Following confessions of abandoned dining tables where do you eat? 99% of the time we eat at the table in the kitchen. Occasionally we'll eat in front of the TV with trays on our laps. It only takes 10 minutes for me to eat a meal so there's no excuse for not using the table. Got Sky+ will travel so to speak.

Has the old tradition of families gathering round the table for an evening meal gone out the window now?

I'll repeat my reply in the food thread:

Depends on what we're eating and when. For Sunday dinner or if we're entertaining, we'll sit at the dining table. For messy (with sauces and gravy) foods, or if there's nowt on telly, we'll sit at the kitchen table. If there's something on telly we'll sit on the sofa and eat it off our laps.

If we had kids, we'd all sit at the table, but as we don't, we don't see any harm in eating in front of the telly if there's something we want to watch.

I don't have a proper dining room as I knocked the kitchen through to the dining room when I moved in so my table is in the kitchen. Sometimes we move it in to the conservatory in the summer which is nice. I reckon most people eat in front of the TV these days which is a shame really.

In the summer we also eat at the gorgeous table we have in the garden. My Mum brought me up to eat at the table most of the time.

Wife016 and I eat at the table in the lounge. We don't have a table in the kitchen as we live in a flat. Sometimes we eat on the sofa in front of the TV.

Also: Pie.

On my lap in front of the TV but to be honest, that's now also where I have my computer, so many times I'll just hold the plate in my hand, with my computer on my lap in front of the TV. (8+)

Mark

We've got a long sitting room, so have split it into two. Sofas and TV at one end and dining table at the other. Got a dining table in the kitchen too.

At home home we nearly always eat at the living room table, or kitchen table if there's less than three of us (rarely will we eat in the lounge, and that tends to be something on toast on a sunday evening watching TV).

At Farnborough I mostly eat on my kitchen table, quite often with my laptop there playing a podcast or providing a means of communication with someone. I've always found eating alone to be quite alien. When The French One visits we sometimes eat on the sofa watching TV, but mostly because the kitchen table is tall, and has stools to go with it (which are a bit too tall) as real chairs wouldn't fit.

When visiting The French One in Bath this year we quite often eat upstairs on her desk, primarily to avoid one of the other two. Although they do have a table in the lounge, it lives folded up, which I think is a shame.

We don't have space to actually have our kitchen table out most of the time. I'll sometimes pull it out from under the breakfast bar when we've got people over (most notably we use it when JJ visits) but mostly we have two folding tables in the living room and we eat on those, talking to the fish or watching an episode of something on DVD on the computer.

I'd like to have space for a dining table and then the main meal of the day would be eaten there, perhaps when we move we'll have the room, or else perhaps we'll just have more fishtanks

Mainly in my bedroom at my desk. I'll normally have some sort of TV program on my laptop too.

I live in a shared house with no dining room (technically my bedroom is where the dining room should be). I find it really difficult to eat in the lounge off my lap and there is usually no one else in and I don't really have much to talk about with the people who would be in anyway so my room is the nicest place in the house And the TV in the lounge doesn't work properly either.

At the kitchen table (though it's sorta technically a dining room, but it's been knocked through so it's a huge kitchen/diner) when it's a meal that warrants it, such as a decent roast or something messy.

Or in front of the TV in the lounge if it's not.

Or in my room if i'm eating alone.

Students eh?

In the week then in front of the TV.
At weekends esp if friends around then the dining table.
We do have a dining room – its one reason we got the house, I like to have a separate dining / kitchen area
I sometimes think we should use the dining room more but then again at the moment the table is covered in documents for the tax return so it does get used as an extension of the study

Monday - Friday evenings the whole family eat at the kitchen table/breakfast bar but on Saturday nights we have a take-away on our laps in front of the telly (the kids still eat at the kitchen table). Sunday evening we sit at the dining room table for a formal get together. This also means either the wife or I have to tidy the dining room table which acts as a dumping off point for stuff throughout the week

Al

Well done you on all eating together. Train the kids to clear and lay the table on Sundays

I have your proverbial 'two up two down'. No dining room at all...

Kitchen it is.

By evening meal you mean dinner, right?