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| Tweet Topic Started: Oct 18 2011, 08:58 PM (235 Views) | |
| npl | Oct 18 2011, 08:58 PM Post #1 |
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Bala Buste
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What are you making for Simchas Torah? How do you handle logistics when you bring the kids home from shul and dh stays for the rest of hakafos and davening? Between Shmini Atzeres, Simchas Torah and Shabbos Bereishis, I'm feeling a bit at a loss for what to cook, especially as I think I used all my good recipes at least once since Rosh Hashana, and many of them twice! And I used up all the food in the freezer that I'd cooked ahead. |
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| detkismama | Oct 18 2011, 09:10 PM Post #2 |
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Gefilte patties baked Salmon Lox Chicken soup Baked chicken Tongue Roast Rice with meat Mashed potatoes -will cook on yom tov Zucchini kugel in the freezer Apple kugel Eggplant if i get to the store tomorow Egg salad for shabbos day Cholent parve Waldorf salad Green salad Challah Puff pastry bites with cream Puff pastry bites with ganashe Apple cake from freezer |
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| Marion | Oct 18 2011, 11:06 PM Post #3 |
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aishes chayil
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Going to MIL. She said something about cold cuts for the kids if we leave early; adults will eat later. |
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| npl | Oct 19 2011, 07:07 AM Post #4 |
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Bala Buste
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I'll admit to both burn-out and being daunted at getting 3 days of food cooked (or at least organized enough to put food into crockpot for daytime meals). I'm not getting much sleep with the baby right now and I'm not thinking clearly. |
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| zuncompany | Oct 19 2011, 09:03 AM Post #5 |
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We do not leave early. I bring snacks for the kids and the shul has loads of foods out. Our shul makes it very kid centric so it works nicely. I have loads of salads, schnitzel, lasagnas, spinach noodles (lasagna noodles baked with white sauce with spinach in it. Kids love this), stuffed cabbage, roasted potatoes, white rice, chicken soup, deli rolls, and meatballs. I also have cupcakes, a pineapple triffle (I use pinapple cake and it tastes like an upside down pineapple cake in the end), and a cream pie in addition to tons of fresh fruit to snack on. Oh, and I made the kids their fav mac and cheese to bring in containers for shul since we are eating dinner Simchas Torah night there. If I need to I will pull out chicken from my freezer to bake fresh as well. |
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| npl | Oct 19 2011, 12:14 PM Post #6 |
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Bala Buste
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Simchas Torah night finishes way too late for the kids, so I have to feed them an early supper before we go to hakafos, and then something else when they get home before bed (which is too late for them to eat a real meal, but still at least an hour earlier than dh gets home). Simchas Torah day, we see how they are doing, but I need to be prepared for them not being able to stay till after the end of mussaf. It's a long time for some of them to stay. |
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| zuncompany | Oct 19 2011, 01:49 PM Post #7 |
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So ST night we have a shul dinner. Its so nice cause it makes things work in a more smooth manner. As for ST day, honestly, I bring them sandwhiches and such. They are fine. If they get tired they simply lay down on 2 chairs :) Kids are all different. Though, the shul dinner really makes a difference. |
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| Marion | Oct 20 2011, 12:26 PM Post #8 |
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aishes chayil
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Simchat Torah day is NOT for the kids. Hakafot are fine, but no one has the patience to wait around the hour it takes to give everyone an aliyah (that's with 4 sifrei Torah going at once) and be there for Kol Hanearim...and then wait another hour for them to do Yizkor, Geshem, and Mussaf. I took them home after Kol Hanearim and that was more than long enough for them. |
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| zuncompany | Oct 23 2011, 05:46 PM Post #9 |
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So we were home by 3. The kids had a blast. We got there around 10:30 I believe. They were so glad I didn't make them go home at all. |
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| realeez | Oct 24 2011, 01:22 PM Post #10 |
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We were out of town and the setup at the shul was interesting! They davened shacharis and Mussaf and then had a hot fleishig meal. Then ppl returned to shul for hakafos. It was a small shul so only laining and the big aliyos were left which didn't take that long so my kids played in the playground in the meantime (helped it was 80 degrees and sunny ;) h |
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