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to hate this obsession with Sunday Lunch.

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fckUsundaylunch · 01/05/2016 11:39

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 Grin

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?

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JasperDamerel · 01/05/2016 11:53

We always have a roast on Monday nights. We'll be having BLTs for lunch and going out to a street festival and the library before coming home to eat toad in the hole.

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fckUsundaylunch · 01/05/2016 11:53

Sunday Lunch (or should I say Roast) isn't so bad in the winter. There's something cosy about working in a warm kitchen when it's cold outside.
But they should be banned for the whole of summer. Wink

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jollygoose · 01/05/2016 11:55

we have a sunday roast all through the winter then go more bbqish through summer, I like doing roasts as they cook themselves. We were invited out with grown up dc and gc to a theme park today but declined as v expensive and grandad not really up to it so family will let us know when on way home and we will all sit down to roast beef.

exWifebeginsat40 · 01/05/2016 11:55

XH wanted a roast dinner every Sunday. he would sit watching football ALL DAY whilst I spent hours cooking, then stuff the lot down his fat neck in 10 mints flat.

I cooked for that man pretty much every day for 8 years. I don't think I've cooked Sunday lunch for 2 years now and that's fine by me.

I really want a roast dinner now though!

FuckSanta · 01/05/2016 11:56

I didn't grow up with them so feel absolutely no compunction to have them now. Probably bother 3 or 4 times a year. And never for lunch, always dinner.

GinIsIn · 01/05/2016 11:57

I was raised vegetarian. I hated being vegetarian. As a result, you will only part me from Sunday lunch if you prize it from my cold, dead fingers! It helps that I love to cook so I am never happier than doing a big Sunday roast, but to each their own!

WorraLiberty · 01/05/2016 11:57

We're all Sunday lunch junkies in this house.

I normally pray for a cooler Sunday in the summer, just so we don't have to miss out Blush

annandale · 01/05/2016 11:57

Needing to cook sunday lunch used to be a terrific excuse for getting out of going to church. With the decline in religious attendance, it's no longer so necessary. In general I've become quite wary of making any form of meal or food ritual a tyrant,having seen a few relationships where discontent seems to focus on food conflicts.

exWifebeginsat40 · 01/05/2016 11:57

minutes not mints..

nocoffeenouppee · 01/05/2016 11:59

There's an order for knickers?!
YANBU re Sunday lunch. I do like it done really well but for the amount of effort involved and washing up afterwards it's not a weekly affair here. My mum too is horrified. I think in her head it's this great hallmark family occasion where the family flock to her for a decent meal and a catch up. However her relationship with 'healthy' food is really fucked up, and my Dad's diet is fairly limited so Sunday lunch has morphed into the most uninspiring meal of plain roast chicken, (over) boiled veg and boiled potatoes without butter smothered in bisto. It's like a punishment. She won't be told though and the pressure to look suitably grateful for a traditional home cooked meal is immense. I don't know what she thinks I feed my family Hmm

sunnyoutside · 01/05/2016 12:00

I love a Sunday roast, especially in the winter months. It doesn't take all morning - certainly not much longer than a regular meal. My dc hate it though Sad

Goingtobeawesome · 01/05/2016 12:01

It's not just the older generation. My 12 year old was like this Shock when I told her we were having a roast dinner on a Thursday.

EponasWildDaughter · 01/05/2016 12:01

I do a roast if i'm feeding more than 3 adults on a Sunday; I think that's my rule of thumb. It's a means to an end rather than a rule. Family kind of gradually show up on a Sunday and i can end up with 7 without a lot of warning. There's never an expectation that i'll feed them, but a big joint of pork, 'tatos and some gravy are cheap and easy to do and it's nice to sit together.

It only morphs into 'all the trimmings roast' when i get a bit of help in the kitchen.

We probably end up having 'proper' Sunday lunch no more than once a month though i guess.

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fckUsundaylunch · 01/05/2016 12:02

What is the knicker order?

knicker order according to DM (and DMIL)

Never, ever hang them upside down. They must be pegged correctly.
Never hang greying old knickers on the line in full view of the neighbours.
Only have the naice ones on display.
If using a rotary line, keep them hidden from view - use thehe inside bit of the line.
Don't leave the pegs on the line after you get yer knickers in. That's really slovenly.
If a rogue shower gets your knickers wet, you must get them in and rewash them. guilty as charged

And never, ever, whatever you do -

HANG WASHING OUT ON A SUNDAY! Shock

Sundays are for Cooking!!!!!!!

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Sparklingbrook · 01/05/2016 12:03

I CBA with it. Mum and Dad had hobbies that meant they were out of the house all day on a Sunday so we never had one growing up so don't miss it at all.

If I was to have a roast dinner it would be at the pub occasionally.

NoTractorsAtTheTable · 01/05/2016 12:05

Another one here that never grew up with them, so I never feel the need to do them - maybe 2 or 3 times a year maximum. Will roast a chicken and pull it to bits fairly regularly, just won't think to do it as a roast dinner.

However, DD recently has become obsessed with them (I think it was a Bisto advert somewhere) and is constantly asking about them - I might buy some frozen yorkshire puddings just to get her to shut the hell up about them!

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fckUsundaylunch · 01/05/2016 12:05

I like a liquid Sunday lunch

Especially on a bank hol weekend

Now you're talking! Smile

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Bitchqueen90 · 01/05/2016 12:05

I'm a lone parent of one so doing a roast dinner for just me and a toddler seems silly. Sunday is "cheat day" in our house anyway where me and ds eat whatever we want. We usually have pizza. Grin

ProcrastinatorGeneral · 01/05/2016 12:05

I don't have a functional oven at the minute, so I'm missing the roast, but purely as it's been about for months since we've had one.

We're having sausages today apparently. The children have taken a vote and informed me of the democratic choice. Sorted:o

exLtEveDallas · 01/05/2016 12:07

I love a Sunday roast. We have it at 5pm though, and probably every other Sunday. It doesn't take me any more time than any other meal, especially if the meat is slow roasted.

My parents had one every week right up until their 70s - at which point my mother said "sod that for a lark - there's only two of us and I can't be arsed any more". They now have one once a month - and they buy a cooked chicken, aunt Bessie's roasts and frozen veg. I make sure I go the whole hog whenever they come and stay and my dad eats like Mr Creosote.

Today DH wants to watch the footie uninterrupted, so DD and I are going to find something to do and we will eat out. I'm thinking bowling followed by gut buster burgers...unless I can persuade her to go to the Chinese buffet instead. Mmmm sweet and sour...

AppleSetsSail · 01/05/2016 12:08

I really cannot be bothered to cook Sunday lunch - it's supposed to be a day of rest. We go out.

PuppyMonkey · 01/05/2016 12:08

I love a roast and don't mind cooking them as it's an excuse to drink wine as you are doing it. But we don't have one EVERY week, I think that ruins the magic. Once a month or so.

We are having cheese toasties for lunch and going to the pub today. Chin chin all. Grin

PrimalLass · 01/05/2016 12:10

I have not once cooked a roast on a Sunday lunchtime unless we've had guests round. But, I wouldn't always do a roast then either. It's just not something we do.

ClashCityRocker · 01/05/2016 12:11

I wouldn't want to do it every week religiously but I do like cooking and eating a nice roast dinner every few weeks.

There's only me and dh at home, so we'll probably realistically get two three meals or so out of it - soup, bubble and squeak, cold cuts etc.

For my parents though Sunday dinner was sacrosanct. My mum would be in the kitchen for 10am through to 3pm (and yes, everything was overcooked to fuck) whilst my dad pottered about, snoozed on the sofa and watched sport.

Us kids would do the washing up, which I bloody hated - Sunday dinner washing up is the worst washing up in the world, particularly when you have a mother who believes that 'black and crispy bits' is a food group. Dad would have a snooze and read the papers. (Although i hated it, I did agree that mum shouldn't have to do it after cooking for us, of course - it was just a horrible job).

I still remember the time mum went away for the weekend, so dad just got us takeaway pizza (a rare treat) instead!

sunnyoutside · 01/05/2016 12:12

Whilst I am normally stubborn and insist on a roast dinner on a Sunday - today I have relented. We will be watching the football so I am doing a buffet style late lunch/early tea so my younger dc can't hopefully interrupt me and the older dc whilst we bite our nails!

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