Share your Sunday Roast Rituals with Aunt Bessie's - chance to win £300 NOW CLOSED

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The team at Aunt Bessie's would love to know all about your Sunday Roast Rituals - what makes a roast dinner go down well in your house? What's the key tip, trick, ingredient or essential item which makes that meal particularly successful? Does your family always sit down at the table? Is Sunday the one day you always insist on everyone being home to eat? And what do you dish up for vegetarians or anyone with specific dietary needs? Do you have roast potatoes even when it's not a Sunday?

Aunt Bessie's say "Aunt Bessie’s recognises how difficult it is these days to get the family together - that’s why mealtimes, and particularly the Sunday Roast, are so important. We’re proud to announce that our Homestyle roast potatoes are Mumsnet Rated*, following testing by members of the site. So whether you whip them out for the Sunday Roast or use them to spice up a meal during the week, give Aunt Bessie’s roasties a try today and see how long you can keep the kids at the table!"

Add your ritual or tip for a great Sunday Roast below and you will be entered into a prize draw where one person will win a £300 Love2Shop voucher.

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*234 Mumsnet testers tried Aunt Bessie's Homestyle frozen roast potatoes - March 2016. 80% would buy again and 85% would recommend them.

Place the meat over the veg especially the potato to the fats from the meat flow over the veg helping to roast them.

We love roast potatoes and yorkshire puddings with every roast dinner!

A large chicken feeds 3 of us for Sunday roast, leftover meat makes OH sandwiches for his packed lunch for a couple of days and we boil down the carcass to make soup/stew.

Also, gravy has to be rich and super-thick- and lashings of it, please!

i have to have a massive roast dinner with all the trimmings every sunday at three oclock. we make sure we all make it to the dinner table and its proper family time.

The Sunday roast is really very simple ... whatever meat we're having we cook and then while it's resting we knock up some boiled veg and new potatoes, yorkshire pudding and gravy. We even have roast dinners on school nights...

Roast dinner is the meal of choice here. Definitely a sit down with all the family meal. we always make extra extra roast potatoes and yorkies. Means you have an easy dinner to prepare midweek.

Everyone has to sit at the table even if it means different height in chairs & people sitting at the corners with tiny legroom.

Has to be too many roast potatoes & too much gravy otherwise I'd have a panic attack at the risk of not having enough

My top tip? Always make extra gravy, you'll need it! And if there's some left over, it's great mopped up with some bread and butter!

We always serve the carved meat on one plate, and all accompaniments in their own serving dishes for people to help themselves.

I find “plating up” for another person, really offensive!!! How do you know how much they want to eat?!

We don’t eat roast leftover accompaniments so try to get the right amount. A bit of gravy for the cat.

And always plenty of Yorkshires

extra roast potatoes, there are a bartering tool in our house. its amazing what you can get done with the bribe of extra crispy roasters

Dredge the potatoes in semolina before roasting to make them extra crunchy.

extra roast potatoes, there are a bartering tool in our house. its amazing what you can get done with the bribe of extra crispy roasters

Meat prepped and in first. Then potatoes and these go top of the oven so they're extra crispy. After this vegetable and packet stuffing. Gravy is made from the meat juices and vegetable water.

And although this sounds fake, in all honesty aunt Bessie's Yorkshire puddings, 4 mins once everything is being plated and then the whole family around the table!

Plenty of gravy and clean plates every time

Use leftover meat to make sandwiches for the next day .

We always have Yorkshire puddings, it doesn't matter which meat, but Yorkshire puddings are a must. And lots of gravy. I could quite happily just have Yorkies and gravy in fact!

Yorkshire puddings are a must!

Lots of leftover veg and chicken for delicious soups. Packed lunches are very disappointing if we haven't had a roast dinner on the Sunday.

When your roast potatoes are boiled,oiled in the roasting pan ready to go in the oven,sprinkle some dry couscous over them.
It will help soak up some of the excess fat/oil and also give the potatoes a lovely crunchy crust.

sunday dinner is a family affair we all chip in and wash up after

Mint sauce!! On everything

Always slow cook the meat, gravy made form the juices, roasted seasonal veg with yorkshire puddings every roast and the condiment to match what we are eating, eaten together round the table with no technology pure bliss

I always ensure that as much as possible is made from scratch, but I do buy a rotissery chicken! Such a time saver.

always cook extra meat for a pie the next day :)

A roast isn't necessarily on a Sunday in our house.

We are vegetarian and may have nut roast / veggie sausage or burger / veggie turkey and pigs in blankets for Christmas or just a roast without the meat part.

It has to contain roast potatoes, as many as possible, and gravy - these are non-negotiable! Yorkshire puddings enjoyed but not always included, veg can be cabbage/parsnips/sprouts/carrot and turnip/peas probably more veg options but I can't think at the moment

We love a roast. The best bits are definitely the gravy, potatoes, yorkshire puddings and sauces. Horseradish is my favourite sauce (closely followed by mint sauce) and even though I'm the only one in the house who eats it we seem to get through loads.

For a big Sunday roast I will pull ut all the stops and make something with potatoes, yorkshire puds, stuffing, home made onion gravy, lots of vegetables however after school I'll sometimes do a lazy roast. i'll buy ready roasted chicken drumsticks and serve them with gravy, Aunt bessies potatoes, and carrots and broccoli. It's relatively quick and the kids love it.