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.

Oops I posted before I realised there were other comments about the Scottish thing.

Tomorrow isn't a school holiday here either. We don't really 'do' Easter Monday here.

OP, be grateful you are having stew. You sound like a right nightmare if your MIL & DH were too scared to tell you that a roast was off the menu.

Next year cook at your own home or go out for dinner.

Didnt realise you were supposed to have a celebration dinner. We had frozen pizza for lunch and will be having fish fingers and veg for tea (its eat whats in the freezer rations due to an expensive school hols time again) If youve been before on Easter Sunday and they did a roast you could expect it but if not be happy with what you are given.

Thank heavens Usual. I was fretting.

I did enjoy though that driving 5 hours to visit someone for Easter and wanting more than a cheese sarnie was brattish.

Mn is filled with bizzaro

I'm going to be accused of being PO or something but the reverse thread about this is a bit naughty!

Has no one realised that this thread and the one by the mil are all part of the same hilarious (ahem) wind-up?!

Oh dear

I think there is more to this.
Nothing wrong with a cheese sandwich.
Are you unable to communicate with mil?
I agree with the poster who asked how it got to this.
When you discussed the day, what time did she say she would serve lunch, and dinner?
I would have talked to my mil about what she had for breakfast, when she was having lunch, dinner.
I would able to tell her that the ds's and infact I was starving, without causing offence.
Why can't you?

I thought this was real and the reverse was started as a wind up

rally my impression was that this is genuine and the other thread is a piss take of the OP. Could be wrong, though, I often am!
As a kid we had roast every Sunday, so we did have roast on Easter Sunday but nor because it was Easter, rather because it was Sunday. I don't as there's only me and DD so not worth it. Actually, my sister and parents live within 5 mins of here, so if we wanted a big celebration we could have one...

Well .... DH who is English and was Catholic didn't have Easter Sunday 'special' either when he was growing up. Though they ahd chocolate eggs apparently. In his early 20s he was visiting a friend in Rome who was a trainee priest and they had roast lamb for Easter lunch. DH's first time! Interesting, eh?

Squoosh, I'm having a break from the knitting group cos people talk about food so much . Mind you, they aren't all Scottish!

Just finished my leg of lamb, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, cauliflower, peas, carrots, Yorkshire puddings, mint sauce and gravy.
Followed by crumble and ice-cream.

Maybe that was what OP was expecting!!

I'm Catholic, English but of Irish origin, and we always had roast lamb on Easter Sunday.

Looking at it from a religious pov, Easter is actually a far more important holiday than Christmas as it has the whole resurrection thing going on. My mum made a big thing of it and amongst my friends it was the same in their houses.

Have just sat down after polishing off our roast lamb with onion sauce dinner, it was BLOODY LOVELY :o

Wind up? Mil reverse thread?
What a wanker.

Mmm Oblomov, sounds v. similar to what we had only with broccoli instead of parsnips :)

She provided sandwiches for lunch, and a hot meal in the evening - I think she just wanted to make the day as easy as possible for herself - and who can blame her?

We had fish chips and peas
Daughter is at the in laws so having salad

I had no idea we where supposed to have a roast either
The only time we have a roast dinner is Christmas
I just couldn't be arsed with all that every week

DH was Irish Catholic too, well born in England with Irish GPs. Maybe they were an unusual family!! Our only ref to religion today was DH saying to the resident teenager, about 11AM: 'Christ has risen. It's time you did likewise'.

I'm back. Not a wind up.

Please I don't know the people that think it's reasonable to invite 11 people for a family gathering and serve them stew for 6.

Obviously I'm far too brattish, demanding and unreasonable for some people!

Best of luck to all those when you all have your own DILs.

Oh I'd be starving

Want to come to mine for beans on toast Cinamon?

I feel for you. We always have gammon on Easter. I look forward to Easter dinner so much because it's the easiest dinner ever- drizzle some honey on the gammon and stick it in the oven for a couple of hours.

I would feel a bit let down to be given stew!

Lovecat, hope yours was as lovely as ours.

I feel for you too, its not much of a special meal if you are used to/expecting a roast.
I do have to say though that you should teach your dc to try and enjoy lots of different food so they'll enjoy stew. Or is it just stew they don't like?

We have had roast beef marinated in red wine, yorkies, mash, carrots, swede, cabbage, roast parsnip, proper gravy. (Not the usual granules)
Apple pie and custard.

Maybe she couldn't afford to do anything else!

we never have lamb at Easter (dont think the kids would eat it anyway). We had a BBQ instead as the weather has been lovely today (Scotland)

My 2 are off school tomorrow so not all areas of Scotland are back at school on Easter Monday