To think a Sunday Dinner can follow the Mediterranean diet?

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Obviously not made with beef and Yorkshire puddings.

I have started following the Mediterranean diet, which a couple of friends also do, and we were chatting about it. Somehow I also mentioned that I’d had a roast dinner on Sunday, which was deemed now following the diet. I know I can break it whenever I like, but surely this does follow the ‘rules’.

Skinless chicken breast, new potatoes (boiled), carrots and broccoli roast with olive oil, sweetcorn, peas, and cabbage, with gravy.

Maybe the gravy doesn’t fit but surely this largely does follow the Mediterranean diet? Is it just because it’s such a British meal that it’s not deemed good enough?

Nah Yorkshire puddings and stuffing are optional extras. I do prefer mash but new potatoes and roast potatoes are acceptable too.

A Sunday dinner is a roast meat and vegetables, a type of potatoes and gravy.

A ‘normal’ Sunday dinner doesn’t include slices of ham, sweetcorn or, I’d argue, mash. (Or packet mix gravy). I think you’ve lost sight of what a proper Sunday roast is, but anyhoo, they’re not compulsory.

I have one a year on Christmas Day. I look forward to it all year but my Sundays in between are too precious to waste in the kitchen cooking a big meal. I’ll eat on a Sunday like I eat the other six days.

My advice to you op, is to break out of the bisto mindset and watch a few inspiring programmes on the food network.

I don't like sweetcorn much anyway but I think it would be very wrong with gravy. There's a Delia recipe that has roast chicken and pasta that's quite Mediterranean.

There are lots of nice meals that aren't traditional roasts but are Mediterranean and quite weekend like. There's a scaloppini chicken dish by Carluccio. There's pork with tarragon and just by Nigel Slater. There's lots of things you can have with roast potatoes that don't involve gravy. There's very little that's Mediterranean that features cabbage. There's Cavolo Nero and kale if you want to be more med.

A Sunday dinner can be whatever you want it to be!

Nah, yorkshire puds go with beef and stuffing goes with turkey or chicken!

Just enjoy a properly done roast dinner; they've got a good range of nutrients anyway.

The description reminded me of insipid 1980s school dinners on last sitting.

Roast dinner to me is roast meat and roast potatoes. The vegetables and other accompaniments vary depending on the meat.
Your meal sounds like what we’d have at my grandparents in summer when it was too hot for a proper roast but my grandpa only liked bland food with gravy. I used to secretly mash the potatoes on my plate with butter before putting gravy on to make it more palatable. We didn’t have sweetcorn though because it does not belong with gravy!

Please not sweetcorn

How about couscous with roasted aubergines, tomatos, red onions, garlic, and olives, and chicken with olive oil and rosemary?

Chicken sofrito with lemon and saffron, an artichoke and rice salad?

Please never sweetcorn

The horror

The people of those regions would have heard of eating poultry, pork, beef and other meats, along with many things such as broccoli, carrots, peas and meat stock based sauces quite a bit earlier than people from more Northeastern climes, what with most of them originating somewhere around the Middle East or at least having to come through there to get as far as Northern Europe.