gets eaten up with preparing food. I think it won't be long until I switch to cooking early and eating with E and then DH will have to do leftovers. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-do-dinner#post-2244731 Fri, 24 Jul 2015 08:11:48 +0000 Ree723 2244731@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'd love to eat together as a family but DH doesn't get home until 7:30 every night and our LOs go to bed at 7:00 and 7:30. I hate cooking with an absolute passion, and my girls are incredibly picky, so I usually throw something together for them for dinner around 5:30/6:00 and have about a 50/50 chance of them eating it. Fortunately, they have huge breakfasts and moderate sized lunches so I'm not terribly fussed whether or not they eat dinner (they'll always have fruit and yoghurt if nothing else). I don't make myself anything at that time because I don't really get the opportunity to eat it anyway, and trying to get their dinners together, much less make a proper meal for myself, is hard enough as it is!</p> <p>DH does all the cooking once he gets home from work, so we usually eat dinner together around 8:00, and on really good days, the leftovers will be something the girls might eat the following night for their dinner! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-do-dinner#post-2244691 Fri, 24 Jul 2015 07:48:23 +0000 Adira 2244691@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We used to have dinner after Xander went to bed because we'd get home and he'd be starving and I'd need to make his dinner immediately and wouldn't have time to get ours ready. But now he's able to wait longer for dinner, so we've been able to eat together as a family. It's sooooo much nicer!! And now after the kids go to bed, we can relax instead of cooking dinner and eating ourselves. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-do-dinner#post-2244687 Fri, 24 Jul 2015 07:44:08 +0000 Alivoo01 2244687@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We eat together around 6:30. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-do-dinner#post-2244673 Fri, 24 Jul 2015 07:33:40 +0000 MoonMoon 2244673@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We try to all eat together at the table, on a good day around 7 or 7:30. LO goes to bed (again, on a good day!) around 9 or 9:30. Sometimes this is hard for me because I just want to lie down on the couch and watch TV like we used to do! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-do-dinner#post-2244666 Fri, 24 Jul 2015 07:28:52 +0000 mrs.shinerbock 2244666@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO eats dinner at 5:45/6 and goes to bed around 7. We sometimes eat with her, sometimes after she goes to bed. Depends on whether I'm cooking or not and how long it takes me to get dinner completed. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-do-dinner#post-2244640 Fri, 24 Jul 2015 06:23:11 +0000 mrsjyw 2244640@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We usually eat dinner together around 630/7 just before ds1'sbedtime, unless Dh has a late night at work. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-do-dinner#post-2244632 Fri, 24 Jul 2015 05:29:09 +0000 hilsy85 2244632@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Dinner together every night--DH is home by 644, and we eat by 7-715. It's the only good thing about LOs 9pm bedtime, that we can eat as a family! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-do-dinner#post-2244626 Fri, 24 Jul 2015 04:35:08 +0000 lamariniere 2244626@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We eat as a family almost every night (unless DH has to work late or something). We eat around 6:30/7. Sometimes I wish DH and I ate dinner after the LOs go to bed since it's just so much more peaceful, but I don't want to stretch dinner out over hours and hours and I often have work to do in the evening. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-do-dinner#post-2244622 Fri, 24 Jul 2015 02:36:08 +0000 Bubbles 2244622@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Foodnerd81: we do exactly the same, except LO eats dinner around 5. DH doesn't usually get home til gone 8, and I can't eat my dinner at 5! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-do-dinner#post-2244566 Thu, 23 Jul 2015 22:18:54 +0000 Charm54 2244566@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Most of the time the 3 of us have dinner together around 6 when Dh gets home. If I'm making something I know she won't eat, or if Dh and I want to get take out, I'll make her something easy like scrambled eggs and we eat after she goes to bed. That usually happens 1-2x a week </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-do-dinner#post-2244561 Thu, 23 Jul 2015 22:13:04 +0000 yin 2244561@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have dinner together every night at 6. Half the time DH arrives just in time for dinner, and the other half of the time he arrives during some part of dinner. It's tough, and I wish I had an extra hand in the kitchen but I try to make it work. It's important for us to eat together. I eat with the kids for breakfast and lunch since I stay at home. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-do-dinner#post-2244536 Thu, 23 Jul 2015 21:48:40 +0000 ALV91711 2244536@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We do dinner as a family every night at the table. Usually around 5:30. There is the odd night were one of us isn't home for dinner or is late so the other eats with DS. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-do-dinner#post-2244519 Thu, 23 Jul 2015 21:24:31 +0000 Corduroy 2244519@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We do family dinners together almost every night. DH gets home at 6:30 and I try to have dinner ready before 7. The three of us eat and I nurse the newborn at the table because he is always eating. I like having that family time since LO1 is at daycare. DD goes to bed at 8ish. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-do-dinner#post-2244446 Thu, 23 Jul 2015 20:09:02 +0000 PurplePeony 2244446@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Pirouette: that pretty much describes our dinnertime routine, too. It bothers me that we don't do family dinners as much as I'd like -- it's pretty much limited to weekends right now -- but once DD is able to wait a little longer to eat and have a later bedtime, we'll try harder to make it work. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-do-dinner#post-2244445 Thu, 23 Jul 2015 20:05:47 +0000 Foodnerd81 2244445@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@yoursilverlining: @Rainbow Sprinkles: I actually can't leave the TV on while she's eating! She is way too distracted, even if it's something like golf (thanks DH) and just keeps turning to look at it instead of eating. And I could never let her eat on the couch because she is definitely still too messy. It's easier if she is strapped into her high chair and can't wander away and trail food. But DH and I eat on the couch in front of the TV every night. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-do-dinner#post-2244443 Thu, 23 Jul 2015 20:04:19 +0000 runnerd 2244443@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>He gets a snack/part of dinner in the high chair while I am cooking or cleaning up the kitchen, then we come in the living room to eat our dinner. He then gravitates between playing and coming over to accept bites from our plates. </p>