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

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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.

Definitely a tradition.

Breakfast with the table laden with Choccy eggs and a small present each.

Roast lamb after a lovely Easter Church service.
Easter Egg hunt in the afternoon and a high tea - usually with uncles dropping in with eggs for us too.

Easter Monday was the start of the egg eating. My parents had a rule that you could have one half of an egg OR the sweets per day.

We were eating chocolate for weeks...

Yes, we do egg-rolling to honour our Scottish links too. Decorate the eggs on Saturday to roll on Sunday.

Not something we have ever done in our family. However we have traditionally camped at easter so that would probably account fir it

Growing up we never had a special roast, just eggs, but my Husbands family always puts on a lovely roast. I get the benefits now

I've had a donner kebab today - that's kinda lamb, isn't it?!

A special celebratory lunch. Not necessarily lamb but something special and shared and properly set table and stuff.

Happy Easter.

roast lamb and family walk after dinner

I've never heard of an easter tree before.

I started doing one a few years ago but I don't know if this is the same as what others mean.

I blew some eggs ( there is a knack and I had a few annoying failures) and then painted them with acrylic paints and put a thread through them. Then just before Easter you need to find an interestingly shaped but of twig to stick in a pot of earth to hang the eggs on.

Didn't have time to find a twig this year as I now drive to work instead of walking but I still have the eggs ready for another time.

Ha, chocolate eggs! Where I come from tradition is to hard boil eggs and paint them. After that you are giving them to your friends and receiving painted eggs from them.
YABU to think that any tradition is just one for certain holiday. YANBU to try and continue your tradition in your family.

Have never had a special meal at Easter.

I can vaguely remember having chocolate eggs when I was a child at Easter but apart from that I have never really taken any notice of it.

Easter comes from the word 'oestrogen' hence eggs and bunnies etc. It is a time of year when nature is mating/making nests and fertile.

I cannot see the link between oestrogen and Christ.

We have ham, au gratin potatoes, asparagus, green beans, and rolls. I've never had lamb.

Rabbit stew is our tradition... yes we eat the Easter bunny

We've both always had roasts (and are from different cultures, they overlap on this one!)

We do an easter egg hunt but usually later on in the day.

Quite tempted to do it first thing in the morning this year, and have a go at egg rolling.

Twinkie - we have rabbit stew too!! (was not going to say - but since someone else has rabbit, it is not sooooooo bad!)

Rabbit was free food when we were growing up.

I didn't know a lamb dinner was traditional at Easter. Obviously the Easter eggs and maybe a family get together some time over the weekend but that would be hot cross buns, Easter biscuits type food not a sit down roast.

Growing up, our tradition was to go to church, then I'd come home to do an Easter egg hunt while my mum cooked the roast lamb dinner.
I'd have my grandparents staying and uncles and aunties and it really felt a lot like Christmas.
I've carried on with the roast part of the tradition but I can't help but notice the eggs are a lot smaller these days. Humph.

The eggs are much smaller. Just need more of them

I fancy having a go at egg rolling. And making crystal eggs with alum powder and food colouring - saw a link on Facebook, which of course I can't find now. Can't get the powder in time for Sunday but we might do it during the holidays.

Nope. Just egg rolling as a tradition for us. Probably went to Easter service at church when I loved at home too.

Lived.

Also chocolate eating.

Can't stand lamb but we have roast beef here instead. Chocolate is for breakfast at Easter and Christmas!

Of course lamb roast is a tradition on an easter. I don't understand all this talk of turkey!

Always Roast Lamb it's a tradition that's been passed down in our family.We used to all go to my Mum and Dad's and we'd all cook something for the meal(most of that usually got left to me though)and take it with us.

Loads of tables and chairs all set up in the back garden and there would be about 30 of us.My Mum and Dad only had 3 children but we've all gone onto have larger families.

We'd all have a 3 course meal and we'd set up an Easter Egg hunt for all the children.It was a lot of work and quite a bit of money but it was worth it.

This year it will just be the 7 of us at our house,but I still do the 3 course meal with Roast lamb for the main and still do an Easter Egg hunt for our 5 children.

Were planning on carrying on the tradition my Mum and Dad started once our children have partners and children of they're own.We'll probably end up with over 40 if our children follow in our footsteps and give us lots of grandbabies.

I grew up in a Catholic family and we had roast lamb on Easter Monday (not Sunday). But it was never a big deal, nothing like Christmas. Just a nice bank holiday roast dinner.