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Sunday lunch - how common in 2025?

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Partridgewell · 09/02/2025 15:31

Hi all,

Just pondering really and wondered how many of you have a roast dinner most Sundays? I had one almost every Sunday as a child. We have just had roast beef and yorkshire pudding, with raspberry and coconut sponge for pudding. I would say it's very unusual for us to miss one.

Is this still the case in your house? Did you have the same Sunday dinner as a child? Would absolutely love to hear from people whose parents or grandparents are not from the UK - what is your Sunday lunch tradition? Have you incorporated any traditionally British elements over the years?

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obsessedwithfreshbread · 09/02/2025 15:44

Very rarely, DH will give in to the DSC a couple of times a year if they badger him enough, but they have one every other weekend at their mums so i don't feel guilty about them missing out.
We haven't had one since about November (we go away at Xmas)
I always cook one when I go and stay at my parents as dad's traditional and can't not have one every Sunday!!

Just DH and I this weekend so baked Camembert and charcuterie today

bouper · 09/02/2025 15:44

Most Sundays mid September through to Easter, will sometimes have a stew instead of a roast when it's really cold.

Anychocolatesleft111 · 09/02/2025 15:44

Yes it’s an easy meal to prepare if you make good stock in advance and have it waiting in the freezer to make gravy. That’s the only bit of advance faddle it requires. And I don’t go in for a thousand vegetable accompaniments like some people. One or two is fine. Keeps it simple.

I find it helps on Monday nights too when I participate in my hobby, as the leftovers make an even easier no-cook meal.

We don’t have it it as often now the dc have left home to study but definitely when they are back from uni.

We often structure our entertaining around Sunday lunch, now that a good joint is so expensive. And we prefer entertaining at lunch time on a Sunday with the working week ahead.

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namechangeGOT · 09/02/2025 15:45

I hate Sunday dinners! I'm not a 'gravy' dinner type of person at all! My husband loves them but he's from a family that would get bathed in gravy if they could so if he wants us to have one then he makes it! I do love a Yorkshire pudding though!

Deadringer · 09/02/2025 15:46

We always have easy meals on a Sunday in case we want to go somewhere, or more likely, just laze around the house. We have roast on a week night instead.

Thisismeme · 09/02/2025 15:46

We do 90 percent of the year and love it. We vary between gammon, pork or chicken with as many veggies as possible. It suits our weekend as we tend to have one busy day and one quieter day at home. Sometimes we will do it Saturday if not.

Snowmanscarf · 09/02/2025 15:47

Yes, Sunday lunch, although in the evening. Barbecues in the summer.

Whoarethoseguys · 09/02/2025 15:47

We had a roast for lunch every Sunday when i was a child. We alternated chicken, beef, pork and lamb. I loved it.
Now we occasionally do but usually in the evening. Although sometimes we will have one at lunch time in a pub.

MrsSkylerWhite · 09/02/2025 15:48

Rarely. My husband doesn’t like roast potatoes (I know! 🤯) and roasted meat generally. Finds it all too fatty.

Love a roast myself but it’s a faff for us to cook two separate meals.

After recent surgery he’ll have to follow a very low fat diet anyway.

We’re retiring soon so might start going out for Sunday lunches.

ffsgloria · 09/02/2025 15:49

Very rarely here, DD not bothered. If we do, it would be at dinner time not lunch time, and only ever in winter.

PuddleintheOcean · 09/02/2025 15:50

Roast on Sunday was the norm for me growing up so I've continued it with my own home and kids. It means there's one less day a week having to decide what to cook for tea which is a bonus

mynameiscalypso · 09/02/2025 15:50

I only really had them as a child when we were seeing grandparents or other family on a Sunday. It wasn't a weekly thing. It's about the same now I'm an adult but I'm not a roast fan so rarely make a 'traditional' roast. Last time I did a roast it was a chicken roasted with cauliflower and 'nduja with a salad on the side and some crusty bread.

High five to my fellow gravy haters too!

ohtowinthelottery · 09/02/2025 15:55

Had one every Sunday growing up, usually eaten at around 1pm.
Now we have one most weeks but it's normally served at around 6pm. It's roast beef this evening and we've got a couple of friends plus our DS joining us. We only have pudding if we've got guests so we've also got Bread and Butter pudding today.

AubernFable · 09/02/2025 15:57

Never in my house growing up (or now!) but DH’s family does one every week and honestly thats why we visit on saturdays, I don’t like roasts or eat meat.

I liked going to my Jamaican friends house for sunday lunch though, they had fish and lots of great sides.

LZ5M · 09/02/2025 16:00

I’m sure my kids love my roast potatoes more than they love me🤣🤣

Enko · 09/02/2025 16:02

No we don't max 6 times a year. Today we are having a vit of a special dinner. Gammon in slowcooker with potatoe dauphinoise.

Should likely mention I did not grow up in the UK so this was not a common thing for me. Dh however did but isn't that fussed. I enjoy a roast here and there but not weekly.

My father and his 2nd wife always cooked omelette for dinner on a Sunday. I don't do that either.

Isobel201 · 09/02/2025 16:07

I get a roast mostly at Christmas and Easter sometimes with the family, I live on my own rest of the year so if I get a joint, I have to psych myself up to eating it the rest of the week and it gets boring. So I don't get a sunday roast dinner usually.

gingercat02 · 09/02/2025 16:07

More often not these days.
Almost always in the winter when DS was younger. He's a teenager now and is currently at the cinema and then Wagamamas with his mates.
DH and I are having kedgeree.
Sumner, a bbq or something with salad is more likely

BeeDavis · 09/02/2025 16:07

Every week pretty much unless we have plans on a Sunday! Not saying I do a full roast all the time, I made toad in the hole today. But a dinner of some sort most weeks. I grew up with it so just kept it going!

NotVeryFunny · 09/02/2025 16:08

Livefreely · 09/02/2025 15:34

I really don’t like Sunday lunch! Nothing about it is appealing. Husband loves it though so we compromise and maybe have it once a month. As a child I did have it regularly.

I'm afraid that your British Citizenship has been revoked. Please hand in your passport on your way out. 😂

FishPie2 · 09/02/2025 16:09

We always had Sunday lunch when my husband was alive. Now I buy a couple of meat joints or chicken and ham and cook them together then slice when they are cold and bag seal them in one portions with stock and freeze.
I always have a stock of sliced meat and cook my potatoes and veg in electric pressure cooker and roasties and puddings in airfryer. It just gets on with itself and I can have a roast dinner any day.

Zanatdy · 09/02/2025 16:10

Very rarely. If I want one I usually go to the carvery. A lot of effort and a lot of washing up.

user1496146479 · 09/02/2025 16:12

Most Sundays we have a roast chicken or beef for lunch.
Love it

Fifthtimelucky · 09/02/2025 16:17

It's just my husband and me at home most of the time and I never do a roast just for the two of us.

If the (adult) children are home or we have guests then I do.

PuppyMonkey · 09/02/2025 16:17

I’m a bit amused at all the people saying they “switch to bbqs in the summer… “ like we live in a country where that can happen most Sundays. Grin☔️