What time do you have your roast dinner?

[JensonsAcolyte]

I’ve just put the pork in the oven, aiming for about 3pm.

When I first met DH it used to drive him nuts that we’d go to my parents for a big family roast mid afternoon. His dinner time was always very firmly midday or evening.

But roast dinners have always been a mid afternoon thing in my family. He got used to it and now it’s just standard.

Is it weird though?

AIBU to always have a mid afternoon Sunday lunch?

We have a late big breakfast on a Sunday so lunch always mid afternoon here too. Same with my parents and ILs.

1pm

Between 3 and 5pm usually

We always had it mid afternoon when I was little, we would go to church, watch little house on the prairie while it was cooking and then sit down with extended family.

Now when we have one I serve it up as our evening meal at 5pm, it’s just our immediate family though, and means I can Chuck the kids straight in the bath afterwards.

12:30-1pm. Always.

If its lunch its never later than 1pm. Evening at 5, never later than 6. We tend to eat at tea time. If its 3 id be starving by then and probably ruin the meal as i like lunch at 12-1.

Same at Christmas. Always 1pm

Around 1pm though I try and stretch it out to 2pm as 1 is a bit early (dh likes dinner at one)

6pm

3pm in our house aswell

6.30pm Ish.

Any earlier and we're not home to get it ready and I'm not becoming a slave to good by staying g in half the day.

Much later and the copious amounts of washing up eat into the evening.

So early evening is right for us. Mid afternoon would be a right pain, it must take up half the day!

Usually around 3-4 here as well

Always 5:30 here. I’d feel like I was losing half the day if I had it at 3 and my DC would be climbing (and probably eating) the walls!

It's very rare for us to have a roast dinner. We don't follow that Sunday tradition, apart from Christmas when we have it mid afternoon. Most Sundays we have a cooked evening meal, something easy like pasta, chicken burgers, spaghetti Bolognese.

Your husband could get up earlier on a Sunday and start prepping it if he wants it earlier?

I hate it when people have a roast at 3pm, 5pm is the earliest I would consider

Usually around 2.30 to 3.30

We’d only have one if it fits with everything else we were doing and then it’d be at a usual meal time. I thought the roast dinner Sunday was a thing of the past tbh. I remember as a kid it being incredibly boring so ditched it for my own.

About 7pm.

How big is your joint if you have put it in the oven now for 3pm?

I don’t know anyone in Wales (well local to ne) who eats it at 3. Its ingrained in us to eat at 5-6 as the quarry men cane home to est then, as its called “swper chwarel” -quarry supper and it was server at 5.

I aim for 1 pm. Two adult DS’s don’t get up till mid morning, so they wait till lunchtime. Then we take dog for long walk late afternoon, so don’t have to worry about cooking dinner. If it were just myself and DH at home, we would have our main meal lunchtime every day.

5.30

About 1pm when I was growing up. About 5/6pm now if I am cooking it. Only time I eat a roast at lunchtime now is if someone else has cooked it .

In the evening usually around 7. Same as, my parents ILs always have it at 1:30 but I'm not that organised!

Around 1/1.30pm

Large joint of pork, needs a good 4-5hrs at about 140. Blast it at 220 for half an hour first to get the crackling going.

I’ll get dressed in a minute and we’ll take the dogs for a walk for a couple of hours, then play Catan or something and then I’ll do all the veg. Kids will clear up and DH and I will fall asleep watch telly.

I love Sundays.

I’m back to work (hospitality) next week so this is the last one for the foreseeable.

Either lunch time or dinner time. So about 12.30-1 or 5.30-6.

Never occurred to me to eat in the middle of the afternoon just because it's a specific type of meal. Weird.