Do You Have A Roast Dinner Each Sunday?

foreign_correspondent

Most of a sunday dinner is cheap anyway, if you use seasonal veg, make some yorkies etc, the bulk of it is very economical, it is the meat that costs most, but in many cases the meat from a roast can become the basis of several meals...

Beef brisket is nice in the slow cooker, served with yorkshires, roasties and loads of veg - and the remainder can be used in sarnies, made into a stew or beef broth, cottage pie etc...

Alternatively, as Olliebeak says, if you do a roast chicken you can make curry, sarnies, and soup with the leftovers.

If you don't want to use up leftovers, then toad in the hole can be nice!

...Or chicken thighs wrapped in bacon then roasted!

Kiwisaver_2

I always do a roast during the cooler months it's reasonably economical even if the initial outlay for the meat seems a lot, there's usually plenty enough to stretch the Sunday meat to the next day or two - or at least for sarnies for Monday lunch. The rest is veg and cheap enough as others say. If I'm being extra frugal or need something easier because we're out, then I might do a slow cooker stew, or lamb shanks that can be left to cook themselves.

In summer months I would do something like boiled ham in the slow cooker, kebabs or still roast a chicken and have it with bread, salad, jacket potatoes or something.

pixie1

RUBBER CHICKEN!

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hannah899

i tend to go to my local sainsburys on on saturday evening about 5 or 6 they usually have a joint on reduced. i got a porkjoint from £4 down to £1.40.
also asda do a pork joint for £2.50 a kilo looks huge. im off to get on on tuesday. veg is always on offer at asda

esmf73

My Sunday lunch this week won't cost - but thats because I'm just getting it all out of the freezer. Have veggies in there that I've bought on a discount and prepared and just frozen, along with premade crumble and cut up fruit. Should be yummy!

gingin_2

Pork shoulder is popular in our house. It roasts really nicely, leftovers cube really easily and taste great in curries, chillies, etc. It's a brilliant value option.

Beaker99

A bit like the posts above on buying discounted joints - we always keep our eyes open for these, and then throw them in the freezer - at any one time we've always got a full compliment of roast choices!

..sort of on the subject for this, I find the fresh counter at Sainsbury's best for beef (Rib on bone joints are by far the best cut by the way) - and they <fairly> often have one reduced. If there's 2-3 ribs I'll offer a couple of pounds less/Kg less than the reduced cost, if I take the whole thing, and then when we get home Mrs Beaker cuts it to 1-2 joints and a couple of rib-eye steaks - usually with some off-cuts put in the freezer for a pie!.. bargain!

Zazen999

I'm veggie so we have some quorn thing or other; my OH loves the butternut squash roast thingy that you can get.

All our veg is home grown, and at the moment we are having roasts twice a week. Potatoes, parsnip, carrots, swede, green beans [we have some in the greenhouse], cabbage, courgettes, beetroot; any or all of the above are all on the plate at the moment. Allotment costs £15 a year; and all the hard work was ours. Seeds we get by swapping. So, pretty inexpensive all round.

Barneysmom

I usually buy a bigger piece of beef as it's cheaper per kilo. Then when I get it home I cut it into 4 or 5 joints and freeze some.
Out of those pieces I do a dinner and sandwiches for work next day too.

helyg

We have a roast every Sunday, I love it because it gives me leftovers for Monday and possibly Tuesday too.

The meat varies from week to week, could be chicken, lamb, beef, gammon, pork etc.

We use in season veg, usually we have carrots (kids are carrot mad) plus one other vegetable, eg swede, parsnips, cabbage etc.

Got to have a pudding afterwards, have been making a lot of crumbles recently with apples or plums, otherwise it might be steamed pudding or bread and butter pudding or rice, all of which are cheap and yummy!