Welcome to SuttaCentral Discourse! (I beat the mods to it. 
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We don’t normally discuss our personal practices on this forum since the focus is on Early Buddhist Texts (EBTs) but we have had several interesting topics about keeping precepts in relation to the EBTs here. There are many ideas on lay practice, including 5 and 8 Precepts, based on the EBTs, you can find them using the search Q at the top right.
For example you can find @karl_lew’s interesting post on eating at “the right time” here.
I take the precepts as the gradual training approach, like this sutta where Gavesī slowly takes more training rules, starting with confidence in the Triple Gem and ending as a monk. Of course you don’t have to end up like a monk and can end up like Citta the Householder.
If one has perfected the 5 Precepts alone then they’re doing amazing as a Buddhist lay follower! In doing so they’ve stopped a few dangers to themself as said in AN 9.27 and so they aren’t something to sniff at alone.