Sunday Roast v anything Else !

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My husband thinks his head would drop off if he didn’t have his traditional Sunday roast.

i’ve tried to explain that it’s not like it was 20 yrs ago !

So - tomorrow are you having

a) A traditional Sunday Roast
b) a different at home meal
c)eating out
d) something else

I'd say it does take longer to cook than most meals but doesn't need a lot of attention if that makes sense. We usually have Sunday roast around 7.30pm. I don't mind the cooking but I hate the washing up after a roast.

The cooking that needs to be done multiple times a day for numerous people, and requires some skill, preparation, planning and shopping? Versus mowing the lawn which needs doing around weekly for the growing season and could be done by a trained chimp?

B) - will have normal lunch like soup or sandwiches and normal dinner (prob tofu and noodles).

Never done the subday lunch thing but then I have always been veggie/vegan. Seems very old fashioned! I suppose Christmas dinner is the closest, once a year!

My family never did Sunday roasts. We’re Jewish so it was Friday night dinner instead (and it was a lot like the programme, my step grandfather is a lot like the weird neighbour!). My friends from school/college were Asian, so they didn’t do Sunday roasts either. I was actually quite surprised when I first read MN to find it was a common thing.

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Probably McDonalds! I never do a Sunday roast. Sometimes do a roast on a Monday evening but don't even do that very often anymore as they don't want it.

I'm having a "cheats" dinner- braising steak in gravy slow cooker everything else frozen roast potatoes, broccoli, green peas, carrots oh n yorkshires like it or lump it I havnt got Time to do from scratch got a new baby.

We have a roast every Sunday, one less meal to think of.
I don't really find it much effort. I prep the vegetables on Saturday and then just put the meat on, on Sunday.
I know we're quite unusual though. Most people I know don't have Sunday roasts. Even my parents who always used to have a roast don't bother now.

We have roast every Sunday tomorrow it's roast pork, its honestly the easiest dinner to cook. Meat in oven on low I usually take the dog a big walk in the afternoon come back stick potatoes and veg on preferably new potatoes that don't need peeling and it all comes together- there's not much effort at all.

Sunday roast. Minimum effort especially in the thinking department.

I said he mowed the lawn and MANY other household things that I don’t do.He also works full time and I am now retired. He doesn’t demand a Sunday Roast , but prefers one. Stop blowing it out of proportion!

That was a reply to DivineAffliction

We usually have a roast every Sunday, not much during the hotter weather, but tomorrow we are having a pot roast beef joint in the slow cooker

A.

Every Sunday.

Toad in the hole for us. We have a roast once a month or so. Last week we had roast lamb.

Im cooking roast pork as my son is here for the weekend but don’t usually have one every Sunday anymore. I enjoy cooking it but hate the washing up

I can’t remember the last time we had a Sunday Roast. It was probably over a decade ago. Sunday dinner is the same as any other day in our house.

We are going out for sushi!
When my husband was alive yes we had it most Sundays, he cooked it and if my parents were in the country they'd join us. But only my daughter is at home now and though I might do a mini one I only pull out the bells and whistles (yorkshires, roasties, several different veg) on special occasions, the next one being Easter when we will have lamb.

I love it, but I don't insist on it on Sundays - we'll often have it on a different night, or not at all that week. DS15 wanted to have a walk and a Sunday roast in our village pub today so we're going as a family, which will be lovely.

we had one last week as it was the dog’s birthday
I love it! We did similar for our Labrador's birthday - fillet steak (sons' favourite, conveniently their idea!) and he got a small one all to himself.

I live on my own so will just have soup!
My mum lives on her own and buys sliced cooked beef/turkey etc and makes a little mini roast dinner.
(Sounds mean, but she actually prefers to live on her own!)

Surprised at people who have a Sunday roast every week. Is that for lunch or for dinner? I think I’d get a bit bored with it

For us it’s an evening meal between 6 and 7.

We don’t get bored because we alternate between chicken, pork, braised beef, haggis, lamb (occasionally) and faggots (before DD became ill we’d sometimes have sausages or toad in the hole, but she won’t eat them now). The only veg we have every week unchanged are the roast potatoes and the swede, otherwise I mix it weekly. I suppose a ‘Sunday roast’ for me is about the roast potatoes rather than the meat!

Something different. Ds1 has a footy match at 2. So by the time we get home at 4 I'm not starting a roast. We will have chilli I think.

Not sure yet. Rarely have roasts. Husband doesn’t like them (I know 🤯) and it’s a faff for one.

Love a roast, but not every Sunday.

Chinese steak with Pak Choi and rice this evening.