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?

Monday at 6 pm!! Sundays are too busy!!

Sundays always had an earlier dinner time when I was growing up (I’m Scottish), we’d eat around 4.30pm and always a roast meat with leftovers on Monday. Even now, if invited to my folks’ for Sunday dinner, it would be with a view to having dinner 4.30-5ish. I don’t follow this in my own home, my wee lad and I rarely have a roast and rarely eat before 6.

The earlier the better, ideally between 4-5pm but I like the 3pm slot too. Yum got me thinking about making a roast today now.

Haven’t done a Sunday roast for about 3 years, but if I did it would be in the evening, around 7.30 when we usually eat dinner.

@LockdownCheeseToastie

1pm or 6.30pm. Used to always be lunchtime when the kids were younger but now mostly evening.

Yes, it's either lunch or dinner, so you've got time to do stuff before or after. It's just a meal, and having it in the middle of the afternoon makes it the main focus of the day.

If you eat at 3pm what other meals do you have in the day and when?

Sunday roast is a dinner here so between 5.30-6pm

Same as every other day, it's my evening meal so anytime between 5.30 and 6.30

6:30. If it were ever lunchtime it would be about 1 (which would be on the late side according to H). Growing up it was between 1 and 1:30.

The only times we've done mid-afternoon Christmas dinner was when S1 was a choral scholar and we didn't leave Cambridge till 1 (fortunately his granny lives 40 minutes away).

Around 5.30-6.30 it’s dinner 😂

@MrsDThomas

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'm from Wales and we have our roast between 12.30 and 1pm.

I never eat lunch due to my work schedule, so my body just doesn't want a big meal at that time. So mid afternoon/evening for me.

When it's ready 😂 but depends on the day too. Never 12-1pm ie traditional lunchtime. If we are in all day probably about 2pm if we have been out about 4-5pm. We don't really eat at British times (despite being British and living in England)

We rarely do roast dinners ourselves, but at my mother's house it's around 1. At my partner's parents' house it's regular dinner time, about 6pm. This confused me the first time I went there for Sunday dinner.

2-3pm but we barely ever have Sunday roast.

I like to eat at 10am - 11am and between 3pm and 5pm with an occasional snack at about 8pm if still hungry ( I'm often not) but it doesn't really fit with a working day and doesn't suit DH who seems to need 3 meals at very standard times or DS . So for me a large lunch at 3pm often skipping breakfast before or dinner ,after does really suit.me but it doesn't really work for the rest of my household

We are eating with my parents today, lunch will be served between 1 - 1:30. They always have their main meal of the day at lunchtime. If I was cooking a roast at home we wouldn't have it before 6pm. I would find 3pm a strange time to eat

Around 7.30pm, the same time we eat our tea every night.

We literally never have our proper meal at lunchtime but, if we did, it would be around 1pm to 2pm.

Around 3 ish here, I think probably stemming from when we went to mass as kids so my mum wouldn't have been able to get it ready any earlier.

Usually have cheese on toast or something as a snack in the evening.

Geowing up it was always 1oclock. But OH and family did mid afternoon and we do too now. Counts as much and dinner with a big breakfast first thing. Usually leave pudding for an hour and have it before DS goes to bed.

In winter usually between 3-5pm. I like to have it quite early and then wind down to the evening with maybe a supper of crumpets / eggs for the DCs.

Summer- normal meal time- so about 7 pm. But I love roasted meats with loads of salads and new potatos so half a cold meal anyway.

Usually around midnight.

But my sleep hours are 0500-1300 because of work so I guess that makes it around 5PM in 'normal' time.

@ineedaholidaynow

If you eat at 3pm what other meals do you have in the day and when?

If we are doing it at 3 then we will all have breakfast at normal time (8-ish) and then just wait until 3 pm. Dcs might have a snack at noon.

The Dcs will have something before bed, but usually very small. Crumpets, hot chocolate that sort of thing. For me, despite being 3 stone overweight I would be too full to have anything in the evening.

We have a late breakfast on the weekend at around 10.30/11am so we don't eat again until 5pm, kids have breakfast at 8am and lunch at 12 and dinner with us at 5pm.

Oh the usual 63 snacks kids seem to need when at home throughout the day