Dinner time depends on how hungry I am and what other activities happened beforehand. It can range from 4 to 8 pm.
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Yes early enough eating is necessary to have room for adequate pre bed TV snacking time 
(and, ya know, feeding the toddler)
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This is the goal (for acid reflux reasons) but we don’t always get there.
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Now that I’m back in the office, we start making dinner almost immediately after I get home, which is somewhere between 445 and 530. Neither of us are big lunch people, so when I was working from home the last two years, we got into a pretty steady routine of dinner around 330. We totally have dessert/snacks around 8ish.
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Growing up it was 513. Like, it wasn’t set, but that’s when my dad got him from work and by 517 he was hangry. He would deny this if questioned. When my mum started working it got pushed to 6/630.
Ours isn’t a formal time, but also it’s 6pm. Without kids or before the big one started eating we did a 330 lunch and 7/730 dinner. If dinner is delayed I need to know by how much, so I can snack.
But yeah, definitely just a routine and not unchangeable. Except that I need to snack if you change it
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Now that I see the true post color, I say white.
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We aim for 5ish but often don’t actually get there until 5:30/6ish.It can take a long time to get from ‘we should start doing dinner’ to ‘all 4 of us are actually seated and putting food in our mouths,’ and I’m not referring to the actual cooking part. Pre-kids, dinner time just happened whenever we got home from work. Husband does get really hangry if he doesn’t eat on a regular-ish 3 meals a day schedule.
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For many years we had dinner at 6:30, because that’s when dh got home (and he left at 6:45 am).
I always said that when he retired I’d fix dinner at 2 and then if he was hungry later he was on his own, but then we have all these people here. LOL All the same, I fix dinner for 5:30 or 5 on Tuesday because the little boy has a piano lesson.
My main goal is to empty the dishwasher before I go to bed…
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Even pre-kids we had a dinner time that didn’t vary very much day to day. Not like a strict to the minute time, but definitely within half an hour. Partially that’s because I get hangry and once I’m hangry I am dysfunctional, and partially we’re just very habitual people. If I waited to start cooking dinner until I was hungry I would not be able to cook it.
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This frequently happens to me and I don’t recommend it. It wreaks havoc with any meal planning I ever manage to do.
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When I do not have my child or partner around dinner is just constant grazing.
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When I do not have my partner around the laundry basket is just the floor. I see you <3
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I start cooking dinner at 5:00 and it is usually ready by 5:45/6:00. We aim to eat every 3ish hours throughout the day so up and breakfast at 6, morning snack at 9, lunch at 12, afternoon snack at 3, and dinner at 6. Then the girls are in bed at 7 and adults around 9. There is usually night time snacking around 7:30/8ish while watching tv before bed, but more often than not it is just finishing my actual dinner since the girls didn’t let me eat.
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Even pre-kids we had a pretty regular dinner time due to Mr. Meer getting hangry. Basically as soon as we got home from work one of us would start cooking dinner and then we’d eat while watching a tv show. When Mr. Meer was recently out of town I was able to push dinner time back a bit (but not too much cause Kiddo can’t exactly fend for himself yet and lunch was at a set time every day).
I do not, however, have a set lunch time. Sometimes I eat at ten then again at one. Sometimes I eat at 11:30 and then not again till dinner. Sometimes I graze multiple times throughout the day. Since I’m just feeding me it doesn’t matter.
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No kids and no set suppertime (dinner is only a meal eaten between noon and midafternoon on special occasions in this part of the world.) We have supper between 4 and 8 pm generally, usually leaning toward the middle of that time bracket if there are no other constraints.
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Funny thing about this. A few years ago my brother and grandfather made plans to meet up for “dinner” at a burger place. My brother uses “dinner” interchangeable with super. My grandfather interpreted dinner to mean lunchtime. My grandfather got to the restaurant at 12:30 and stayed until a little after 1, calling my brother multiple times. My brother was at work and didn’t have access to his phone. My grandfather was SO MAD. My brother was very confused about what the mix up was.
I found an article not long after that and it said the appropriate use of “dinner” is the biggest meal of the day. For some communities, particularly back in the day, that would be lunch. Nowadays it is more commonly super. Sometimes on holidays it is in the mid afternoon between normal lunch and supper times!
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Dinner was served on Sundays here historically, midafternoon because it was between church. Continues on holidays (and in some of the religious households every week).
ETA but makes sense as the big meal- which would be midday in an agricultural society, to fuel an afternoon of hard labor
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Does anyone have a recommendation for electrolytes? My chiropractor swears that if I take them half an hour before working out and keep having it in my water during the workout, and then have protein afterward I’ll recover so much better.
Just started back at CrossFit classes and they are wiping me out! Also, why do they keep making me do burpees 
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I hope it helps, it makes a big difference for me! We get these bad boys from Costco, but you can get normal sizes other places: https://www.costco.com/liquid-i.v.-hydration-multiplier%2C-30-individual-serving-stick-packs-in-resealable-pouch.product.100301223.html
The strawberry is the best by far IMHO.
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I like Skratch labs - the Strawberry Lemonade, Fruit Punch, and Lemon/Lime are the best IMO:
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