Passover Meal Planning

[Anonymous]

Least favorite holiday, for sure. I need some ideas for beyond the seders, that can be packed and eaten cold for Spring break camps. Everyone hates matzah unless baked into something, so far I have:

Fried polenta cubes with dipping sauce, salad/fruit
Eggplant-zucchini pashtida, salad/fruit
Baked sweet potato with broccoli/cheese
Spinach-leek mina with salad/fruit

For dinner we do a lot of baked stuffed spaghetti squash, veggie nachos/tacos, risotto/polenta, but they don't translate to lunch very well.

[Anonymous]

PBJ matzah

[Anonymous]

Polenta isn’t KFP.

I usually go with simple grilled fish/chicken, potato, vegetable.

[Anonymous]

How about Tam Tam crackers? add cheese, hummus (of you eat legumes), PB (again if you eat it), any other spreads. lunch meats

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Polenta isn’t KFP.

I usually go with simple grilled fish/chicken, potato, vegetable.

Polenta is absolutely KFP - my great-grandmother made it every year. We are not Ashkenazim, but also Ashekenazi Conservative and Reform Jews eat kitniyot now. Orthodox Ashkenazim may not, of course.

[Anonymous]

I agree that polenta (corn/kitniyot) is fine if you're conservative. Quinoa salads, hummus.

My kids do snacky lunches for school - cheese, fruit, matzah crackers, applesauce, yogurt, tuna, hard boiled eggs. Matzah brei in a thermos to keep it warm. Soup in the thermos. Crustless quiche. I do matzah crackers with egg salad, veggie liver.

[Anonymous]

Least favorite holiday?! Passover is my absolute FAVORITE holiday! I could eat matzoh ball soup every single day of my life.

[Anonymous]

I am surprised to see that in some traditions polenta is KFP. In ours, anything made from corn is excluded during Passover.

Good lunches include tuna or chicken salad on matzah or wrapped up in lettuce leaves

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am surprised to see that in some traditions polenta is KFP. In ours, anything made from corn is excluded during Passover.

Good lunches include tuna or chicken salad on matzah or wrapped up in lettuce leaves

Growing up as a conservative Ashkenazi, corn and other kitniyot (beans, quinoa, rice, peanuts...) were off limits. Several years ago the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism officially approved kitniyot. So even though I didn't grow up with it, I've started eating it, and Passover is infinitely easier (except for the fridge scrubbing, and dishes schlepping...)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am surprised to see that in some traditions polenta is KFP. In ours, anything made from corn is excluded during Passover.

Good lunches include tuna or chicken salad on matzah or wrapped up in lettuce leaves

I am always surprised and saddened by how ignorant some of us are about the breadth of traditions that make up Jewish practice. Kitniyot were banned in some European Jewish communities in the Middle Ages. In those communities, kitniyot we’re not central to their diet. Romanians, for example, basically lived on polenta - not banned. Italians being neither Ashkenazi or Sephardi were not subject to a ban. Sephardic rite Jews in European countries were not subject to such a ban. Obviously, Mizrachim were not subject to such a ban - they would have starved. Some orthodox Ashkenazi rabbis in Israel have ruled anyone living in Israel can eat kitniyot. The majority of Jews in Israeli are Mizrachim anyway. The conservative movement ruled several years ago that Ashkenazi conservative Jews could eat kitniyot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am surprised to see that in some traditions polenta is KFP. In ours, anything made from corn is excluded during Passover.

Good lunches include tuna or chicken salad on matzah or wrapped up in lettuce leaves

Growing up as a conservative Ashkenazi, corn and other kitniyot (beans, quinoa, rice, peanuts...) were off limits. Several years ago the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism officially approved kitniyot. So even though I didn't grow up with it, I've started eating it, and Passover is infinitely easier (except for the fridge scrubbing, and dishes schlepping...)

Yep. Kitniyot is fine. Except I grew up without it and now I just can’t. A lot has changed in judiasm. Women wear kippot, tiffilin, and tallit. Matriarchs are include in the Avot. I don’t mind that the religion is changing but I can’t bring myself to embrace the changes that women are now afforded. My daughter has grown up with the changes and they are part of her tradition now. It’s not weird for her to wear tallit; she thinks it’s weird that I don’t. But I had a bat mitzvah which my mom didn’t have. With each generation, the changes come and the next generation embraces them and then it’s what everyone does.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am surprised to see that in some traditions polenta is KFP. In ours, anything made from corn is excluded during Passover.

Good lunches include tuna or chicken salad on matzah or wrapped up in lettuce leaves

Growing up as a conservative Ashkenazi, corn and other kitniyot (beans, quinoa, rice, peanuts...) were off limits. Several years ago the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism officially approved kitniyot. So even though I didn't grow up with it, I've started eating it, and Passover is infinitely easier (except for the fridge scrubbing, and dishes schlepping...)

Yep. Kitniyot is fine. Except I grew up without it and now I just can’t. A lot has changed in judiasm. Women wear kippot, tiffilin, and tallit. Matriarchs are include in the Avot. I don’t mind that the religion is changing but I can’t bring myself to embrace the changes that women are now afforded. My daughter has grown up with the changes and they are part of her tradition now. It’s not weird for her to wear tallit; she thinks it’s weird that I don’t. But I had a bat mitzvah which my mom didn’t have. With each generation, the changes come and the next generation embraces them and then it’s what everyone does.

I get it. It took me a while to accept kitniyot but I'm a vegetarian so it really was a game changer for me and I eventually caved.

And i have such mixed feelings about tallis shopping with my daughter soon. I'm a little sad that I never got to for me, yet I can't bring myself to do it now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Polenta isn’t KFP.

I usually go with simple grilled fish/chicken, potato, vegetable.

Polenta is absolutely KFP - my great-grandmother made it every year. We are not Ashkenazim, but also Ashekenazi Conservative and Reform Jews eat kitniyot now. Orthodox Ashkenazim may not, of course.

For you
Do you think other people don't exist?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Polenta isn’t KFP.

I usually go with simple grilled fish/chicken, potato, vegetable.

Polenta is absolutely KFP - my great-grandmother made it every year. We are not Ashkenazim, but also Ashekenazi Conservative and Reform Jews eat kitniyot now. Orthodox Ashkenazim may not, of course.

For you
Do you think other people don't exist?

#ashknormativity. The majority of Jews in Israel and the US eat kitniyot- and PP was replying to someone who said they were wrong to eat kitniyot.

[Anonymous]

If you eat legumes, maybe BBQ tempeh with some cooked veg tossed in? Tuna with sliced pickle chips? For a protein rich snack, you can make almond flour chocolate chip cookies (elana's pantry has good recipes).
Have a good Pesach everyone!