What terms do you use for your meal times?

I grew up where we had our large meal at noon and that was our dinner. Our later meal was a lighter supper. We never interchanged the terms because they were different meals.

hi my dear freind, i just know one thing and that is breakfast , lunch , and dinner. i also consider supper and dinner as the same.

For me, it's breakfast, lunch and dinner. I grew up in a household where dinner was always called supper, though. I still interchange dinner and supper, now and again, like you do. I'm not sure where along the way I changed my terminology. Dinner is still the biggest meal, most days, but I am actually happier when I eat more at lunch and have a smaller dinner. Seems to work better for me personally for both my weight and overall health.

To tell you the truth I just usually refer to meal time as it is time to eat now. But there are times that I say it is time for dinner or lunch. I even have brunch sometimes which of course is a cross between breakfast and lunch. I am a mother of a five year old and find myself skipping breakfast and having brunch a little later in the mid afternoon hour.

When I was growing up in the U.K. it was a class thing - as to what you called your meals. It was breakfast, lunch and dinner for the most part but there were variations. No matter, if you heaviest meal was at lunchtime it was still called dinner. Then, at about 4 pm you had tea. Tea consisted of tea, sandwiches or cookies and this tided you over if dinner was at a later hour in the eveing. However, if dinner was not served for children and you needed something more substantia then you had 'high tea'. High tea consisted of maybe scrambled eggs etc together with some kind of pudding. You never called it 'dessert' it was always called 'pudding'. Most people went up in life but my parents started up and ended lower. However, my mother was socially ambitious for her daughters and never let us forget what they had had so she was a stickler for good manners and always laid a beautiful table. We never ate informally. she just wanted us to fit in socially where she hoped that we would reach. Excellent post. My children would laugh if they read my response (although I too insisted on good table manners and we always ate at the dining table)Blessings