[...] just took this poll on how many times a week we eat family dinner together. For us the answer is 7. Unless Tom and [...]

[...] just took this poll on how many times a week we eat family dinner together. For us the answer is 7. Unless Tom and [...]

[...] just took this poll on how many times a week we eat family dinner together. For us the answer is 7. Unless Tom and [...]

My 2 kids and I eat together normally 6 nights a week if not 7. My husband works later and normally only eats with us 2-3 nights a week.

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5 nights a week all four us eat together (5 year old son, 11 month old daughter). The other two nights either my husband or I go to the gym after work, so the other parent is eating a sit down meal with the kids, but all four of us together.

I usually cook 6 nights a week. I feed the kids (4 and 2) a modified version of our meal earlier in the evening and then when my husband gets home, we all sit down together. The kids join us to nibble on a little more or just to talk about our day. It doesn’t always work out perfectly, but we do our best!

7 – sometimes the kids (2 and 4) eat at 6:00, and we sit with them, then we have grown-up dinner around 8:00; sometimes we all eat together at 6:00. Depends on whether we adults want to eat pizza or lamb!

Almost 7 — the three of us probably grab take out once every week and a half and eat out every other week… but it’s almost always together. Someone’s gotta be out of town, sick in bed, at a sleepover, or something else for us not to eat together. We do occasionally have dinner and a movie night where we eat in the living room and put on a DVD but usually it’s at the table inside or out back, face to face. In fact, dinner might just be the cornerstone of our family life.

Our number really varies. And it’s hard to quantify. Example: Fridays, my husband plays coed soccer with an awesome group of people who mostly also have families, and since it started in May, our go-to dinners have been pizza and berries. Our family is together, with a gaggle of other families–pretty much what we dreamed of when we moved to the ‘burbs, right?
But if I had to guess: I’d say 3-4 nights a week we all sit at the table together and eat dinner that I prepared. And that goes to 5-6 if you count my kids and me as a “family” when my husband is working late. But I guess that’s not really the point.

Sit down to dinner together, all three of us (two adults, one two year old), I would say 1-2. But, if we say kid plus at least one parent eating together it jumps to 4-5. My husband and I are both out of the house at dinner time frequently, so we trade off. And sometimes, circumstances conspire and there is just no way to get adult dinner on the table in time to feed an antsy 2 year old.

Now, I do have to say that if we are talking home cooked meals only, no takeout, no short cuts like stir fried gyoza and veggies, we go down to 1 or 2 again.

My three children (4, 2.5, and 9 months), along with my husband and I eat together 7 nights a week. We aim to sit down by 6:15, but it’s usually 6:30 or a little later before we’re eating. The older the children get, the more special this time becomes.

usually 5. i have 6 kids from newborn to 13. when soccer season begins, it goes back down to 4. but i cook dinner for most of us 5-6 nights a week.

4-6 depending on the season. I’m a single mom & work f/t, but i make an effort to prep on weekends so we can eat healthy meals together, at home, and share things about our day without having to put in 30-60mins each night. the bonus about this has been my kiddo is also great about eating & trying new foods and as she gets older she’s been helping me in the kitchen- even bigger bonus.
one tradition we have on ballet class nights is ‘breakfast for dinner’ and that takes the pressure of the evenings that we get home late.

probably 5 or 6. try to go out once a week unless we get stuck without anything in the fridge due to bad planning or too many playdates. we also eat lunch and breakfast at home every day.

Probably 5 most weeks with our five-year-old daughter helping prepare the meal at least two of those nights and all of us sitting down together at the kitchen table (or on the deck in this beautiful summer weather) each of those nights.

7 nights a week for my two kids (ages 6 & 8) and me. Husband is a soldier and is away for training or deployment regularly, so when he’s home with us, he’s right there at the table nightly. But his frequent absences, I feel, make it all the more important for me to be dining with our kids (and talking, teaching) every chance I get.

7 nights a week, and we’ve got three kids (ages 8, 3, and 1). Though I don’t get home at 6:30 every day, my wife is very insistent that we continue with family dinner every night. Her reasoning: when they hit their teens, we’ll never be able to sustain this, so let’s enjoy it while we can.

We strive for 6 and usually wind up with 4-5, depending on what’s going on in the evenings.

3-4 for sure, sometimes 5 if I’ve had a slow work week and have left over energy!

Usually 7, but our family is just my husband and me, so we don’t have to drag kids to the dinner table. But we love having dinner together every night since we don’t see much of each other during the day. Preparing dinner together is lots more fun and less work than doing it all by yourself.

7! We are both chefs and in education now so it is much simplier than when we were in the industry cooking for other people…

6. It is the glue that keeps us together after being scattered about all day!

We eat family dinner together 4-5 days a week, often with other families. The other nights one or the other of us is out of the house, but the parent at home with the kid is eating family dinner. We cook from scratch most of those nights.