Does anyone here do their big meal for lunch?

[Jaycie]

And then the "lunch" type meal for dinner?
I am seriously considering this since DH is here during the day.
But I could see how it might be hard to do if we are out of the house some mornings for playgroup, etc.

Do you find that this works for your family?

[Barefoot Bookworm]

I don't but I think it would make perfect sense if that's the meal your DH is home for.

[hey mommy]

I would, except DH isn't here during the day.. Every once in a while he'll come home for lunch, but I never know when that'll be.

[prov31craftymom]

No, but I have thought about it. I think that if DH was home for more than 30 min I would.

[Eesti]

We do some days. dh comes home for lunch most of the time so it just makes sense. Dinner is often leftovers or sandwiches, etc.

[Oliveshoots]

We are gradually working more into this type of eating schedule.

I have big lunches due to work (many times we have ministry team meetings over lunch, or I meet other church members for lunch to work on a project) Hey, we're Baptist, we center lots of things around food since to us, "fellowship=food" :giggle.

DH does not like to have a large or heavy meal after 5 or 5;30. it is impossible for me to have a full meal ready and served before 5:30, and when DH cooks, the kids and I are not always here in time to eat with him.

so dh has started having lunch with me once a week, and we have agreed that most nights (weekdays at least) we snack for dinner, and I fix the kids something healthy (they, too are having larger lunches at school and for dd, at my mom's.)

On the weekends, i like to do one big good meal a day...it used to be dinner, and someimtes Saturday breakfast, but now i try to focus on a really good big lunch meal, and then have good snack dinners (think "heavy h'or d'ouvres" or small portions of leftovers.)

so yeah, it works for our family, and I think we are going to be more intentional about making it a normal part of our routine. :tu

And this method is apparently healthier. I've read the advice to "eat like a king for breakfast, a prince for lunch, and a peasant for dinner." We kind of do this (at least on Saturdays!) but breakfast is usually a smaller snack. So we do more like a peasant-king-prince thing....or prince-king-peasant : ) Sounds like you do the King in the middle thing, too.

I like snacking for dinner...if I have a container of yogurt for dinner, I don't feel as bad munching on edamame or cereal later in the evening (although that is not ideal either, especially for me being overweight.)

[euromom]

Interesting you started this thread because dh was just saying today that he wanted to do this...until I reminded him that the days he's at work won't work. But we decided the days he's off we want to transition to this :yes We feel like we'd feel much healthier doing this, giving us more time to digest the big meal and not going to bed with it.

[Leslie_JJKs_mom]

I did for years when my husband worked the 3 to 11 shift. We then either had leftovers or I made something Dh did not like for our dinner.

[~yogamom~]

I think Rabbit does if you want to poke her.

[JellyBean]

It totally depends on the day and what mood we are in here! We probably do 50/50 on days hubby is home and usually if we do eat our big meal for dinner its earlier like 5ish.

[Johns_Gal]

Much better to have the big meal earlier in the day. :yes

You could start a crockpot the night before of whatever, and make a big yummy salad to go with. Double a recipe of, say, cornbread, in a 13 x 9, a loaf of french bread, things like that.

Soups and stews lend themselves well to big early meals. You can also cook a bunch of chicken breasts and set them aside for use, if night is the easiest time for you to cook.