Sunday roast is it still eaten

The roast dinner was the big event in my childhood.

Whatever you were doing, it all stopped, and everyone had to be at home for dinner, much to my annoyance.

I have never eaten or cooked a traditional roast. I grew up in a vegetarian family which was a rarity in the 60s.

Sundays here are a day for going out and doing things, not faffing over a meal.

That said, I have a friend in her 40s who takes turns with her husband to cook a roast every week. Their 20 year old son can just about do it on his own too, his girlfriend is very impressed.

Roast pork here tonight - it’s not often we have a roast that’s not chicken. So after various M&S TV ads about the wonderfulness of their pork, I looked there first, but all the joints were tiny - I do want enough for 2 reasonable meals for two. Found what I wanted in Waitrose - a ‘higher welfare’ crackling joint.
With roast potatoes, sundry mixed veg, proper gravy and - of course! - apple sauce.
No pud, so lots of lovely roast potatoes!

We are having roast pork on Sunday. I find a roast really easy to cook and often do one when I get home if I have been out with the choir on a Sunday. I get it ready before I go out and just put it in the oven when I get home.

This week we will have it with roast potatoes, cauliflower cheese (Sainsbury's frozen), honey roasted carrots, gravy and apple sauce.

Can't remember the last roast dinner I made possibly around 3 months ago but I do love a cauliflower cheese with it or just on its own.

We often have a roast, but never at lunchtime, more like 7.30. I don’t know why people seem to think they’re a faff - mine never are, but then I keep them fairly simple - not 3 different sorts of potatoes and umpteen veg and sides.

DH would have a roast every Sunday of the year but I draw a line during the hot weather. But, even then I'll usually roast a chicken to have with salads. It's served at teatime. Time depending on which football match is on the television/ DGS's shift pattern if family are coming over etc. It's no hassle to do and really saves me having to think of "What's for tea" once a week.

We have a roast dinner more frequently in the winter than the summer. I have two types, the lazy roast dinner and the proper one.

If I'm preparing the proper one I'll make extra and freeze as much as I can for a lazy one another day. We have the same trimmings every time so swede and carrot mash can go into a foil container in the freezer and then heated through in the same container in the oven. Same for red cabbage. Peas are frozen anyway. Meat is sliced and frozen with gravy, or a pork chop is roasted. Roasted potatoes can also be frozen and lightly re-roasted on the day.
I'll make a cheese sauce and freeze it and then prep a cauliflower and broccoli bake ready to heat through.

This is also the way I do my Christmas dinner. (No nutritional value here...!). I'll have a Christmas 'prep week' at the end of Nov. begining Dec. and prep everything that can be frozen, all in foil containers or trays. They can be defrosted overnight and placed straight in the oven to heat through. The only thing I cook on the big day is the meat.

I dish up straight onto the plates. It also means there is less washing up, and I'm not very eco either as the soiled containers go straight in the bin.

I feel that I have still cooked everything from 'scratch', but with the convenience of ready made!!

Oooooo - I fancy a roast right now 🤤

Roast chicken every couple of weeks, plus all trimmings (apart from stuffing cos DH makes it from a packet and I can't stand it if it's not home-made). Auntie Bessies Yorkshires but own roasties, mash and veg (often home grown). Takes about 30 mins of work plus waiting time. Provides cold chicken for further roast dinners, salad or sarnies, and I often make a broth with the carcass, plus lentils, onions, veg and dumplings.

Tons for two of us and excellent value for money.

Every week, but I use the slow cooker to cook the joint! We eat our own meat, so I'm going to enjoy it! I do enough for 2 days, and plate it so on Monday, a plate is nuked in the microwave! Yesterday and today, Pork, potatoes (cooked in with the pork, yum!) French & Runner beans (like the spuds from the garden) cauli and cabbage (Lidl bought) sweet corn for mum.

Then!!!! Mum said, What's for pud? We eat well, if I give her less, she complains, if I give her too much, she complains! I can't win!

I always cooked a roast when my daughter was little but now, not really.

My dear GD said, "I just fancy a roast, you don't often get one during summer".
So midweek we are going to our local carvery for just that, can't wait !!

We often have a roast meal with the family at the weekend, not always on a Sunday though and not often at lunchtime. as the grandchildren are usually out and about.
We went to my son's house last Sunday and had roast chicken with him, my daughter and her family. He doesn't often cook for us all but really pushed the boat out with three vegetables, roast potatoes and stuffing, followed by blueberry crumble.

We never have it because I neither cook nor eat meat.

I cook a roast once every 2 years on Christmas Day, when it is our ‘turn’ to host.
I’ve never been a fan of roast dinners although I did do them occasionally when my sons lived at home.

waste of a day, although i will have have something with spuds vegs ,old habits etc

Always cook a Sunday dinner, and also on a Wednesday, I like my family to have a dinner with vegetables twice a week. I usually put meat in sli roast late Saturday night. I have a steamer with 3 baskets so all my veg goes in 1 container. Whole thing including making the gravy takes just under 1 hour. Lovely too.

We have a roast most weeks and then use the left overs for a couple of days. We had a gammon joint yesterday so cold gammon and jacket potato with salad tonight. It’s really not that expensive if you get 2 or 3 meals out of it and the odd sandwich or two. The cat also enjoys his share if it’s chicken!

I only cooked a roast three or four times a year, while DH was still alive and able to enjoy his food.

I keep thinking I ought to get the duck that has been in the freezer since before last Christmas out and cook it, but keep deferring it.

I don't see my younger relatives very often, but if the come for Easter I do roast a leg of lamb, and at Christmas obviously I would serve a roast.

I might do so at any other time of the year for visitors whom I know would appreciate it.

Meat is expensive, and the joints one roasts especially so, so I assume most people rarely eat a roast, irrespective of what age group they belong in.

On my own so don't bitger but do know, adult children still have Sunday roast in their houses.

Oh Peaches- bread and butter pudding: now you're talking...

We do a Sunday roast a couple of times a month through autumn and winter for our AC and DGC who live fairly near (some near enough to walk home after a glass of wine or two). Shoulder of lamb is our favourite but yes it really is expensive these days, my cheat is frozen Yorkshires, my DGS would be lost without one or two on his plate. Especially miss the family that live abroad at these times so pull out all the stops for Christmas dinner as they are usually with us then.
We eat a lot of veg with every meal so don't need a roast for that, yesterday we cooked and ate in the garden, 9 of us. We had chicken fajitas including onions, celery, fennel, peppers carrots all sliced finely and cooked on the plancha with the chicken. Everything prepped the night before to make it easy on the day so I could have a cuddle with my 4 month old DGD

Some people say it’s a lot of work, but if you enjoy them, it’s so easy-space willing-to freeze portions of meat in gravy for another week, thereby giving a really easy meal next time. We also make a more roast potatoes than required, coat in oil and seasoning after parboiling, the freeze those too. It all tastes exactly the same when served on the ‘easy’week, and adding veg is easy.

I still do a Sunday roast,for myself and my son,it's doesn't take long to cook,I don't buy joints of meat as they are too expensive,yesterday we had pork loin chops, which I cooked in the airfryer,I cooked roast potatoes in the oven along with the bread & butter pudding and I did all ready prepared swede and carrot mash in the microwave,it was lovely,