Free Rosh Hashana Coloring Pages

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Need something to keep your little kids occupied while you cook for Rosh Hashana? (Yes… one week and counting!) Download these free Rosh Hashana coloring pages from our friends at Cook Kosher.

Rosh Hashana Recipe Exchange | Honey Recipes (+ $10 Gift Card to Amazon Giveaway)

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Reading all of your wonderful comments on the Honey Basket Giveaway post (ends tonight at midnight), I was inspired to put together this Recipe Exchange. Here’s how it’s going to work – I’m going to share my honey mustard salmon recipe (it’s so basic – but so yum). And then I’m going to ask that [...]

Our Rosh Hashana Menu Plan (2012)

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With just two weeks until the first night of Rosh Hashana, it’s time for me to face facts – the chagim are coming! I sat down last night and made our meal plan for Rosh Hashana, doing my best to not go too crazy. (My plans are always more ambitious that my time and energy, [...]

Rosh Hashana Giveaway #3 | Win a $100 Gift Card to 6pm.com

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I remember when I first learned about buying new clothes for yomtov, so you can say a shehecheyanu. I was 17. It was kind of an eye-opening moment. “I gotta go to the mall, Mom!” Now a few decades later, all this new clothes buying could be a little stressful for a frugalista like me. [...]

Rosh Hashana Giveaway #2 | Honey Gift Basket Giveaway

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When I was brainstorming a list of ideas for Rosh Hashana giveaways, something-having-to-do-with-honey naturally topped my list. Only I don’t didn’t have any “honey connections”. Imagine my delight when I saw that the National Honey Board was one of the sponsors of a blogging conference I attended earlier this month. Besheret! And wouldn’t you know that the first [...]

Rosh Hashana Giveaway #1 | Two $50 Gift Cards to JWines

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Rosh Hashana is right around the corner – and I don’t know about you, but for me, this time of year can be a leetle bit stressful! Sometimes, I just need to get.away. Enjoy a few moments of silence – when no one is asking me to make them a snack or braid them a [...]

10% Off at JWines – Get Your Rosh Hashana Wine Now

Jwines.com has a super promotion running from now until September 6th just for KOAB readers. Save 10% off your entire order  when you use the coupon code kosherbudget at checkout. I first heard about (and ordered from) Jwines around Pesach time and was super impressed with their variety of kosher wines, competitive pricing and fast [...]

8 Ways to Save for the High Holidays

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Now that it’s officially Elul, it’s time to start getting ready for the High Holidays. Here on Kosher on a Budget, “geting ready” refers not to selichot and shofar-blowing, but to budgets, menu plans and grocery lists. September is definitely one of those months when I have  to increase our food budget. As you know, my [...]