to hate this obsession with Sunday Lunch.

[fckUsundaylunch]

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?

We prefer plain veg with a roast but I'm really not keen on pre-prepared ones, they never taste as fresh.

It'd keep them quiet for a while! Reminds me of the times when my brothers and I were set to shelling peas - hours it took!

That was to Bogey

Not my lot it wouldnt, trust me :o

I dont mind doing it, its just that the amount of time it takes is so disproportionate to the amount of time to eat it that I was reminded why I so rarely do it!

Love our roasts on a Sunday. And although in 'the old days' it's true that Sunday was the day of rest and nobody worked etc, etc, that's certainly still true in my house the majority of the time. It's our own tradition, if you like. If we're all in, then it's roast all the way. We very often lounge around and do nothing on a Sunday.

DH and DD would be horrified if we didn't have a roast, if there was nothing else going on.