AIBU... some dinners you can’t eat at the weekend?

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Does anybody else designate certain dishes to weekdays only and HATE having them on the weekend which should be a bit more ‘special’
Spag bol for example!!! That’s a weekday dinner!

AIBU? And also..... what’s your favourite weekend dinners?

ClaudiaWankleman
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You are so right about beans on toast.

I am so happy i’m not crazy!!

Leftovers curry on Monday
Vegetable Tuesday
Wednesday toast and something (just me in the house so often Gentleman's Relish)
Thursday proper recipe as have time
Friday fish (sushi more often than not)
Saturday something to eat in front of TV
Sunday Roast no supper

It depends on our plans on the weekend. If we are away for the day I do the same kind of fast meals I do under the week. But if I have time I do a roast or something more fancyful which just takes longer.

If I am at home under the week in the holidays and DD doesn't have any activities going I do stuff I would only do on a weekend otherwise, just because I have the time. During term time DD is often busy until 7-7.30pm so I don't do anything complicated.

But I don't distinguish between Saturday or Sunday.

I all cook from scratch, healthy meals during the week - 15 min meal type things.

Friday is cheats night, often M&S meal for two.

Saturday night will be a "treat". Sometimes something junky like burgers or fish fingers or maybe steak or fajitas

Sunday roast or if we're out a casserole in the slow cooker to come home to.

Very rarely changes

Yes definitely. Apart from soup, soup can be both weekend and midweek.

Except I would never have tinned soup at the weekend, I would have a Covent Garden one. I definitely live my life by this whole principle.

Enb76 I'm going to copy that and keep it as a weekly meal plan.

I do actually like roasting a chicken and serving with potatoes, veg etc on a Wednesday as it gives curry leftovers for Thursday and taco filling for Friday (two kids, small appetites) but now DD has a roast dinner for her school lunch on a Wednesday it feels wrong.

I'll tell you what though, at the end of Christmas week it was the Friday night- the day after Boxing Day, and I was due to go grocery shopping on the Saturday. We'd had big meals on Christmas Day and Boxing Day.

I said "Shall we just have beans on toast?" Everyone heartily agreed, and it tasted like the best thing ever after all that rich food.

For me spag bol is definitely not a weekend meal! It's a common or garden weekday meal.

Weekends are for sushi, takeaway, homemade pizza, roast dinners and tricky curries.

Weeknights is homemade burger and wedges, spag bol, chicken and potatoes or something boring.

God no, I'm quite bemused at this! Other than if we have a Sunday roast, we actually eat worse on a weekend in general, because we are out all day doing things so not as much time for cooking.

You lot are crazy. Dinner is dinner, whatever day of the week. Just eat what you like .

You lot must make crap spaghetti bolognese

SubtleInnuendo
Except I would never have tinned soup at the weekend, I would have a Covent Garden one. I definitely live my life by this whole principle.

Oh definitely no tinned soup - weekend soup is more about the smorgasbord of sides and extras (breads, cheeses, hams, etc). Mid week soup can just be any old soup with a slice of toast.

Yes, definitely. I batch cook and freeze food so that I have easy meals during the week - spag bol is one of those!

Completely agree- stir fry/ fish and veg are purely week days only and even though I love both meals I deff wouldn't cook it on a Saturday night!

Easy I do! It's basic as hell. It has herbs and garlic in it...probably that's not allowed in 'real' spag bol but mine's popular so I don't care if it only takes an hour to cook!

This is always been my experience. I grew up in the 70s and there were very specific meals which were considered worthy of the weekend. My mother didn’t consider macaroni cheese dinner worthy, we were only allowed it for lunch.

Not sure why so many posters consider this so odd

I only like having fish on a Monday or Tuesday. Agree spag bol, chilli etc are mid-week meals. Takeout curry is only for a Friday or sat and roasts are only for Sunday’s - to eat a roast on any other day is just wrong!

Theoretically. But then sometimes I can't be arsed cooking the Sunday dinner until Tuesday and it all gets out of synch.
I'll quite enjoy tonight's sausages - but I would feel a bit miffed to be having them at the weekend.

I had this thought about an hour ago and didn’t even register how bizarre it is to reserve foods for a certain night. We are getting fish and chips tonight, it’s usually a weekend thing but for various reasons it would work well tonight me and DH debated if we should do it or not for at least 7 minutes... How weird!

I go the other way around. I have meals that are only weekend meals! But to be fair that's because those are the meals that take more than half an hour to make. I don't have the time to be putting two hours into a meal on a week day, my kids would wolf out :D

I don't have this, but then I work on a seven day rota, so my Sunday may be other people's Wednesdays (if you see what I mean).

Faffy food are for days off with another day off to follow for cleaning up, digesting, etc (so a 'Saturday' dinner). Roast is Sunday, that's the law, surely?

What? What trickery is this?

WEEK-END meals?

I just eat anything, any time - only special meal is when Strictly is on and I don't cook but demand to be fed takeaway curry.

Apart from roast being definitely a Sunday thing, all meals are definitely okay to have on whichever day of the week or weekend we fancy them on.

You lot must make crap spaghetti bolognese

yup,

brown the mince, add a jar, leave it to simmer till the pasta/extra veg/garlic bread is cooked (also not home-made),

meal for 4, 20 min, with 5min of minimum effort - pretty much like most of the people I know in real life.

I like it, I don't care.