Do most people have a special Easter lunch.

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(Assuming that it doesn’t clash with your own beliefs) but if not do you celebrate it?

Personally I’ve never known anyone who does make a special lunch but then Sunday roasts don’t seem to be as popular here as in other parts of the country.

No, never have! Might have a chocolate egg or hot cross buns but otherwise eat like any normal day.

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I'm a fairly regular church goer (C of E) and love the Easter service with the church looking beautiful after being bare and flower-less during Lent. We're all rewarded with a small egg afterwards.

Always have hot x buns for breakfast and fish for dinner on Good Friday and lamb on Easter Sunday, plus chocolate eggs for pudding.
I used to make a Simnel cake too, but I'm diabetic, DH is trying to lose weight and the DC have left home, so haven't this year as it would take ages to get eaten.

Had seafood pancakes and asparagus yesterday (I wasn't able to make pancakes on Shrove Tuesday) and am doing lamb with an Indian twist tomorrow: shoulder, slow cooked in coconut milk and spices, gunpowder potatoes and spiced roast vegetables.

Happy Easter, all

No. As a kid we always used to have hot cross buns and simnel cake, but I never remember having a special lunch, and I don't do one now.

We always have fish and chips on Good Friday but have no firm traditions for Easter Sunday.

Sometimes we'll have a nice pub lunch after a walk, but it's not a big event in my house (though Easter egg hunts, bonnets, and Easter crafts have become huge since having DC!).

My slightly macabre children always liked rabbit pie for Easter lunch, then they could say they had eaten the Easter bunny….. They were country kids, well versed in life, death and where food comes from but still!

Big atheists here but love Easter. We always have a meal with either family or invite friends over for a big roast.
Followed by egg hunt and games. Any excuse for a roast with fun people!

very occasionally we have had an easter bbq

It's a big event with us. It's the only time we have four days off together when we're not on holiday.

Last night we had fish and chip supper and tomorrow we'll host a group of friends for Easter lunch. I'll decorate the table and we do an Easter hunt for the kids although they're probably too old for it now. But they always insist.

We'll be having lovely spring soup using wild garlic from the garden. Roast chickens with the first English asparagus, new potatoes. All the trimmings and fresh rhubarb for dessert. Cocktails in the garden if it stays dry.

Love all the rituals. Like Christmas but with a lot less pressure.

Always. Roast lamb and a special pudding.

We always have roast lamb at some point over the Easter weekend. It’s pretty much the one time of the year I can justify the cost of lamb!

If it was just me and husband then no probably not but I would normally invite my married kids over and if they came id do a roast and a nice pudding
This year we are away in a cottage with family and we've booked lunch at a country pub.

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We have always celebrated it, at some point over the weekend (that works with everyone's shifts) we have a special lunch (usually a roast with extra trimmings etc), make simnel cake, enjoy hot cross buns. And the Easter bunny visits the children. We also always have a family walk around our local woods.

These are my family traditions from when my mum was a child carried through to my own children.

I'm attempting to make this tomorrow. I'm a crap cook and have never made a pavlova in my life.
Oh and the mini eggs and bunnies I bought earlier in the week have been eaten by DS1 when he was stoned so have had to buy a second lot.
Will report back with a picture.

Yes, lamb usually. Did Easter egg hunt when kids were small. Used to buy them a new dress each and perhaps crafts, small toy but not big or expensive

And yes had fish yesterday. Little traditions. Went to the Good Friday town service in the precinct too, several hundred people came

I love rabbit pie!!! We ate a lot growing up...our pet rabbit mysteriously disappeared in 1968!

Usually at this time of year (school holidays) we would have a lot of family and friends visiting and would have a big meal for that rather than specifically Easter. This year it's just 7 for dinner. We raise sheep and keep hens so I'm doing lamb followed by lemon tart and meringues. The kids will have a chocolate egg hunt in the morning but we don't "do" the Easter bunny. I've been blowing eggs for the last week or two so we'll paint some.

Yes lamb

Easter brunch rather than Easter lunch here, with real eggs, cold egg slices to share and a fancy omelette, think salmon/ham plus side salad bits and pieces. No pud at that point but cake and coffee/tea a bit later.

Normal dinner in the evening.

Happy Easter everyone 🐣

We do. DH loves Easter. More than Christmas.

typically it’s the first time we get the bbq going (we’re Channel Islands not anywhere exotic).

last year we slow cooked a shoulder of lamb and had a Middle Eastern feast. Mostly to spite dhs dad and his partner. They told us they were coming over and needed a traditional Easter lunch of lamb. Fine. Fine I said. Jesus was from the Middle East. So delicious spiced lamb pitta humous salads curtousy of ottolenghis books baklava.

apparenrly I was being ridiculous. 🙄 and should know that Jesus had a proper lamb roast.

it was bloody lovely though.

Easter lunch is probably my favourite meal of the year - as good as Christmas dinner, but much more relaxed. I make a tacky and childish starter involving olives and radishes cut to look like bunnies, then very, very slow-cooked lamb with dauphinois potatoes and asparagus and other nice veg, followed by salad, cheese and a lemon posset. Very little actual work leaving plenty of time for church and egg-hunting, with a proper feast at the end.

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We always have a big lamb roast and invite family or friends. Also always do an Easter egg hunt beforehand.

This year my eldest wants to go to church which we normally only do at Christmas but we will try tomorrow.

No we do absolutely nothing for Easter and never have done, bar a little egg hunt around the garden when the children were little. We have no family history of doing anything at Easter and have no family around so it just completely passes us by. Tomorrow is just another day for us.