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[Shanus]

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.

[Janey2]

@Shanus  Passover is Wednesday evening April 5

[jackthebear]

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@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.

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

[Shanus]

@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.

[Shanus]

@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.

[781Florist]

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.

[Lucky Charm]

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.

[Shanus]

@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.

[reiki604]

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!!!!

[jackthebear]

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@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!!!!

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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?