Fish on Good Friday - What are you having??

[nothing2lose]

To me, eating meat on Good Friday is unthinkable! (no judgement, just my family's tradition)

If you eat fish on Good Friday, what are you having this year???

[Tinks]

I have never eaten fish on Good Friday. I have no idea what I'm going to cook tonight yet.

(sorry N2L, I know I probably shouldn't hav answered this)

[LionsandBears]

Fish and chips!

[Olive]

We always have fish, so it's fish and chips tonight (we're not religious, it's just tradition)

[MummaBee]

Went for nile perch not to bad and crab nom nom nom

[The[cookie]Doctor]

We're having garlic prawns, salmon patties and some oven baked fish.
Bit sad as DH didn't get out until late last night so it's just a box of frozen fish, not fresh but it'll be yum enough.

[No.5]

Growing up it was cod. Tonight I can't be bothered so we'll probably have fish and chips which we normally order cod anyway

[TeniBear]

Oops! I'm not even religious, but I've always eaten fish on good Friday as a novelty (yeah, sorry )... I completely forgot about it today and I ate a burger before!

I'm thinking lemon and herb fillets for dinner to make up for it...

[Dansta]

umm we go to the pub for the dinner before the auction then it'll be fish n chips there. if not the boys and DH will have fish chips (ala frozen ones) and i'll have a toasted penutbutter sanger n chips.

[megs]

Fish here, like others has always been a tradition, grew up in a religious household and even though I'm more agnostic now I still like to follow it, and try to teach the kids the reason why,

But to answer your question we are having prawns and going to attempt to cook Barramundi Fillets on the Weber (may or maynot be successful)

[Cally]

We're having salmon fillets with a pistachio crust - hopefully it's as good as it sounds!

[Jennifer13]

Had fish and chips with prawn cutlets and scallops for lunch. Not sure what we're doing for dinner.

TBH I'm religious but nowhere in the Bible is it stated you need to eat seafood on the day Jesus died. So I consider it a church tradition, not a Christian one. So we're flexible with it.

[nothing2lose]

Me too Jen.
It is purely for tradition and symbolism here.

[LimeSlice]

Out of habit we eat steamed smoked cod with onions, mashed potato, cauli/broccoli cheese and carrots.
I look forward to this every year, I love it!

[RhiChiChi]

Today at lunchtime we went to a family friends house and we all bring a plate/dish of fish or seafood. We had heaps to choose from such as a lovely Thai prawn & crab meat salad, tuna bake, cod & pasta bake, seafood salad etc.... We just kicked back and talked, laughed and ate of course! lol For tonight we are having more fish. Both DH & I don't eat meat on Good Friday & will continue to do so and explain to our children why we don't. Whilst we aren't practising we do have a strong belief of not eating meat on Good Friday

[Amy_jellybean]

My family has never eaten meat on good friday.

DH is away at work at the moment so a friend and I had garlic and chilli praws, a barramundi fillet and salad for lunch, was yummo!

[AwesomeFoursome]

Today at lunchtime we went to a family friends house and we all bring a plate/dish of fish or seafood. We had heaps to choose from such as a lovely Thai prawn & crab meat salad, tuna bake, cod & pasta bake, seafood salad etc.... We just kicked back and talked, laughed and ate of course! lol For tonight we are having more fish. Both DH & I don't eat meat on Good Friday & will continue to do so and explain to our children why we don't. Whilst we aren't practising we do have a strong belief of not eating meat on Good Friday

Can someone explain to me why you don't eat meat but we eat fish on Good Friday in a way I can explain to my children? I have never eaten meat, always fish on good Friday but no one explained to me why we don't.

[Chocaholic]

It is fish & chips for us.

My DH is Catholic and refuses to eat other meat on Good Friday.

I am not so strict (not religious at all) so the kids had a ham sandwich for lunch but the family meal will be fish out of deference to my DH's beliefs.