Sunday lunch

[smurfboy]

Do you still have it - i.e. a proper roast at lunchtime, as your main meal of the day? When I was little we always did, but as we reached the teen years of long lie-ins it gradually got later and later, before it turned into an evening meal. Was this just my family or has the traditional Sunday lunch died out?

[oldspice]

Well, both of our children work on a Sunday so it works best if we have our meal in the evening. I don't eat at all on a Sunday at lunchtime unless I'm on holiday or visiting family (in which case we have a Sunday lunch at lunchtime).

Sunday is a day for getting chores such as ironing, cleaning and gardening done.

In the evening we do have a 'proper' meal but not always a roast. Last wek we had home-made Cottage Pie with cheesy mash and this week we are having Roast Beef.

[Forth Bridges]

I;m going to be having one today th time this year!

[kevvosa]

I dont really bother now. I usually get soemthing from the supermarket like pizza, chips or curry. Or have sandwiches. 

[goldencup]

We do sometimes have our main meal at lunchtime on Sundays as it works out better with everybody's activities but it's not very often a roast.  I quite often do a roast during the week though.

[loulou]

I never have a Sunday roast unless I go to my mams for lunch. I usually have toast for breakfast then nothing else until Chinese around 8pm.

[Cherry_Ripe]

My other half works most Sundays but if he is home then we have a roast dinner. If I'm by myself then I cook a proper dinner but not necessarily a roast. Yesterday I had macaroni cheese, a baked potato and some salad!

My parents stopped having roast dinners when I was aout 12 so although I grew up on Sunday roasts my sister didn't. I think it's dying out as these days lots of people work on Sundays whereas people didn't in the 80s. It's a shame but I think it's probably a class thing; richer families sit to a meal together on Sunday but poorer families don't.

[loulou]

When I go to my mams on a Sunday I pass a drive through Mcdonalds and the queue is always massive.

[chocolate chick]

We don't have Sunday lunch, its usually served around 5pm. All through the Winter mum will do a roast every Sunday. Once the warmer weather is here the sunday meal is lighter.

My nan eats at 1pm on the dot every Sunday.

[oldspice]

So do my in-laws. They get really distressed if they have to change their Sunday routine. Only the Blitz would stop them from having a roast at 1pm.

[smurfboy]

A friend of mine who lived with his grandmother absolutely had to have lunch at 12.30 or as close possible to it - to the point that he'd put other things off. I blame her influence.

[loulou]

If I go to my mams on a Sunday we always eat between 2 and 2.30pm.

[oldspice]

And when my in-laws have had lunch, with a roast-and-gravy dinner and a something-with-custard 'afters' they clear the table, wash up and then start laying the table for their 'salad' tea.

[chocolate chick]

So do my in-laws. They get really distressed if they have to change their Sunday routine. Only the Blitz would stop them from having a roast at 1pm.

Same here. Even if mum takes them out for something to eat they like to be eating at one. Bless em

My grandad likes to leave some of his yorkshire pudding and have it with golden syrup as afters.

[loulou]

I have heard many people keep the yorkshire puds to have with syrup. I keep meaning to try it myself.