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?

3pm?!?!

DH would be full from eating the dining table by that point...

About 1pm, or when it's ready tbh. Sometimes 12, sometimes 1.30, but we're up early. I couldn't eat "late" and do it justice iyswim.

2.30pm each and every Sunday until I left home aged 27!!

Not only do we never have a main meal at home at that time, I rarely ever do roasts.

We always eat dinner at around 8pm no matter what we're having
My mother serves Sunday dinner in the middle of the afternoon including Christmas & Easter etc and I still find it really odd despite growing up with it. I have never done it myself

About 4-5pm on Sundays for dinner (generally a roast)

5pm for dinner the rest of the week.

Same time as any other dinner - around 8pm. The only real exception to this is Christmas day when we have it at around 3pm. Seems odd when I see it written down like that. I guess it's because we don't really do 2 or 3 meals on Christmas day, just grazing then a huge lunch.

I'm not good with cooked lunches. I mean I'll happily eat one if someone else has cooked, but I just cannot stand preparing food before midday at the earliest. The thought of dealing with raw meat or peeling potatoes in the morning honestly makes me shudder, I can't do it.

Normal dinner time here, I.e. around 7, 7.30.
Exception is Christmas dinner, usually 5 ish.

A big meal at lunchtime just makes me want to snooze, even more so at 3 pm.

For those who eat at 3pm, are you eating a roast with all the trimmings or just meat and 2 veg type meal?

around 18:30 today because of stoopid work

About 6pm. I wouldn't want a sandwich or something in the evening I want a massive Sunday dinner

5pm. It’s dinner for us.

We have ours around 6pm. Any earlier just wouldn't feel right although I'm sure as a child we used to eat ours quite early afternoon so not sure why we have it in the evening now.

Our family would never eat that late. We'd be far too hungry. Might work for a family of night owls but, all things being equal, I'd want lunch at 1pm at the latest.

I always aim for around 1:30 but it ends up being 2 by the time it’s all dished out.
I couldn’t cope with it being at 5! As much as I like that idea I can’t cope with the thought of all that washing up so late.

I don't have a roast. Too greasy for me, and a real waste of a fine sunny day.

I've had asparagus with Parmesan and a few drops of balsamic for lunch. I'll make a cassoulet this evening and we'll eat about 7.30.

3pm - 4pm

Growing up it was around 1pm; the meat would go in the oven when we went to church.

Here we eat it at 5pm so DS can have it with us. We eat lunch with him at about 11.45am, and that’s too early for a roast! So we usually have sandwiches etc at lunch time and our roast dinner at 5pm with him.

As he gets older we’ll aim to move lunch later and start having a roast at 1pm ish then an old fashioned “tea” at about 6pm.

But there’s no rule on when you have to eat it! 2/3pm is fine if you’ve no plans.

Around 7.30pm.

I never grew up with Roast lunch and neither of us really like big meals in the middle of the day

Dh made a cottage pie for his lunch. He will put it in the oven soon. Cue me disappearing out the door as I cannot stand the smell of cooking meat. It reminds me of going to visit a relative in an old people’s home when I was very young and that smell makes me want to heave.
The last time he had a roast on a Sunday it put him in hospital (ate out at a big hotel whilst in the midst of cancer treatment) he thinks the meat had been left out all day and was the only bit left. It was also a hot day
I don’t think he has ever eaten roast beef again.

We aren’t having a roast but will eat sometime between 6 and 7:30 the same as any other day irrespective of what we are having . The only time we eat about 4:30/5 is when we go to my sisters for dinner and that’s so I can be back home to feed the dog at a reasonable hour .

In our house it depends on what we've had earlier in the day. If we've been at home in the morning (quite rare now activities are back up any running), then we'll likely have a substantial breakfast mid morning, and roast at about 3-4pm. Today we were out by 9am, so had lunch when we got back (1.30ish), so I'll get roast ready for 6.30ish.

6.30pm

6 or 7pm. Or possibly 1pm. We always like to go out on a Sunday and I’d hate for the whole of the day to be taken up by a meal.

Mid afternoon for us too....unless our football team are playing at 3pm, then it will jigsaw around that.

Dying at this 😂