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To think this doesn't constitute 'Sunday lunch'

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Doobies · 28/11/2010 21:21

I probably am but am so starving hungry and pissed off I don't care....

Myself, dh and ds eight months visited dh's brother and his wife today. They normally come to us as they have been renovating their house (it's all completed now) and I always cook a Sunday roast. They live a good hour and half drive away so I think its appropriate to have a nice meal ready for them.

Anyway, they invited us over and said they would cook Sunday lunch which I assumed would be a roast dinner type of thing and ds could pick bits of it. It took us two hours to get there and when we arrived finally at three this is what was waiting for us:

2 mini quiches between the four adults

A bowl of bagged salad leaves

Four slices of ham and four sticks of cheese

A French stick

And, I kid you not, a turkey burger thing cut into four pieces.

There was nothing there that ds could eat because he has a dairy intolerance.

I could have cried. I was sooooo hungry and there was barely enough to go round. Am I expecting too much? They have invited us again in a month but I don't think I can bear it....

Tell me to get a life. I think I have low blood sugar....

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Fennel · 02/12/2010 16:12

Some people just don't eat much and find it hard to realise how much others of us can put away.

DP always used to warn me to eat first before going for meals at his sister's. We like his sister very much. but they are small people with small appetites. When we go to stay we always take spare food with us.

and if you've got a child with allergies or just a fussy one it's always worth having emergency supplies on you.

radiohelen · 02/12/2010 16:22

Half a mini quiche and some fridge scraps for Sunday lunch is about the tightest thing I have ever heard of!!!!
I don't think you are being unreasonable to expect Sunday lunch but having got there and found out what was on offer I would have been on the offensive for more. I'd have quite blatantly told them that as I was bf I needed to eat quite big meals so if it was alright with them dh will be popping out in search of extras...
They are family - you can't choose them but by the same token - they can't choose you either so if you upset them it'll all be alright after a month or so anyway.. they are faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamly!

MrsGangly · 02/12/2010 16:27

"I honestly know nobody at all who has a regular Sunday roast at lunchtime other than from my parents' generation.

Nobody I know goes for a Sunday lunch at the pub either. What is the demographic for Sunday lunch pub eaters? Are these not mainly old people?"

I am 30 and have made or gone out for a roast dinner every Sunday for years! Sunday lunch definitely means a proper cooked meal, except perhaps in the height of summer.

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