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.

@DSD9472 They're a fairly decent size but we're in the right place to get the best of the early harvest and they may only have been picked yesterday

It's a no from.me. Don't particularly like it.

Its £5.70/kg at asda and £5.69/kg at lidl currently.

We don't have lamb all that often any more because it is so expensive, but I got one of the Sainsburys legs the other day (and the 15p parsnips), so we're having it on Sunday. Family coming to visit, so it will get demolished.

I'm EO, our Easter isn't until May, so it's still Lent for us. We don't have a special meal at our house as we're up all night on Easter Sunday and too tired to cook. We do have Christmas dinner though.

No - it gives me horrific indigestion.

If I do a roast on Easter Sunday it might be any of the meats I cook year-round. I’m not religious so it holds no meaning for me as a festival, and doesn’t go with any particular food tradition.

I made sure to pick British lamb from
Sainsburys today. If British lamb isn’t in season at the moment, what is the stuff I bought? Will it have been frozen? It doesn’t say that on the label but I guess there must be some downside to out of season meat. I never really thought of it like that before.

Have had two meals this week out of a Sainsbury's leg. Has been delicious. Going out on Sunday not sure if I'll have lamb yet again.

No, one of my DCs hates it. We only have lamb about once a year and that will be slowcooked in herbs or similar rather than roasted.

No prefer to see them
using their own legs in paddocks!

Yes! I bought five legs of lamb and cooked them all at the same time today. They've all been sliced up and vacuum packed into family sized portions. Should last us until they're half price again at Christmas. Absolutely love lamb but refuse to pay the price of them when it's not on offer.
All of the bones are in the slow cooker with some cheap veg to make stock for soup.

I don't eat anything from any animal. Lambs having their throats slit is disturbing if you really think about it. Needless suffering and death.

Most of the British lamb you are eating now was either born later in the season last year (May/june) or very early in the season this year (December)

OR
was never originally intended to be sold for meat and was originally retained for breeding from this autumn, but the farmer has instead decided to sell them now for meat instead whilst there is a premium being paid.

It's unlikely to have been frozen, just a bit older when it was killed than the British lamb you eat through summer/autumn/winter.

And thanks for buying British

No more disturbing than birds, baby deer, mice, hares, rabbits, snakes, insects etc being mashed through a combine harvester or shot/poisoned in the name of crop harvesting and protection.

Unless you grow everything you eat in your own back garden using no chemicals etc then you can't really claim significant superiority over meat eaters. It might be easier to turn a blind eye to the fact that your dietary intake requires the death of animals, but that's about the extent of it.

Haven’t eaten lamb since my parents stopped being in control of the menu. It’s edible, but I have spent over 30 years avoiding it so I’m definitely not a fan.

No don't like it.

Yep, because it's almost invariably half price, so I get to afford it!
I'm having a roast half leg with my famed dauphinoise potatoes, veggies and red wine sauce.

Yep!

We eat lamb whenever it’s reduced 🤣

I’ve just taken my £9 post Christmas reduction leg of lamb out of the freezer and I’ll put it in to maninade tomorrow for Sunday.

We love a leg of lamb but can’t justify the cost normally.

No. I wouldn’t hold the poor animal down and cut its throat while it squealed with pain and fear, so I’d be a hypocrite if I ate it. The meat industry is filthy, barbaric and evil. A hundred years from now, people will look at meat eaters in the same way we look at slave traders.

Yep. Roast lamb on Sunday.

Happy Easter to you too!

I'm making lamb tagine, 2 out of 4 people in my family like roast dinners, whereas everyone loves a lamb tagine!

Absolutely not.

I'm cooking for the millions for the foreseeable and the hard and fast rule is no lamb at lambing time. Ever

But when you buy lamb you create a demand. It means farmers breed even more of them in order to put them through the fear and pain of slaughter. God knows what kind of people work in the slaughterhouses that kill lambs.