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?

Same here OP. Infact i haven't cooked a roast in almost 6 years and i love to cook. But we are expats and i have grown out of the sunday roast tradition because why should i spend all day on a sunday in the kitchen cooking a roast when my neighbours are either skiing or swimming in the lake, depending on the season. MIL visited us a few years ago and was horrified when i served lasagne on Sunday for lunch. Two years later she still talked about it.

I love a Sunday roast at my mums but don't have time to do them myself every week probably about once a month though but DP doesn't really like them which is a by sad.

We don't bother either. Nor do we alternate between different sets of parents for each Sunday, or entertain them round ours. Once in a blue moon maybe.

We're much more likely to go for a big walk up a hill and have a picnic than we are Sunday lunch.

We are very happy

Yeah I don't get it. I also often roast a chicken on a Monday. Crazy.

I've never actually met anyone that has Sunday lunch and we almost never have it and if we do it isn't necessarily on a Sunday! I'm in Scotland though maybe it's not really a thing here?

We have a roast (almost) every Sunday, many people I know will have one through the week but for me it's too much faff on a week night with so much else going on.

I'm not that bothered but DH and the DC like it. My DD (now 14) must be like you DM OP - a few years ago we had been out for the day and bought take-away pizza for tea as it was late. She was annoyed that there would be no roast for us but she was more horrified to discover that other people don't eat a roast every week

I think there are economic reasons why A sunday roast was never a thing is scotland. Historically a poor nation, we have ended up thinking that minced lung and heart stuffed inside a sheeps stomach is a treat.

I love a Sunday afternoon roast. Though I often do a lazy one pot one which goes in oven on slow cook for hours and turns itself off when ready. There is a chicken in the slow cooker at the moment, when we get home later this avo I'll steam some veg to go with it and put it under the grill for a few mins to crisp.

My Mum rarely cooked a Sunday roast and when she did, I didn't really like it.

My DH's (Spanish) Mum hardly ever cooked one either, so goodness knows why we're so obsessed with them.

I hardly ever cook it though as for some reason my DH really likes to do it, so who am I to interfere?

I liked a roast but certainly wouldn't want one every week, I'd get bored eating the same thing week in week out.

Plus I'm quite often working a weekend. We have whatever we feel like eating, just like the rest of the week. I don't quite get enforced traditions, especially if other family members aren't that bothered.

No - my parents (in their 80s) aren't at all like that.

If anything it is me that loves a Sunday roast and inviting them over - but they are usually too busy .

In fact no one in my family really likes a roast meal except me . My DS was one of the few at his primary school that would insist on taking a packed lunch on the 'roast dinner' day.

We have Sunday roast every Sunday without fail, followed by a pudding and custard. Today we're having roast pork followed by apple pie & custard. I love it, would have it every day if I could

Don't do Sunday dinners either, my mum always did and finds it a bit odd that we do not.

I am not a great cook so we usually eat simple food like brown rice and fish, chilli, spag Bol, things that are easy to throw together.

I do love a roast though

I have never cooked a Sunday roast. I never will. Sunday mornings are for going outside with the kids, not slaving away in the kitchen. DH knows where the kitchen is if he wants one.

We always have sunday lunch and if it's a roast that's a bonus. Hate eating on a Sunday evening and it's great that the main meal is out the way by 2pm and any other eating is just foraging. But with the quantity of roast pots and then a pudding, no one bothers much on a Sunday eve.

I love roast dinner and judge a pub by how good their sunday lunch is. It's the easiest meal ever to cook, don't have to think about it, just bung it in, cook the veg, make the gravy etc. Do have to have all the accompaniments though, love stuffing with pork and apple sauce etc. It's the best meal of the week.

Oh God, yes.

I don't want to spend one day a week scrubbing fat off a roasting tin! My mum worked all Sunday morning cooking, we ate lunch, she spent the afternoon clearing up (and we had to wash up/dry up to help). As a result, I refuse, point blank, to do roast lunches on a Sunday. It's actually put me off roasts totally. We just eat a normal supper on a Sunday.

DH doesn't get the chance to cook much so will enjoy cooking a roast once in a blue moon, but I don't encourage him.

i like cooking a Sunday lunch, its more relaxed than cooking in the week, its not a big deal though, if me or dh dont fancy cooking we'll either all go out or have a takeaway depending on how much money we've got

I usually do a Sunday roast:) for dinner though not lunch. My DM always did one too. We've just been for a long walk, built a den and collected some logs for the fire. I might put some jacket potatoes in it wrapped in foil too, and toast some bread:)

In the summer I don't do a roast.

On Sunday's I try not to use the car, DC have breakfast in bed and I do all the house jobs. I have a feeling I'm very old fashioned:)

A dishwasher helps in such circumstances.

In fact, eating nearly one thousand roasts by the time I was eighteen as given me such an aversion to them I'm going to have to hide your thread!

We have Sunday dinner not lunch - none of us feel like eating a heavy meal in the afternoon - and its not always a roast, but always a nicer meal than we would normally have and with pudding .

I agree though - no need to be a slave to cooking on a Sunday. If you dont enjoy it, dont do it!

Might get a takeaway tonight, actually

We'll have a roast but always in the evening with a couple of glasses of red wine.
Lovely end to the weekend.

I really love a good Sunday dinner, and if I work on a Sunday and finish at 2pm, I'll cook it so its ready for the evening meal. I find it quite relaxing to potter about in the kitchen and spend some time cooking. I don't have them every week though, because I don't always want a big dinner. Sometimes I'll have a chicken salad instead or a McDonalds

I get what you mean about old fashioned ideas, though. My grandparents would have a roast dinner every Sunday, all year round. It could be 30 degrees outside, they didn't care. The worst part of it was, we were given huge portions and forced to eat every single mouthful, before we could leave the table. To be honest that put me off Sunday dinners for a good 10 years before I started cooking for myself and realised I could eat whatever I wanted, when I wanted...and so I do

Sunday lunch is alive and well in the American house. My MIL likes nothing more than having everyone at her home on a Sunday. As she is Jewish, the food tends to run towards Matzoh ball soup and brisket, sometimes roast chicken. I enjoy the feeling of family and friends gathered around the table. We don't do it at our home as we are lazy.

I flung my hand wash over the railing of my front porch yesterday ...FACING THE ROAD!