Whatever happened to the sunday Roast?

I do a roast on Sunday and it's also the only meal we have at the table, albeit in the kitchen. The rest of the week it's off a tray.
I try not to spend more that £3 a day on meat (or £21 a week) so a joint costing say £9 to £10 has to do three meals. One hot, one cold and then one curried.
I buy lamb when it's on half price offers and freeze it so not too pricy that way. This week it's a £5 chicken from Aldi for £4.99. Three meals easy.

Ana everyone was enjoying this thread and wanted to contribute then you storm in with your usual Negative comments!!

Your comment:
"These posts are nearly all the same as those posted on the thread we had going on this subject in May...grin"----

So what!!--if you don't want to comment then don't but why spoil everyone else's fun

I had not seen this thread before and enjoyed reading the posts.

A chicken lasts me weeks. After the roast meal I take all the remaining meat off the carcase, divide it into meal size portions, and freeze it. The carcase goes in the pot to be turned into stock and that too goes into the freezer as soon as it has cooled. I then use the frozen meat and stock as required over the next few months.

DD, when a student used to make a chicken last five days. Roast on Sunday, roast meat reheated in gravy on Monday, casseroled on Tuesday and Wednesday and curry on Thursday. The carcase was turned into stock on Sunday and made into soup to last several days. The meat was always kept in the fridge and very thoroughly cooked and recooked on every day she used it. She never ate the meat cold.

If you do cook a chicken on a Sunday, how long can you eat left overs for? I've always thrown out on the Monday after the second meal from it. Can I do stock that day and use it for soup for Tuesday and Wednesday or is that pushing it?

I very rarely do a traditional Sunday roast, on a Sunday, although I often do them on a Monday which the DGC call a Sunday-Monday dinner. It is always chicken as the DGC say that "chicken is not meat" . They love Yorkshire pudds (thank you aunt Bessie)

When DH and I have a joint of beef (very rarely)I cook the potatoes with the joint and gravy and the meat juices soak into the potatoes which is delicious.

Mum always bought shoulder of lamb for Sunday roast. She fed a family of 4 and had enough left to have it cold with mash on Monday. I don't know how, to me that's like the loaves and fishes parable.

I think a lot of younger families don't have a Sunday roast because they don't know what to do with the left overs. Suebailey1 's £15 leg of lamb would be an expensive meal for two, but much more economical if it then became a curry, shepherd's pie or even rissoles.

I never do a roast on Sunday. We often go out for a curry buffet or have a Chinese takeaway. Lovely ! No work to do and no washing up. Probably not very healthy though

I nearly always do a roast on a sunday, love them all, pork crackling, rib of beef, leg of lamb- its such an easy and delicious meal to do, no faffing about

Every day of the week if you want!

Sunday roasts are always worth doing again and again

Déja vu!!!

These posts are nearly all the same as those posted on the thread we had going on this subject in May...

Potatoes sliced, boiled and then fried with onions (sort of bubble and squeak without the sprouts) but sounds posher!

What's lyonnaise potatoes? (Sound good!)

What's a roast?

We do a roast most Sunday as there is usually someone here. DH and I love cold roast with lyonnaise potatoes and pickles on Mondays.

No, they do love their boiled potatoes, don't they. Or maybe in a sauce. I did a roast for my daughter's exchange student and she loved the potatoes too.

We do without meat for most of the week, and have fish on Fridays, and as there are only the two of us I don't often get a joint to roast. Just a steak or a nice breast of chicken, or a piece of salmon.

I love people coming though so I get a chance to do a roast, and as the kids' friends are often vegetarian, I just have a great time doing anything up to five vegetables. They love the roast potatoes (otherwise unknown here in Germany)

Now that DS is at Uni, only when he is at home or when DD is here. Because we both diet during term-time or are out in the evenings, we miss having things like spag bol or stroganov, boeuf bourguignonne or whatever, so have them on Sundays instead.

£15! silly moo - me that is

Never do a Sunday roast, but in winter will do a midweek one.

I absolutely love a Sunday roast, minus the roast IYSWIM.

As a veggie for over 40 years I don't miss the meat bit at all but I would hate to give up the rest of it. Don't do it too often though, now it's just the two of us. We mainly use it to entice the grown up kids to visit and remember we exist

I always do a Sunday roast, unless it is very hot when I will cook a chicken and have it with salad.

I really like a Sunday roast, and no other meal, no matter how good, packs quite the same punch. During the winter, I take turns with a friend who also lives alone, to cook a roast with all the trimmings. The only downside is that when stuffed with food, washed down with a glass or three, we tend to fall asleep!

My DS comes for lunch most Sundays and he likes a proper roast dinner. It's either roast beef, pork,or chicken. These days we often vary this with a casserole or pie. Last week we had Aldi's Pulled pork in Brioche buns with a salad and chips. I always try and make a pudding, a fruit crumble or a roly-poly, anything sticky and stodgy. You should see DS though, he's very slim, as opposed to his mother who, I'm afraid is the heaviest she's ever been. (That's why I have started the 5:2 diet)