Sunday telegraph attacking the Sunday roast

The Telegraph hates Britain and all our values. YABU to read that rag.

I agree, Yorkshire pudding only with beef.

Same. I am not on X either so couldn't read the article but when I clicked away the pop ups to see if I could get any info just about the first comment visible was that awful one.

Even more determined not to go on X if that is typical

Rubbish, a Sunday roast is a wonderful thing. I don’t have one every week, but it is a balanced meal and cauliflower cheese is a delicious side dish

It's because of her first name. It's apparently a Jewish name so people have gone completely nuts over her daring to criticise a British roast. Some absolute scumbag even made a comment about ovens, presumably meaning the Holocaust. Honestly, the vitriol is disgusting and extremely eye opening to the abuse Jewish people get.

If you think a roast is unhealthy due to large portions of stodge, you only have yourself to blame because you can always put less on your plate and make it mostly lean meat and veg, with only a small amount of roast potatoes, Yorkshire puddings stuffing and gravy. Then it's a reasonably healthy meal.

And it's not expensive either if you use seasonal veg and whatever meat is on offer - eg a whole chicken or a piece of pork. Carrots, potatoes, sprouts or cabbage and broccoli cost virtually nothing.

I'm now wanting a roast dinner 😋

It's just a click bait article.
The Telegraph is just the Sun with a few three syllable words thrown in these days

I personally love nut roasts, especially my Dad's one made with pumpkin. I think a lot of healthy food is delicious, though. Maybe you're more of a McDonalds type.

the best part of the roast dinner is the Apple (or other) Crumble afterwards (or sticky toffee pudding also acceptable) :)

But I do like a nice roast, but living alone, never ever make one, don't really even know how. I like being invited to people's houses when the do, though. chicken, pork, lamb, beef, all good. Applesauce with pork. Mint sauce with lamb. Roast veg fine, but I also like steamed, and I'm fine with boiled or mashed potatoes as well. No particular love for Yorkshire puddings as I didn't grow up having them (not from UK). So I don't see it as an unhealthy meal, as long as portion sizes are OK.

but then the crumble. Yes I'm sure that is unhealthy. But it's the best bit. Especially with lots of crumble.

What a stupid article. Anyone who thinks meat, potatoes and about 4 different veg is unhealthy is mad as fuck.

Stupid orthorexia infecting everyone.

Absolutely agree about the potatoes. Imo the roast potatoes are the best bit! I don’t cook one very often at all these days but I’d not compromise on the roasties and I do like to add as much different veg as I can humanly manage so I think that evens things out 😁 I don’t eat a lot of fatty foods or oil generally so I’m pretty sure the odd plate brimming with as much as possible once in a blue moon isn’t going to kill me. I’m definitely going to die of something other than roast dinners 😄

I don't know anyone who has a Sunday roast, I haven't eaten meat for donkeys years and there are much more interesting ways to have vegetables.

I guess it would be the roast potatoes, all that oil? Maybe same with roast carrots/parsnips. But then that’s what makes roasties so delicious! I rarely cook a roast anymore but roast potatoes are a thing of beauty. I must admit to making sure I have plenty of oil heating up in the oven whenever I do make them, just to make them extra crispy. I’m sure they can be done much healthier but I don’t really use oil other than the odd bit of evoo and don’t eat much fat generally, but I know I’d never compromise on my spuds 🐷

But can't people think for themselves if they want them have them an article doesn't remove people's ability to think

Can’t get over the idea a Sunday roast is unhealthy! And apparently for some, meat is also unhealthy?!!

Roast chicken (my fav roast) with roast potatoes and loads of veg, and gravy made from the meal juice and veggie water.. I struggle to see any issue with that. I cook the potatoes in a mix of olive and sunflower oil, and not a lot of either… always think of it as a nutritious, balanced meal!

From the article:

If you're the one actually preparing it or washing up afterwards, it’ll gobble up a further chunk of time.

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The ritual of the Sunday roast is easier to champion. It’s a coming together of kin or at least kindred spirits, a pivot point that we arrive at as one, celebrating the week gone by, eying what’s to come.

I love a roast but I've seen a lot of threads on MN which show that many women are still chained to the oven on Sundays cooking this meal and its trimmings because it's expected by her husband, in laws and children or her own parents.

So I think Hepzibah only skates across this issue. That this Sunday ritual comes often at the expense of women's time and labour. And yes, before the NAMALTing starts, my DH makes a mean roast too, but it's not expected, it's a treat.

I won’t bother clicking, the Telegraph is a joke in all forms. And how do people manage to be racist on an article about toast???? FFS. Did people come in on a small boat, via the RNLI of course, and stick some extra calories in it or something????

You can make perfectly acceptable ‘roast’ potatoes using spray oil, albeit not as crunchy. Do without cauliflower cheese or buttered cabbage and making sure the meat on your plate has no excess fat, and I really don’t see the problem.
The thing that confounds me is Yorkies with everything. Perhaps Weatherspoons started it, but they go with beef alone, as does horseradish. Same as apple sauce with pork, mint sauce with lamb, stuffing or bread sauce with fowl (but calorie laden) and cranberry with turkey.
I know this view will be unpopular but properly, it is right.

There are a billion guides to cooking a roast online, as well as in aforementioned cookbooks.

Maybe buy a cookbook?

How long do you “stick the meat in”? At what temperature? How often do you have to baste it? Turn it? Put tinfoil over? When do you take it out to “rest”? How do you know if it has rested enough?
Regarding roast potatoes; how do you know what time to put them in? In what temperature? (Because it can be VERY different to the temp of the meat) what oils/fats do you use? How do you know when they are par-boiled enough?
When do you “steam” the veg? What if you don’t have a steamer? Can I still boil my veg? How do I know when it’s “done” enough?
Add in an autistic meltdown, an away rugby match from 9am-1pm and all the mud that comes with it, plus a requirement to complete any homework from that week, as well as sorting bathing and cleaning and you have a very complicated meal.

I don't know why people say it's difficult. You just stick the meat in the over, and spuds if you want roast potatoes, and steam the veg. There's some prep to the veg, but so there would be if i was doing any other meal with veg. And the gravy needs doing at the end, but that's not difficult either.

We used to have a roast on Sunday, then carry on Monday (or sweet & sour, if we'd had pork) and possibly more leftovers in sandwiches or an evening meal on Wednesday. Chicken carcass would also get boiled up for stock. Veg often came from the garden, and it was a great treat to have the first carrots, the first peas, the first asparagus - and we definitely didn't have roast spuds when it was the first new potatoes of the season.

Having said all that, I had a roast on Sunday in a pub, because I hadn't had one for ages and fancied one, and it was a huge place. I hadn't eaten much in the day, so I managed, but it was 3 huge slices of beef (it was good beef,) 3 o'r 4 roast potatoes, a large Yorkshire pudding, carrots, peas, broccoli, cabbage, creamed parsnip and a breaded parsnip, plus gravy and horseradish - it would have been a fine meal with about half all that. (Mind you, I don't know if that's what you usually get - they were about to close the kitchen when I ordered, so they might have been using up the last of the veg etc.)

Our family's favourite meal!

I love a Sunday roast cooked by me. Always slightly disappointed by them in pubs and restaurants though and I hate it when it’s the only choice.

OP, it’s just a silly filler article, not the position of the Sunday Telegraph as a publication and not a campaign.