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?

Stir fry on a Sunday is giving me major anxiety

Absolutely. My big one is stir fry on a weekend. No, no and no!

I assumed I was the only one who thought like that!
Friday and Saturday evenings are for more fun food - fajits, pizza etc, or even a takeaway.

Totally agree! My mum tried to tell me this wasn't a thing when I complained that salmon wasn't a dinner to have on a Sunday!

Yes absolutely. Glad it's not just me! Spag Bol, chilli and veg curry are week meals only. It wouldn't feel right eating these on the weekend. Weekends I like to make a homemade wrap pizza or eat out.

Wow, this is funny but yeah, roast beef only on Sunday. Roast in the week equals chicken.

Spag bol was the fixture Saturday lunch for all the years I was growing up, and long into adulthood; it's easy to stretch to feed friends and family who turn up. My mum would often find herself catering to an uncle and aunt and up to 5 extra children on a Saturday.

I still have relatives turning up at the weekend who are delighted to have Spag Bol for lunch!

I think we loosely have this tendency - I try to do something a bit nicer on Saturdays and we generally have a roast or similar on Sundays. If I made nachos or anything with lots of faffy components it would usually be on a Saturday, ditto takeaways. I'm in a bit of a rut with the same-old weekdays dinners - spaghetti and meatballs, chicken curry, bangers and mash etc. It's a bit more complicated these days because the weekly meal plan specifies what I'm cooking for the kids, I generally have soup/salad/something joyless, and DH is half and half (we're slimming). Kids have pizza every Thursday because of hectic Thursday evening timetable, and fish and chips on Friday.

Nope!

I make what I fancy eating when I fancy eating it! If I want eggs on toast for Sunday lunch then that's what I have!

I do sort of have these rules, but they have been bypassed by dh's shifts, so our weekend is often not Saturday and Sunday, and can be a couple of odd days, so I'll do something fancy, we'll drink all the wine, have a late night with a lie in next morning all on a tuesday/wednesday :o

My ASD son refused to eat roast chicken on a Tuesday when I served it up once 'because it is a weekend food'.

Yes you're right. I'd laugh in the face of a Saturday night spag bol but would really enjoy it on a Tuesday. Also we have a fry up for Saturday brunch after the kids have been to their morning clubs but I wouldn't dream of eating it on a weekday (good job too or I'd be dead)!

Interesting that many people's weekend food is my week food. We have more takeaways during the week as less time to cook, and I see fajitas as a quick meal to rustle up after work as often not home until 7 where as home made chillies, curries and spag bol take 1 hour + so are weekend food.

DH won’t eat any of our mid week meals at the weekend so we do end up eating out a lot at the weekend.

I eat better during the week than I do at weekends which are mainly oven food because I'm out and about and don't want to spend time cooking and thinking about food.

I realised that I actually rebel so hard against my childhood regimented food rules that I don’t even care what we eat on Christmas Day. Kind of glad I’m separated because this lack of rules used to give my in laws anxiety. Now the kids and I really eat what we fancy - we make more of an effort but it’s never a roast

Definitely. Weekend food is more fun, I’m happy to spend longer making it, and most importantly it MUST have wine with it. So I save things that it would be a criminal waste not to drink with for the weekend, as we stay off the booze Monday to Thursday. We would never have steak midweek, but curry would be fine.

We do a meal plan on a Sunday, and the "rule" is that a Friday and Saturday dinner both need to be something super-tasty. Often a Sunday is something like a cottage pie, chilli, lasagne which can be Monday's dinner too. On a weekday we will happily eat something like stuffed pasta, or a shop-bought quiche for speed and ease, but I would be really unhappy to have that on a Saturday night!

Spag Bol is a Tuesday night dinner to me, no idea why!

We only have roasts midweek, it would seem odd to have one on the weekend. Pizza’s are midweek too, never on the weekend unless it’s Dominoes.

Midweek;

Pasta of any kind with pesto/bolognaise(apart from lasagne)
Meatballs
Burgers
Sausages/Toad in the hole
Chicken casserole with dumplings
Curry
Beans/eggs on toast (this is breakfast at the weekend)
Iceland dinners; Birds Eye chicken pies or breaded chicken

Weekend;

Roast meat of any kind but especially lamb/beef
Complicated recipes that take time to cook like lamb tagine or fancy curry cooked from scratch
Steak
Fancy dinners like chicken wrapped in prosciutto, cream sauces, blue cheese sauce
Cooked/baked desserts

I also have a summer version of this. In a nutshell midweek dinners are

@ClaudiaWankleman. Like you username ... still don’t the concept but love beans on toast

Totally agree! We love things like fajitas on the weekend but for some reason seems a bit of a faff on a weekday.

Pretty much any type of pasta sauce or food that's cooked from frozen is just for a weekday after work

fajitas take no time to prepare, that's one of my lazy meals when I can't be bothered during the week.

Do people really spend every weekend cooking roast and all?

Weekends are for the quickest meals here, of all the time I don't want to be in the kitchen. I cook a lot for the following day during the week, can't be bothered to repeat at weekends.

So my split would be: meals that can be reheated during the week
Very quick and cheerful at the weekend, unless one of us decide to cook a big thing.

I kind of agree. But I do sometimes do a roast mid week. Faffy curry is definitely a friday or Saturday night thing. Stew and dumplings definetly mid week but I will do pulled beef sometimes in the slow cooker with carrots and onions and veg and kash on a sunday. Which is basically a stew.

Also poached eggs on toast is a weekend breakfast. But a mid week lunch.

And while I wouldn't cook a spag bol or lasagne on a weekend we do occasionally get a readymade one for a quick weekend meal.