What do you do for Sunday Dinner?
By hezoid
@hezoid (2144)
May 20, 2007 8:00am CST
Do you bother to have a Sunday Dinner every, or most Sundays? By that i mean the traditional Roast Dinner with meat, gravy, veg, potatoes etc. Do you cook yours yourself, go out and have it at a restaurant (ie a carvery), go to one of you friends or famuilys houses and eat it there (maybe even take it in turn each Sunday?), or do you simply not bother? We generally spend every other Sunday at my partner's mothers' house having Sunday Lunch with the family. If not, we will go to my own parent's house for Sunday Dinner, like we are doing today. Or,we might go and have it at a restaurant where they do a carvery. We don't often make it ourselves since there's just the two of us, and it doesn't seem worth the time and effort. But, we like to have some kind of Sunday dinner every Sunday! It's something nice to look forward to, and it's best if it's with family so you get to see them too.
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@ItTakesAllSorts (4096)
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20 May 07
Since leaving home and having my own family we no longer follow this tradition. Now I tend to cook it when I feel like it, usually one day in the week. My daughter loves a roast and will kill for a roast potato, whereas my son moans and hates a roast, so theres joy and depression at the same time in my home when the smell of a roast hits their nose.LOL
Today will be pasta and garlic bread I think, but then I never really plan a meal everyday, so it all depends on mood I'm in as I usually have to cook about three different meals as my family are so fussy!
Enjoy your roast today hezoid!
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@chaitrakrishnan (181)
• India
20 May 07
i like to have non-veg for sunday dinner. Some times i go out with friends to have dinner. But i dont understand why only sunday. Thats the thing i observed from my childhood and is been followed from my childhood.
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@twilight021 (2059)
• United States
20 May 07
For me, Sunday is often a day to catch up on everything that I let slide during the week....laundry, cleaning, grocery shopping. I like to try to cook some food for the upcoming week too.
However, when I get an invite, I like having sunday dinner with my family. We don't get to it every week due to schedules and such, but my Dad and his family often invites us over for Sunday dinner. We generally eat earlier in the afternoon, around 3 or so, and have pasta and a roast of some sort. I try to get there early enough to help with the cooking as that's also an important and fun part of the meal.
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@maddysmommy (16230)
• United States
20 May 07
I use to love going to my parents house for Sunday dinner -Roast chicken/pork/beef, chopsuey, roast potatoes, salads (egg, cook island mayonaise, tossed), taro, veges, gravy and then yummy dessert, ice-cream and cheesecake or fruit salad! Ok now i'm getting hungry!
Now that we have moved its just the three of us and when my husband is home he likes to cook a roast chicken with corn and veges, rice or potato salad and gravy most sundays. It varies a bit but it is nice when we have a big sunday meal. We usually eat leftovers on Monday :)
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@mamacathie (3928)
• United States
20 May 07
I cook every Saturday and get everything prepared for Sunday dinner(lunch) after the morning worship service. All the family comes up after church and we enjoy one another's company. We have meat veggies, and dessert and bread. This is an every Sunday thing.
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@wachit14 (3595)
• United States
20 May 07
I remember Sunday dinner at my grandmother's house. She did indeed make pot roast, homemade soup, and other homemade dishes that took her hours to prepare. Today, we don't live close to any of our family, however, we do make it a point to have dinner with our children every Sunday. In nice weather we barbeque, but most times we will have dinner out at a local restaurant. It doesn't really matter what you are eating as long as you are together.
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@Katlady2 (9904)
• United States
22 May 07
Every Sunday, one of my close friends comes to visit and we go to church. Then after church we go shopping and then come home and watch movies. Toward the evening, my husband fires up the barbeque, and fixes whatever type of meat my friend and I have picked out from the store. Usually it is tri tip roast, pork chops, or steaks of some kind. We also put hot dogs or bratwurst on as well. Along with the meat we fix a side dish and some garlic bread. By the time we get done eating, we're all too full to move! LOL
@hardworkingmom (1130)
• United States
21 May 07
I cook every Sunday. I cook like 2 meats veggies rice dinner rolls or cresents mac n cheese etc, I sometimes even do a dessert. I grow up on Sunday dinners and now that I have family of my own they are so use to doing it and or having it I continued the tradition. Plus I enjoying cooking especially if it means bring the family together for at least 1 do out of the week. Plus I don't have to cook on Mondays(LOL).
PS I have to cook 2 meats because I don't eat beef or pork but everyone else does. I have a family of six.
@nglanfield (559)
• Turkey
4 Jun 07
Likeyou, we only tend to have the full Sunday roast when we visit family (which isn't often!) as there is only two of us, it doesn't seem worth the time preparing everything. It becomes more of a special dinner now as we have it with family!
Normally on a Sunday we have something quick and easy as not to waste what little time we have over the weekend together.
@Modestah (11179)
• United States
2 Jun 07
we do try to make the Sunday dinner more special. Not always a fancy roast - but maybe even a meatloaf with biscuits, mashed or baked potatoes, brussel sprouts etc. a full coursed dinner anyhow. Chicken is a pretty traditional Sunday option which we will probably be having tomorrow night. My son is diet restricted so that somewhat dictates how the cooking is done, now that he is home again. (spent the year away at a boarding school)
@mailboxmoney (1216)
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2 Jun 07
i dont really follow sunday tradition for food because i dont like beef or yorkshire puddings but sometimes when i go to restaurants they have a sunday roast dinner with vegetable dishes i think sundays are supposed to be a religious day and eating on that day is a kind of a religious thing i dont know why because you eat pork and beef and celebrate sacrifice on that day and a lot of people who go to church have sunday lunch or dinner afterwards as a social event. originally it was to celebrate the first day and the coming together of families as this was a day when different families got together and made peace together
@RockShanghai (86)
• China
21 May 07
Oh! meat, gravy, veg, potatoes! That's fabulous! I often eat instant noodles in the weekend...
@coffeeshot (3783)
• Australia
20 May 07
Sunday is the only night of the week where my fiancee and I always cook dinner together. We work opposite shifts so Sunday night is pretty much the only night where we can chill out together and watch tv. Sunday is my favourite day of the week!
