The favourite family meal in the South West is once again a full Sunday roast with only five per cent of us preferring to order a takeaway, according to an online survey.

Given the choice 64% of us would choose a full Sunday roast to eat with our family, six per cent would choose a pasta dish, six per cent would prefer steak and chips and five per cent would prefer ordering a takeaway.

Only the Welsh were as enthusiastic about their Sunday roast with 64% of those surveyed choosing it as their ideal family dish, the national average being 59%, and in Scotland it wasn’t haggis on the menu – 48% still prefer sticking with their traditional British treat!

The new survey by YouGov for Yorkshire Provender also shows soup as another firm family favourite with nearly a fifth (18%) saying that someone in their household eats soup once a week.

Belinda Williams, author of Delicious Soups and founder of Yorkshire Provender Soup Company, commissioned the survey as part of her quest to provide the perfect family meal in a soup.

She was delighted to find newly launched ‘Roast Chicken Soup with Traditional Vegetables’ is now perfectly 'on trend', along with her ‘Cauliflower Cheese Soup with Ham and Fountains Gold Cheddar’.

She said: “We were delighted to see traditional meals are still the most popular in Britain we know people love sitting down together even if it is just once a week.

"We want to make it even easier for people to enjoy hearty, healthy delicious meals more often by creating recipes crammed full of taste and natural ingredients.”

Nearly two-fifths of people in the South-West do sit down at a dining/ kitchen table to enjoy a family meal together every day – 38% - beating the national average of 36%. The survey showed that seven per cent eat together only on weekday evenings, eight per cent only at weekends and five per cent say they never sit down with their family to eat.

Nearly one in five (18%) said that someone in their household eats soup once a week, two per cent every day.

  • Figures are from YouGov Plc. Total sample size was 2,021 adults, of which 178 were from the South West. Fieldwork was undertaken between September 3-4.