$15 later, and 90% of my Passover shopping is done. You gotta love Giant, selling 5 lbs. of matzah with a $9 discount at $3. I'm sure I'll have plenty left over. Now all I have to do is find wine for tonight's seder.
Cleaned out? Of course not! I have probably 5 pounds of pasta and another pound of oats that I can manage to avoid for the next week. I figure with my two Jewish cookbooks, I should be set.
I cleaned the kitchen, and scrubbed out the cupboards last week. They look so empty! It was good to do though, all pretty and organized now.
I try not to do kitniyot, though it's hard as I'm lactose intolerant and drink almond milk. I wish the rabbinate would make a decision on quinoa- I'd love to be able to use that during pesach, but you know rabbis.
We actually did our seder last night, as life superceeded things and both first- and second-night seders weren't going to happen.
I'm a fan of soybeans themselves (edemamae), and other soy products, but even those not in large quantities. I suspect that it throws my hormone balance- I have endo and keep that in check with hormonal treatment, and I wonder if the estrogens in soy make that go awry.
But yes, almond milk. The Chocolate variety of Almond Breeze is frighteningly similar to real chocolate milk I actually went and double checked the carton once, to make sure I'd gotten the right thing.
Communion wafers? Eeeeew. They're basically edible paper. That was like the big thing when we were making our first Communion-WHAT does it taste like? It's always a disappointment. ;)
I have tasted actual unleavened bread. Not bad. I think it was in third grade. I THINK.
Oh, I just remembered! There IS a way, mind you, if you want to know what communion wafers taste like. Around Christmas and Easter, (or maybe all the time, I don't know), you can get unconsecrated wafers called oplatke. It's an old Slovak tradition. The wafers, like I said, aren't consecrated, just blessed. And at supper, when you say grace, you pass it around and everyone takes a small piece.
I don't know if the blessed part would bother you, or if it would be kosher. But for the curious, there you go. (But don't say I didn't warn you!)
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Hooray for Extremely Reform Jews!
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Not so good at avoiding the kitniyot, however.
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I try not to do kitniyot, though it's hard as I'm lactose intolerant and drink almond milk. I wish the rabbinate would make a decision on quinoa- I'd love to be able to use that during pesach, but you know rabbis.
We actually did our seder last night, as life superceeded things and both first- and second-night seders weren't going to happen.
Leftovers today were good though!
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I'm a fan of soybeans themselves (edemamae), and other soy products, but even those not in large quantities. I suspect that it throws my hormone balance- I have endo and keep that in check with hormonal treatment, and I wonder if the estrogens in soy make that go awry.
But yes, almond milk. The Chocolate variety of Almond Breeze is frighteningly similar to real chocolate milk I actually went and double checked the carton once, to make sure I'd gotten the right thing.
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I have tasted actual unleavened bread. Not bad. I think it was in third grade. I THINK.
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I don't know if the blessed part would bother you, or if it would be kosher. But for the curious, there you go. (But don't say I didn't warn you!)