AIBU to think that Easter Sunday lunch is a traditional thing?

[minimalisthoarder]

I think a roast dinner (lamb, obviously, even if summer lamb is better than spring) is a normal tradition on Easter Sunday. DH thinks this is madness and the only tradition is chocolate.

Who's right? Is it an aberration to skip the lunch or to have it? I have to cook it so it's me making the effort but it would just feel a bit sad not to have a family dinner that day.

We're not religious and won't be going to church, but come from Christian backgrounds so it's those festivals we make most point of marking, although I'll have a go at doing the food traditions of pretty much any national day or religious festival.

Easter Sunday has always been a roast in my Mum's house, and in mine when there are enough of us to warrant it (shift workers - Easter is a working day. This year there will be three of us home so it's a roast - but like Moln and DrB we are having duck.

Definitely fish and chip supper tonight for Good Friday and hot cross buns for lunch even though we are definitely not religious - just like food!

Turkey here too, Christmas and Easter are the only time we have turkey.

Our family tradition was a roast dinner. But not lamb as no one in my family liked it. Chocolate was the biggest thing on easter Sunday. The easter bunny hiding eggs all over.

Now my own family tradition is the same easter bunny leaving egg for the dc, so chocolate for breakfast, easter decorated table for the roast in the afternoon.

hot cross buns today
yes i would consider lamb roast dinner to be traditional but what I like about Easter is it's not so absolute as Christmas
we are having 'world's best curry' tomorrow lunchtime so may not be up for a big Easter Sunday lunch which is OK in my book

Roast lamb is definitely traditional for Easter Sunday. We're not doing it this year and I feel a bit sad now! Chocolate will make me happy though...

We usually have turkey to be fair but I love rib of beef.

YANBU, your DH is wrong.

We don't have Sunday dinner, we don't bother with Christmas Dinner so an Easter Dinner will not be happening here.

We've never had a roast for Easter. We'll probably have a sandwich for lunch and then maybe something like risotto in the evening!

Roast dinner is traditional EVERY Sunday -- but especially at times like Easter.

(I don't have roast dinner every Sunday, and I wouldn't want to, but it is traditional)

I love Easter Sunday! I'm hugely lucky that my MIL is a fabulous cook and always puts on an amazing Easter Sunday lunch. For as long as I can remember it's been roast lamb, but tbh I would eat whatever she chose to cook.

The DC have an egg hunt in the garden and this year are lucky enough to be having a sleep over for a few nights. They are beyond excited! Sadly I have to work otherwise I would be joining them for the pampering they will no doubt be enjoying!

As far as I can tell, nobody in Scotland gives a fig about Easter. All those adverts for lamb lunch are

Yup. Leg of lamb for Easter. Always

Chocolate (and hot cross buns bought from the supermarket, not made at home, and painting boiled eggs then rolling them down hills) were the only easter traditions I grew up with. In fact, the whole Sunday roast dinner thing wasn't something I was really aware of until I was an adult (and moved down south).

I find MN weirdly dogmatic about Sunday dinners and such like.

I have only ever had a roast when someone has invited us over.

I hate lamb so would never cook it.

No big easter lunch this year.

We've had Easter today as SIL stayed over and I am taking kids to my sisters on Sunday so will be travelling for half of it and leaving DH at home.
We did Easter egg hunt as soon as kids got up, been to local museum to hunt eggs in all the displays, the. Round a part of town where they have a scarecrow trail - people put themed scarecrows in thier gardens and you get a map an go round and guess the name, this year it was monsters and aliens so things like ET, daleks, box trolls etc. we then came home to a leg of lamb with potatoes, Greek salad and roasted Mediterranean veggies, followed by a strawberry trifle decorated with easter sprinkles and mini mini eggs.

It's traditional yes. Does anyone in your family really enjoy it? If most do, do it. If most prefer beans on toast it'sIinsanity to bother.

My mother spent every Sunday driving herself to the brink and making everyone else miserable by guilt tripping them, in her effort to enforce traditional 9:30 church attendance followed by traditional lunch ttime is (but actually 3pm as she'd been at church all morning - but woe betide anyone who made themselves a sandwich at 1pm because they'd been made to get up to shower before church and were growing teens so hungry) ...

It didn't make anyone (including her) happy, and I consciouslymake roasts a random thing, not a Sunday thing, and detest anything done only because it'sttraditional and with no other basis.

im not sure what we're having on easter sunday. mum is cooking! today we are hosting parents and friends, and we're making a fish pie. yum.

Yes roast lamb with all the family followed by an easter egg hunt in the garden. The house and table will be decorated with chicks and easter decorations.

Never done anything but chocolate for Easter.

Yes we are having the family round for roast lamb. It was always chicken when I was a kid, back in the days when roast chicken was a really special thing you only got a few times a year.

Our family traditional Easter meal is a Burmese curry (khao swe- pronounced cow sway) and noodles.

Its delicious and we've eaten it every Easter since my mum was a child.

Yy to lamb.

This post prompted me to text MIL to remind her to book somewhere or buy blardy food!

Definitely lamb on Sunday. And no hot cross buns until today- just now in fact after the loooong Good Friday service.
I like rituals, traditions and small acts of deprivation.

I'm betting lamb on Easter Sunday has been a tradition far longer than chocolate eggs.