To Probably Not Cook Roast Lamb On Easter Sunday?

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I have the same thing each year - all the Easter ads come on the tv & I start to feel pressured to shop for a lamb joint, invite half the neighbourhood & decorate the house with bunting & fluffy chicks! But hopefully if the sun shines, I will be out with my family & not wanting to be bothered with cooking.

Snow? Where?

Christ on a cracker!- I see another SSW Arctic even happened last week.
Oh well out with the snow shovel again.

@helenajustina I really recommend this

Why would you waste a bank holiday weekend cooking? It's precious time off work - time to go and have adventures!

Depends on your pleasures.

For us a special family meal is not wasting a bank holiday weekend- and one home cooked lunch in 4 days is hardly spoiling a 4 day weekend.
We don't often eat together as a family- everyone is far too busy.

DD dances 7 days a week, OH is often on call at weekends. DS spent last Christmas and Easter in New Zealand working on a gap year.

OH loves cooking, he plans, shops, cooks, serves and leaves the kitchen spotless- he enjoys the whole process.
So Easter Sunday is a relaxed day for us- and fun.

@StealthPolarBear thank you! Have actually got a packet of vac packed chestnuts knocking around, this would use them up nicely!

Niminy how much cognitive dissonance does it take to claim that

"The custom of Easter Eggs arose because eggs are a symbol of the resurrection, and originated in countries where Eastern Orthodox forms of Christianity flourished, spreading later to western Europe".

and then in the very next sentence

"The Easter Bunny originated in Germany in a folk tradition of a hare that laid eggs"

eggs - the association of eggs with the pagan Vernal Equinox festivities predates Christianity. Its an old spring/ fertility festival. Like Yuletide the Christians just nicked the date and the symbils and gave them new meaning. I've always found the egg symbolises a stone claim jaw droppingly contrived. Why would an egg symbolise a stone rather than a beautiful shiny pebble - or any other stone? Only because eggs were already an important symbol of the festival already celebrated at that time of year, so a bit of mental gymnastics enabled Christianity to swallow that and claim it as their own, making it easier to convert.

The lambs will love you for not cooking their legs OP

I would LOVE to have lamb at easter, or beef, or pork! I've had 8 flipping years now cooking for a fussy DH who will only eat flipping chicken 😡😡😡

I think you should watch less television.

I'll be having a packed lunch at work, as will DH. Because we're chefs therefore public holidays = shit all and we're expecting a 100 hour work week from the 1st of April.
please help

Do whatever you like OP. And have a great day

I don't like lamb so we never have it. I don't think even as a child we had a "special" meal on Easter Sunday. Just an ordinary day in this house.

We always have friends and family over for Easter and I usually do a big Buffet. The only 'must have' is a pavlova for pud.

The OP was about having to serve lamb at Easter. We Christians were simply pointing out that lamb is not “compulsory”, it’s symbolic for our Christian celebration of Christ’s resurrection, (He being the lamb of the world), so there’s no reason for atheists to feel any need to cook the stuff!
Easter is the most important festival in the Christian year, but if atheists, pagans, or whatever want to celebrate springtime instead, they’re perfectly free to do so, with or without lamb.
There’s no need to start whining and Christian bashing, or accusing us of stealing your festivals. The timing of Easter is because the crucifixion happened just after Jesus (a Jew) was celebrating Passover, so we are tied to that in the calendar.
The French word for Easter is Paques, which derives from Passover. Nothing to do with stealing your pagan rites!

We have given up takeaway for Lent. So despite the fact I adore lamb (both eating and cooking it) I think we might be having a Chinese!

Btw, who on earth thinks cooking roast lamb is “hard work”, or you’ll “have to spend all weekend cooking”, as mentioned in pp’s?
Soak it in wine and herbs in the fridge the night before, sling it in a slow oven while you’re at the church service, rolling eggs with the Sunday school, and having your spring walk, then come home, turn up the oven to crisp the outside while you have drinks, then tuck in to a delicious easy meal! One of my favourite days of the year.

Perfectly possible to have adventures and nice dinner. But feel free to exist on Kendal Mint Cake and hard tack......

I know what you mean OP, it seems to be the done thing to have lamb at Easter, according to all the ads.

However me and DH are going to friends on Easter Sunday, and we already know we are having venison. Even if we weren't out, it will be just me and DH so we probably wouldn't have lamb just for the two of us anyway.

Babdoc Niminy is claiming "Christians do get to say what Easter is really about, because it's our festival" and then making totally contradictory claims about the origins of common symbols of Easter and spring in consecutive sentences.

Its not necessary to be a pagan to take issue with that.

Christians are a majority in the world and have absolutely huge amounts of institutionalised power and influence as a group within the UK and most of the western world. Whinging that people are bashing Christians is as laughable as men whinging about Men's Rights.

babdoc- Easter is the most important festival in the Christian year, but if atheists, pagans, or whatever want to celebrate springtime instead, they’re perfectly free to do so

Thanks for your benevolence.

If it's all the same to you I''l celebrate Easter- without jesus- with or without lamb.

Easter may be a religious time for you- fill your boots.

It's not for me but I celebrate it.

Much like millions of people celebrate christmas - with santa- without jesus.
Are you telling them they should not be celebrating christmas and should start calling it a " winter festival"?

Bollocks to that.

The origins of these festivals are complex, and your claim that jesus rose is no more valid than a claim that easter and eggs and bunnies are of pagan origin ( although the latter makes a lot more sense).

So get off your high horse and suggesting that non christians should be celebrating " spring festival".

Easter is a time we should be finding commonalities- new life, growth, rebirth, reproduction, fertility, optimism and hope.

These are things that we can all value surely?

We are having pizza and birthday cake on Easter Sunday because its not Easter in this house its a big birthday and I never buy Easter eggs for my children either

Had to Google when Easter was... next weekend. Who knew?

Probably do the same old Sunday shit anyway.

I bought a lovely huge bunch of cut willow from Lidl this week, full of buds, it is in water- sprouting on my kitchen window ledge, it will be covered in new shoots by easter- and perfect as a table centrepiece- I have paper mache eggs to decorate it.

I am a vegetarian so we won't be eating lamb!

We will be eating chocolate until midday (or until the first child is sick!) and do something easy from cook in the evening. I am not stressing - at all, the dc will decorate the house and make things (if they want to) we have an old box with little things to brighten the house. Daffodils and some spring flowers and that is it!!

I am not inviting anyone over this year, we are doing lots of visiting and will simply have a day off! Can't wait.

It is not christmas, this is even better, no stress, no work and four days off (for most not all)