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.

That 2pm meal is lunch, so yea, I'd need my dinner

I wouldn't want to eat again but the rest of my family would all expect to be eating again in a few hours, something "light and simple like Pancakes" grr (they take ages to make). Or as yesterday, 3 course family meal and then KFC a few jours later on the way home (i had the 2 course option and could quite happily have managed without but they were apparels hungry).

Of course!

My mother, a serial dieter, likes to tell us more than once when we go out for lunch how she won't need any more to eat that day as she is so full. It's a badge of honour.

Surprised to not see many people answer that the meal that they have in the evening after a roast for lunch... is leftover roast of course??? You pick all of the best bits of the roast and heat it up in the microwave! Snack on some cold roast potatoes whilst you wait for it to heat up! That's what I would always have in an evening post a lunchtime roast

I cook a roast dinner every Sunday and serve it around 1pm.

Dinner is a light meal, usually a sandwich with fruit, yogurt, veggie sticks, crisps or those lentil pop chip things (sriracha flavour are delicious!). If it's cold (or we all fancy something hot) then I'll make soup (with a cheese toastie on the side if requested) or I'll make dippy eggs and soldiers.

In summer we'll usually have tapas or picnic type things in the garden for dinner.

I do have children and they need something before bed.

Before children I'd have a sandwich and fruit, or bread and various continental meats with oil & balsamic vinegar for dipping, or I would warm up a tin of Heinz and have a toastie with it if I was really hungry.

That would suffice for my one BIG meal of the day, but I'd want something light in the evening, a sandwich, perhaps.

There used to be a pub restaurant near us ( sadly gone now😢) where you used to be able to buy that as a meal!!! Their gravy was gorgeous!!! We do this, as a family, too. My maternal grandmother was especially good with roasts and gravy, and bread and extra, thick gravy, was always available at the end of a meal! Food of the Gods!!!🥰🥰🥰

I don't really get the thing about not needing another meal if you have had a main meal already, regardless of how much you may have eaten. After a certain amount of time it has gone through your system anyway so surely you are hungry again then? If the meal was enormous then I understand that it will take longer to be digested, but if I ate an enormous meal at 2pm then didn't have breakfast until 7 am then that would be 17 hours!
So - to answer your question - yes I think another meal is required but I wouldn't expect a cooked meal. A sandwich, or soup and a sandwich, and some fruit probably (although I am a type 2 diabetic struggling with my blood sugars at present so it is more likely to be a hunk of cheese and an apple, or some salad).

I know that I’m a bit late to this thread, but I remember when I was younger and we used to go over to my grandparents house for Sunday dinner she would make a roast with all the trimmings and have a selection of desserts, and later, on in the evening, she would do a selection of sandwiches for tea - I remember having a choice, ham, egg mayo, and even salmon sandwiches. Sunday dinner at my Nan’s house was a day of indulgence

I wouldn't 'need' to eat and I wouldn't be hungry but I might have something and yes - it is because I am greedy and three stone over weight. I genuinely don't need as much food as my DH and adult DS. I am absolutely not a competitive under eater ... in fact I love food and obsess about it far too much but I know that I don't need as many calories as others do. I lead a very sedentary lifestyle and genuinely feel better if I am not wobbling around with excess weight (yes, I am not being vain about it ... my Doctor has told me I need to lose weight which I ignore).

Yep I’d have some cereal or something.

Doesn't it depend on how active you are that day? Of course you'll need more energy intake if you go for a long hike or a run after the roast lunch, but you're probably less hungry if just sitting on the sofa all afternoon?

I’m always active on a Sunday afternoon (we either go swimming for for a bike ride) so I know I’d always be hungry again before bed.

I don’t eat breakfast so yes, I would want something else around 7pm but as the main meal was at lunchtime, I would have something small like poached egg on toast or soup.

I'm one of those teeny tinys and I'd definitely want to eat again, 2pm is way too early to have that as last meal of the day. prob be craving a kebab by 9pm or I'd atleast have a sandwich and a shit load of snacks with it. Not all us teeny tinys just live off lettuce leaves once a day you know.

I'd have some apple crumble and ice cream later on with a big cup of tea 😁

If was hungry I’d eat. If not, I wouldn’t. Isn’t that what most people would do?

Well said.

I haven’t seen anyone on here say they wouldn’t eat for a week. Yes, competitive undereating is a thing, and it’s annoying, but good grief it’s nowhere near as annoying as people who jump on any food thread and shout ‘competitive undereating!’. Oh, and link it to skinniness. Now they can do one.

Definitely! I'd be marving by 7pm

I would have to eat something reasonably substantial as I have medication to be taken night and morning with food but I doubt I'd want much really. For this reason I probably wouldn't have overdone the lunch portion.

Yes. I'm always stuffed after a roast but find that I'm hungry sooner after than if I eat something else. By 8pm I'd want some toast or cheese and crackers.

Yes, I would definitely want something else to eat in the evening.

Yes. Some toast around 7ish if we're being specific.

Yes. I'd have something like beans or egg on toast or a sandwich.