Anyone else have the dinner=2nd meal, supper=3rd meal thing?

Gave the family a chance to come in and relax in the middle of the hottest part of the day, eat themselves stupid and then go back out to burn it off. Supper was a light meal in the evening.

But in our family, the third meal of the day was always the big meal, no matter what we called it.

Growing up in Alabama, we mostly had breakfast, lunch, and supper. If either lunch or supper was somehow bigger and fancier than normal, it magically became dinner.

Yep, me, too.

For mom's family, grandpa (& whoever else was out in the fields) very often didn't come back to the house for supper. They took dinner leftovers out into the fields after dinner and that became supper for them.

I think my folks' families must have used different words in the lunch/dinner/supper shuffle, because I will use dinner for either lunch or supper, but I also use the words lunch and supper, for lunch and supper. Clearly, I need more food.

I'd prefer to have the larger meal at midday, and a lighter meal in the evening, but then I'd never cook for my dh.

Yup. The only dinners in my family are Sunday dinner, Christmas dinner, and Thanksgiving dinner, all of which take place in mid-afternoon.

We always had breakfast, lunch, and dinner, but I grew up in Minnesota. I'm pretty much always eat three meals a day, unless I'm under a lot of stress. I just feel wrong if I don't.

ION, my car is giving me headaches. I need to sell it and by another one, but we still owe on the one we have, which is adding to my stress. Why can't I just pay a person to fix this problem for me? (I suppose I could, but if I had that much money, I wouldn't be wrroied about how much I sell the current car for.)

MM could totally be a fake reporter.

But in our family, the third meal of the day was always the big meal, no matter what we called it.

Yeah, that's what I was trying to say.

Anyone else have the dinner=2nd meal, supper=3rd meal thing?

In Arkansas dinner was kind of interchangeable with lunch or supper, although it tended to refer to the latter more. My family always had the big meal in the evening, but I'm tending to larger lunches (take-out) and smaller suppers (soup, sandwiches) these days.

When I grew up, the evening meal was always the main meal during the week and on weekends, the midday meal was the main one.

I now try to always eat my main meal midday.

I have attempted to do the 5 smaller meal thing and although I felt really good doing it, it is hard to maintain.