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?

Anything with mince is weekday.

Roast on a weekday is all kinds of wrong. Except if it's Christmas when day of the week is irrelevant to anything.

I had no idea I had an opinion on this until just now

I can only have takeaways or pizza on a Friday or Saturday

Fish and chips on a Tuesday is wrong

I’m so with you on this. Mash plays no part in our weekends, nor does spag Bol (but carbonara is ok). Saturday is something like curry or stir fry or pizza. Sunday is roast in winter, bbq in summer.

Friday is a pizza day for all of us but over the Xmas holidays we had it on a Saturday - we were all totally knocked off with which day it was and said we could never do it again 😂

I grew up where every week was the same rota of meals - every Tuesday was mince and gravy for example - so apart from the pizza I don’t make any rules for food. Anything else works any day

Can’t be doing with ‘rules’ around food. The notion of a Sunday roast baffles me. Had a roast dinner last night though..

I just eat stuff that can be reheated with boiling water. Or fresh fruit. I'm vegetarian. I'm 75, 8st and 5ft 9. I ride my spooky fast horse every other day and heave the ropes on my heavy old iron barge on a fast tidal river. I think it's genetic : my father hated the smell of cooking food, and so do I. He died at 52 due to WW2 PTSD. I was 10. There are obvious psychological issues around my lifestyle choices, but I understand them. Apparently I look at least 10 years younger. My weekend treat is a cheese sandwich and two bananas!

Take away can only be ordered on Thursday or Saturday nights. And roast dinner is only ever on a Sunday.

@ClaudiaWankleman * Beans on toast is a wonderful Tuesday night dinner. It's filling, comforting and delicious.
Beans on toast on a Sunday night is sad, lonely and can only foreshadow a terrible working week. *
This actually made me LOL

Yes, I agree! It's always fish on a Friday, takeaway on a Saturday, and roast dinner on a Sunday here. Very much set in my ways from my parents, and my grandparents before them.

I'm with you OP. But here spag Bol is a Saturday lunch meal. Comes from my Nana who used to make that, or cottage pie, every Saturday with left over meat from the week.

Curry is Friday night here and Sunday roast lunch is a must (but beans on toast or soup as a light supper on Sunday is the norm here)

Stir fry is for the week only.

Most definitely. We like to cook and have more time on a weekend, so it would seem a waste of time to just have fajitas, when we could spend two hours cooking an amazing curry!
Saying that, this Saturday it's frozen pizza, halloumi fries and salad 😂

No, i don't get it. Eat whatever, whenever. But then food doesn't bring me pleasure so i don't really care what to eat and when.

I definitely have psychological rules about this even if I don’t stick to them in practice.

A roast can only be eaten on a Sunday lunchtime, unless it’s roast chicken, in which case Friday night is also okay.

Sunday evenings should be boiled eggs, cheese on toast, or picky bits.

Saturday lunchtimes should be soup, bread, cheese, salami, maybe a Scotch egg.

If Friday night isn’t roast chicken then it should be fish.

Sausages, traybakes, Mexican and pizza are all for Saturdays. Slow-cooked meats (NB I don’t have a slow-cooker) are also for Saturdays.

I will gladly eat Sunday lunch leftovers on Monday or Tuesday but not beyond.

Not really, we just eat what we want when we want but when I ate meat I suppose that pasta bake was in this category as was a sausage tray bake

But I faff a lot and can spend an hour cooking on a weekday because I like it

I can eat anything any time but try to restrict things like wine and ice-cream to weekends.

Absolutely 100% agree

I've never really thought about this, and I don't consciously have 'right' and 'wrong' meals for days of the week, but I do know what you mean.
I made a curry the other weekday and it felt really weird. I realised at the time that I usually only ever make it on Saturday nights. It's not hugely time-consuming but it does involve probably more veg-chopping and spice-grinding etc than I otherwise tend to do on weekdays.

Pasta feels more like a weekday dinner, or maybe pasta and pesto if I'm feeling lazy and/or have been out all day on a Sunday.

Takeaway, however, is dinner without portfolio and is transferrable to any day of the week (if people are too busy/late/tired for anything else) or a Friday or Saturday night treat or a Sunday cheer-up about going back to work.

I know what you mean, but I think the other way round - some things we only have on a Sunday or Bank holiday (i.e. Roast dinner, hot pudding, croissants)
Everything else is fine for any day of the week, I don't view Saturday any differently.

My 2 Sons loved roast dinner but never ever on any day but Sunday, seemingly it doesnt taste the same on a week day

eh?? Sorry but I think this bonkers. We eat what we fancy, might be scrambled eggs on toast if we're all knackered and haven't time to cook. Spag bol is a favourite in our house, as is chilli, anything I can bung in the slow cooker really. Weekdays/weekends - don't care. If everyone is fed, healthy and happy who gives a monkeys if it's 'special' enough or not?

Only roast on a sunday. Wouldnt have it any other day.

Beans on toast is a wonderful Tuesday night dinner. It's filling, comforting and delicious.Beans on toast on a Sunday night is sad, lonely and can only foreshadow a terrible working week.

I was all for saying it really doesn't matter what day you serve up what but then I read this little gem and it strangely rings true!

Spud dinner at the weekend. Usually because I eat that many roasties I can’t sleep. 😳😁

Hahahaha yes!!! We have "boring" on weekdays, kievs, sausage and mash and the like.

Weekend reserved for pizza, sushi, chilli etc