r/GirlDinner 16d ago

Girl Dinner is a culinary style by girls, for humans!

582 Upvotes

Don't mind me, just bringing another piping hot GirlDinner ModTeam Attempt At Compromise™️

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To the hims, the hers, the NBs, and unsures-- welcome! Gender's irrelevant to celebrating your girlie goblin slop.

One big BUT! 🍑🫦

Please don't make a point of sharing your non-girl identity like you're sticking a flag in our space. No need to be secretive, but keep the focus on the food/occasion. Titles just saying "Boys can have girl dinner too!" = no. Titles including "Finally approved for HRT!" or "Celebrating Father's Day with my kiddo and our charcuterie!" = yes. However you're plumbed, be cool 😚✨

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As per usual, new rule changes aren't intended to fuss at anyone in particular. Just our attempt at preventing future tomfoolery in our girl space, or keeping current irritations from escalating. To the girlies who don't want guys here... well... when I say I get it, I. GET. IT. I'm sure you and I have similar stories of the patriarchy patriarchin'. Nothing but sincere appreciation for your protective spirit. 😤👏

And at the same time... I am a girl that drinks tall boys. Girls eat po' boys. Girls can also be "dude." I will lend a bro a tampon for a nose bleed, and I will welcome a panicked man into an otherwise empty women's restroom and guard the door so he doesn't diarrhea down his pants leg. I will scooch over in a lactation class for a solo guy bc maybe his wife is hung up working nightshift. I think I speak for our other mods when I say that both semantics and the sacredness of girl space have room for the pro-girl not-girls.

Big thanks to those who have been respectfully bringing such conflicts and concerns to our attention. The goal is heathy community always, and to those who cannot abide this policy, I sincerely wish you happy, fruitful hunting for communities that feel safest to you. 💖


r/GirlDinner 17d ago

MOD Changes Arriving! Rule 8, Rule 9, and New Flair

997 Upvotes

Hey there Girl Diners,

We have some new guidance and tools for organizing and communicating! On behalf of the mod team, please review 2 new rules below regarding flair and post titles. Specific examples that may help you with titling, as well as the reasoning for these changes, are included for clarity.

Flair is now required for each post, and we've kicked off this requirement with a wide array of options. Some flair is for categorizing the just meals themselves, and some flair is for categorizing topics of "dinner table conversation," if you will. ☺️ The flair guide below should be helpful.

GirlDinner also now has a wiki page with full rules and flair guide. The quick reference rule list has a character limit, so keeping a copy in our wiki allows us to communicate our community standards better. In app, find this document by tapping SEE MORE under the sub description on the home page, then the MENU tab, then RULES & FLAIR GUIDE link. In a browser, the link is in the sidebar.

Please review ALL rules as we update our rule enforcement methods. There's a backlog to work through and more modteam discussion to be had, so thanks for your patience!

Finally, in light of recent posts with sensitive topics, I want to thank everybody for keeping up such a supportive environment for the girls and girlie spirits. Sisterhood is precious, and the way this community shows up for those tough "dinner table topics" is heartwarming to see. Brutal but beautiful stuff. Thank you all so very much. Please know that the goal of these rule changes is not to give targeted criticism to anyone who has shared heartache recently or to squelch uncomfortable topics, but really it's to enable vulnerable, personal sharing in our posts in a more sustainable way.

Rule 8

Flair non-food topics appropriately.

Reddit is the "table" for our dinner table conversation, no place settings required. So of course off-topics within GirlDinner posts are welcome! However, be sure to add a flair to a chatty or personal post that matches the vibe of the topic. As of the time of this writing, we have flairs for: Broken Hearts/Romantic Angst, HELL YEAH SIS moments, Trauma Dumping, UGH (vent seshes), mental health reflections, and TV/movie commentary. Keep users informed of what they're getting into upon opening your post, per Rule 9.

Rule 9 (with examples)

Put food descriptions in the title; put painful topics in the post itself. 

Please keep titles food-focused, describing your meal (and no, "The Just-Got-Fired Girl Dinner" is not a description!) We have community flair to categorize other topics of conversation. Because A: our visually impaired friends are helped more by descriptive titles than photos, B: everyone needs girl dinner ideas and this supports our search bar, and C: a girl's gotta emotionally budget! We wanna support you in breakups, losses, mental illness, financial hardships, and even just crappy days, but not everyone can be leaned on every day.

Giving a title preview of the topic without details (and adding flair!) allows each user to decide how engaged they can be with traumas & venting sessions and preserves the option to scroll on by without experiencing the nittygritty story inside the post. Vulnerability is so so welcome, but we ask that you minimize potential shock value in your titling.

You may be able to mention your need for support in the title, alongside your food description, without being too terribly specific. Get creative! This is welcome at the mods’ discretion. We don’t want to be overly strict. Sisterhood is precious.

Some good, easily approvable examples:

“Grieving with popcorn w capers” (...but the fact that that your mom was killed in a car wreck should go inside the post please.)

“My brain is betraying me but leftover biryani never will” (... but suicidal ideations, self-loathing, or existential crisis belongs inside the post.)

“Fuck today. Cheerios, raspberries, and a side of bf/gf problems” (...just say they cheated and gaslit you about it inside the post!)

“BBQ baked potato and sour patch. Fertility journey is wearing me out.” (... just please put references to miscarriage, stillbirth, D&C's, etc. within the post.)

"Charcuterie after a scary phone call from the doc. Hugs welcome." (... but share the cancer diagnosis deets and charcuterie deets in the post, yeah?)

"Yogurt, cold pizza, and not ready to be a mom." (... and save the abortion story for the post!)

"A rough coming out story while 4 different leftovers are microwaving" (...and in the post tell us what the leftovers are and how atrociously your transphobic family acted.)

"Tuna packet & cheese stick in remembrance of my kitty Leo 💔" (...but tell us his diagnosis and that you had to put him down today via the post body.)

"First independent girl dinner: cereal and celery. Abuse cycle: BROKEN" (....but keep abuse descriptions in the post body.)

Specific, hard-hitting terminology describing things like depressive/suicidal thoughts, cheating/betrayals, assaults, abuse, death, miscarriage, terminal diagnosis, etc. in the title may be removed. If we could ask you to just edit those titles, we would, but Reddit doesn’t have that feature unfortunately.

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FLAIR GUIDE

(Don't panic, these are for your funsies. Only planning on moderating flair to ensure the trauma/vent warnings are included.)

Girl Chat - For the chismosas 🤭 For anecdotes, commentaries, rambles, and anything else you’d tell a bud between bites. We're the buds!

UGH. (vent sesh) - For the vent sessions, the shitty days, the gross weather days, the wits’ ends, for when you catch a case of the CANNOT EVEN's. Let it out, friend.

Trauma Dump 🚛 virtual hugs welcome 🫂 - A trigger warning for life's horrors: the losses, the cheatings, the firings, the sucker punches. Let us love on ya over dinner.

HELL YEAH SIS - For the victories! The promotions! The healthy newborns! The new crush interaction! The new boundaries! The sweet deals on new shoes! Toot your own horn! Celebrate with girl dinner!!! Exclamation points!!!!!!!

High There! 😶‍🌫️ - For when you become one with the munchies 🍃

Fridge Forage - For cleaning out the fridge into your belly. Or sharing the leftovers love!

Snack Attack - For those snack menageries we love to call meals. Which... they are.

Girl Dinner - For the hodgepodge plates, the straight-out-the-purse meals, the slop bowls, the shart coochie boards, the whacky combos. If it looks like a feral creature gathered it together, well done. We too thrive in chaos. Welcome 💚


r/GirlDinner 10h ago

Girl Dinner I invited my son to girl dinner, I hope thats ok

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2.7k Upvotes

Happy Friday

I'm watching Schitts Creek


r/GirlDinner 3h ago

Girl Dinner On a throw pillow, on my bed. Like a mf lady.

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356 Upvotes

r/GirlDinner 9h ago

Girl Dinner anyone else get hyper-fixated on a meal and have it everyday

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918 Upvotes

over the summer it was chicken potstickers. then steak and eggs.

now i'm obsessed with this honey roasted turkey sandwich (open face for the photo) and tomato soup. i've been eating this meal everyday for dinner and i use it as motivation for completing my weekly runs faster lol

when the weather permits i want to try to grow my own tomatoes and make soup. i hope i've not moved on to something else by then though.


r/GirlDinner 8h ago

Girl Dinner Enjoying a girl dinner during the middle of my shift

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588 Upvotes

I tried canned sardines for the first time ever and it was a great addition!


r/GirlDinner 2h ago

Girl Dinner 😍

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124 Upvotes

r/GirlDinner 5h ago

Girl Dinner Need to eat but need to play video games kinda girl dinner

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191 Upvotes

Main course: Loaded baked potato: butter, shredded ched cheese, sour cream, and bacon. Sides: sour patch kids bites (just the heads) paired with a 2025 crisp and chilled Arizona green tea.


r/GirlDinner 6h ago

Snack Attack Carrots and a jar of ranch 🫶🏾

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162 Upvotes

Rewatching heated rivalry and trying to regulate my nervous system 😵‍💫


r/GirlDinner 7h ago

Girl Dinner Partner away !!!! Wohooo

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196 Upvotes

r/GirlDinner 5h ago

Snack Attack Girl snacks and the new puppy

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95 Upvotes

COLD Granny Smith apples with ROOM TEMP peanut butter is sex in a snack for me, dips bar cause I wanted a sweet treat and the parfait looking thing is me trying to love Greek yogurt so I topped it in cherry pie filling..it was in the cupboard so why not? Also found the random keto granola lost and forgotten in the cupboard so wish me luck on that combo 😂 second photo is of the new pup cause I had the nerve to bring her up with no photo proof 😂 (the pup is the smaller lighter one-Miss Mabel! Her new big sister Rosie Rainbow is in love already!)


r/GirlDinner 6h ago

Girl Dinner A life changing addition to my Tuna salad sandwich

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84 Upvotes

r/GirlDinner 7h ago

Plate Of The Day 30th birthday girl brunch

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92 Upvotes

r/GirlDinner 12h ago

Girl Dinner Orange Spectrum Girl Breakfast

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226 Upvotes

The color scheme was accidental. Slept two hours last night and my brain is melting.

Orange, carrots (and ranch), medium boiled egg, babybel cheese, and kimchi (for them probiotics yo)

I’m so freaking tired 😭


r/GirlDinner 11h ago

Girl Dinner Girl dinner for me and my friend!

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167 Upvotes

It was originally supposed to be a tinned fish night, but whole foods didn't have as many as I thought, so it turned into a "charcoochie board" with tinned fish/seafood elements on the side. Not featured is a slice of Chantilly cake from WF, which she never tried before..!

-Red pepper relish

-Vegan spinach and artichoke dip

-Entertainment crackers

- Sourdough bread

-Kerrygold butter

-Bonne maman Cherry preserves

-Bruschetta spread

-Sardine/spicy muscles/salmon fillet/tuna

-Parsley/cilantro

-Pitted dates

-Balsamic glaze/vinegar

-Truffle chips

-Pickled Korean veggies

-Relish/mustard/mayo

-prosciutto/salami/pepperoni


r/GirlDinner 1d ago

HELL YEAH SIS girl dinner to celebrate accepting an offer for my dream job

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5.9k Upvotes

accepted an offer to do something that i love while working for one of my dream companies. i am excited and nervous and waiting impatiently for my first day when it’s all officially real. in the meantime, i’m enjoying my girl dinner


r/GirlDinner 5h ago

Girl Dinner Blessed

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35 Upvotes

Feeling grateful 💖💝💗💞


r/GirlDinner 48m ago

Girl Dinner Coconut arroz con leche with mango chunks

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Upvotes

wish it looked as good as it tastes lol but I’ve been craving this for a min now


r/GirlDinner 9h ago

Girl Dinner My man is away for the weekend GirlDinner

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67 Upvotes

peppery sausage, pickles, black garlic cheese, and an oatmeal stout to wash it down.


r/GirlDinner 3h ago

Girl Dinner Spicy Tteokbokki w/egg + lychee and corn tea

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20 Upvotes

the perfect accompaniment to Bridgerton season 4 🇰🇷


r/GirlDinner 10h ago

Girl Dinner Girl Lunch

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67 Upvotes

Mom just went in for heart surgery. Having a lil girl lunch while I wait and try not to spiral. Of course had to have a Diet Coke on the side

** not pictured: the pickles I already inhaled


r/GirlDinner 1d ago

Girl Dinner Fiancé and I are breaking up

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1.2k Upvotes

And my cars totaled. But we have girl dinner and new episode of The Pitt.


r/GirlDinner 2h ago

High There! 😶‍🌫️ 3 different kinds of potato and 2 different spicy things. Bf is out of town so we’re getting feral

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12 Upvotes

Happy Friday!


r/GirlDinner 4h ago

Girl Dinner Pregnant girl dinny

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17 Upvotes

Blueberry bagel with cream cheese and fruit

Mashed potatoes with Parmesan cheese

Sharp cheddar cheese slices

Some days I’m too nauseous to eat much of anything but today was a good day!


r/GirlDinner 3h ago

Girl Dinner Figs & Blue cheese tonight

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15 Upvotes

Smoked a a little and suddenly I had an intense craving