My partner and I eat dinner together every night. I’d say 5 or 6 of those dinners are home cooked. We both love to cook so we cook together and sit down at the table, no t.v. allowed, and talk about our day. We have no children. We both came from families where dinner time was a family event sans t.v. and we both really look forward to that time together. It’s nice after a long day at work to have that relaxing time, to not have to eat on the run and to be with someone with whom I love to be with. If we decide to have kids, family dinner time will be a tradition we’ll pass on.
That’s not to say ocassionally we don’t order a greasy pizza and flop our asses in front of the tube to catch up on our favorite shows.
- How many days a week do you eat a home-cooked meal?
Seven - at least ONE of the people in the household will eat a home-cooked meal.
- Do you live alone, or are you part of a family with kids?
Family - husband and 17 yr old.
- If kids, do they play sports or have other activities which interfere with dinner?
Son works or is doing homework - we never sit down and eat together unless it’s a holiday or something. I usually don’t eat dinner, son gets his when he feels like it, husband does the same.
Aside:
Although I love to cook, I just don’t anymore. Except for special occasions. Some weekends we’ll barbeque and all eat at the same time (we did that Sunday as a matter of fact) but we don’t eat together. Son went upstairs, husband and I were in the same room but he was at the table reading the paper and I was reading a book and watching TV.
- How many days a week do you eat a home-cooked meal? Most nights – call it 6.5 on average.
- Do you live alone, or are you part of a family with kids? Me, my wife, 3 kids.
- If kids, do they play sports or have other activities which interfere with dinner? Twice a week, one of the kids is at practice, and so eats after the rest of us.
Retro, ain’t we?
We usually eat at home ~6 nights a week. I cook most weeknights, and **KeithT **cooks on weekends. We usually go out one night a week just so someone else does all the work (especially the cleanup!), and we each go out once or twice a week for lunch. The rest of the time we take leftovers to work for lunches.
We do tend to eat in front of the tv, but mostly because there’s too much junk on the dining room table to sit there to eat. It’s right next to the door where we come in so it’s where I put the mail and KeithT puts his lunch cooler and so on. I grew up with dinner at the dining room table with the whole family so I still have a lot of guilt about dinner in front of the tv. But it works for us and we chat while watching tv.
It’s just the two of us, no kids.
1. How many days a week do you eat a home-cooked meal?
Quite often. I do a lot of cooking.
2. Do you live alone, or are you part of a family with kids?
I’m married, one kid on the way. We only eat meals together about once a week. On Saturdays, or very occasionally Wednesday. We both have weird schedules. I eat at home more than he does because he’s practically never at home at mealtimes. In spite of that, when either of us is home, we’re usually eating homemade food. It’s just from the fridge, and heated up.
I’d like to change this so we eat dinner together several times a week after the kid is born.
Single and I live by myself.
I eat dinner at home at least six nights a week. However, I don’t cook; I get precooked vegetables and tofu from Whole Foods. So I guess that doesn’t count as home -cooked but it’s not really take-out either…
1. How many days a week do you eat a home-cooked meal?
My last home cooked meal was in March of this year. I honestly don’t remember the last time I went to the grocery store. The benefit of working in a restaurant.
2. Do you live alone, or are you part of a family with kids?
I live alone.
3. If kids, do they play sports or have other activities which interfere with dinner?
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**1. How many days a week do you eat a home-cooked meal?**Six. We have a tradition of going out to eat on Sundays.
**2. Do you live alone, or are you part of a family with kids?**Family with kids.
**3. If kids, do they play sports or have other activities which interfere with dinner?**Not yet, but they’re still young. If something goes until, say, 630PM or so, my wife usually fires up the crock pot.
We also have no television anywhere near the table.
Usually 4 or 5. I get lazy on the weekends since I am the only one who cooks here (my husband can and will make the occasional dinner, but it’s usually me).
I’m part of a family with my husband.**
No kids.
ETA: My family had a tradition we called night-lunch - very casual, but we would usually all end up in the kitchen having a snack and chat before going to bed. This tradition generated a lot of my best memories of my family.
We eat supper at home 5-6 nights a week, and it’s rare that all of us aren’t gathered around the table. (On the other hand, breakfast together is a freakishly rare occurance, though I can sometimes manage to assemble the troops for Sunday brunch with the promise of pancakes or some such.)
“We” means my husband, me, and our two sons, ages 13 and 7.
They have no activities that interfere with supper - we’ve sometimes moved suppertime a little earlier or later because of, say, somebody’s swim class one day a week. If a number of activities made it impossible to come together for the evening meal, we’d take that as a sign that they had too many activities scheduled that day.
1. How many days a week do you eat a home-cooked meal?
Nearly every day - of those few days that are exceptions, it’s mostly because the meal is a picnic, or have been invited to eat with friends/relatives. We rarely use takeaways or restaurants - perhaps once a month at most.
2. Do you live alone, or are you part of a family with kids?
Stereotypical nuclear family -two kids, aged 11 and 8.
3. If kids, do they play sports or have other activities which interfere with dinner?
Yes, but we try to fit around that by eating fairly early - often 5:30 or 6pm.