To have gone off cooking sunday dinner?

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we have always had a roast dinner on a sunday, until the last two week when DH & i were both down with flu, still not 100% now and we've got it all prepped... but i just really don't fucking want to cook it.

It just feels like so much effort, even though i know its now.

i just dont want to.

I have to shower the kids too, and both just seem like too much effort right now, but DH did all the cooking yesterday, and made breakfast this morning... am i unfair if i sit here long enough in the hope he does dinner too?

I rarely have a roast on a Sunday. If I had one every week I would soon become bored of it.

We probably have one once every two months or so.

I like a roast but certainly wouldn't want one every Sunday, I'd get bored of it. We have whatever we feel like cooking.

It's a very British thing, this Sunday roast. I'm foreign. I never do one on Sundays and if DH ever wanted one, he's welcome to cook it himself and then clean it all up. He must not want one that badly. I try to teach my children not to be slaves to tradition. Order a takeaway.

I love roast dinner and cook one most Sundays (or DH does). I don't find it much effort although I do cheat with Yorkshire puddings. Usually eat the leftovers next day. We went through a phase of eating them out but they are never that good.

its chicken, and i can sleep walk through it as i have everything running like clockwork after 15yrs of doing it every week...its just that final 'everything coming together' of putting on the veg, doing the gravy, carving the chicken and dishing it up....etc i just cba with right now.

i cleaned the kids, DH put dinner on, i'm going to sit here eating haribo for the next hour.

i'm cheating as much as i dare with using frozen veg, i think DH would mutiny if i made him eat frozen roast spuds or yorkshire puddings, lol... he likes mine, i tried to teach him to make the yorkie mix but its always too watery and he adds pepper to it (heathen) so i won't let him do it any more.

expat, can't order take away, lol. we do chippy tea thursday and have a chinese friday.. i dont think i can get away with ordering indian on a sunday too ;)

i might have a nose around for something i can bung in the crockpot in one go and leave til it needs dishing up next sunday rather than all this faffing.

I buy disposable roasting trays to cook everything in which I find cuts down the faff considerably.

We have a roast every third weekend I reckon. We love them, and I don't think the mess is that much of an issue (I heart my dishwasher), but we would get bored if we had it every week.

Last week was a spicy beef chow mien, week before was gammon, new pots and salad. This week it's a full on chicken roast - and the leftovers will be turned into curry.

DD has a friend that has roast chicken, mashed potato, cabbage and carrots every.single.sunday. I couldn't cope with that, would drive me insane.

I don't think a roast dinner takes that long TBH. I certainly don't spend all afternoon cooking ours.

Not that I cook one every Sunday. That would mean me cooking every Sunday and that's not going to happen.

I just couldn't face cooking for the week without roast leftovers and stock. Too much like hard work.

I rarely cook a Sunday dinner.

In fact often we don't eat much at all at the weekends. Just snacks.

It's not compulsory

oh we change the meat, we switch between beef, pork, and chicken depending on my mood. DH uses the left overs for his sandwiches or we make a stir fry out of them. I also switch the veg, sometimes its carrots peas and broccoli, other times its cauli, sweetcorn and green beans.

in the summer we just push back eating time or i will go for something that cooks quickly like steak or pork chops.

I couldn't be doing with eating the same thing every week.

Same as Worra. I LOVE roast dinners and really miss them in the summer. The kids don't even like them but I still make them

The only roast dinner we ever have is on Christmas Day. We're not fans.

I normally make a casserole or curry or bolognaise on Saturdays, to have on Sunday. Easy to reheat it with some rice or pasta. I sneak loads of veg in as well, as teens aren't brilliant at their veg quota.

DH loves roast. Me not so much. We are now on about a three week cycle. Although, interestingly, non roast dinners tend to end up later (because I'm having too much fun with the chopping business!)

I love a roast and I'm really glad that partner cooks one every Sunday

I think they're pretty easy meals to do though, just look like they're hard work. It's not the same meal each time though - use different meats, vary how you cook and flavour those meats and what veg and accompaniments you have with it.

I don't find them especially time consuming in terms of prep, especially prep per meal given that I get leftovers from them, but it's true they do take longer to cook. That's why I tend to do them at the weekend though, there's more time then. I save the quick cook teas like steak for during the week, especially days when both DH and I are working.