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| Feeding your family BEFORE Pesach | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Mar 25 2008, 09:09 AM (283 Views) | |
| yaffasmom | Mar 25 2008, 09:09 AM Post #1 |
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OK, so for those of you who turn your kitchen over early and by early I mean anytime before the actual start of the seder or in this case Shabbat. What do you feed your family? What I mean is, I have always waited until the last possible minute to turn my kitchen over, but I know that others do it earlier (most people), so if I were to take the Sunday before Pesach and do it then. For the rest of the week, do you feed your family Pesach food? I think my family would shoot me!
:) Eating out all week is not an option. Do you keep bread & PBJ and give it to them ouside? Eat cold meals all week that you had pre-prepared? I could put out a shelf that to keep the chametz food on and let the kids eat at one table have the oven and all be Pesach. I just have never figured out the logistics of doing this. Any help? thanks. Amy |
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| proudmommy | Mar 25 2008, 09:19 AM Post #2 |
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Well, for Shabbos this year, we will just be eating an extra day of Pesach food, except for motei. But for normal prepesach planning, I'm quite lucky, in that we've got basement space. Usually, I try to turn over my kitchen a few days early. I basically make a few days worth of chometz dinner food. Then we set up an eating area downstairs. I've got a fridge and a sink down there, and we move the microwave down there too. And all chometz is restricted to our temporary chometz eating section! We set up folding tables - one for eating and the other for supplies - a small assortment of plates,cutlery and pantry food items -and away we go! |
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| zuncompany | Mar 25 2008, 10:20 AM Post #3 |
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we eat pesach. thats all. I plan to have my kitchen turned over in about 2 weeks. |
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| U Tarzan Me Jane | Mar 25 2008, 10:31 AM Post #4 |
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I move my toaster and the chametz to the porch. My kids get bread and cheese and fish sticks, and cereal for breakfast and lunch---dinner is usually takeout, till my kitchen is out of the transition phase and actually peasachdic. Once it is peasachdic, then I can usually cook a real meal, but eat it outside with whatever chametz stuff is available. Turning over my kitchen is usually a 3 day process, because in order to kasher everything I need to let it sit 24 hours first. I will start turning over the sunday before peasach. And before it sits, it needs to cleaned... I know other people eat peasachdic for weeks, But I personally can't do it, I like my chametz! |
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| hallie_ari_mom | Mar 25 2008, 10:36 AM Post #5 |
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My family would shoot me too. I'm glad others answered. I was curious. Eating out is not an option for us either, at least not so much. It's difficult around here. No one besides me eats matzah or vegetables, so what in the world would I serve them for an extra week? |
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| yaffasmom | Mar 25 2008, 11:42 AM Post #6 |
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I hadn't thought about making a pesadich meal and then taking it outside to eat with chametz. That might get us through. That might work. thanks to all. Sara, I know having to be gluten free and everything else you deal with makes pesach eating easier, but for me I need more!! :) Amy |
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| Marion | Mar 25 2008, 12:03 PM Post #7 |
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aishes chayil
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A lot of stuff is neither "chametz" nor Pesachdik, except for what pots you use. Plain old BBQ chicken, cold cuts, veggies, salads, fish, burgers/meatballs/meatloaf. Pasta might be out but there are so many other options. Also, kitniyot can be had right up until erev chag, so rice, lentils, beans (which leaves options like chili, soup). |
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| zuncompany | Mar 25 2008, 12:22 PM Post #8 |
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Actually Amy, we have not been gluten free since Aug when we got from Denver. The kids outgrew their wheat/barley/rye issues. B"H but at the same time makes my cleaning 200% harder since I have not had chumatz in the house in 3 years and now its coated in it! LOL I turn over so early because if I didn't than every room I cleaned would need to be redone. SO, I clean the rooms basic and than turn over the kitchen and than do a real deep clean. I have little kids and chumatz gets tracked everywhere nomatter how hard I try otherwise. As well Tev is having surgery a week and a half before pesach so I need to be organized since we are IY"H having lots of guests so lots of cooking is needed to be done. |
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| JRKmommy | Mar 25 2008, 03:51 PM Post #9 |
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Bala Buste
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I'm still trying to figure out the logistics of how this will work. If the weather was better, I'd eat on the patio and use the BBQ a lot - it has a side gas burner. However, we're currently having a snow storm, and I haven't seen my patio in months. I'll think about the basement. We have another fridge and a wet bar, so I could use that sink, and just plug in the toaster oven. For meat stuff, I could cook things that are kosher for Pesach and/or use the crock pot. |
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| kallah | Mar 25 2008, 06:27 PM Post #10 |
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I'm glad you asked this, because I'm wondering how to handle this situation. We are probably going to turn our kitchen over the Sunday before pesach. We'll have a corner of the dining table to eat cold chometz food on, and I'll also wait until the last minute to turn over the microwave. I'm also hoping the weather will be nice and we can have some "picnics" for dinner that week. |
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| jellybean | Mar 25 2008, 08:02 PM Post #11 |
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aishes chayil
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i don't know what we'll do - probably mooch off family members and get together for potluck suppers and hopefully go out to eat. but my parents just invited themselves over for fri night erev pesach (as in the night before first seder) ... and as a nice person i invited my married sis and her family ... so now i have to cook pesach food but have chometz rolls and not let the children see and want. ideas anyone??? |
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| npl | Mar 25 2008, 08:32 PM Post #12 |
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Bala Buste
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We have an extra refrigerator in our furnace room in the basement (the previous owners couldn't get it through the door!). But, that's where I put the pesachdik food before I switch the kitchen. Previously, the sink in the basement playroom has been kashered for pesach kitniyos use (boys on special medical formula). This year, Baruch Hashem, neither boy needs formula, and although ds1 is drinking lactaid, he really doesn't like it so much and will probably be happy to do without it for a week. So, then I have this sink I can use for chametz, except that the rest of the room is full of toys and games, and the thought of trying to keep the kids away from the toys while the food is down there just scares me. I suppose we could eat in the guest room, which is easy to check for chametz, and just wash the dishes in the playroom. I'm just praying for good weather, so we can do sandwiches on paper plates on the deck! But, I will probably not be ready to switch the kitchen till Weds or Thurs. Much as I would love to be ready earlier and have more time to cook, I just can't see it happening, and I do have a shabbos mode stove, so I can cook in the oven on yom tov if needed. It's hard to balance the pressure of the cleaning and dealing with the chametz and pesachdik stuff together, with the pressure of only having a couple of days to cook. |
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| zuncompany | Mar 26 2008, 12:14 AM Post #13 |
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Why are people so neg. about pesach food?? We love pesach food! |
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| npl | Mar 26 2008, 06:06 AM Post #14 |
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It's not that I dislike the Pesachdik food - for the most part we eat the same as year-round, without the sandwiches, pasta and rice and beans! It's just the work that precedes the Pesachdik food (and the prices!) and the fact that my family can't start the day without cereal! |
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| ebpeuka | Mar 26 2008, 08:46 AM Post #15 |
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aishes chayil
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Whatever you do, don't do what my mother does - turn over the kitchen while the dinette right off the kitchen, where all the Pesach dishes and pots are kept, is still chometz, with people eating chometz on the table and the microwave is right next to the Pesach closet, the toaster oven on the floor and the burner stove right next to it, with one shelf in the fridge full of chometz food and the other ones full of Pesach stuff. :ouch Sara - I like bread and pasta and that's what fills me up. Don't get me wrong, I looove potatoes too, but 2 weeks of just potatoes is a bit much. |
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