Do You Have A Roast Dinner Each Sunday?

KT1985

I did a breast of lamb the other night- got it home, unrolled it, cut it into 2, made a mushrooms stuffing with leftover bread, homegrown mint and mushrooms, rolled it all together and tied it with cotton string, slow cooked it and then cut into slices and served with veggies and home made gravy.
Result? The nicest lamb we have had in ages, costing 50p a portion fotr plenty of meat for the two of us.

Penny-Pincher!!

Hi Kittyboo

We always have a roast on a Sunday, but I do try to get leftovers for the next day. I think a chicken works to be the cheapest for us.

There are 3 of us (OH & DD healthy eaters) and I usually buy a medium chicken (approx 1.5kg) and this will do us a roast on Sunday, chicken muck muck Monday (mix the leftover chicken with mushroom soup and serve with rice...delish!) and hopefully a coronation chicken baguette for OH & I to share. If I'm feeling really frugal (RARELY!!) I will make stock.

We also look out for reduced meat cuts. The bigger beef joints (usually over £20) are often reduced as many people dont need that much, so we buy when reduced to £5-£7 but this will do us 3 main meals and a nice treat.

All our veg are bought from Aldi super6, frozen or some HG. They are always in season.

You could pad out roasts with yorkshires (make double and freeze for following week), stuffing (I use value packets 13p:o), serve roasted veg with honey and olive oil...delish, mash with swede, carrot and swede mash etc etc.

We have often had a roast dinner with sausage, burgers, fish, ham etc if there is stuff needing to be used.

I forgot to say that Sunday is my favourite day and so is roast dinners with Shepherds Pie in 2nd place.

Always use a good quality spud for roasties.

HTH

PP
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~BamNaggy~

Hello

We have roast chicken with stuffing, boiled ham and pineapple chutney, liver, sausage and onions or minty shepards pie with yorkshire puds.
We occasionally have a beef or pork joint but it is less popular in our house.
Whatever the left overs they get reused in the next couple of meals. x x

Beaker99

KT1985 wrote: »

I did a breast of lamb the other night- got it home, unrolled it, cut it into 2, made a mushrooms stuffing with leftover bread, homegrown mint and mushrooms, rolled it all together and tied it with cotton string, slow cooked it and then cut into slices and served with veggies and home made gravy.
Result? The nicest lamb we have had in ages, costing 50p a portion fotr plenty of meat for the two of us.

Well now I can answer the OP's question.. and the answer is breast of lamb, stuffed with some Portobello mushrooms bought (reduced obviously!) yesterday!! - KT1985 - THANK YOU!! - sounds fantastic!!

HariboJunkie

We have beef, pork, lamb or chicken every week and I always do at least 4 veggies, roast potatoes and yorkshire puds which definitely stretches out the meat.
We often just have reheated leftovers on a Monday as it's a busy night in our house.
With beef any leftover meat is then turned into rissoles or cottage pie, lamb is used for shephed's pie and the bone used for stock for scotch broth. Leftover chicken is used for sandwiches or chicken fried rice and the carcass is always used for stock for soup. Pork, while it is the cheapest joint I buy doesn't lend itself to leftovers and other recipes as well as the other meats imo so although it's cheap it isn't always economical.;)
To me the sunday roast is about buying a good quality joint of meat and getting as much out of it as possible without compromising on taste or quality of meals.

anguk

We normally have a roast with whichever meat is on offer, the leftovers are stretched into a meal on Monday or sandwiches.

If money is a bit tight we'll have toad in the hole or mince & dumplings.

Belisarius

Not sure yet, but I reckon toad in the hole is a good bet!

KittyBoo_2

Sunday roast is my favourite too and it was interesting reading your choices.
I am lucky enough to live in a town where there is a good market on every day, except Sunday, so getting all the cheap seasonal veg is no problem.
I intend to grow more of my veg for next year to make it even cheaper.
Hope you all enjoy your Sunday dinner.

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Well for the past 6 + years mine has been non-existant as I go to my DDs every Sunday,but I do take Veggies or a cake round with me She has herself and OH and five children and insists that one extra is not a problem.She does pad out the meat a little as her three little boys sometimes don't want to eat the meat so she always makes a plate of sausage rolls which if not all used at Dinnertime go into their packed lunchboxes the next day. I arrive around 4.p.m and usually help the little ones with their homework and then we play board game or cards of chess until Dinner time usually around 6.00.p.m.Tomorrow I know we are having leg of lamb.Her husband loves cooking, and will make three or four different veggies plus two differnt sorts of gravy one for adults and one for the little ones. I am very grateful of this as if I was at home on my own I probably wouldn't bother ,although I do cook the rest of the week for myself

valk_scot

Usually a roast of some sort, chicken or pork being the two top favourites for economy. Tomorrow for instance it was going to be a whopsie M&S chicken from the freezer, but then I spotted the half price offer Morrisons are running on shoulder pork roasting joints. 3 1/2 joint for £3.66, and there will be plenty leftovers for Monday and perhaps even some for a stir fry on Tuesday.

I'll do the roast joint with stuffing (Paxo stuffing was down to 7p a packet in my local Mr T last week!), roast spuds, cabbage and carrots from the allotment, Yorkshire puddings and gravy. Total price about £5 for four of us, for two meals plus.