How does everyone else plan their Sunday dinners? A roast dinner is my favourite meal of the week and as you can see, I don’t do it lightly🤣 I’m not going to do a roast dinner weekly anymore😣 so I’m going to do it monthly (saves calories and money)
What are your tips to make a LESS calorific/healthier roast?
Roast potatoes are my main concern😂
Thanks!
Plenty of meat, loads of vegetables - at least four or five - some might be roasted, or I might have cauliflower cheese or braised red cabbage - and I just don't bother with the potatoes. 
I love a roast dinner too but don't like Yorkshire pudding so save a few calories there. I do still have roast potatoes but have less than I did. I do have alot more veg so last time i had 2 small roasties, carrot & swede mash (with butter), brocolli, green beans, cabbage and leeks in cheese sauce with my roast chicken. As I'm on 1600 calories per day it's surprising how much you can eat when it's mainly veg.
I think that is going to be the hardest part- having less potatoes 😂 I’m not too fussed when it comes to the rest, that’s a good idea though, things like cauliflower cheese as someone else mentioned and leaks in cheese sauce- things like that would easily bulk out a roast dinner! Thank you 😊
Do you like roast parsnips? Here the kids have roast potatoes and roast parsnips but, I have roast parsnips and roast sweet potato instead. I haven't had Yorkshire puddings in quite a while but do stick to our sunday dinner to maintain a bit of normality in lockdown. Like others have said, have more veg and less potato so it doesn't feel like you aren't eating things you want, I have loads of veg now!
I can see a few approaches.
1) If it's only once a month, then you could just say f' it. Cut the calories on Saturday and Monday, maybe only eat one meal on Sunday, and just go to town. If you don't have many cheats per month, it won't derail you.
2) Portion control: get a smaller plate, and then pile it up as high as you are used to. It will be half the food, but if you eat it mindfully - slowly, and actually concentrating on the tastes, I think you will soon enjoy it as much as before
3) Reduce carbs. This is what I would do. Skip potatoes and any other starchy veg, Yorkshire pudding and (sorry) gravy. More meat and lots of green veggies. If I was making it myself, I would roast Mediterranean vegetables. Salt, pepper and horseradish, and I would be happy.
4) Reduce fat: I think the pudding would still have to go. Gravy too. Less potatoes. Cut the fat off the meat. Etc. I'm not sure how possible it is to have low fat Sunday roast. 😂
I find Sunday roasts a right pain to cook and wash up, but great to accommodate different diets. I do chicken, pigs in blankets, lots of green veg, & roast potatoes for my son & SlimmingWorld mother in law. I often do mashed celeriac for my husband and I on low carb. We all have the gravy & I have not checked its carbs but it’s not a regular thing so we seem to be ok on it.
I do a roast about once a month now with cauliflower cubes, some carrots, parsnips and zucchini cubes .I rake some of the run of that has beef broth and drizzle on veggie's and add towards the end of the roating time. Sometimes butter and S&P with other herb's.
I agree, portion control has been my single biggest lesson 😊
All good suggestions noted, like many I would increase the meat as it’s filling and tasty and add butter to the green veggies, leaving the starchy ones alone.. but absolutely love roast parsnips 😋
Hahaha yes, probably!! I’m guessing you can get good food out though? I’ve forgotten where you are, sorry, but I think you said you can get good take away food?
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