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?

I feel your pain, OP. Growing up we never had a big or traditional Sunday lunch. In DH's family it is a thing and I just don't like it! Why is it always the same stuff? Cold, dry meat (I like my meat as close to alive as possible), boiled vegetables...all my least favourite foods. That sounds horribly ungrateful but I just don't get it.

I make a roast about once every 3 months at the most, and every few years, I manage to do Christmas dinner as well. But if I don't manage, well..., there's always 100s of other things one can eat . It is really not important in this household

Whilst reading the thread, I remembered that the deeds to my house specify that no washing can be hung out on a sunday! - as an earlier pp said

So it's law

Though, why do you have to hate other people enjoying a sunday lunch tradition? I suspect it's displacement, and you luuurve it really. Go on admit it, you wish you spent Sunday morning 'slaving' over a hot stove, and all the rest of it.

I don't think you really hate "this obsession with Sunday lunch op", you just hate your dm's over-investment in your life. My mother would have no idea what I'm having to eat on any given Sunday unless we happened to talk that day and if the subject came up, or if I was having Sunday lunch with her (rarely).

We don't often have a big roast. We'd rather be out and about.

I do love a roast dinner during the colder months. I don't like standing in the kitchen all day. Or the piles of washing up.

Don't really get the obsession with it though. I gladly skip it most weekends. When I stayed in Spain last year the hotel was mostly British people and they served roast dinner on Sunday. It was 30 degrees and people were tucking into gravy. Yuck.

My parents both grew up in boarding schools where Sunday lunch was the best meal of the week. They always have one, and often a second roast during the week. They are shocked and horrified to think that we don't even have a set time for certain meals, as lunch is always at 1:00 exactly.

Even worse - sometime we just snack randomly throughout the day, then have a salad or soup in the evening. My parents are convinced that we'll die of malnutrition, even though none of us are underweight.

I do a roast quite often as it is so easy. Even dh - who has a repertoire of approx seven meals - can manage a roast chicken or a pork joint. He won't do beef or lamb though. And he can't make gravy so I do that bit, otherwise he would buy gravy granules which is brown thickened hot water imo.

We always eat in the evenings though (apart from Christmas Day and Easter Sunday) so never have Sunday 'lunch'.

We never have a traditional Sunday lunch. If I cook a proper roast, it tends to be on Saturday evening. I usually make some sort of curry on a Sunday.

As a child we had Sunday lunch - Mum would be hitting the sherry while the rest of us were out for a walk or at the pub - seemed very unfair! Even now, sherry is my tipple of choice while cooking a roast old lady sweet stuff

I love a sunday roast generally any roast meat, but I hate cooking it now I have a toddler to run after aswell with the amount of washing up I found it not worth it and ds doesn't really eat meat or roast potatoes. I still love a sunday roast just not one I have to cook so definately not every sunday.

We hardly do one. Typically we like to have a big breakfast and A continental type meal at evening meal at weekends like meats, cheese, bread, dips and crunchy veg. Easy to prepare and Yummy.
We also like to go out during the day, even if it's just to the park, I don't want be stuck in the kitchen all day.

I love a good Sunday lunch. When we first got married I made elaborate dinners (served at 'lunch' time) but dh told me he couldn't eat such heavy meals at lunch time. I was disappointed but we changed to 'regular' lunches. But since I don't want to cook big meals late Sunday we have a light Sunday lunch and another light meal at night. Dh would rather have a heavier meal later but unless he wants to cook it and clean up from it, it's not happening.

Not for us, we only have a proper roast dinner a couple of times a year and one of those will be Christmas Day. Because of the lack of practice we do find it to be a bit of a palava to make. None of us are all that bothered about it, DS actively dislikes roasts, we eat mainly non-traditional British food.

Totally agree, why waste a whole Sunday by eating a a huge meal at a different time to the rest of the week. If we do have a roast, it's when we fancy it, also,idle of summer on a rare hot day, why would you want a roast, and yes I do love roast dinners, but only when I want to cook and eat one, not when the day of the week dictates

That's in the middle of summer....not idle lol

We used to have a roast every Sunday- dinner, never lunch- but don't now. We do do a Christmas dinner (again, not lunch- why people have it at lunchtime I don't get. If you have it at dinner time that way it's something to look forward to). We don't do turkey for Christmas, usually we have something like duck plus loads of roasties and pigs in blankets because they are the best thing EVARRRR

I love a traditional Sunday lunch. As long as it's done by my Mum well. There are a lot of awful cooks out there.

Why do you care? Eat what you want when you want. I don't understand why this is an issue?

I am having one today. I don't do them very often because I find them a bit of a faff. They do take longer than most meals to cook for me, but mainly because there is 7 of us and my top oven broke so I only have one right now and I can't fit much into it at one time. It's helpful now I can put the meat in the IP.

I am looking forward for our roast tonight but it's not something I would do weekly, I would get bored of it for a start.

Sicne having a family we have changed from sunday lunch, to a sunday evenign roast
occasionally i would make one mid week
but it takes so much time imo so i save it for sundays, actually today is a monday , bank holiday, so i am making it later tonight.

however there is one less meat eater in our household now, so the roast might be on the way out

We do do a Christmas dinner (again, not lunch- why people have it at lunchtime I don't get. If you have it at dinner time that way it's something to look forward to).

Oh no I hate Christmas dinner. It must be a lunch for me.

Went for late pub lunch yesterday at a place new to us, advertised as child friendly and with play area, sat ourselves down with a drink then went to find the menu - there was NOTHING available to eat except Sunday roast, even the kids menu wasn't on as it was Sunday! So finished drinks and headed off to the next nearest pub serving food, SAME AGAIN! At least second pub was apologetic and made a special effort to find something for the kids. We shared a roast drowning in gravy (yuk) - it was too late to move again!