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Original poster

To expect a roast on Easter Sunday (MIL moan)

163 replies

CinnamonPlums · 20/04/2014 17:17

It's 5pm. We haven't eaten Easter lunch yet. I have three Dds to amuse and it's getting pretty frantic.

So far we've had a cheese sandwich.

MIL just announced she's getting a Stew our of the freezer for dinner.

WTAF has she been doing in the kitchen for the last 2 hours? I could have done the roast if she thought it was too much!

I know IABU. Should be grateful for her hosting but I just wish she had said it was all too much before and I could have hosted!

Thank God we've all got chocolate to hold body and soul together.

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PuggyMum · 20/04/2014 17:18

How has it got to this time without you realising a roast wasn't on the menu!?

Forgettable · 20/04/2014 17:19

I would think summat has Gone Wrong in the kitchen

Original poster
CinnamonPlums · 20/04/2014 17:19

I've tried offering to help before it's no good. And if I try and cook I lose it she's such a spoony f*cker.

I've got hanger.

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Joules68 · 20/04/2014 17:20

A roast isn't obligatory

SpiderNugent · 20/04/2014 17:20

Say dont worry about the stew, I will phone the local indian

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CinnamonPlums · 20/04/2014 17:21

I know puggy it now appears dh knew but didn't tell me as he knows I would be mad.

Dds don't like anything saucy.

Stew will not go down well.

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Original poster
CinnamonPlums · 20/04/2014 17:21

Haha I think I'm going to pop upstairs and sample the gin stash I keep for such occasions

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Lilaclily · 20/04/2014 17:22

Surely a cheese sandwich is enough for lunch? What do you usually eat ? Or are you one of those parents who are constantly handing out raisins & mini pots of hummus & crudités from your Cath Kidston handbag Grin

cozietoesie · 20/04/2014 17:23

I'd go for a meal out - and take MIL as well. Just say it'll soon be time for supper and announce it cheerfully. (She can get the stew back in the freezer if it's only just out.)

Lilaclily · 20/04/2014 17:23

Surely a cheese sandwich is enough for lunch? What do you usually eat ? Or are you one of those parents who are constantly handing out raisins & mini pots of hummus & crudités from your Cath Kidston handbag Grin

Joules68 · 20/04/2014 17:24

So dinner/lunch should revolve around your dd's?

GiddyUpCowboy · 20/04/2014 17:24

She has messed up the roast, so you are having stew.

My exmil laughed about having serving up a roast duck to her Mum once, that she dropped on the floor. I always felt cautious eating at her house after that. I would rather someone give me a stew out of the freezer.

ilovepowerhoop · 20/04/2014 17:24

we're having a BBQ

Lilaclily · 20/04/2014 17:24

Oops Grin

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CinnamonPlums · 20/04/2014 17:24

lilaclily Hahaha!

I thought the cheese sandwich was to tide us over after the dire church service we were subjected to!

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squoosh · 20/04/2014 17:25

Stew when one has been expecting a roast would be cold, cold comfort indeed. Weren't you alerted though by the lack of yummy, meaty aromas?

squoosh · 20/04/2014 17:25

Have some Easter egg joules, sweeten yourself up!

tobysmum77 · 20/04/2014 17:26

yabu eat what you're given. We are having casserole can't see what's wrong with that

anyoldname76 · 20/04/2014 17:27

Reminds me of when me and exh went his parents for tea on Christmas day, we were invited for buffet food, wine etc. We offered to bring food/wine, told these was no need it was all in hand. We took a fancy chocolate cake and a bottle of champagne anyway.
By 11o clock at night after eating a handful of nuts and some supermarket chocolate we gave up and came home.
Some people are very strange, we were never invited again Hmm

MelonadeAgain · 20/04/2014 17:28

WTAF has she been doing in the kitchen for the last 2 hours?

My guess would be that shes been eating Easter eggs.

Have you had many of them today?...

cozietoesie · 20/04/2014 17:33

Quite a few, I'd guess.

Fairylea · 20/04/2014 17:34

I never realised roast dinner was expected for easter... Christmas I understand but easter? Not such a big deal surely. Maybe I'm wrong.

We've just had jacket potatoes for lunch and will have pasta for dinner. Same as usual! And lots of chocolate!

cozietoesie · 20/04/2014 17:35

We get a pudding (with cream) but that's because it's a weekend and not because it's Easter. I never realized you had to have a big slap-up at Easter.

squoosh · 20/04/2014 17:36

Wow, I don't know anyone who doesn't have a celebratory style meal on Easter Sunday.

cozietoesie · 20/04/2014 17:38

Well you've just come across two, I think.