Is the Sunday roast tradition dying?

I don't cook a roast very often - chicken casserole today. However, last Sunday we ate at my daughters and she did a delicious roast chicken dinner.

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I am sure you are right and the traditional Sunday roast is another example, I fear, doomed to bite the dust.
How many of us only had roast chicken /turkey on Xmas day? Now with so many foods made up of these poor creatures they are not seen as something we look forward to on a certain day of the year.

All the family invariably have a roast on Sundays and I'm lucky enough to be asked to share it quite often. Now I live alone I often have 'boil in bag' frozen roast beef, with roast
potatoes and Yorkshires or roast a chicken portion in the oven with roast potatoes and yorkshires.

The 2 of us nearly always have a roast on Sunday and our families also love a roast when they come to us. They also cook roasts themselves but they are never as good as ours, or so they say.

We always had Sunday roast even after DC’s had left home. Now I’m on my own I still try to have one although I sometimes cheat by using frozen roasties and sprouts.

No roasts going on in this house either. We go to a carvery midweek (less crowded) because my husband MUST HAVE a roast at some point of the week. To be honest its comparatively cheaper to go to the carvery where we live, than it is to cook a roast at home. No sweating over a hot stove, no washing up. Yay!

Jane I am with you re cold food and cold plates I hate both , Sarah I love fry up day after we are having beef stew today and probably tomorrow with Yorkies cos I always make lots .

No Sunday roast here either. Whatever I fancy, have in and takes shortest time to deliver is my absolute choice. As a child we sometimes had a roast in tha grand scheme of a mixed and varied menu but it was never exclusively on a Sunday. I was introduced to this regularity when I encountered English country pubs. Very pleasant I must add.

Until very recently we had a roast dinner every Sunday (at midday, being northerners). But for the last couple of months we haven't. I found it was all becoming too much hard work to prepare everything and get it in the oven before setting off to church so we've been having mainly veggie meals prepared on Saturday and put in the oven when I get back from church. I do miss the roast, think we'll be going back to it now autumn and the winter are on their way. Nostalgia for childhood roasts, I suppose.

I cook a roast still nearly every Sunday, using seasonal vegetables to go with it. My DH loves them and so do family and friends when they come to lunch. What are Sundays for otherwise?

Sunday means roast lunch! We love it & always have one if we're about with fresh veg from the garden. Both our married children are in their 30s & they both have roast on Sundays too. Today there were 9 of us & I confess, we did have lunch out but somewhere that does a trad Sunday roast. I like the leftovers on Monday & have some delicious recipes or we just have cold meat & bubble & squeak.

I've just done a Sunday roast for 9! I do this every fortnight unless something crops up and often do more than that number. A roast is easier when you have large numbers but not efficient for a couple. Christmas dinner will be in the region of 15 to 20, maybe more! I will do Goose, Turkey, Lamb and anything else that comes along with all the trimmings. Everything gets eaten, even the sprouts which normally come from M&S (I do cheat a little there!)

If I miss anything off the menu, Sunday or Christmas, I get complaints which I take as a compliment as they must like it!

As a grandparent, I'm there to uphold the old ways!

Well, today DH is having left over cottage pie from yesterday. We had a good brunchy breakfast of scrambled egg, mushrooms and bacon and toast and I just don't want another meaty meal so I am going to have cheese and crackers ...and a glass of black beer and raisin wine (tastes like sherry!).

I do love to cook a roast and agree with others that it is actually one of the easiest meals to do, but I know I cook less and less joints of meat now. Still like my roasties though /

I often used to do a Sunday roast, especially when we were first married and I put the leftovers in a pie with mushrooms which was one of my DH's favourites.
As I'm sadly now widowed and trying to lose weight I tend to do something much simpler, even if it's a repeat of things I eat during the week, such as salad. Roasts tend to be just for Christmas now and as I visit my sister I don't have to cook it - a blessing as it's a bit of a faff isn't it?

We all still love a roast but not always on a Sunday.

welshwife lamb is really the only meat I eat regularly,dont eat pork or any type of fowl .I do a huge lamb roast every couple of weeks and slice it and freeze it in portions in the gravy .It heats up really well and its handy if the kids come for a freezer raid when they cant be bothered cooking..lol.I do the same with beef roast,in containers with the gravy ,it makes an easy quick dinner after work for my OH and I'll have an omelette.

Roast here most Sundays! We both love them, have a nice joint of pork in the oven now, which looks to have a lovely bit of crackling on it. Any leftovers will go into a stir fry tomorrow with noodles and veg.

I love Roast Beef, but as Jusnoneed pointed out, the expense!! I now buy the cheapest cut of beef, usually brisket, and cook it in a slow cooker with about 50mls of hot water. The end result is very succulent beef, and the makings of the most flavourful gravy I have ever had. I would never go back to roasting beef in the oven as the slow cooker method is foolproof. It also works well with a joint of pork too.

My mother cooked a roast dinner every Sunday and alternated chicken with shoulder of lamb. We, however, have lots to do on Sunday and so don’t eat a big lunch. We have something preprepared like spaghetti Bol or lasagne in the evening. We love roast though and do the, quite often.

All cold roast lamb gratefully received, kittylester and welshwife. The average roast Sunday lunch in a pub is pretty grim; the measures of foul gravy are more generous than the measures of drink.

always do a roast, beef and yorkshire puddings today trying to keep of the pudding love them but most lose some more weight.

Love having my roast on a Sunday. Today it was just pork chops, but with all the trimmings. Only two of us most of the time but I still like a nice joint of beef. Yes it isn't cheap, but if you have it roast on Sunday, cold on Monday, rissoles on Tuesday it's not so dear. Often have enough rissoles mixture left over to make a pasty too and that does us for two days!! Can be very economical :-)

We've just eaten Mushroom quiche,new potatoes, edame beans and garlic bread. We do not eat meat but still don't have a nut roast Sunday dinner more than a few times a year. We prefer to busy our Sunday's rather than all that peeling and basting !

I still cook a roast regularly, though not always on a Sunday. I'm now on my own but the family come for dinner very regularly. I would like the opportunity to have a Sunday pub roast as mentioned here instead of me always cooking.

I have a roast about twice a month depending on how I feel. I have been known to get sliced beef from the deli counter make the gravy and slip it in to warm through to save on time especially as we take MIL a dinner over every Sunday, she doesn't mind if she doesn't get a roast every Sunday. Today we had pork chops and roasted veg, pumpkin, carrots, potatoes, parsnips, onions, I got my 5 a day to be sure