To think that not many people have traditional Sunday roast anymore?

[Fcukthisshit]

When I was a younger we literally had a roast dinner every Sunday and having something different was never an option. The roast was usually at my grandmas house and always followed by salad for tea.

So after preparing my meatloaf and jacket potatoes for tonight’s tea I was just wondering how many people still have a roast on sundays? Or did you have other food related traditions that you still follow now?

Just curious

also I want them to look back at their childhoods and remember all sitting down together Ona Sunday and enjoying a nice meal together.

We do that most days of the week without needing to do a roast on a Sunday.

Nope, single and don't want to cook one just for me!

We mainly only have them in the winter now, and not every Sunday. I like them but my dp and DS are not so keen. Instead we might have curry or jerk chicken or fish, or salad type things in the summer.

Traditional Irish dinner here today...ribs cabbage, carrots, mash potatoes and white sauce. 🙌

If DH is off work we I do a roast. This happens about 1 week in 5 I'd say.

We have one about once a month.
The other weeks we are out of bikes/walking etc

I had them every week growing up but not so much with my own kids, usually only if we went to my mum’s since we had other things to do on Sundays. Since I moved to the USA 15 years ago I think I’ve only done it a handful of times for visitors from the UK and American guests to give them the traditional ‘Brit’ Sunday lunch experience. On the rare Sundays we eat at home here, it’s just the two of us so we grill a couple of steaks or rack of ribs on the bbq and have them with salad and baked potatoes. When I do get the occasional craving for Yorkshire puddings and roasties we have a very good British pub nearby that does a traditional roast.

Every few weeks maybe. But we all eat together (and the same thing) t the weekends so if it’s not a roast it is something else which takes a while to cook like a lasagne/risotto etc.

Usually have our larger meal at lunchtime at the weekends so that I can have the afternoon/evening off but not always. DH out today so roasting a chicken this evening with roast potatoes (frozen Christmas leftovers) carrots, broccoli and peas. Maybe yorkshires for the DC and definitely a veggie option alongside.

I love a roast about 6pm- throw back from the DC being small- on a Sunday. Sherry or GandT whilst I cook, various DC, their latest mates and DH all coming in for chats and nibbles whilst I cook. Lovely background noise of the radio and the dogs watching me like a hawk in case any morsels drop on the kitchen floor.
Over the years my DS has burst in, smelling of outside, from his rugby match. My DD has staggered downstairs only just recovering from Saturday nights excesses. They help chop, peel etc.
We sit at the table, often the only time we all do, and argue, laugh and generally enjoy banter.
Tonight it is pork belly, in the Aga now,with the crackling beginning to crisp up. DS and DD2 are back at university and DD1 is vegan so DH and I will be sat alone over the steaming roasties (goose fat,so DD1 can’t partake).
This is going to be a first, and I hope I can embrace the future.

Plus a blueberry pie I made yesterday with custard for pudding! Can’t wait!

We do if I'm not working, so average 2 a month. Leg of lamb tonight, all veg prepped in half an hour this morning, lamb in oven on timer. Out for a few drinks then back home to par boil the roasties, cook the veg and make gravy. Chocolate pudding in the fridge. Dinner on the table at 6.30.

Yep we eat together every night, there's nothing special about Sunday particularly.

One on the oven now. Love doing it. Have a ritual of ice cold pinot while Im cooking although do sometimes wonder if it is worth all the hassle when we have eaten and are slipping into a food coma. My DH is American and his face when I first made him Yorkshire puds. He loves them!

I had one every week growing up but slightly different version to a traditional British Sunday roast (grew up in Southern Europe). DH cooks one but only every couple of months and even then it’s a ‘modern’ roast with a selection of fancy salads on the sides. I demand a proper traditional British roast at least three times a year. Would happily have them every week but DH finds them boring.

I'm 43 never cooked one. DH 45 never cooked one. Neither of us are fussed about them, although we'd Hoover one down if placed in front of us.

We spent this morning at a flea market in a medieval town, knocked back two generous glasses of vermouth each while DS rambled over some Roman ruins with a couple of friends. Wobbled home with our purchases at around 3pm for a soup and bagettes lunch. Dinner is cottage pie then apple crumble cos it's cold and I need stodge!

I would get bored eating the same thing every week.

In the winter we have a roast most weekends - gammon and roast chicken today (so we have lots of gammon leftovers for the week ahead - no Mumsnet chicken here sadly) - we usually have someone over either my brother and family and/or mum and it is social and chilled - sometimes we go to their house but more often I cook as I love to do it.

As soon as the clock changes we drag the bbq out and it is no longer Sunday roasts (Easter Sunday might be an exception) and it is bbq most Sundays

We usually have gave one. We like looking for cheap cuts of meat and working out what to do with it. Today is pork belly and DH is in charge.

I've made pudding, a plum crumble tart, a Nigel Slater revelation I found having bought an end of season glut of plums. I would recommend to anyone. It freezes well.

Next week I'll get lamb shanks and sloco them, I'll get going out so don't want to slave over the hot stove. It'll use up the Christmas raffle red wine too.

After that we'll be looking at bread and butter beef, I think. It is to the day we like to concentrate on what we cook and eat. Neither of us willingly go without.

We often have a roast (at least once a fortnight and have it Mon evening if Sun too busy) and often combine it with entertaining so have friends over Sat evening, for Sun lunch, or if everyone is busy, early Sunday evening.

Actually the early Sun eve option is quite good because it extends the weekend, you can prepare it leisurely over the course of the w/e, and everyone goes home fairly promptly!

And a roast is a really easy adaptable meal depending on the occasion. You can tart it up with starter and posh pud for evening or go fairly bog standard with meat and two veg and an apple pie. Everyone's happy! It's fairly easy to cater for vegetarians too by doing more interesting veg side dishes which everyone enjoys.

The only drawback is the expense if you do it regularly. A good quality piece of meat costs £££ and with wine etc it all adds up!

We have one id say 3 out of 4 Sundays.........we arent this week tho. Ive not had time so im sticking pasta and meatballs on.

We do always have pudding tho, something like apple dumplings and custard or jam roly poly.......this week it's bananas and chocolate custard.

Roast dinner most Sundays. Roast potatoes + carrots or parsnips. yorkshire pudding, peas, broccoli, gravy. No meat, but sometimes vegetarian equivalent - nut roast or mushroom pie thingy. Eat it at about 2pm.

I love it - cooking and eating it. I find it relaxing for some reason. And I'd eat roast potatoes every day if I could!

I never cook one...we are usually out on Sundays walking . Sometimes go to a good pub for one.

We have them most weeks in the winter. Less so in summer. Beef and Yorkshires tonight. Can't wait

It’s very unusual for us not to have one.

I'd say we have one a month, but as I'm at work all week and Saturdays, it just isn't practical to every have one every Sunday, as well as juggling all the housework/kids.

Although I always make an effort and have a proper meal cooked from scratch, where we sit and eat together. Having said that, I have got roast beef in the oven and it smells amazing

If I had my way, every Sunday without fail by 2pm, rotating between different meats each week. My mother did it every week and resented every single moment of it. But we were hungry/underfed most of the time - Sunday dinner made us feel full and happy for a change (especially as she'd go to sleep for the next three hours on he settee and leave us in peace to watch whatever movies were on).

Even now, I've found that having one seems to give me more energy for the next three days at work (I can't stomach breakfast and never have time to eat at work) than a standard meal does. And it's the best way to get veggies.

Unfortunately, OH is in charge of catering. He doesn't see the point and has to be asked to do one every single fucking week. It eventually appears sometime between 5 and 10.40pm. I would do it but I'm normally cleaning the fucking kitchen properly every Sunday morning, so am too knackered to cook after getting a whole fucking week's worth of grime, clutter, packaging, recycling and stale leftovers he decided to keep but not eat off the surfaces. If the kitchen isn't clean and clutter free from the outset, he can't manage to cook things on time/not burn them or add weird ingredients. And whilst he should just learn to clean up as he goes, I want a Sunday Dinner before I'm 60 more. The rest of the week, I don't give a shit, but Sunday - if I'm cleaning it, I'm getting a roast as reward even if I'm likely to find myself cleaning up bits from it next fucking Sunday morning because he's shit at that side.

It's my birthday today. He's provided chocolate brioche which I don't like, shop bought pizza which I don't like and seems a little surprised that I'm expecting Sunday Dinner.