Spaniards eating dinner at 20:00?

[Cristiano viejo]

I agree it's unhealthy, my family used to eat at 20:00 or even later but I changed my lifestyle I usually have dinner between 18:00 and 19:00. I also feel better after I eat at such time.

How is unhealthy, tell me? Spain along Japan is the country in world with the highest expectancy of life and we have our great Mediterranean diet/food/dishes.

I am curious.

[Chris596]

How is unhealthy, tell me? Spain along Japan is the country in world with the highest expectancy of life and we have our great Mediterranean diet/food/dishes.

I am curious.

I totally understand it. I'm just saying that eating late is not that healthy in my opinion.

In the evening most people are less active so we don't require large amounts of calories and carbohydrates for example. It puts more strain on the stomach and makes it harder for some people to sleep afterwards. Also, the unused carbohydrates are often stored in fat (on the stomach).

Of course it matters what you eat, if there are other factors then the life expectancy can be higher, this is only my opinion, in addition I agree with you.

[Ion Basescul]

Is that really common or is it just a stereotype?

That's really early. When I lived abroad, I shared a house with a Spanish girl and she would wake up in the middle of the night to fry fish.

[Alexandro]

That is early, dinner for me is more around 21:00/22:00.

It is actually kind of funny, a few nights ago I invited my neighbor across the street who moved here not too long ago from Germany to eat dinner/hangout at my house and they came at like 18:00 confused, thinking we eat dinner at that time like normal people, rude awakening I suppose, haha.

[brennus dux gallorum]

More like 21:00

20:00 is too early, not even people in the anglosphere eat so early

It seems weird and unhealthy custom to me. (yet Spain have higher life expectancy than my country). Many people eat that late here in Hungary or even later, my mother often eats at 21 o clock or after that. It's not typical though.

I avoid eating that late because I don't want to gain weight, I go to bed between 22 and 23 o clock.

When do spaniards go to bed? I heard they go to bed late too.

Most of Greeks have their dinner at 22-23:00

[Gredos]

I agree it's unhealthy, my family used to eat at 20:00 or even later but I changed my lifestyle I usually have dinner between 18:00 and 19:00. I also feel better after I eat at such time.

If I eat dinner at 18:00 surely I could not sleep at night from hunger

the usual time in Spain is from 21:00 to 22:00, but keep in mind that the time zone is very late

[Gallop]

Me 20:30 to 21:30 h

[Universe]

That's really early. When I lived abroad, I shared a house with a Spanish girl and she would wake up in the middle of the night to fry fish.

loool. In university dormitory there were a couple of spanish girls on my floor and they started cooking and chit chatting after 23:00 when I was trying to sleep (my room was next to the floor's dining room)

[Luso]

Sounds like me... I eat super late.

[Universe]

Anyway it has been answered, it's because of the time zone differences. So thread can be locked.