You've had a roast dinner at 2pm. Would you want to eat again before bed?

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Big roast with all the trimmings - pork with crackling, 3 veg, Yorkshire puds, stuffing, gravy, bread to dip ect.

Would you want anything before bed, apart from a cup or tea or two?

YABU - yes i'd want/need to eat again.
YANBU - nope, that would do me for the rest of the day.

Just a wheel of Brie and a baguette

I'd have a packet of crisps and 3 squares of chocolate at 8:35pm.

Not a roast but we had a large Full English breakfast at about 1.30pm after swimming. Me, DH, DS5 and DD2 all had crumpets and cereal, and the children had cucumber and fromage frais too at about 6.30pm.

Yes I would have something light later. Egg on toast or if I felt filthy, a bacon sarnie!

Had our roast at 4pm today. It as hungry about 9 but didn't eat

There's something sickening about the idea of feeding so heavily at one meal that you don't need to eat again.

I would eat enough to feel satisfied at midday, probably a little more truth be told but not much as the after effects of over eating are awful, then would satisfy my hunger in the evening.

You’d eat again Christmas!2024 Christmas surely?Owt else is sheer piggery gluttony on an industrial scale
After such a meal I’d Maybe inhale some mineral water or stare at a pomegranate If I got hungry
Cant believe anyone would eat agin until oh 2025. No wonder we are in grip of an over eating epidemic and need hydraulic chairs in nursery for all the wobbly children

@Reddahlias nope I can eat three meals a day thanks and if I can I have five. Not sure why you are saying it's a large lunch, you may choose to stuff yourself but I don't, and can't. Calories don't come into it.

I would probably have 4-6 thin slices of different cheeses, crackers and maybe some pickles or chutney.

I always have plenty of cheese in. I'm diabetic so don't eat lovely stuff like crisps, bread in my gravy, Yorkshire puds or potatoes so cheese is my luxury!

Oh yes - this is my childhood and i loved 'moping up' the gravy etc.

My parents served bread with everything along with our dinner - probably because it was affordable. Also my Mum wouldn't have wanted to waste anything (my Dad used to also like to drink the vegetable water - Gross!). We also used to have yorkshire puddings for dessert (afters) with jam or golden syrup in.

I loved it and still would but, for some reason i don't do it, I'm going to try next week for my kids as they would probably love it like i used to.

I would have a completely normal dinner. I can't think of any meal that would stop me eating as normal several hours later. A roast isn't magic, it's just a certain type of meal.

I really had no expectations when i started this thread i was just sitting there thinking ''i still feel fullish - will i eat later? Will i not? Have i got anything i fancy ... ? (no crumpets in the house ) ''

Then i thought - I wonder what most MNetters do? And i didn't expect many replies but this is great! Lets carry on!

A warm handshake to all the fellow bread and gravy'ers out there and welcome to any new converts 😆

It's interesting that a few have felt this thread leans towards being anti-food, as personally i feel the opposite. I thought more would say they wouldn't eat again and I've loved reading all the different light snacks/small meals/bits and pieces that people have.

Some posters seem quite angered by the question. And the bread!

I'm quite surprised by the quantity of crumpets being eaten. Love them obvs. just didn't realise what a nation of crumpetters we are.

A special mention to @Bellaboo01 's dad who ''likes to* drink the vegetable water'' ?!? *😳😂 That's a new one for me. I mean it's fabulous and wins the thread really!

What else - oh yes! In the end DD3 came home at about 7 with a beautiful cream donut with strawberry bits for me, from the desert shop in town - so i ate that 😍

And then at 8 DH made cheeses on toast and i pinched a half slice of that! 😜

I would not.
my DH would.
us both being different people with differing appetites.

I had a roast yesterday and said on the thread I would not eat again.

But the thread then made me so hungry I ended up defrosting some homemade lasagne from the freezer and eating that!

yeh but @SettlingForAnotherMuffin did you have a proper roast finished off with the bread dipped in gravy?

I thought bread dipped in gravy came from years ago when there wasn't enough meat so bread was used to bulk it out. I do however remember my grandparents would let us dip home made bread with a crust in the beef dripping OMG salty and beefy and doughy and crusty. Literally fat on bread though 😳

I might want a snack in the evening or might not. I wouldn't want another meal.

Something small yes.

I’d have just settled for another muffin 😁

We would have a picky tea, cup of tea and a few bits and pieces, but when we were kids in the 60s, on Sundays we would have a cooked breakfast at about 8.30, roast dinner with pudding, on the table at 1.00, then 5.00 was teatime, trifle, sandwiches and cake. Then, as we got older and stayed up a bit later, we would have a bit if supper before bed, cocoa, hotlicks or ovaltine with a couple of biscuits or a sandwich. 5 kids in the house none of us overweight, but between meals we would be out playing in the park or nearby fields, swimming in the outdoor pool or taking the dog for a walk. How my mum coped, both physically and financially I don't know.

I would need to eat again and I've had a bypass 😂

The competitive eating on here is rediculous!

Yep. I could not sleep unless I’d eaten more recently than that.

Depends how much I’d eaten. Probably would have toast or cereal or a sandwich. We went out for a meal a few weeks ago and I had a huge roast plus one and a half puddings and didn’t feel hungry enough to eat anything in the evening but usually I’d have something light.

Surely this depends on SO many factors including 1) how big the meal was (how many calories), 2) how active you are that day and 3) how old you are - a growing skinny teen will need a lot more good than a 60 year old woman, for example.

Therefore we're getting so many different answers!

Well yeah… but the OP asked what people personally would do, which is by nature based on their particular circumstances. She didn’t ask for one definitive answer.

I dipped the yorkshire pudding in gravy.

(Although I have to say one of the food of the gods is bread dipped in the chicken juices at the bottom of the roasting pan).