Do you have a full cooked meal every night?

Since retiring I find that I eat twice a day.As I don't have to get up at a set time and I live alone my first meal is about 10 and then an evening meal about 6. Of course ,the odd lunch out too and sometimes if busy I miss the early meal and go all day without .
Today it was bacon ,egg and mushrooms at 10.30 and tonight it's chicken and veg at 8(bloody aga taking ages to heat) .I do eat fruit during the day if I want something sweet as I dare not have bread or biscuits or cake in as I have no will power at all and would eat til they were all gone.

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I usually have lunch out once a week, and on that day just have toast, or crumpets, or nothing at all, in the evening (note that for me 'nothing at all' is a pseudonym for no real food but does not exclude cake, biscuits, chocolate, bowl of cereal or fruit!).

Otherwise I generally cook and am mostly vegetarian but eat fish. I love salads with avocado and olives as well as the usual ingredients, in winter I make stews that last three days, and home made soups. However, having watched the latest Greg Wallace factory program, I am thinking of introducing more tinned food into my diet for health and economic reasons - Beans on toast, here I come! I must also confess to having discovered and become addicted to macaroni cheese from a small range of very healthy ready meals under the name of 'Amy's Kitchen' . So lazy as it is easy to make, but when I'm tired or miserable you can't beat a meal that just requires 5 minutes in the microwave - with a salad as above I can feel quite virtuous for very little effort.

Living alone, some days cooking something nice for my evening meal -(I too always cook from scratch, though I often double or even quadruple up so there's always something nice in the freezer for busy days) is the high spot of my day.

No. Now I'm a widow I eat when I feel like it or not. I rarely cook. Happy with a sandwich or something that is quick to prepare and quick to clear away. After years of cooking for six to eight of us every day, I really CBA any more.

I am widowed so now only have myself to cook for (I do miss making meal for 2) I almost always cook from scratch - rare treat might be an M & S ready meal.

Breakfast - glass of fruit juice, bowl of porridge with soft fruit & hot water flavoured with Marmite (I can hear those of you saying yuk1!!)

Lunch - salad or sandwich in summer, soup or something on toast in winter

Evening meal - meat or fish with plenty of veg

I have fruit after my meals. I am Type 2 Diabetic so balanced diet is important. Occasionally I miss an evening meal & replace with salad or soup & toast

Sometimes we eat a proper meal at dinner time sometimes we don't and just have a sandwich or beans on toast. It depends how we feel. It seems daft to go the trouble to cook a meal neither of us really want to eat.

It all depends on what we are doing but certainly only one cooked meal a day!
DH usually has an enormous bowl of cereal plus banana for breakfast. I do not usually have food in the morning but like something about 11:30-12:30 if not having a cooked meal for lunch. If we are out and have a cooked lunch then just toast or other light snack in the evening. If it is a sandwich lunch (or equivalent) then we would usually have a 'proper' meal in the evening. Today however I was out walking at 7:00 so did have a cheese scone with a cuppa in the cafe when we got back at 9: 00

Pollyperkins, I'm so glad to find someone else that has an OH whose timetable is ruled by his stomach. It's good, though, that I can leave it to him to find somewhere to stop and eat when we are out and about.

I get totally bored with cooking meals for the two of us. My husband is quite happy to make himself something from whatever is in the fridge. My favourite meal is a bowl of home made muesli, fruit and yoghurt. Thats it! We don't eat breakfast or lunch together, in fact, I rarely eat lunch. so, when we go away together, or on the rare occasion we go out to eat, it's quite a novelty to sit down and eat together.

I always cook from scratch in the evenings - if I'm not hungry my husband happy to eat it next day. Never eat ready meals. However have just started HelloFresh - very exciting - you get a box of all ingredients with recipe cards once a week. It's really perked up our dinner times - we both really enjoy the food - we'd got into quite a rut with same old dishes every week. It's like doing a cookery course - nothing takes longer than 35 mins.

Yes, but then I never cook at lunchtime (unless occasionally for guests) and dh always gets his own lunch anyway. And his breakfast. We don't eat those together because I never want anything until about 10.30, when I have an egg on toast or similar.

From long habit, since he always worked far longer hours than I ever did, dh doesn't cook. But he invariably clears up the kitchen, better than I would!
Must say I do find thinking what to have every night a bit of a pain sometimes, more than the actual cooking, but I am lucky in that dh will eat absolutely anything, and will be happy with e.g. a baked potato with beans and cheese if occasionally I CBA to do anything else.
We rarely have any but the one course unless we've got guests.

Main meal in the evening here too; breakfast is usually cereal taken as and when, and we are seldom in at the same time for lunch. I like cooking and enjoy planning meals so that we have a couple of fish days, a vegetarian day etc. We'll often have "something and salad" in the summer and in the winter the slow cooker is a great help. It's nice to sit down together in the evening with a meal and a glass of wine to catch up with each other's doings.

Yes we do but DH is at work all day so it is only meal we have together- although when I say 'together' I am in kitchen listening to The Archers & he insists on having his in front of TV. We often eat at different times as he works late quite a lot & leaves for work early before I am up. Recently we have both fancied something lighter- probably the hot weather -so it has been more of a snack or salad. We often eat different things as I am not mad about large chunks of meat & he likes his steak & chops etc. I like Veggie food- he won't touch anything without a bit of meat or fish in it.
Luckily I enjoy cooking.

I enjoy my main meal in the evening in front of the tele with a glass of wine.. Always cook from scratch. Several portions of things like casseroles and pasta sauce frozen in single portions. Never eat out, no ready meals or takeaways.

Hi Jalima,
No I don't have a large lunch. Soup in winter maybe, but usually cheese and crackers, or a bit of salad. Very occasionally I might make a sandwich.
In spite of all my efforts I am still not as slim as I would like to be!
p.s. I have just had scrambled eggs on toast for breakfast.

Shandi your oh sounds exactly like mine!

Yes main meal in the evening meat/fish, 2 veg type very occasional pudding except Thursdays when we seem to have beans and egg on toast - no idea why.

Yes main meal is of a night usually and at the table.

Skullduggery- so glad to find someone else who has given up on the thankless task of persuading a reluctant adult to eat healthily :-)

I hate cooking nowadays. DH has always preferred to eat late and at odd times (because of his work & just got into the habit.) I find I can't do that any more, and it never really suited me. I mostly let him sort himself out, then have a shared dinner at night when/if it fits in with what we're doing. I could live on pasta & salad, which he hates (It's not proper food and it has a lot of green in it. Left to himself I've discovered he avoids anything remotely vegetable)

I rarely cook a meat and 2 veg meal. In fact, I can't remember the last time I made one. Probably when we have visitors staying. At least then I get to enjoy cooking and eating.
My DH is a veggie who doesn't enjoy food so eats very little at the best of times and often has tinned soup for his evening (main) meal. Yes, he's 6ft and underweight but since he had puppy fat at puberty, is paranoid about getting fat. Definitely verging on the Anorexic to my mind. He doesn't like eating out so we never have an evening meal out. He will scoff cakes with tea/coffee in a cafe so I make do with that as my treat.
I gave up trying to get him to eat healthily ages ago.
I ate a 'posh' fish cake with green veg for my tea last night. Followed by a huge bowl of ice-cream. :-/

At the moment I have my son and his fiancee living with me so most nights we do have a cooked meal but I've got to agree the planning and shopping does irritate me at times and part of me will be happy when they move into their own place and I can go back to scrambled egg on toast.

I'm a lark, while my men are owls - DH is severely disabled. I need to eat at 6-7, while they are nearer to midnight. So I have a light snack, ready meal or whatever, while they cook together when suits them. Maybe not the best solution, but I have a half-way decent breakfast, whereas DS lives on coffee and snacks, while DH only has the one meal. Can't get them to eat sensibly apart from one meal. About once a month we have fish 'n chips takeaway, so that's our social togetherness session and if we go to the cinema or whatever, we have a luxury meal out.

No since the family left home divorce left me alone I rarely have a proper cooked meal in the evenings ....anyway I was brought up to have a dinner at lunchtime ..... Now it's what ever I can scrap together whenever I feel like it really I suppose I roughly have meal times ... toast and coffee when I get up usually around 7 ....something maybe a jacket potato or salad or toasted sandwich around 1 and something around 5or 6 but these can stretch to very different times if I m doing something or needed somewhere