Passover 2018 Menu Plan
I feel like I’m doing this earlier than usual, but then I looked at past menu plans on KOAB and realized – Nope, I’m a week later, actually.
I wonder if it just FEELS earlier because planning for Pesach in Israel is SO MUCH LESS STRESSFUL than planning was in America.
Y’all. This is reason enough to make aliyah!
- The stores are all (as in ENTIRELY, zero chametz) turned over — so shopping is a breeze. If you don’t eat kitniyot or derivatives, you have to be a bit careful, but nothing like trying to strategize my shopping trips.
- If you run out of milk or eggs during chag, no worries! They’re all marked KLP — so you can always buy more on Pesach.
- ONE.DAY.OF.YOMTOV — Okay, fine that doesn’t really have anything to do with making planning less stressful, but it’s just so awesome and puts me in a good mood. (Kinda like it being 82 degrees and sunny today puts me in a good mood. Nothing to do with menu planning, but I sure do love feeling sunshine in March!)
- And finally, RESTAURANTS. Need I say more?
And now onto our 2018 Passover Menu Plan:
Friday, March 30th
Breakfast: Scrambled eggs
Lunch: Baked potatoes & cottage cheese, cut-up veggies (we have the same pre-Pesach lunch every.single.year)
Seder
Seder Plate Stuff
Hard boiled eggs
Matzah ball soup
Sweet & sour meatballs – I’m making my own duck sauce (thanks, Between Carpools!)
Potato kugel
My mother in law’s sweet potato casserole
Roasted vegetable tray – zucchini, sweet potato, red & yellow pepper, red onion
Dessert: Strawberry lemon sorbet, chocolate frogs
Saturday, March 31st
Breafast: Matzah & cream cheese, fruit
Lunch for Yomtov Day
Strawberry soup
Grilled chicken breasts or thighs (depends which is on sale)
Sweet & sour meatballs
Accordion potatoes
Fennel & dill salad
Green salad
Tomato & basil salad
Dessert: Chocolate cookies, chocolate covered strawberries, fruit salad
Dinner: Matzah pizza, salad
Sunday, April 1st
Breakfast: Scrambled eggs, fruit
Lunch: Out to lunch (beach)
Dinner: KLP pasta or zoodles & tomato sauce, parmesan cheese, green salad
Monday, April 2nd
Brunch: Matzah Brei, Fruit
Dinner: BBQ with all the fixings, oven roasted sweet potato fries
Tuesday, April 3rd
Breakfast: Scrambled eggs, matzah & butter/cream cheese, fruit
Lunch: Picnic lunch with friends
Dinner: Matzah lasagna & broccoli
Wednesday, April 4th
Breakfast: Matzah Brei
Lunch: Picnic lunch for our hike
Dinner: Out to dinner with my mother in law
Thursday, April 5th, Erev Chag Sheni
Breakfast: Scrambled eggs, matzah & butter/cream cheese, fruit
Lunch: Matzah pizza
Yom Tov Dinner
Matzah ball soup
Flanken or ribs, depending which is on sale
Roasted sweet potatoes & potatoes
Roasted peppers, zucchini
Green salad
Moroccan carrot salad
Crinkle cookies, nut & raisins clusters, sorbet
Fruit
Friday, April 6th – Chag Sheni/Erev Shabbat
Breakfast: Matzah brei
Yom Tov Lunch
Salad course
Chicken nuggets w/ almond meal
Meatballs
Mashed potatoes
Roasted vegetable tray
Fruit salad, marshmallow clusters
Shabbat Dinner: LEFT.OVERS. (Don’t judge me!)
Saturday, April 7th – Passover is over in Israel, but we still can’t eat chametz quite yet because it’s Shabbat
Breakfast: Matzah & cream cheese, hard boiled eggs, fruit
Shabbat Lunch
Artichokes with dipping sauce
Salmon with pesto
Potato kale gratin
Cherry tomato & basil salad
Fruit salad
Dinner: Chametz? Pizza? Mimouna?
What’s on your menu plan???
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