...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!

*YABU to treat yourself to a lunch out and then go home and cook a roast, yes.

‘Treat herself’? It was a jacket fucking potato in Mozzas cafe, not dinner at The Ivy'*

😂😂

Bloody hell what sort of rations are you lot on that a baked potato is a massive treat that will keep you going for the rest of the day?!

I don't understand the whole cooking a roast every Sunday anyway. It seems too full on. If it was a special occasion, maybe. But do people really go to the trouble of actually doing a roast every week these days? It's very excessive, especially with children that young who don't eat that much anyway, it's a waste. If you have a good lunch out, you should only need to pick at sandwiches or something for dinner.

I love a roast and i sometimes do one midweek.Lovely.

But did the husband eat any of the roast ?!?!?!?!!?

onegiftedgal - It is a vast amount of food op. If a large meal has been eaten at lunch, then yes, a smaller dinner/tea for sure. Isn't the point of eating out to take away the hassle of having to cook?

Vast for the DH but hardly hardly vast for OP!

A Morrison's Cafe jacket potato is around 400-500 calories depending on toppings. Not really a huge feast where you don't need to eat for the rest of the day!

Air fry the roast spuds (not quite the full goose fat and parboil treatment, but still tasty) then you can have a roast on the table for fifteen minutes effort. I'd say less but I like a proper gravy.

I don't understand the whole cooking a roast every Sunday anyway. It seems too full on. If it was a special occasion, maybe. But do people really go to the trouble of actually doing a roast every week these days? It's very excessive, especially with children that young who don't eat that much anyway, it's a waste. If you have a good lunch out, you should only need to pick at sandwiches or something for dinner.

Well thank goodness you are here to tell the OP what she should need to eat after her ‘good lunch out’ (a potato, in case anyone has got confused and thinks it was a four-course meal). The poor woman has probably had to rely purely on her own instincts and knowledge of her own appetite until now.

Let me guess - you’re one of these women who think that dainty little ladies should eat dainty little portions and never actually admit to having done so.

Fingering through the sandwiches, picking a naughty bit of lettuce out.

But do people really go to the trouble of actually doing a roast every week these days?

But it's one of those meals which isn't actually much effort (and even that can be reduced with frozen veg/spuds/yorkshires). Season meat of choice, whack in oven for an hour or two. Put frozen veg in steamer/pan of boiling water, put frozen spuds/yorkshires in oven after meat is out for 15 mins, serve up. Active hours of cooking? < 20 mins. I spend longer making spaghetti bolognese!

Does DH do much meal planning and cooking? Would bet money he doesn’t.

@Borisdaspide if you've had lettuce you won't want to be gorging on a potato any time soon.

I'm thinking of booking us in for a Morrisons christmas dinner Jacket Potato - its a potato with holly on the top, obviously if you eat the holly won't then want breakfast on boxing day.

Its all gone a bit 1940s here now though, what with potatoes being such a TREAT!!

@broceaulys this thread has made me laugh !!! But we need to know did your DH eat any of the roast dinner ?

I do think lots of posters haven’t had the pleasure of eating in a Morrisons cafe. The kids meals are £3 including a drink and fruit (Free in the week). It’s a small plate with a small portion of pasta. Other Kids options similar to a happy meal. Quite normal for a child to eat that at 12 and still need a normal evening meal.

Op we need to know if your dh ate any of the roast meal? i have my judgey pants on ready!

Sorry to leave you all dangling. I didn’t set him a place but while we were eating at the table he snaffled a slice of pork; 3 stuffing balls and a few roast potatoes. Not hungry my arse. He did clear up though!

He dodged vegetables all day, then, in favour of pig products and carbs?

I think you’re all right with your diet but I’d start worrying about your DH

Well I think you should eat whatever you like of course... but I would find a roast dinner excessive after a jacket potato for lunch to be honest! We all have different appetites though and if you will eat it then why not?

God this thread is hilarious. A jacket potato a treat that should keep you full all day

OP your roast sounds bloody lovely. Definitely no way you and your kids should have missed out just because your DH over indulged. Selfish sod!

Baffled at all the people who think a jacket potato and a roast dinner on the same day is excessive.

I'm usually in the light eater camp on threads like this, and for once I'm not, seems a perfectly normal day's food to me, in addition to breakfast of course.

It's not because both meals are hot is it? Surely not, because a meal being hot has no bearing on how big, filling or calorific it is and it is quite likely that meals like jacket potatoes or roast dinners have fewer calories than 'just a sandwich' that people think they might squeeze in after the glutonous jacket potato lunch.

Ha ha ha ha - so he managed to to eat pork, stuffing and roasties anyway .... and not veg!

Although the calorie discrepancy between your lunches was pretty substantial

• OP's jacket potato - 400-500 cals depending on filling so 25-30% of daily intake
• OP DH's "Big daddy breakfast" - starts at 2200+ cals for the basic ... but he chose to supersize with extra eggs, blackpudding and toast - so probably nearer 3000cals - so probably exceeded his entire daily intake in one meal

However he was being a big thick to decide that there would be no roast dinner when you had been in Morrison's .... shopping for stuff for a roast dinner!

Wow. How do you manage to eat a seventh of a potato? I just sniff the spud and that keeps me full up.

Wow, that's a bit greedy isn't it? I just read the word potato on this thread and I'm full for a week.

This thread is ace.

I wonder if the op reckoned on so many opinions about potatoes...

FWIW, I too would be narked about the presumption that nobody else in the family should eat a roast just because he had consumed the sort of lunch that would sink a tanker.

I'm thinking of booking us in for a Morrisons christmas dinner Jacket Potato - its a potato with holly on the top, obviously if you eat the holly won't then want breakfast on boxing day.

I’m going to take this to the next level and ask Morrisons to cater my wedding breakfast. I don’t actually have a fiancé or even a partner, but those are mere details now I’ve got my dream wedding day treat sorted.

Wow, that's a bit greedy isn't it? I just read the word potato on this thread and I'm full for a week.*

Wow, that's a bit greedy isn't it? I just read the word potato on this thread and I'm full for a week.

I merely thought about this thread earlier and now I can never eat again.