What time do you start Thanksgiving dinner?

[Anonymous]

5:30. Just a smidge earlier than regular diner time. We don't go overboard with food. Most people are doing a turkey trot earlier in the day and we have out of town guests who like to leave their house at 12 to skip traffic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Meal is at noon (or 1 pm at the absolute latest). Second meal/leftovers around 6 or 7 pm.

I'll never understand the crowd that serves the holiday meal at 2 or 3 or 4. If you don't eat at that time of day on a normal day, why do you want to eat at that time on a holiday?

I think the idea is that it’s so big a meal that it stands in for lunch and dinner.

I’ve never been able to gorge on multiple plates of food. I really prefer three light or regular-sized meals. I can’t stand the “starve, then stuff” mentality. And no, I’m not on Ozempic or whatever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Meal is at noon (or 1 pm at the absolute latest). Second meal/leftovers around 6 or 7 pm.

I'll never understand the crowd that serves the holiday meal at 2 or 3 or 4. If you don't eat at that time of day on a normal day, why do you want to eat at that time on a holiday?

You can't possibly wrap your mind around someone eating an hour later than you? Maybe they woke up later after sleeping in. Or had a light breakfast at 10. Or they skip breakfast and start eating some light apps around noon. It's not that hard to understand that people don't eat rigidly at the same time every day. Do you eat a giant spread at noon every day or is Thanksgiving a little different than other days?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dinner at 4 at the earliest. I can’t stand “dinner” during broad daylight.

Same!!! My in-laws do 1pm and then they don’t eat again until Friday breakfast.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dinner at 4 at the earliest. I can’t stand “dinner” during broad daylight.

Same!!! My in-laws do 1pm and then they don’t eat again until Friday breakfast.

That's older age for you

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Meal is at noon (or 1 pm at the absolute latest). Second meal/leftovers around 6 or 7 pm.

I'll never understand the crowd that serves the holiday meal at 2 or 3 or 4. If you don't eat at that time of day on a normal day, why do you want to eat at that time on a holiday?

You can't possibly wrap your mind around someone eating an hour later than you? Maybe they woke up later after sleeping in. Or had a light breakfast at 10. Or they skip breakfast and start eating some light apps around noon. It's not that hard to understand that people don't eat rigidly at the same time every day. Do you eat a giant spread at noon every day or is Thanksgiving a little different than other days?

NP. Calm down. Are you OK?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Meal is at noon (or 1 pm at the absolute latest). Second meal/leftovers around 6 or 7 pm.

I'll never understand the crowd that serves the holiday meal at 2 or 3 or 4. If you don't eat at that time of day on a normal day, why do you want to eat at that time on a holiday?

You can't possibly wrap your mind around someone eating an hour later than you? Maybe they woke up later after sleeping in. Or had a light breakfast at 10. Or they skip breakfast and start eating some light apps around noon. It's not that hard to understand that people don't eat rigidly at the same time every day. Do you eat a giant spread at noon every day or is Thanksgiving a little different than other days?

NP. Calm down. Are you OK?

? I can think of lots of reasons people do things differently. It's not that hard.

[Anonymous]

We eat at 1. Nap and football. Small plate of leftovers for dinner.

[Anonymous]

Appetizers around noon or 1pm during football. Dinner at 4 unless game goes into OT. Some people clean up, some take a walk, some sit and chat. Then dessert. Folks tend to head home around 7 or 8, but often some people stay and finish the dishes, watch tv, wait out the last glass of wine, or just hang out m

[Anonymous]

With my family (at cousins house) we have apps at 2:00 main meal 3:00 and dessert at 5:00

Every other year when ILs are in town with us- apps at 5 dinner at 6

[Anonymous]

We do 2pm or so .. used to do later but moved it to this time a couple of years ago and we like being able to take a walk and get fresh air after the big meal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Meal is at noon (or 1 pm at the absolute latest). Second meal/leftovers around 6 or 7 pm.

I'll never understand the crowd that serves the holiday meal at 2 or 3 or 4. If you don't eat at that time of day on a normal day, why do you want to eat at that time on a holiday?

Because you don't do normal things on a holiday. What kind of question is this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Meal is at noon (or 1 pm at the absolute latest). Second meal/leftovers around 6 or 7 pm.

I'll never understand the crowd that serves the holiday meal at 2 or 3 or 4. If you don't eat at that time of day on a normal day, why do you want to eat at that time on a holiday?

Because you don't do normal things on a holiday. What kind of question is this?

+1. The point of a holiday is to get you out of your everyday rut. Why would you want to do everything the same?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dinner at 4 at the earliest. I can’t stand “dinner” during broad daylight.

That's why we don't call it a dinner in our house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Meal is at noon (or 1 pm at the absolute latest). Second meal/leftovers around 6 or 7 pm.

I'll never understand the crowd that serves the holiday meal at 2 or 3 or 4. If you don't eat at that time of day on a normal day, why do you want to eat at that time on a holiday?

I think the idea is that it’s so big a meal that it stands in for lunch and dinner.

I’ve never been able to gorge on multiple plates of food. I really prefer three light or regular-sized meals. I can’t stand the “starve, then stuff” mentality. And no, I’m not on Ozempic or whatever.

You on that anorexic medicine?