Easter can be a bit like Christmas in our family and in keeping with tradition we are having a family meal on Easter Sunday. Only this year I am the dedicated cook as everyone is coming to visit me! Cooking really isn’t my strong point and I am not quite sure how everyone is going to fit in my pokey flat.

I decided to search the internet for some Easter themed receipes and it got me thinking is there a traditional meal for Easter? I mean at Christmas a turkey roast dinner is a most for many of us, but it doesn’t seem to be the same for Easter?

After some research I discovered that it is traditional to eat fish on Good Friday and lamb on Easter Sunday. Well I have never come across that before in fact it seems few people have come across that before!  Morrisons have recently found out that just 24% of people will be serving a traditional fish meal on Good Friday and just 21% will be cooking a traditional lamb meal.

So if it’s not the traditional fish or lamb what do people cook for their Easter meal? 62% opt for a beef roast dinner, although 2% to go for a ready meal/takeaway… that could be a much easier option for me, I can work a microwave! Ha ha

All this talk of food again… it makes you hungry. I have noticed a trend amongst my blogs, I love food.  Maryland cookies, vegetables and romantic meals (which I never did get by the way). However, my love of food is not only reflected in my blogs but also it’s starting to show round my waistline, so I have decided it’s time to do something about it and I am going on a diet. It looks like I am not alone as 64% of people have been on a diet in the last five years.

How do you manage to eat your 5 a day when you are allergic to half of it and dislike the rest?

Mixing it with tomato sauce or piccalilli chutney?  That probably won’t work well with grapes and plums though, will it.

I was reading the other day that store cupboard must-haves now include chilli sauce, basmati rice and balsamic vinegar. So that kicks my favourites such as pickle, long-grain rice and malt vinegar right into touch. It makes the UK sound very exotic though don’t you think?

Just before Christmas Morrisons, found that three fifths of people (60%) are more likely to add chilli sauce than pickle to the leftover turkey and a quarter will accompany it with hummus rather than coleslaw.   Umm, not sure whether to go yum to that or not.

Maybe I need to check out the supermarket shelves and give it ago.