to hate and detest cooking in the morning?

[Mintyy]

Infact, I never do it. I couldn't have a slow cooker!

If we have a Sunday roast we usually eat it in the evening but if I have to do it for lunchtime I flat out refuse to do any food prep until midday, so lunchtime slips to about 2/3pm in our house.

Is it just me?

Just you.

Oooh I LOVE it! This is so sad, but on a saturday morning I get up at 7ish and go straight to tesco to do weekly shop. Then I get home and make loads of meals for the freezer.... I LOVE cooking :)

Still only you.

YABU. Freshly made American pancakes and fruit on acweekend morning make life worth living!

and yet, still...

I will shut up now.

What about CHRISTMAS DAY?

[worried]

every Sunday we have a full English, so I get up about half 7 and start that thenwhile im doing it I will put Sunday roast.in. Sunday is the only day I do it

The freezer is your friend.

Make stew, spag bol, chilli portions ahead of time, freeze and then take out and slam in the microwave while you boil rice or spuds and veg.

You can start at 12.00 and eat by 1.00 pm that way.

No, it's not just you. I've never been able to face the thought of fannying about with meat and stuff at a time when even the thought of breakfast is a challenge. So while I've got a slow cooker, it never gets used in the morning.

Christmas Lunch is served at 4.00 in our family. None of us think the best way to start the day is by wrestling with turkeys at silly o'clock in the morning.

Yes surely you don't hand out cereal on Christmas morning

Christmas Day is the only exception, Chaos, but we don't really eat until about 5pm.

Why wouldn't you hand out cereal on Christmas Day? It's not as if you aren't planning to eat your own weight in nibbles and Christmas Dinner throughout the day?

Nor us, Mintyydear.

But there's chopping...

And dicing...

And grating...

Oh I adore my slow cooker....

And peeling...

And podding...

And basting...

And sprinkling...

And mashng...

I can't face anything complicated before 9am. I do have a slow cooker that I use regularly, but I prepare everything the night before, leave it in the fridge, then tip it in the slow cooker in the morning.

I love cooking, love it, live for it, but not in the morning.
In the morning I busily sit down.

And sliving...