Do you still cook a Sunday roast?

Once a fortnight I cook M&S roast poratoes, microwave veg, microwave gravy, ready made stuffing and ready to cook roast meat, the one you buy in a box. Look for yellow stickers or a meal deal. Make a whole load of apple sauce and freeze into individual portions to use up the bramleys. Follow by a lidle dessert. This also saves on electricity/gas as well as a load of washing up so saves on water too. Can't go wrong!

Tip for stuffing. Make up whole packet, shape into balls. Use what you need and freeze rest for next time.

grandtanteJE65

There is no way I could possibly afford a roast every Sunday, even if we wanted to eat one as often.

But knowing that, doesn't help you - I was just surprised that meat prices must be a great deal lower in the UK, which I had not realised.

I still have a clear picture in my mind of a Giles cartoon from somewhere around 1970: a baron of beef in the butcher's window equipped with a sign reading, "Mortgages arranged."

Helpful suggestions:

1 If your dearly beloved husband wants apple sauce, he can make it himself, or at the very least, gather, peel and core the apples himself!

2 Actually, always assuming the man can read and understand a cookery book, I suggest he cooks the roast himself too, at least every other time you want one.

3 If the above is not practicable, set him to working out what cooking a roast and all its trimmings costs with the current electricity prices, (no pun intended) or gas prices. That should make him change his mind pdq!

4 Get yourself down to the nearest shop with a North African owner and buy a tagine, see photo. You can cook any kind of meat, fish or vegetables in it and it looks after itself entirely in the oven whilst doing so. And you can use the cheapest cuts of meat and the toughest chickens imaginable and they come out tasting and looking marvellous and are easy to chew, as well.

I’m in complete agreement with all these suggestions.
We have a roast chicken every Sunday, about 2/3 of which serves up to 5 on that night and the rest is put into a rice and veg one pot dish that our living-at-home-but-adult DC make on Monday nights. This means we only have to think of what to cook for 5 meals a week. I don’t cook if I can possibly help it, so DH does roast and all other meals, but I do help with the thinking part

No. No. No. It may depend on how many are in the household, but I bet single people don't bother. I never rated it highly anyway. I was once at a Conference about Alzheimers. The speaker said - if you can still prepare a Sunday lunch and get all the timings right then you don't have Alzheimers. I still won't be making one ever again.

Fernhillnana

Don’t you all find it incredibly boring?

What aspect of it do you find boring, fernhill?

As I live on my own I don't bother anymore. I make up for it when I'm out for lunch with friends as I usually order whatever roast is on the menu. Last week I'd a roast beef dinner and then hot apple pie and custard and boy did I enjoy it. I didn't have to cook it or wash up all the dishes either lol.

Roast dinner is my favourite meal. As I live alone it’s not worth the effort just for me so I limit it to when there’s family round once in a blue moon. I am always happy to have someone make one for me though! Unfortunately not as often as I’d like!

I vowed when I left home in 1976 never to do anything special to eat on a Sunday. I also vowed never to drink tea again...kettle was always on in parents home and I didn't like tea. I have pretty much stuck to that. It does not have to be a Sunday to cook a nice meal. My diet is pretty much vegan so would never do a roast anyway. Can still do 'all the trimmings' meals without the roast

We have my son and his family every Sunday....they asked, not me,Its roasts most weeks but now and again a home made moussaka or lasagne.His oldest daughter loves veg so I generally make at least 3 and potatoes two ways .

Nothing I like more than a day spent cooking and then with family ,this weekend we had the two oldest GD's too the amount of food they can put away has to be seen to be believed.

We have roast dinner every Sunday and occasionally in the week, although can’t afford big joints have chops or toad in the hole, also the slow cooked brisket small joints from Tesco are lovely.

Have trouble finding meat.Lamb too expensive, Pork too rich. Have either salmon, chicken or cheap cut of beef. Salmon done in microwave. Like many, buy stuffing and any sauces. Lot goes in oven at same time, then forget it apart from occasional basting.

No-body as far as I saw, mentioned the cleaning of the oven Before I even consider buying meat I think of the mess it all entails and settle quite happily into a cleaner and simpler dish.

Husband was spoilt rotten as a child and I found it simpler to carry on where the m-i-l left off. Oh yes, he used to' help', but appeared such an idiot asking for repeated instructions ( probably all by design) that I gave up

Do you all have self-cleaning ovens?

Get your husband to cook if he's keen on home made apple sauce! Life is too short

I'm lucky because my husband loves cold meat and jacket potatoes or sometimes meat warmed in gravy. I've bought a slicer with a rotary blade so can easily slice up the cold joint. Gammon goes down particularly well in our house and a slice from the lean gammon joint is so much nicer than bought ham. Keeps better too.

Never bother as live alone , my sister - in -law sometimes invites me as she does one every week . When the family visit, a roast is always on the menu as everyone eats it . But it’s usually in the early evening . Lots of roast potatoes and veggies. It’s usually chicken but my Yorkshire pudds are never any good nowadays , think Auntie Bessie will be called upon next time .

Usually only if family coming round, very rarely otherwise. We don't eat nearly as much meat as we used to.

I can easily do a roast dinner for two in about an hour. Chicken in the airfryer....takes 50 mins during which time I prep the vegetables and parboil the potatoes, ready to go in the airfryer while the chicken rests for 15 mins. Cook veg in one pan. All from scratch...yorkshire puds too sometimes! Minimal washing up too!

I do a roast about once a week but not always on a Sunday as I prefer something easier after church on Sunday, though sometimes eat in the evening instead. As winter draws in I may do more.
I used to struggle with roasties but finally seem to have got the knack - taught by my son!
I often buy belly pork slices which are reasonably cheap and easy to roast on a bed of stuffing, then I make gravy with fried onions, sage, veg stock and a spoonful of apple sauce (from a jar). It's relatively easy now I've figured out the roasties, and no carving! If it isn't belly pork I buy chicken legs. Again no carving. There's 2 of us since my daughter boomeranged back home, but when I was alone I made enough for 2 or 3 meals and packed in takeaway boxes to reheat in the microwave. I also roast a boned and rolled breast of lamb - reasonably affordable - or stuffed lamb's hearts, but daughter isn't a big fan of lamb so only cook those if she is away! I can't remember when I last roasted a proper joint that required carving as I try to be very frugal - apart from at Christmas!.

Nannan2

Had roast pork yesterday-(oven roasted) has anyone had any success with doing a roast in an air- fryer at all though?

I've done chicken (spatchcocked), a slow roasted beef joint and a big half shoulder of lamb. The beef was wonderful (my air fryer has a temperature probe so it was still slightly pink but well-cooked). Chicken is lovely, golden brown but not quite as moist as a whole chicken. Lamb was OK but I don't think it was a great piece of meat and plan to try again.
The only problem is that you have to cook the potatoes first and reheat whilst the joint rests.
I've got a small Yorkshire tin which fits my fryer and Yorkshires work well and are quick and easy to reheat. We don't really eat pork joints, just chops which are obviously fine.

There is no way I could possibly afford a roast every Sunday, even if we wanted to eat one as often.

But knowing that, doesn't help you - I was just surprised that meat prices must be a great deal lower in the UK, which I had not realised.

I still have a clear picture in my mind of a Giles cartoon from somewhere around 1970: a baron of beef in the butcher's window equipped with a sign reading, "Mortgages arranged."

Helpful suggestions:

1 If your dearly beloved husband wants apple sauce, he can make it himself, or at the very least, gather, peel and core the apples himself!

2 Actually, always assuming the man can read and understand a cookery book, I suggest he cooks the roast himself too, at least every other time you want one.

3 If the above is not practicable, set him to working out what cooking a roast and all its trimmings costs with the current electricity prices, (no pun intended) or gas prices. That should make him change his mind pdq!

4 Get yourself down to the nearest shop with a North African owner and buy a tagine, see photo. You can cook any kind of meat, fish or vegetables in it and it looks after itself entirely in the oven whilst doing so. And you can use the cheapest cuts of meat and the toughest chickens imaginable and they come out tasting and looking marvellous and are easy to chew, as well.

Sometimes.

Our local butcher does lovely ready roasted beef and pork, I will often buy a few slices of one or the other for our Sunday meal and have it with all the trimmings. I use ready made yorkshires, sauces and stuffing mix. I will sometimes roast a chicken again with ready made trimmings.

Rarely, since the kids left. But DH made one yesterday. ?

I live very close to two of my children and some of my grandchildren. I do cook "proper Sunday lunch" but rarely on Sunday or at lunchtime as my daughter has her children out and about doing things during the day.
Speaking of roasts, I remember that a chicken was a special treat when we were small. Typically we'd have it at my grandparent's house, they were farmers and kept chickens. It was a real occasion, all the trimmings including home made stuffing, with my Nanny's special trifle or lemon sauce pudding to follow. I remember that one chicken used to feed everybody, at least six people. Now we have roast chicken every week and I think we have much larger portions of meat!

Try and tray bake.