...to cook a roast even after lunch in a cafe?

[broceaulys]

We had lunch in Morrisons cafe today (toddler DD’s fave ‘restaurant’) after doing weekly shop. I had a jacket pot, DD had a kids pasta, DSs are only 11mo so shared a kids’ lunchbox and DH ordered their ‘Big Daddy’ breakfast with extra toast, extra black pudding, an extra egg on top of 3 of everything.

Came home and started getting the roast dinner on and DH says “surely you’re not cooking a roast after my HUGE lunch!” I reminded him there are 4 other people in the house who haven’t had what he’s had and said he could just have a bit if he wasn’t hungry. He said it’s a waste of time because we should all have had a big lunch and a smaller tea. I’m annoyed but not sure why!

Ah, I'd forgotten about the competitive under-eaters who require at least 3 weeks days to digest a single potato.

I always picture them as Edmund Blackadder's puritan aunt, eyeing up a raw turnip for dinner. Anything more would of course be sinful...

I’m with @Inthemuckheap here.
You should have discussed your meal plan for the day beforehand.

@1Morewineplease what!! How boring does life have to be if you have to discuss having a jacket potato for lunch before a roast? Goodness me

Well. Just to clear a few things up while I’m digesting. We almost always have a roast on a Sunday night. We always shop and plan for the week’s meals together. We had literally just purchased a joint of meat to roast. This was not a surprise for DH!

I don’t think a £4 jacket potato is really a treat lunch. More a convenience. My treats do not involve a view of a trolley bay and/or Tracey at till 14.

Someone asked about timings? Breakfast was at 7. Lunch at 12. Tea at 5:30 because we eat with the kids at weekends. Hope that’s ok.

OP must either have purchased the meat whilst shopping with DH or got it out to defrost before they went shopping, but either way it will have predated them having lunch. He presumably has the powers of observation. As such, if there were a duty of planning it falls on them both. He's not a child.

Someone asked about timings? Breakfast was at 7. Lunch at 12. Tea at 5:30 because we eat with the kids at weekends. Hope that’s ok.

On MN? You're not allowed to eat, you know?

@Celebelly

That really made me laugh.

Hope you enjoyed your roast dinner op.

what!! How boring does life have to be if you have to discuss having a jacket potato for lunch before a roast? Goodness me

Exactly what I was thinking. If that’s marriage, thank Christ I’m single.

I don’t think a £4 jacket potato is really a treat lunch. More a convenience. My treats do not involve a view of a trolley bay and/or Tracey at till 14.

Amen!

Wow, I'm confused by some people on here, I'm on a calorie controlled diet on my fitness pal, and could fit a jacket potato and beans along with a roast dinner in my calories for the day (minus the crumble ), so no idea what the competitive undereaters on here are up to! They must be losing more weight then me!

@JacobReesClunge i only asked about the timing s because you posted at 4.18.And you still had the roast to cook.No need to be so fucking smartarse in your answer.Hope that helps

Well, we are all different.
For quite a lot of the population, "eating out" is a treat, wherever it is. Many people's budgets mean that if they do get someone else to cook their lunch for them, it would be a treat.

I didn't post at 4.18, did you mean the OP?

Oh come on, Backforgood, I can't imagine many people would consider a jacket potato at Morrison's was a treat.

I'd actually rather go home and cook than eat in a supermarket cafeteria. Pretty much the opposite of a treat in my opinion.

Morrisons jacket spud very small meal, I could certainly fit in a roast after it, 5 and a half hours later. Not so much the big daddy breakfast!!

Surely the burning question is DID the OP’s DH manage to manfully force-feed himself a decent portion of roast dinner? For the sake of setting an example to the children, at least, even if he wasn’t hungry himself, poor lamb. Do tell, OP!

OP your husband will shit himself when he hears this. Today we had:

10am bacon, eggs and English muffins
2pm toad in the hole, cabbage, peas and onion gravy + berries for pudding
8pm roast chicken, roast potatoes, broccoli, green beans and jus (and wine).

Had a fairly active day but am not stuffed. The roast dinner was the least filling and most healthy. For me mainly some lean meat and veg (I only eat potatoes if I'm starving hungry).

I'm size 8-10. This was a normal Sunday.

Honeylulu

Respect.

Oh Cellebelly, thank you for giving me a rare laugh

Really zurala ?
It is beyond the stretches of your mind to realise that a huge number of people don't have the budget to eat out ?

Even if you live in a limited world yourself, surely you watch TV, listen to the news, look at social media ?

The Morrisons jackets aren’t big. They are those frozen McCain types. Even if op had eaten a massive breakfast same as DH the children would still need feeding. You are fed up because he is only thinking of himself and you are thinking of everyone.
For a while when DD was in primary school we had tea there one a week. Too small a gap between school and dancing to go home. A needs must not a treat. Kids eat free in the week with an adult so it was under £5 for both of us including drinks. Staff were friendly and there were lots of regulars.

celebelly you are a genius.

Hope your dinner was delicious OP.

@JacobReesClungei do mean the op.Im sorry for that.

Anyone else getting adverts for McCains roast/jacket potatoes coming up at the side of the thread

No, I've got the Travelodge and Victoria's Secret oddly.

I won't ever have a jacket potato while out because I only like them when done just so, and hate reheated/frozen ones, so don't trust anyone else to cook them for me.

In cafes, I usually take the opportunity to have chips, even if it's just as a side to soup or a sandwich, as we never cook proper fried chips at home and even supermarket cafes usually make a half decent attempt at them.