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?

Years ago I remember talking to MIL on a Sunday, she asked what I was planning on cooking. "Not sure yet, I'm going to see what's in the freezer" I replied, this was met with shrieks of hysterical laughter, side clutching, tears, everything.

Based on this one exchange, for years after they mocked my lack of prowess in the kitchen. I'm actually a good cook - just don't do a Sunday roast every week.

Sundays are too precious to waste cooking. Been to the river, done the horse, been shopping, going back to do the horse again soon. We might go out if the DH is off.

My parents are like this. I was doing a large leg of lamb and invited them for Sunday Dinner but said that it would be in the evening. My mother was horrified, tried to give me a timetable so I could have it cooked by 1pm and when I said I wasnt sacrificing my lie in for the sake of a meal they turned down the invite!

She also has rules about hanging out washing :o

We tend to just pick on a Sunday usually, and have a roast meal on a Monday.

I feel cheated if I don't have a roast on Sunday, but we eat it in the evening so works out...

I don't mind Sunday lunch as such but it's so often really poor quality and way too overcooked with tough meat, tasteless gravy and soggy veggies. what is to like. if it's tasty then yeah absolutely but otherwise just go somewhere that serves lovely food or just don't bother.

And in fact I have just taken out a leg of lamb I had been saving and we are having it tomorrow night. Ma may actually have some this time because a roast in the evening is acceptable on any day of the week except Saturdays or Sundays (Saturdays is something and chips at lunch time off their laps in front of the TV......... ).

After years of working in pub kitchens and having to get up at six on a Sunday morning to put the meat in the oven for the lunchtime carvery, there is no force in the three worlds that could make me willingly cook a roast every week. Occasionally for a treat if DH asks nicely, but that is it.

I have a husband who adores cooking- a trained chef, now an IT project manager, I can''t keep him out of the kitchen at weekends.
He loves food shopping too- bliss.

I love a roast dinner but it's not a done deal that I do one every Sunday.
We tend to have more Sunday roasts in the winter but in summer everyone is out and about so I sometimes do one mid week.
Today for Sunday lunch we had sausage, bacon & eggs
my parents always eat at lunchtime, bang on 1 o'clock, but its not always a roast.

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!

Sorry about that!

I do find it a bit weird. Is it commoner in England maybe? I asked English DH this a while back, forgotten the answer! (We are in Scotland). Esp now so many work shifts so have time off in the week and work weekends, and most folk seem to worship at the altar of the out of town shopping centre, I do wonder why Sunday is till regarded as 'special'. Habit maybe. My line has always been, if nobldy bothers me i won't bother them, but I changes this changes if you have family WITH EXPECTATIONS. But my parents were different anyway,and are now dead. They'd lived in in the east (Malaya as it then was) as young marrieds and we often had a home-cooked curry on Sundays. TBF it was a day my dad was at home - he worked Monday to Friday - and it was good. We must have been one of the only non-Asian ethnicity families in Glasgow eating curry. This was before curry shops were opening up.

blimey, typos! apologies. Using ds's strange keyboard and cannot locate a spell check or left click. Sorry!

We early always have Sunday lunch. We eat it out though.

£6-7 each for a carvery. Not worth bothering with at home.

Look forward to it

Don't do wheat so that rules out pizza, pasta. Load up with veg, a few pots and no Yorkshire.

Enjoy my roast. Eat it anytime between 1 and 6

We always have a Sunday roast, with lots of different veg and yorkshires, gravy and a pudding.

The dcs love it too and it isn't a lot of work really, a bit of potato peeling, make a batter, a crumble/rice pudding, gravy takes a minute at the end.

It's also a fairly cost effective way to feed 6 big eaters, especially with left over meat the day after.

We do a roast about once a month or slightly less.
None of mine are huge fans.
Tonight is curry night chez hobs

I miss it. We do a roast at some point most weeks, usually on a Sunday but not always. And when we do it's the evening meal. I've never heard my Danish in laws mention it. Is it an English thing?

The roasts at our local pub are £8.95. Four different meats and 14 vegetables, but it's a carvery so you have to do the queuing and trying not to burn your hand off on the plate thing. It's nice every now and again but wouldn't want it every week.

I can't stand Sunday lunch, never have done.

In fact it's probably Sunday lunches (and that whole meat and veg thing) that helped push me down the road to being vegetarian.

I'm also not keen on having my main meal at lunchtime (and even less keen on starting the preparation and cooking process as soon as I get up in the late morning)

My parents would think exactly the same OP,my Dad's 80 now and my Mum was 72 when she passed and I think they'd always had a roast dinner on a Sunday.

I know when I was younger my Mum would pick up one lot of grandchildren from school once a week on a wednesday so she'd always do a roast chicken dinner on a Wednesday and she worked as well and she'd still do another roast on the Sunday.

We never have our main sunday meal at lunchtime.

I virtually never cook Sunday lunch, and nor did my mum - it's just another one of those rituals that ties women to the kitchen and keeps them in their place. I know, I know, some men cook the Sunday dinner, but it ain't the norm.

And why we do have a roast dinner (and that might be a Tuesday evening) it's appreciated because it's not the norm. We do, however, eat our evening meal together most days.

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I very rarely do Sunday roast these days. DD doesn't eat meat and since having major stomach surgery OH can't face heavy meals.

Today OH and I had tagliata and rocket salad for lunch and DD just made herself a sandwich. I had got her a lovely veggie meal, but she didn't feel like eating it.

When I was a kid, the women slaved away all morning preparing the Sunday dinner (no-one called it lunch) while the men buggered off to the pub. The women then spent the afternoon clearing up while the men fell asleep in front of the telly.

Fuck that.

We get out of the house and do stuff together on Sundays, then we eat in the evening. DP cooks.