how long does it take you to make dinner? what time do you eat every night?

I feel like no matter what, it takes me a little over an hour to make dinner.by the time we eat, it's anywhere between 8/8:30/9pm.

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We are usually eating dinner around 7. Cooking time depends on what we are having. Lately it takes about 30-45 minutes because we are BBQing a lot.

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Between 7-7"30 and it takes about a 45 mintues to an hour. And that is just for two people!

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it usually takes me about an hour or so-we eat at 6 pm/6;30ish if we dont go to gym......

i try to make simple meals-such as salmon, tacos, grilled chicken, quesadillas, chicken burgers, etc

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it definitely depends on what I am making. I feel like I spend more time chopping than cooking

we eat anywhere between 8 and 10 pm...depending on what the day was like. we almost NEVER eat earlier than 8 pm.

sometimes I can bang it out in 30 minutes...other times closer to an hour.

almost always...it's worth the wait

Re: how long does it take you to make dinner? what time do you eat every night?

It depends on what I am making. But usually between 6 & 7.

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It usually takes my husband about 30 minutes to make dinner. Some meals take longer too cook though, like baked chicken.

He does a lot of prep work the night before. It helps a lot.

I have to give him all the credit for dinner, since he does all the work.


ETA: We usually eat by 6:30. He gets home before me and starts cooking as soon as he walks in the door. He usually has to time it based on what time I get home.

He's famished by then, so very rarely do we ever eat past 7:30 (when we cook).

Message edited 8/20/2008 12:29:52 PM.

Re: how long does it take you to make dinner? what time do you eat every night?

Posted by StayForever

It usually takes my husband about 30 minutes to make dinner. Some meals take longer too cook though, like baked chicken.

He does a lot of prep work the night before. It helps a lot.

I have to give him all the credit for dinner, since he does all the work.

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We usually eat around 7-7:30.....one of us starts cooking as soon as we walk in the door since I don't like eating too late.

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We also eat between 8 -9 usually. Monday night, I think we ate as early as 7:45, because I got home at 7:15 & had made meatballs & sauce in advance , so, I just had to
cook the macaroni & heat everything else.

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i get home by around 530---we probably eat around 730--since sometimes i need to unwind a little bit before i start cooking

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Posted by hunnybunnyxoxo

I feel like no matter what, it takes me a little over an hour to make dinner.by the time we eat, it's anywhere between 8/8:30/9pm.

Re: how long does it take you to make dinner? what time do you eat every night?

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If we don't go to the gym then we eat no later than 7. We get home between 6 & 6:15. If we go to the gym which is almost every night we don't get home 7:30- 8:00. If it's past 8:30 by the time we will get to eat, i'll just skip dinner and make him fend for himself. If we get home by 8 and i can have a quick 1-2-3 something to eat we'll have a sandwhich, or salad, or a bowl of cereal or something.

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we usually eat between 7:30 and8pm, dh usually gets home around 7;30.

Sometimes it takes me about 45 minutes ot make dinner, sometimes not. It's just the two of us.

I recently (yesterday) discovered the joys of the slow cooker, so dinner was ready when I walked in the door last night and damn, it smelled good in my house!

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I haven't cooked much since getting pregnant, so lately it's a 1 minute prep of making a bowl of cereal. Since I can't wait for DH to get home to eat these days.

But when I do cook, it really depends on what I'm making. I can usually bang out a good delicious dinner between a half hour to an hour. DH is usually home by 8 and that's when we eat.

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Most meals between 30-45 minutes. We try to save the meals that take longer for weekends. We usually sit down to eat about 6:45pm-7:15pm.

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We usually eat around 7-7:30. On days DH doesnt' have to work, he does the cooking and on days he does, I either prepare something simple just for me or I make a meal that only takes about 30 minutes.

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I was just thinking about this last night. No matter what happens it seems like I can't have dinner made before 8:30. I really don't like eating so late, but it seems impossible to get it done before then!

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takes me no time at all.......my DH does the cooking!

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We eat relatively early compared to everyone else...We eat no later then 6PM but have eaten as early as 4:30

I am home by 3 & can do a lot of the cooking before DH gets home. On average, it takes me 30-45 minutes for dinner...

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I get home around 6 pm and by the time I start cooking we usually eat between 7 - 7:30 pm

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i am a terrible planner, so we usually eat between 7:30 and 9pm after figuring out what the hell to make

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Usually between 6 & 7 for us, but I get home at 5:30ish and try to plan in advance.

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we both get home around 7-730 each night, so by the time we figure out what to make, we eat around 830 or so. By then we're both hungry and just want to have whatever takes the least amount of time to make.
i hate eating late, but our schedules don't leave us much time to cook a very involved meal either