Meal time habits/table poll

[jane6672]

That’s another reason I prefer second-hand for this kind of furniture - I get an idea of how it’s held up.

If it’s only a few years old and raggedy AF it’s not going to last through my abuse.

[bittybomb]

We have a table big enough for us all to eat in the kitchen so that’s where we regularly eat as a family. We also have a dining room where we eat on holidays.

Our kitchen table definitely takes a beating. I just told my husband I want a new one but I don’t think I’ll be able to get what I want, and at this point I figure I’ll just keep it until my last one, 12 yo, flies the coop, as long as it lasts that long, lol. It will - it’s a solid wood table but Jesus Christ it’s a bitch to keep clean.

[definitelyO]

up until this summer we all ate dinners at the kitchen island (we have bar stools) or outside. If I cook - we all eat together.
this summer DS has a summer job and hanging with friends so he isn't there as often, but DH and I still eat together.

exceptions are if we order pizza - then we eat in the great room in front of the TV.

sorry - to answer your actual question - we do not often sit at the DR table even though it's 8' from the island. ours is from Cost Plus World Market
www.worldmarket.com/p/maliyah-wood-rounded-extension-dining-table-101885.html

[felicity]

We eat dinner at the table every night as a family and sometimes other times. Our kitchen table is a painted black round table that seats four people. I originally got it from Target when I was in my 20s and living alone...didn't expect to have it into my 40s with kids. It's held up surprisingly well as a family table, and it's nice not to have to worry too much about all the dings and scratches from eating many meals and kids doing crafts and all that stuff.

We started eating in our dining room in the past year for dinner, since it's bigger and more comfortable for the four of us, and that is a second hand table from World Market. It still looks really nice considering we've had it about 13 years and the previous owners had it several years, but we'll see how it holds up over time since it wasn't our main table before.

[dcrunnergirl52]

Four kids, 2 adults. Typically, the kids all eat together, and I sit with them and have a snack and just chat with them every night. DH is usually still working. He and I will eat later, watching TV.

This started when the kids were little, and actually being able to eat while they eat was nearly impossible due to all of the requests, spills, etc., and we've just kept it up.

They eat at a Pottery Barn table in our eat-in kitchen. We only use the dining room for holidays. It's a PITA b/c it's weirdly across our family room so you have carry the food, plates, etc. through the family room, which is a PITA.

[eb777888]

We hardly eat together, especially now that David is a teen, cooks his own food and eats a couple hours later than us. It doesn't bother me because we spend a ton of quality time together as a family.

[akayf]

I grew up with a table in the eat in kitchen and formal dining room. We only used the dining room table for holidays.

Our house has an eat in kitchen and no dining room. We eat all together most nights. Dinner is always at the kitchen table. Breakfast and lunch can be eaten on a snack tray in the living room. No food in bedrooms.

[RoxMonster]

It's just H and me. We eat at our living room coffee table while watching TV. We have a "formal" dining table that we use with guests. It just doesn't work for us and we enjoy sitting on the couch eating, talking and/or watching TV. We've done it our entire marriage and no desire to change it.

[thejen626]

We have a kitchen nook with a table where we eat 90% of the time, because it has a view of the tv lol.

I’ve always had a formal dining room and if it’s more than the 4 of us we sit in there for meals. It’s a giant table with two leaves and 10 chairs.

We also have a bar area at our kitchen island but we don’t use it often in this house, it’s small.

I don’t let my kids eat outside of dining areas unless it’s a special occasion. We do “charcuterie and veggie tray” meals sometimes in the living room.

[tiki]

We do eat together at an oak table from Room & Board, but it's a fairly new thing for us - we'd never had a real dining room before moving into our current home in 2020. Before that, H and I had eaten most meals at the coffee table in front of the tv for over 15 years. Eating at a low table was particularly convenient when DD was a toddler, since she could take a lap of the living room between bites of food.

[lostrn]

We do eat dinner together most evenings. At an actual dining room table lol. My inlaws actually gave us their old table probably 16 years ago? Maybe slightly longer, but that's a good approximation. My MIL took amazing care of her furniture and had been using the table for at least 10 years before she gave it to us. I think longer because my DH is pretty sure it's the same table they brought with them on their last move in 1993. Its a little scratched up and beat up because we don't take such great care lol. I think it could easily be refinished and look super nice again, but with a tablecloth over it everything is fine.

[scout8]

Household of 2. We only eat at the dining room table if we have guests. Occasionally, the two of us will eat outside on the deck. Most of the time, we eat in the living room and watch tv. We usually watch some sort of lighter/comedy show while we eat.

[chickadee77]

I HATE that we don't eat together, but it's our current situation. We don't have a dining room right now, and our kitchen table is too small for the four of us to eat together, so we kind of eat in shifts.

I miss being able to sit down together, and we do it when we travel whenever possible.

[ECB]

We do a mix. There are days that we just don’t have time to all sit down together. When we can, we do.

[melmel4854]

I live alone, but I wanted to participate in the poll lol

When I lived at home we ate at the kitchen table together for dinner. Until my dad's amputation, my parents still sat together at the kitchen table for dinner. (Supper, as my mom calls it). Now my mom eats at the kitchen table, or on a TV tray with my dad in the living room because it is a lot for my dad to get up and go into the kitchen with his prosthetic leg. Getting up and walking is very exhausting for him, but he is getting a lot stronger! Maybe they will eat at the kitchen table together in the next few months,

[agnes]

We don't have a dining room, but we have a dining table. It's become a catch-all or used when we have guests. H and I eat on the couch/the coffee table. We almost always eat together.

[CrazyLucky]

We eat at the dining room table. Our kitchen does not have a table. Eating in front of the TV is for some special thing, like the Superbowl. Schedules prevent us all from eating together every night, but that's the goal.

[shauni27]

we eat at the dining room table that my dad made 40 years ago. It needs some work but we love this table; when my dad died and my mom sold her house it was too big for her new place, so we took it and get compliments on it every time someone sees it.

We eat at the table M-Th, though in the summer we regularly eat on the porch instead. Weekends H and I eat way late after S goes to bed, while we watch a movie usually.