To expect a roast on Easter Sunday (MIL moan)

[CinnamonPlums]

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.

I feel your pain . we briefly called at mils today on the way to Great Grandmas (DH cooks her meals for the week on a Sunday). There was the delicious smells of a roast lamb dinner being prepared and both my SILs and all their kids waiting to eat.
Apparently it was an impromptu Easter lunch, that everyone just 'invited themselves' to and wasn't planned, really lucky that there was enough veg/meat/pots for those extra 6 guests

I would like to say I'm surprised/sad/angry but it happens a lot - poor DH and Ds just aren't treated the same as her DDs and their kids.

So we will also miss out on a roast but are having lamb shish kebabs for dinner which will be just as nice-maybe you should drink the Gin and call for a nasty doner on the way home, it's lamb-ish

We had lasagne for dinner, I had no idea I was expected to do a roast. Is that what Jesus had when he was resurrected?

That's really shitty Combine, how hurtful.

You've hit the nail on the head Pavlov it's the expectation of one thing and getting something completely different, that's disappointing.

I hate stew (bad memories from childhood!) so would be a bit gutted.

Very naughty of your dh not to pre-warn you!

I don't know anyone that does have a special slap up meal at easter all the posts about roasts have been a totally new one on me.

Roast lamb is the traditional Easter meal. For family reasons mine is being postponed till next Sunday so I have to make do with roast chicken plus trimmings today. Poor me.

Some families have a roast on Easter Sunday as a family tradition no-one is expected to do a roast.

we always have roast dinner at easter even as a kid even a stew is going to take a long time to cook

Really Squoosh? We had KFC!

oh ignire happymummy she has a real chip on her shoulder about MIL.
OP YANBU
Hope you enjoy the stew.

I thought a special dinner was the norm on Easter Sunday too. You live and learn ...

Traditional for some people, Squoosh - it's clear from this thread it's not traditional for everyone. I'm in my 50s. We never had roast lamb when I was growing up. At Easter we might have had roast beef but that would just have been because it was Sunday, not because it was Easter.

My Mum has always said she prefers Easter to Christmas as you get all the fun of Christmas, i.e family gathering, full roast dinner etc, without any of the hassle of presents or any of that malarkey.

Well in Ireland it really is traditional. Maybe it's different in England.

Am I the only one who sees Easter Sunday as a bit like Christmas but (hopefully) without snow or gifts? It's always a day for being with extended family, a big roast, which if you swap lamb for turkey, would be a Christmas dinner. Stew would be odd for Christmas dinner, it's odd for Easter Sunday.

Next year, take control, everyone to yours.

Should be a roast... I hate stew and would actually refuse to eat it. Same as "spag Bol" when my mil makes it as the sauce is horrible so I ask her to just dish me up a plate of pasta/spaghetti and a small bit of the meat on the side.

YANBU at all, roast lamb should be ready in half an hour here.

Stew is a midweek, quick easy meal. I wouldn't ever think to give guests stew, she could have at least made it fresh not out the freezer

"oh ignire happymummy she has a real chip on her shoulder about MIL"

My MIL is fine and i dont ever criticise her which i know goes against the bulk of MN but doesnt mean i have a real chip re MIL!

The OP is moaning her MIL is not catering to her standard which is very brattish behaviour. The fact her DH couldnt tell her a roast was not on the menu as she would get mad speaks volumes.

Whatever happened to just enjoying family for a meal regardless of what it is.

God. I really want roast lamb now. Bollocks.

It must be lamb roast for Easter.
Not negotiable for me.

That's disgusting Combine, you should really tackle that behaviour. What did they all say? Did they look mortified? I would get your husband to confront his parents. Honestly, some people stink. His sisters are obviously complicit too. Horrid.

The only person I know who does a roast on Easter Sunday is Irish. And religious. Easter is not a Thing in my family, I haven't even had any chocolate today ate it all yesterday

I'm Scottish, squoosh, but to be honest I think my family may be out of step here. I assume either my mum or my dad didn't like roast lamb, given that we never, ever had it. Or maybe it was too expensive or they just preferred beef.