How does your Easter Sunday compare to Easter Sunday in advertising land?

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We don't go overboard for Easter, tomorrow we will be at church in the morning followed by an egg hunt at my parents and a roast. The marketing this year seems to have been worse than ever, with images of families feasting akin to Christmas! It all seems so OTT.
We are having roast Welsh Lamb (bought on offer in Aldi) with all the usual trimmings followed by a homemade raspberry cheesecake, the total cost for the food for 6 adults is just under £20 and there will be leftovers. We will have some wine too and that is about £6.00 a bottle.
We make a bit more effort than a normal Sunday but it won't break the bank.
What will you be doing tomorrow?

Just a usual Sunday here. Having family round Monday for home made curry dinner but that's just because it's a day off work. Have choc rabbits for everyone.

We did the roast today. 1kg half lamb leg (half price at Tesco), roast potatoes, carrots, parsnips. A bottle of cider each for me and my 16 year old DS. Just the two of us and two delighted cats.

Tomorrow, DS will get a large egg and a pack of Cadbury creme eggs from me. We will take my grandmother to an open garden then go home and cook a beef casserole to last the next few nights.

Monday, I should be levelling my garden to put some raised beds in, but it will probably rain so I will end up watching Netflix or reading.

Having curry tomorrow as doing a lamb dinner on Monday at my dads. (First Easter since my mam died so he's going to bingo and the pub tomorrow).

But will do an Easter egg hunt and Kids have new outfits.

I do have s few decorations up because why not?

Hot cross buns for breakfast, then start the main large egg, get dressed and ready, then the hunt for the small eggs, then watch some Easter movies, then prep Homemade pizza. Eat pizza and chocolate for the rest of the day. I'm so excited for this! (5 and 2 year old children).

Well I'll be working and we'll have fajitas for dinner and we gave the kids their eggs on Friday as we had plans for today. We're not religious so don't go to church anyway and we're about to move house so neither me or dh want to cook a roast and deal with all the pots and pans around boxes

I love Easter but I'm so burnt out at the moment that I've not really paid much thought to it.

I've bought the kids a few chocolates, a book each and a water bottle that they will wake up to. Usually we would do croissants for breakfast but tomorrow it'll be whatever we can find. Church, as usual on a Sunday and then to my mum's for a roast. Hopefully lots of wine and then a sleepy stroll back whenever we fancy it. To be honest it's just an excuse to do a nice dinner and get together with family. I'm just so grateful I don't have to organise it!

Church-heavy for us. Tonight is the Easter Vigil and then the post-service party (at church).

Tomorrow is church, followed by an Easter Egg hunt (also at church) then we are going out for a buffet brunch. I'm in the US; Easter brunch buffets are a huge deal. I'm looking forward to my bottomless mimosa! (Buck's fizz).

I haven’t noticed any difference this year but maybe it’s because I don’t watch tv or really anything where there might be adverts.

We are literally doing the same as always. Easter egg hunt in the morning, an easy lunch, then ‘Easter lunch’ for dinner.

Doing a spiced Middle Eastern style lamb leg, flatbreads, salads, olives, hummus, mint yoghurt, which we’ve had for about as many Easter’s as I can remember. Than a Tesco trifle in meringues for pudding.

Not religious, but I will cook a nice roast dinner and the kids will feast on chocolate eggs. And see some family in the morning.

We’ll be having Easter hunt in the morn but I’m first going to trick her by hiding fruit…sounds mean but it’s a joke we have!

Then we’re going to our local park that’s got an Easter (money making scam) thing on. I’ve promised her we’ll go in the pedaloes so probably one of us will fall in the lake, last time it was the bike, time before, the ball!

Then home for beef brisket sun lunch ( I just have the veg, pots etc) then play in garden until bed!

Weirdly, Easter has always been a bigger deal for my close family than Christmas.
My mum is a practicing catholic so makes a big thing of it which is lovely. The weather is always nicer than at Christmas and there isn't the pressure of presents and hype. Just family getting together, enjoying nice food and company.

We don't really celebrate it, but as we have DS who's 4 he'll get a chocolate egg and a couple of Easter gifts (a book, an Easter game and some bubbles). DH's family are practicing Christians, and it means a lot to them that all the family turn out for Church for Easter, Christmas, etc, so we'll also do that in the morning. Dinner will just be the usual, we won't be having any kind of roast as we never do.

Church with DD in the morning. I did ask DM if she wanted to come; she said she wasn't up to it so we'll take dinner and cook it there and have dinner with her. I t won't be lamb tho as none of us are that keen on it.
There is an egg hunt after the church service but DD is a teenage now so a bit too big, tho she sometimes helps the little ones.
We're planning to have sushi for tea!
We would normally have gone to my sister's at some point over the weekend and included an egg hunt but they're away.
DH and DS also away for the week.
No chocolate as ate it Thursday/Friday; Slimming world is on Tuesday so I've had to go back to plan to limit the damage!

Hate religion but happy to celebrate a day of chocolate. House of teens so a usual Sunday, will do a nice roast and have bought them eggs. Hot cross buns for breakfast.

Well we're a mixed family as I'm from another culture which is also having a festival at the moment, so we've had stuff for that going on. We're not religious... but we are still doing it quite similarly to the adverts! Certainly won't be as smiley as the ads though. SIL can be very sour.

Do the same most years. I like an excuse to have a big family meal and get some of the in-laws round but can understand not everyones cup of tea. DH will cook slow roast shoulder of lamb and I've got some decorations to do a 'tablescape'. Blame Mrs Alice. I've always done a hunt for the kids and planning a watch of the Godfather trilogy for the evening.

A roast, chocolate and Al Pacino - I'm excited.

Ours will be exactly like the adverts as we are a dimixed ethnicity family 😁
Church in the morning, with DS1 singing in the choir.
Followed by a roast at DMs (possibly eating in the garden if it is sunny enough) and an Easter egg hunt round her garden.

Sorry I started writing diverse then changed to mixed and ended up with dimixed, I can spell usually.

I don't celebrate Easter. We aren't religious so it's just another Sunday.

How are you feeding that many people with lamb, all the trimmings and rapsberry cheesecake for under £20? The cheapest lamb I seen in Aldi this morning was £16 and I paid £2.09 for raspberries

On my own with no lamb or egg hunt. Planning on baking something nice for breakfast, picky lunch, then vegan Kyev and mash for dinner. Netflix, reading and a bit of gardening.

Easter vigil service tonight in case we can’t go to church in the morning, dh has to go to work. Planning a roast dinner with lemon pie and chocolate bunnies for each of us.

The religious members of the family will go to church.

Those who observed lent will get stuck into the things they gave up.

We have my parents visiting and will have lamb for dinner.

And lots of Easter eggs

😄 I quite like "demixed"

Lamb was half price at Tesco. Ours was £7 for a half leg that would have done three people. Potatoes, onions, parsnips and carrots were 19p a bag. So less than £8. Would have been £15 for six adults.

I don't know off the top of my head what cheesecake costs to make but you can buy frozen raspberries.

Making the most of ,I hope,the quiet roads to travel nearly 3 hours one way to put flowers on my deceased partner's grave🙄after the trauma of this I will eat a bag of mini eggs on my return. Grim. Onli good thing will be popping for a cup of tea with friends and hopefully quiet roads.

Easter in my family is basically identical to Christmas. Same exact amount of extended family (about 30 people), but it is lunch instead of dinner, the food is different, and there are no presents.

There will be decorations (my mom always makes the effort), people will be dressed nicely, there will be ridiculous amounts of food and desserts and possibly some chocolate eggs.

So I guess it would be pretty much just like the advertising the OP is talking about!