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.

I think a roast is traditional but my family did bugger all except give chocolate eggs so I don't expect a roast.

We don't, but we're not big fans of roasts anyway, only do them once every few months or so.

Can't remember what my mother used to cook on Easter Sunday but it was a full roast. And we occupied ourselves by eating chocolate while she was cooking it.

I'd say both of you are right OP because Easter wouldn't be Easter without the chocolate eggs.

Where will live now, overseas, it's a BBQ at some point over the weekend and back to work/school on Monday morning. I've just realised that I much prefer that to the UK way, sorry.

Yep traditional lamb roast here for easter Sunday although not this year as I'm going in to be induced tomorrow so will probably still be in hospital.

I hate lamb. Mostly because dad got orphan/triplet lambs free which were then raised on our surplus goats milk - we ate an awful lot of lamb in my childhood.

Anyway, we don't do a special lunch on easter sunday in this household

moln ha not just us then! Love duck

Turkey here.

But only because we eat roast lamb regularly so it doesn't feel celebrational, where we only eat roast turkey at Easter and Xmas.

However, we won't have Xmas pudding. I'm going to make sticky toffee pud I think.

Mum does turkey but I'm deviating completely and doing sausages with all the trimmings as my OH doesn't do poultry, I'm not keen in lamb and DS wont eat beef. Sausages we all eat.

I'm with your DH we have never down an Easter Sunday dinner.

Mum always made baked ham, scalloped or au gratin potatoes, & green beans amandine for dinner after church. For dessert, fresh strawberries with whipped cream and either shortcake or angel food cake. Sometimes home made ice cream, too. And an Easter Egg hunt for the kids.

As Mum grew older & really wasn't up to a big dinner, it kind of 'morphed' into both of us fixing a buffet-style 'make your own' ham sandwiches, potato salad, a big green salad, & assorted crisps. Dessert stayed the same, though. And instead of hunting Easter Eggs, it was a baseball game on telly.

We really don't do anything now. Mum's 92 and in assisted living. My brother and I will go have lunch with her. We aren't 'church goers' (we always went with Mum for Easter, Mother's Day, & Christmas) and the kids are grown & doing their own thing.

This year DH is going to be gone on Easter Sunday and DS1 has a baseball game. Hmm, maybe DS2 and I will fix ourselves something 'naice'.

Ooh, across, your mum's menu sounds perfect.

Our family tradition is to do the first BBQ of the year. My Dad's been out under a golf umbrella before...

You know ... this thread is lovely, but a bit sad. I got divorced last year, but before that, my ex-DH would have been fasting all Lent, so he wouldn't have had meat in ages, and we'd always have something nice, and we'd enjoy it. This year I'm on my own, which I'm not really sad about (I've got lots of good lazy plans for this weekend). But, I do think there's something lovely about family traditions.

We have roast lamb, yes.

I don't like simnel cake so was thinking of making a highly 80s pudding my mum used to make. A pavlova, with chocolate and cream filling, and piped cream turrets on top with a malteser balanced on each one. I could do 12 for the apostles

I come from a vaguely religious family - Maundy Thursday service, Easter sunrise service etc - but we have never ever had a "traditional" family tradition of an Easter Sunday meal. It would never be lamb anyway as my DM would never had lamb in the house. The only roast my family ever eat is chicken.

we always had a sunday roast as growing up... I didn't carry on the tradition.

Easter Sunday roast for us now is traditional, I make pork or chicken, with trifle for afters.
chocolate for breakfast!

I'm from a very religious background and Easter was a huge tradition growing up, more important than Christmas. The build up between Good Friday and Easter Sunday was big and then it was church, family gathering for a big dinner, eggs etc. I remember it being really exciting. DH's family barely marked Easter and he finds it all a bit odd.

We'll be having lamb chez PIL, with assorted wider family.

Today I baked 44 hot cross buns. There are nine left. (Some went to a church thing, honest.)

Our "new" tradition is the treasure hunt. That's the bit the DC look forward to most.

And so much chocolate you groan.

DH wrongly prefers to break up eggs into a big Tupperware but I rightly keep them in their foil to snap bits off as you go along. Just buy a bar of Dairy Milk if it's the chocolate itself and not the shape that matters

I'm at people eating chocolate before dinner as children. My mum never allowed it. Easter eggs were for the afternoon.

It used to be roast lamb, but I haven't eaten it for a couple of years now, since I saw a field of lambs milk-feeding in a sunny field whilst breast feeding DD2. Did my sleep-deprived, lactating head in and couldn't face eating lamb again.

One sis is vegetarian, and one nephew, so now my mother does a huge buffet, with various salads, antipasti type things, a whole salmon, breads and cheeses etc. It's really nice, and easier when catering for a few families, and preferences.

Tons of Champagne and a few puddings, and we're all fat and pissed happy.

drcoconut dh family use to make him wait until after tea. No hunt no bunny just eggs from aunts and uncles lined up on the top shelf of the dresser For a week before easter. He hated it, so was very happy to take on my family traditions

Buzzard, that had to be the best post I've ever read. I'm showing that to him. If Mumsnet say he's wrong, he's wrong!

Okay, to be fair, there are votes either way. But enough people saying it's traditional to prove to him that I'm not off my rocker. At least this isn't more evidence that I am.

I will have to see how the family vote - I want to have a specific tradition, mark it in some memorable way, but maybe by getting out of the house for a walk or something. March and April are busy in our house for birthdays and anniversaries, so more food isn't actually all that appealing. Chocolate was on both our lists anyway, and I always do an egg hunt for DD because I was always desperate for one when I was little. Ideally instead of the interminable church service....

I've never heard of an easter tree before.

We do lamb and a mixture of traditional Easter and Passover food. And we have an Easter tree.