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PASSOVER COMING ON TUESDAY NIGHT

Shanus — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 12:01:43 GMT

As usual, my food stores carry very little foods for this holiday...no flour or leavening can be used in cooking. There are always slim pickings and if not there the day it's put out, items are sold out in a few days.

On careful inspection, and many years of experience, checking dates is essential since last year's Passover foods are also put on the shelves to sell first.

My area is fairly well populated with many ethnicities and religions because of the major three universities and associated hospitals. The "research triangle" also brought many families from around the country...many Jewish ones who celebrate the holidays.

I finally found what I needed at Wegman's on an end cap hidden at the back of the store.

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Janey2 — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 12:05:28 GMT

@Shanus Passover is Wednesday evening April 5

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jackthebear — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 12:24:11 GMT

@Shanus wrote:
As usual, my food stores carry very little foods for this holiday...no flour or leavening can be used in cooking. There are always slim pickings and if not there the day it's put out, items are sold out in a few days.

On careful inspection, and many years of experience, checking dates is essential since last year's Passover foods are also put on the shelves to sell first.

My area is fairly well populated with many ethnicities and religions because of the major three universities and associated hospitals. The "research triangle" also brought many families from around the country...many Jewish ones who celebrate the holidays.

I finally found what I needed at Wegman's on an end cap hidden at the back of the store.

come to New Jersey we have all the Passover fixings you could need

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Shanus — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 12:30:23 GMT

@Janey2 You're right. Looked at the calendar and saw daughter's 50th birthday on the 4th and got all excited!!!

Sorry for any cnfusion.

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Shanus — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 12:32:01 GMT

@jackthebear I remember my early years living in upstate NY and coming back to visit relatives for all the Jewish holidays. Lots of foods in the stores.

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781Florist — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 13:41:48 GMT

Wow! I'm surprised that you are having a hard time finding the Passover foods in your markets. I would think that an area like the research triangle with such a large and diverse population would not have that problem.

In my area, the supermarket flyers in the week leading up to the Jewish Holidays will prominently feature items commonly used in observances.

I am sure that there are some Jewish families somewhere in the hinterlands that really have a tough time getting things. I wonder if some people have to resort to Amazon because there are no good resources near where they live.

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Lucky Charm — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 13:59:17 GMT

I'd speak to the store manager about it. I've done that in the past and with success with other issues I've had. (Learned it from my big sister!)

Also, ask people from your synagogue, if and where they're getting their foods from. If they are having a problem, too, maybe they all would speak up about it.

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Shanus — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 16:08:54 GMT

@Lucky Charm When my family first moved south, a group of families ordered foods from Atlanta and it came by bus....nothing refrigerated, but still quite helpful.

There were a few cans of macaroons left and matza, but not for Passover only...which really doesn't matter to me. I did purchase the matza ball mix. I spent 2 days running around to different markets to hunt and gather.

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reiki604 — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 18:16:26 GMT

We just had a kosher supermarket open about a half mile away. When I go in and look, the prepared foods are a throughback. to my childhood. Shlishkas, kasha varnishkes, egg barley and chopped liver. to name a few. I went in because I grate my own chrain and the horshradish rooots in lthe grocery were small, pale and not very appealing. In this store I was flabbergasted by the size and freshness of what they had. It was stupid expensive but so is everything. I've sterilized my jars and am preparing some today as I promised small jars. to the members of my mah jongg group that meets tomorrow. I have my gloves, eyesheilds at the ready with all. the windows open!!!!

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jackthebear — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 18:24:49 GMT

@reiki604 wrote:
We just had a kosher supermarket open about a half mile away. When I go in and look, the prepared foods are a throughback. to my childhood. Shlishkas, kasha varnishkes, egg barley and chopped liver. to name a few. I went in because I grate my own chrain and the horshradish rooots in lthe grocery were small, pale and not very appealing. In this store I was flabbergasted by the size and freshness of what they had. It was stupid expensive but so is everything. I've sterilized my jars and am preparing some today as I promised small jars. to the members of my mah jongg group that meets tomorrow. I have my gloves, eyesheilds at the ready with all. the windows open!!!!

pre-covid a guest used to bring freshly grated horseradish from the Lower East Side, that stuff is intense

are you looking forward to the new card?

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Shelbelle — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 20:17:41 GMT

Starts Wed night. Here in Pikesville MD in my area we have the largest Kosher Food Mkt in the country, people from NY and NJ come here on bus trips to shop there. Called 7 Mile Mkt.

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WORKING GAL — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 21:41:40 GMT

@reiki604- Your post brought back childhood memories when I lived in N.J. and my Grandmom would make her own chrain. At the Seder and any other Jewish holidays it was served, my Uncles, Father and Grandpop's faces would turn beet red with sweat on their foreheads. They loved it hot on the Gelfite Fish.

They are all gone now but the memories live on!

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MoonieBaby — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 00:26:22 GMT

in Fishtown (Philly neighborhood) it's a Jewish desert. I think I'm the ONLY one. No synagogues in sight and even less Matzoh! I go to Jersey (Cherry Hill) to get my supplies.

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JoyFilled Warrior — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 00:55:50 GMT

@Shanus

You probably already know this, but you can select EDIT on your original message here, & you can EDIT the thread topic too, if you wanted to change it to Wed Night for Passover

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Shanus — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 12:06:20 GMT

@reiki604 I went to a store like that in Jamaica NY when I went to visit DH's parents....I was bewildered by all the goodies! YUM!

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reiki604 — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 14:50:39 GMT

@jackthebear wrote:
@reiki604 wrote:
We just had a kosher supermarket open about a half mile away. When I go in and look, the prepared foods are a throughback. to my childhood. Shlishkas, kasha varnishkes, egg barley and chopped liver. to name a few. I went in because I grate my own chrain and the horshradish rooots in lthe grocery were small, pale and not very appealing. In this store I was flabbergasted by the size and freshness of what they had. It was stupid expensive but so is everything. I've sterilized my jars and am preparing some today as I promised small jars. to the members of my mah jongg group that meets tomorrow. I have my gloves, eyesheilds at the ready with all. the windows open!!!!
pre-covid a guest used to bring freshly grated horseradish from the Lower East Side, that stuff is intense
are you looking forward to the new card?

My USPS informed delivery says it will be here today. I'll be able to see it after my weekly game today. Have you gotten yours?

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qvcaddition — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 16:40:04 GMT

According to an invitation going out in my neighborhood from a certain religion, it's after sunset on Nisan the 14th .

I know it depends on a person's religious belief.

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Skyegirl21 — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 16:50:51 GMT

We always celebrated with family. My favorite is the charoset, with apples, nuts and Manischewitz! That stuff is the bomb on matzah!
I love to watch the 10 Commandments at that time of year- Amazing film. A happy and joyous Pesach to all who celebrate! Skye- 🥰

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dmod nj — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 18:14:47 GMT

@jackthebear wrote:
@Shanus wrote:
As usual, my food stores carry very little foods for this holiday...no flour or leavening can be used in cooking. There are always slim pickings and if not there the day it's put out, items are sold out in a few days.

On careful inspection, and many years of experience, checking dates is essential since last year's Passover foods are also put on the shelves to sell first.

My area is fairly well populated with many ethnicities and religions because of the major three universities and associated hospitals. The "research triangle" also brought many families from around the country...many Jewish ones who celebrate the holidays.

I finally found what I needed at Wegman's on an end cap hidden at the back of the store.
come to New Jersey we have all the Passover fixings you could need

@jackthebear Yes! I lived in Morris County and there was anything/everything you could need! I miss living in Jersey very much. 💔🥺

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Zaimee — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 15:53:32 GMT

Happy Passover tonight!

My complaint here in my Publix ( between Miami and Fort Lauderdale area) is that they will display foods that are Jewish style but not Kosher for Passover on the tables.Someone who is going to a Seder might not realize this especially if they are not Jewish. I point this out every year.

@reiki604

@jackthebear

Got my new mah jongg card. Like it. Addition hands back. Yeah.