Carveries

I do think a lot of younge people don't have the traditional roast dinner on Sunday's, with so many mums and dads with children working full time they ten

Sorry pressed too soon. It was going to say they tend to go for quick meals, just as healthy, but simpler. They can then spend more time with the family. I remember my dear MIL being horrified because she dropped by one Sunday in the summer and as it had been so hot we were having cold roast chicken and salad for lunch. I think she thought I wasn't feeding her son properly. Personally I do like a roast dinner, especially if someone else cooks it

I live on my own and I cannot remember the last time I had a roast dinner. I can take it or leave it.

We had a favourite, very popular, carvery but it closed and became an upmarket steak house. The meat was always nice and the vegetables hot. Its sister establishment is just this side of ok; you have to time it right! I love a carvery, and so does my grandson. I am cooking a roast at the moment, if anyone would like to drop by! DH went a bit overboard with the number of potatoes he peeled.......!

Our local carvery is great. A choice of meat, Yorkshire pudding, lots of lovely veg including swede and potato mash which is delicious, roast and mashed potatoes, tasty gravy. And it's less than a fiver.

I think it is popular with all age groups. When we go out for a carvery (usually because we have DC and families with us) the pub or restaurant is usually full of family groups.

In fact in our area it is impossible to get into a carvery on Sunday unless you book a week or more in advance.

I am not that keen on them because the meat is often pink and I am not that keen on meals based on large chunks of meat. I prefer a casserole or stew with lots of veg in it any day.

Greyduster yes please! Tara also would like a small piece of meat and a lick of the gravy.

I only eat a roast a Christmas or if one of the kids specifically requests it. Never been much of a fan really. I don't like carveries generally and wouldn't choose one for a meal out.

I very rarely cook a traditional Sunday dinner on a Sunday as that’s my day for getting everything done that I haven’t got chance to do in the week . We tend to have an easy pasta or something similar. The DGC do like a Sunday dinner on a Monday at mine ( it’s called a Sunday Monday dinner) and apparently no one makes Yorkshire’s like I do ( they are Aunt Bessie’s but that’s between you and I ) so I prepare everything on a Sunday night ready for Monday night.

We (only 2 of us) have got in to the habit of alternating our Sunday meals, roast one week, casserole type thing the next.

Today there is a lamb hotpot in the oven, last week was roast pork, week before beef cobbler.

Did you know that AA members can get 20% off food and drink at Toby Carveries (though not on a Sunday) and quite a few other eateries?

I love a carvery. There's a very popular one near us. It's really good value. Lots of families there. Ooh I just fancy going right now but it's a bit late. Drat!

I love a roast dinner, and to me Sunday is not Sunday without one, and DH felt the same.
My DC do not bother very much but will make an effort to cook one for Easter, or Mothers' Day and of course Christmas.
My local pub does an excellent carvery, usually beef, pork and a gammon, very generous and a good choice of vegetables, £8.99, or £10.99 for the large portion. Believe me, the normal size is ample, but DS and partner put away a large one each the other Sunday!
I have just put a roast in my oven, one of those from the supermarket in a foil tray and butter basted. It says serves three, so it will do for tonight, a stirfry tomorrow and lunchtime sandwiches for a couple of days. Still enjoy a roast on my own!

NanKate pm me with details of this garden centre?Thanks.

Yes, roasts are popular with our age group it’s true, but our AC are here like a shot if I promise to cook one.

I always do a Sunday roast even when it's just the two of us, then use the leftovers during the week. I like the tradition and it's one less meal to think about, just vary the meats. DH is a real "gravy" man and I think he struggles in Summer when he is informed that gravy is out of season. I then struggle thinking of alternatives to a Sunday Roast - any ideas?? - but I do give in quite easily if we have a cold spell.

chelseababy is the AA you mention Alcoholics Anonimous? ?

I dislike carveries with all that food sitting around congealing. The food is open to germs with people coughing all over it - yuk. The same can be said for the all you can eat Chinese buffets etc.

Until about 3 yrs ago I would cook roast every Sunday except on hot summer days as DH loves it. Now we have it maybe once a month. I do enjoy a good carvery as you get such a better choice of veg than I usually cook with a roast.
Tonight it's chinese flavoured chicken thighs and chunky oven chips.

Living on North Somerset coast, pubs and restaurants offering carveries seem to be large in number and very popular. On a Sunday lunchtime, all the pubs around us seem to do very well offering carvery meals seemingly making it their busiest time of the week.

My wife Carol and I love a good roast and being that we both still work in the business, calling into one of our favourite restaurants or pubs for a carvery on the way home at the end of a long day is just "lush" for mid-week.

On a Sunday the cooking of the roast is regularly shared between our three daughters with their families and us, as we all visit each other on a rotation. In that, roast is the order of the day, and everybody seems to love it including the children.

The one thing we both hate to see on any Sunday as we pass is families in McDonald's eating their junk food. It seems such a shame when healthy eating can be obtained at much the same or even less cost nearby.

So, it's a carvery roast for us every time, summer or winter, and anybody can say we are old fashioned in that, but we don't care.

Most carveries and self service salad baths I go to usually have a sloping sheet of clear perspex over them, so that customers can serve themselves, but not cough all over the food.

Even though we do not usually have a traditional Sunday roast these days I do try to have something special on Sundays.

We have a very good game supplier near us and I go there to buy wild duck of varying types and sizes, pheasant, partridge and venison. This evening we are having pigeon, slowly pot roast all afternoon with new potatoes and savoy cabbage cooked under the pigeon, followed by blackberry and apple pie and cream.

ooooh hungry here

I love a roast dinner, carvery my favourite totally

Great social event to get families eating together

love the veg. and chicken

so much fun

great times

M0nica please forgive my nitpicking but I had a bit of a moment on reading of 'salad baths'! I know it's most likely due to predictive text but it's a great concept!

I do myself a roast dinner every Sunday and add extra in case of callers, if not it comes in for Monday . I have quite a variety. Roast beef new potatoes and broccoli today,2 Yorkshires and horseradish sauce. I'm usually too full for pud, it would have been a fresh fruit salad so I'll leave the fruit whole.
We used to have a great carvery near here------but alas it's now flats overlooking the sea