to say no to a roast dinner in this heat?!

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I want shopping today for some quick to cook/ not cook at all food.
Tinned tuna, sweetcorn, pre cooked rice, salad, deli items, bread, crisps, ice-cream. Just easy food that doesn't need anything or only needs to be heated for 2 mins.

Well dh wants to go shopping for a full chicken and have a roast! Well it is Sunday...

He thinks I'm lazy because I want easy dinners (that's not lazy it's good sense!)

I think he is suicidal and his aim of cooking a roast dinner in this heat Is to boil us to death in our own home.

Oh he also pulled all of my make shift curtains down because 'it's so dark it looks like a crack den in here'. I don't understand it, we have small children (2-10 years old) and we need to be cool in here.

Hid argument is that he has to work in it (good for you here's a medal) and he also has to work with boiling hot equipment In hot conditions so we should suck up a Sunday roast.

I can't even be bothered to argue.

(ps I lay frozen water bottles around him and put up some make shift curtains while he was sleeping earlier because our bedroom was so hot, so it's not like I'm an evil bitch who doesn't care he's hot when he works, I care about him!)

Does he often call you names?

Hell no to a roast.

I'm doing creamy garlic prawns, chorizo in cider, meatballs, new potatoes and crusty bread with alioli. All on the hob and my kitchen is quite cool anyway.

Tell him if he wants to cook a roast dinner, he can do so.

Otherwise, you're fixing what you had planned.

He sounds ridiculous ... making you and your children suffer a hotter house than you'd otherwise half to because he has to work on a computer and be hot. FFS. Surely he should want better conditions for his own children.

Go to Morrison's and buy a chicken, the roasties and some stuffing. All you need to do is some veg and the gravy. Jobs a goodun and nobody dies from heat exposure

We are having an alternative roast, still doing a chicken but popped it in earlier and having it with jackets/ salad/ veg :)

I agree OP, boiled veg on a hot day is not worth the effort!

It's very obviously bbq weather - cooked by men obvs

I usually do a roast dinner on a Sunday but it's too hot to have the oven on for that length of time today.

I live in a hot country and we love a roast dinner! Not so much recently as we are trying to lose weight and they are a bit stodgy. I still do normal cooking indoirs and don't just eat salads. Our air conditioning doesn't reach the kitchen. If you want a roast, do one, if not, don't. There's no rule.

If he wants to cook it then I’d let him crack on but then I love a good roast no matter how hot it is!

Cold chicken and salad in this heat not a roast, what insanity!

Fuck no, and I hate people who always have a roast on a Sunday anyway. We have them in the winter whatever day we feel like it but hate that people feel you’ve failed if it’s not a Sunday roast.
we’ve cancelled our meal box to not use the oven or hob and have outside space and a gas bbq so everything is being cooked outside or is fridge temp food. Don’t even think about a slow cooker! Unless you’re in Scotland where it’s ok then don’t switch the oven on.

also look at the relationship of a man who thinks it’s ok to make you suffer because he is, and his children…….

I am doing roast lamb with rosemary and lemon with greek salad and hummus. Yum.

Our kitchen is a long way from the rest of the house so it ought not be too hot. (Which makes it sound very Downton Abbey-esque but we are just a Victorian semi)

Huge difference cooking in a country set up for heat and with aircon, even if it doesn’t reach the kitchen, you can still go sit in a cool house.

I cooked a chilli con carne this morning so we don’t cook Monday/Tuesday

That’s exactly what we’re having. Well, all
except the bread.

I rarely eat roast dinners anyway but you couldn’t pay me in this weather.

We had roast dinner today and the kitchen was horrendously hot. Roast was nice though.
I did suggest chicken salad and my kids and husband looked at me as if I'd grown 2 heads (and we'd have had to go shopping for salad which I couldn't really face).
Let your DH cook it if he wants. I've deliberately left loads of washing up so they can all get hot and sweaty doing that while I relax with a cold drink.

I could both cook and eat a roast today. But then again, I'm the sort of person who orders a hot coffee no matter the temperature.

Today, fine. Tomorrow, too hot.

If he wants it he should cook it.

this is why people bbq so much in the summer in the u.s. we cook outside to keep the heat out of the house. We have good air conditioning, but some days it is so hot it can’t keep up.

If that’s what he fancies then what’s wrong with it

Equally if you don’t fancy it then that’s fine too

All this heatwave stuff is a massive overreaction but on this occasion the weather consideration is neither here nor there, if you want to eat it eat it, if you don’t don’t

Was the twat expecting you to cook the roast dinner? Tell him to piss off!

And don’t cool the room for him, he’s not a child, he can make his own space comfortable.

I’m amazed at the number of people who have roast dinners every week. Don’t you get sick of them. They take an age to cook, use up so much energy cooking rhem and are eaten in 10 mins leaving a mound of washing up. Once a month I could get or even winter but seems an odd choice in summer in this heat.

I had my roast at one o'clock. Lots of left over chicken to have cold for the next day or two.

We had beef dinner with yorkshire puddings,mash and all the veg today washed down with ice cold cava. I done the beef in slow cooker overnight and veg/potatoes at 8 am then kept in fridge.It was raining here till 9.30. Just assembled & reheated at 2pm. Was gorgeous now in garden finishing off the cava!!

I wonder how many points I'd be on by now if I did a tally chart of every thread that makes me thank the Lord I'm single, as I sit here in my 'crack den' home!