to hate a traditional sunday dinner...

[sheepgomeep]

can't bloody stand it. I am the only cook in my house, I slave over it, the kids whinge, then I don't want it.

Hate hate hate it, its so bloody boring.

so instead I made a rather nice spaghetti and tomatoes meatball dish thingy with added courgettes, onions, aubergines and garlic.

and the kids and dp ate it without moaning

I remember one sunday lunch - mum made toffee sauce to go over icecream for dessert, and left it on a low light to keep warm whilst we ate the roast - and it got so sticky that it stuck dad's dentures together!! Dsis and I wanted her to do that every week but she refused.

Sunday roast is yummy, just had roast beef myself. But if none of you like a roast, YANBU to make something else instead. But really, DP should do the cooking sometimes unless he does a lot of something else instead.

mmm I love roast gammon but we have it with chips and peas. my eldest is 11 and is starting to cook and enjoys it so its definately someting that I may ask him to do in the future

Damn, I want lamb now!

Not being unreasonable. I don't like sausages so don't cook them. Cook has right to decide menu choice

Oh I love a good Sunday roast me!
Didnt have one today though. We went to the OK diner for lunch. 6oz bacon cheeseburger with mushrooms and onion rings slathered in BBQ sauce, a mountain of fries with the skins still on all washed down with a chocolate milkshake! Oh yeah baby.

I work my arse off making a Sunday roast with everything from scratch and vegetables prepared in a few ways.

And I get the same response from my DCs, yet they wolf down a roast done by either of the grandparents which isn't as bloody nice as my dinners

So I've given it up, just for a while, as it's not worth the battle. I still really enjoy eating a roast though, I just wait until my DM/DMIL cooks it!

(and yes I can bloody cook - my mum thinks my roasts are gorgeous).

smell of lamb makes me heave (I'm just weird)

reindeer my mum says the same about my roasts too

That's because you are a sheep

YANBU. The smell of a roast dinner conjures up the most depressing childhood memories - dad is shouting because my sister has gone out and not come back when she said she would, mum is crying because she hates cooking Sunday dinner but thinks she if she doesn't she has failed as a mother and a wife, I am dreading going to school on Monday morning and all of this to a Songs of Praise soundtrack. I need a valium just thinking about it now and so I never cook a roast dinner - there are not enough happy pills in the world to induce me.

that must be it! I never thought of that connection, baaaaa or rather meeeeep

AccioPinotGrigio you must be my long lost sister, I could have written your post.
Only difference is I love doing a roast for my lot now, as I totally over compensate to make sundays harmonious and lovely.

I hate clearing up after dh has doen a roast - every pot and pan used, roasting trays, potato ricer for mash for the kids, gravy boats, etc, etc. We have one every 2-3 weeks and have something less messy the rest of the time.

you know what im not going to do one next week, today i am really hayfevery and feel pretty poo but i still cooked a chicken which stunk the house out and yes we had the i dont like mushy peas/ potatoes whine then it was left to me to load up the dishwasher and clean up as dh was decorating so really it was a crap experience and as dh remarked on the size of my gut hanging over my troos i didnt even do yorkies so thats it here and now i am retiring from sunday dinners THE END!

I bloody love roast dinners, but seldom have them in the spring/summer. My husband always cooks them though.

Not being unreasonable, but Sunday Roast is the best meal of the week. We vary the content (slow braised beef, in red wine etc today, but normally roast chicken or some such), but each time it's the families favourite!

How is Sunday dinner hard work??

I find it quicker to do that some of the mid-week dinners we love.

Does help having teens who will peel veggies though ;)

I love a sunday roast as it is the one meal of the week that DH usually cooks without any help from me, I bugger off to the gym at 10am and come back to delicious smells wafting around the house.

Having read your thread though, no YANBU, it must be stressful if you are the only one doing it and the kids and DP don't seem to appreciate it when its made. Your spaghetti thing sounds yummy, so I say just make what you like and maybe do a roast as and when you feel like it or when your DS wants to help you

If there is a meal that you don't enjoy making and don't enjoy eating, why would you make it, unless as a "special treat" if others in the family are very very fond of it?

Tell you what Sheep, you can cook a roast for me, and I'll eat the lot.

In return I'll cook you a roast a week later.

The kids can get takeaway and we'll all be happy!

They're nice occasionally,but I wouldn't care to have one every week. There's absolutely nothing wrong with having something different.

I always had homemade soup and pudding on a Sunday,not sure if that's a Scottish thing,or just something my family does,and now that I'm an adult I still enjoy making,and eating, soup on a Sunday.

"Just bung it in the oven"?

The meat, yes.

But you have to parboil potatoes, and bung them in the oven too.

And cook multiple types of veg.

And maybe yorkshire puddings.

And make gravy.

And have all of those things ready at the same time.

I LOVE Sunday roast!!

Well - the gammon etc went down very nicely, and dh even found a bottle of wine I'd forgotten about for me to drink with it!

In a while we are going to have birthday cake for pudding (ds2 is 16) - he has chosen chocolate sponge cake with coffee buttercream and chocolate buttons.