to hate this obsession with Sunday Lunch.

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Yes I get that years ago everybody worked long hours and Sunday was the only time people could gather together to eat.
But times have changed.

If I get up on a Sunday and it's a really nice day, rather than spend all morning cooking, we will go out for the day.
We'll have the Sunday lunch on another day during the week..
I don't want my whole day to revolve around a meal.

My DM is always horrified ^But You have to have Sunday Lunch!''
'How can you not have Sunday Lunch?
Me Why?
DM ''Because it's Sunday!''
I think she would have a hear attack if I told her that sometimes we live really dangerously and go a whole month without seeing a roast potato

Before the food police have a go, I cook really healthy meals, and we sit down to eat as a family on a regular basis,
just not always on a Sunday.

Anybody else have older parents who think this way?

Doesn't look like it .

They are out there. I know it

It annoys me too. For one I bloody hate roast dinner, plus I don't want to spend Sunday cooking. Why do people get so enraged by that? Ex PIL thought I was some sort of monster for this.

Food traditions in general are weird. I go out for an Indian at Christmases.

We too do this - I will join you in living dangerously on the edge!!

DM lives in a different country so we are safe for now!

Yabu. Roast lamb and mint sauce is my death row meal. I wouldn't have time to cook it on another day. Although I'm happy to have a roast in a pub after a walk or something.

You do have Sunday lunch. Presumably you have some thing to eat on a Sunday :o
I agree, and I'd extend the irritation to the obsession with a "hot dinner" which I do not understandwhy us considered to be more nutritious than a cold dinner.

YANBU
My mum isn't like this about Sunday Lunch, but she is pretty old fashioned about a lot of other stuff. (Babies on feeding schedules ect) But the thing is she IS old fashioned; she's nearly 80.

Have your rant OP, and some

Not having Sunday lunch is right up there with other cardinal sins, such as hanging your knickers on the line in the wrong order.

TheCastMeow, going for an Indian meal at Christmas sounds amazing. Why not!

I've always enjoyed having a Sunday lunch, but I hate spending half my weekend shopping, cooking and washing up so don't think I would ever make it a weekly habit!
Same with going out for Sunday lunch as it's always really busy.

Different times, different families, different arrangements - people do what works for them.

MIL is like this. We live far away now.

fckUsundaylunch it's great! No cooking, the restaurant is fairly quiet, food is lovely, and then I come back to a clean house that doesn't smell of dinner for the next few days!

Well we usually have a roast on a Sunday but only have it at lunchtime if we are having people over and even then it is a late lunch so would be eating around 3.

We are have no roast pork today but will eat about 6.30 as usual.

I'm genuinely wondering what i'll be all cat's bum faced about with my kids when i'm old.

There'll be something.

I love a Sunday Roast and always had one every week when I was living with my parents. However I think if had one every week I would get fed up of them so only have them every few weeks these days.

I don't know anyone like this. I don't know anyone who does the whole roast every Sunday thing.

I love a Sunday Roast, one of my favourite meals and try to do one every week, I'm a lazy cook though and don't spend all day in the kitchen however I did go for a curry on Xmas Day.

What is the knicker order?

My mum used to make the best Sunday roast. I really miss it, but there's no point roasting half a cow when there's just one carnivore around here!

I bloody love Sunday lunch, it has to be my favourite meal, but we only have it about once a month, its a combination of DP not being in the mood to cook one or I can't be added with the mess and washing up. Growing up we rarely had Sunday dinner, my grandmother had a Sunday dinner every week and couldn't understand my parents weirdness of not having them!

We don't get to eat as a family the rest of the week, so we do have a 'special' Sunday meal. It's never, ever at lunchtime though, usually around 5 -6 p.m.

I don't really know anyone who recoils in horror at the thought of no traditional Sunday lunch, but yes, I agree that they're probably out there

Agree. My DH is old fashioned and wants roast with gravy, sauce, stuffing, vegs, Yorkshire puds and seems happy to spend all afternoon cooking it and for me to spend all evening washing up greasy pans that won't fit in the dishwasher.

I know that he does it to have some peace and quiet, puts the kitchen tv on and zones out. Pretty anti social actually.

I've hijacked Sundays and we have a pot roast with veg chucked in the pot. Done with Sunday faffing.

We don't have a roast dinner every week, maybe only once every six weeks or so. But we do treat our main meal on Sunday as a bit more special, i.e out for lunch or something a bit fancier and always do dessert on Sunday as we don't have it on any other day. We treat Saturday evening as a reason to have something with a bit more oomph too.

We are veggie and have roast dinner on a sunday evening.

Because we are veggie, it takes an hour from start to serve. I really enjoy cooking and eating it. I don't do the pots himself does and I prepare it listening to Jarvis Cocker or one of his stand ins. And I chop all the veg trimmings and use them to feed my wormery. Win-win.

I don't think I am doing a roast today. I really can't be bothered.

My DM lives alone and always cooks herself a roast, and I think good for her.

I may do a roast on Tuesday or Wednesday this week.