Do you eat lamb at Easter?

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Leg is half-price just about everywhere. Just got one in Sainsburys.

The carrots and brocoli are only 15p in Asda too, like they were for Christmas.

yes!

Nope

Oh forgot mint sauce so have to go out tomorrow. Cannot eat it without that.

No. The kids voted for roast chicken.

Haven't eaten lamb for about 30 years but dh is making harissa shoulder of lamb Sunday

Yes but only decided today so went to M&S to get the best looking leg I could find as lamb is so difficult. Full of fat and tubes.
£33 British Pounds 😭. Better be good.
Once a year though. It’s not my favourite.

Yes! Lamb roast with spring greens and Jersey royals on Sunday. Lashings of mint sauce.

Nope we have beef,we are not huge fans of lamb, we used to have it at Easter before my mum passed as she loved it

Yes! I only buy free range chicken so at Easter lamb is more affordable.

I ordered a half shoulder and got subbed a full shoulder . Unfortunately in laws have invited us to theirs for gammon. Gutted as my house loves lamb. Will have to have ours the weekend after.

Ive stocked up on carrots and onions and spent today making soup with it. Yum.

Can't afford it. Very occasionally we might get some lamb chops.

I was miffed this morning, I’d gone into Sains via Argos for a parcel then straight to the lamb - £11 for a big leg - when I came from the tills there were 5lb bags of potatoes and big bags of carrots for 15p!
It’s a trek to the car park so I couldn’t be bothered to go back. It was also insanely busy at 09.30 😳

We never have lamb, I've never liked the taste, but also help to hand rear lambs on the farm where I have my horse so there's now way I could eat them. We are going out for a curry on Easter Sunday 😂

Yes we do.. I made lamb shanks in a red wine sauce for Sunday.

Roast beef all trimmings for Monday

Also made Jamaican escabeche fish for this evening! With rice n peas of course!

I'm vegetarian now so no but previously also no, it always repeated on me so bad, could taste it the next day 😬

Yes, always.

No. DD is vegetarian and is cooking. She is an excellent cook.

The past few times I've bought leg/shoulder of lamb I've been really disappointed.... barely any meat and full of fat.

I've bought a pork joint instead.... better value I find.

My partner is doing "middle feaster" mutton tagine, home made hummus hm lentil hummus, hm flatbread hm falafel, amaranth salad etc etc
Edited for spelling!

No we never eat it. We have roughly around 250 of them just now, I get sick of the sight of lamb 😂. Edited to add we’re having pork on Sunday.

Yes we'll be having lamb on Sunday

I absolutely love lamb

Yes- Its marinating in the fridge right now!
We don't have a tradition of having it at Easter, but if its on special, then absolutely.

@CheeseWisely Where did you get your jersey royals from and how big are they? I went to a farmers market yesterday that had some, but they were the size of marbles! I would feel guilty eating such small ones, plus cleaning them would be a faff.

Not personally as vegan but in years gone by I used to do roast lamb for the family with bun and butter pudding for dessert.

This is our first Easter at home for years and we have MIL who doesn't like lamb, DM who doesn't like pork and DH who doesn't like chicken. So they're having turkey. Christmas #2.

No we have about 1000 sheep to lamb at this time of year and can't stomach the smell of it at Easter. Lamb poo and roasting lamb smell very similar.

It's my favourite meat the rest of the year when it is actually in British Season (August through to January) with lashings of mint sauce.

The lamb you are buying from the supermarkets at Easter is usually low welfare New Zealand and Australian lamb, produced to standards that fall far below what is acceptable in the UK, shipped frozen from the otherside of the world and sold at a massive loss £/kg by the supermarkets at a price that butchers trying to sell the last of last year's UK lambs for Easter can't even afford to buy the animal alive for at the moment in the UK.

British lamb is one of the most environmentally friendly, sustainable meats going. Please try and support us in the Autumn when our own lamb is in season and delicious.

What do you eat for Easter? Lamb is half price in Tesco, £6.50/kg, 5% beef mince by comparison is £6.98/kg. Easter and Christmas are the only time we usually do a roast.