Your minhag? | Imamother

amother

Mon, Apr 15 2024, 10:43 am

Just curious, what doesn't your family eat? What special foods get used?

We don't eat kitniyos or gebrakst (only actually water/matzoh). Otherwise we are very easy going on the rest of the food.

Jpf/litvish/bit of chassidish ancestry on husbands family minhagim.

scruffy

Mon, Apr 15 2024, 10:44 am

No gebrokts by sedarim, but we do eat it the rest of Pesach. This was a change for me when I got married since I didn't eat gebrokts before and tbh I've found most of it very underwhelming

No cottonseed oil

amother

Burlywood

Mon, Apr 15 2024, 10:49 am

I married a self-made Chassid. We are very Makpid on no Gebrochs, but thanks to a very grounded Chassidish Rav we use products with a Heimish Hashgacha. We do try to use only produce that can be peeled though.

amother

Cerise

Mon, Apr 15 2024, 10:53 am

growing up we only ate non processed foods.. apart from dairy processed. ie - cheese yogurt..

my mother couldnt handle the extreme ness of it so over the years certain ingredients got added to the 'kosher list' but not much. we did eat gebrokts tho

dh eats everything aside from kitniyos.. if it says kosher and pesach on it then we eat it LOL

amother

Black

Mon, Apr 15 2024, 11:01 am

We're chabad.
We only eat sides of salmon, chicken, roasts, fruits or vegetables that can be peeled. No garlic or ginger. Grape juice, wine, matza, coarse salt that we check.
No kitnios, no gebrochts.

amother

Violet

Mon, Apr 15 2024, 11:03 am

amother Cerise wrote:

Were chassidish, grew up eating close to nothing.
After much research & an open conversation with DH Rav, we do exactly this

amother

Snowdrop

Mon, Apr 15 2024, 11:06 am

amother OP wrote:

Can you expound on this?

sruth1

Mon, Apr 15 2024, 11:28 am

I am laughing at this question because when I was in Kindergarten I was so jealous of all the cool minhagim that my classmates had (my family is Brisk and I went to a Lubavitch school) that I lied and told my class that our family minhag was to dip strawberries in salt water for karpas.
I didn’t realize until about 10 years ago (I was in my mid 30’s) that some of my classmates still believed that was true.

As a child we didn’t eat kitneyos and only shmurah matza

Now since I married my husband in addition I o not eating kitneyos and only shmurah, we also don’t eat gebroktz.

amother

Apple

Mon, Apr 15 2024, 11:36 am

Lubavitch.
No gebrochtz no kitnyas. No no garlic no ginger no radishes. No spices.
To make it easier lol
We make our own g fish.
We eat potatoes and sweet potatoes
Carrots
Avacado
Juice our own lemons and oranges
Kosher salt which we check.
Onions
Zucchini
Apples
Bananas
Eggs
Chicken
Meat
We make Matza (FIL makes) wine grape juice.
Matza is in bags and away from the table.
Milk anmerican and cottage cheese for under Bar and bas mitzvah.
And plain yogurt. (Don’t see and klp vanillas)
We crack our own nuts
We changed from shmaltz to oil
And eggs
I love making my own potato chips
One set of grandparents don’t eat fish so have egg and onion instead.
Ha my name is apple lol.

amother

Mon, Apr 15 2024, 11:38 am

amother Snowdrop wrote:

Can you expound on this?

Will use matzoh with milk, oil, any spreads as long as water isn't in the ingredients.

amother

Royalblue

Mon, Apr 15 2024, 12:14 pm

Chabad but less strict than some others here Smile

Hand shmurah matzah
Wine
Grape juice
Kosher salt (checked before Yom Tov)
Sugar (boiled and strained before Yom Tov)
Extra virgin olive oil (we used to do just shmaltz, but I didn't think it was fair to guests)
Gefilte fish rolls with no added sugar/pepper/oil
Salmon (rarely)
Chicken
Meat
Eggs
Vegetables and fruits that can be peeled (except for lettuce for the seder)
Raw nuts in shells (we crack ourselves)

No other processed foods, no spices.
No garlic, ginger, radish.
No kitniyos, no gebroktz.

One of my kids drinks milk.

It may sound restrictive but I love it! Pesach is one of my favorite Yomim Tovim for the food.

amother

Papaya

Mon, Apr 15 2024, 12:23 pm

faltche fish eater here
its not half as gross as ppl think it is; its actually pretty good. for the first few days anyways lol.

amother

Pumpkin

Mon, Apr 15 2024, 12:25 pm

I grew up using pretty much anything other than gebrochts

I got married and major culture shock to eating almost nothing
Everything needs to be peeled
No garlic
No black pepper
No spices
Only coarse salt
Only carp or white fish
No Baking soda
N vanilla sugar
Homemade gefilte fish
No dips that go on the matzoh even if there is no water in the ing
some of my bil's only use schmaltz so when theyre by my in laws theres only schmaltz which I find gross

amother

Ultramarine

Mon, Apr 15 2024, 12:27 pm

scruffy wrote:

We have the same minhag!! It’s actually really rare- no gebrokts by the sedorim, yes the rest of yt

sruth1

Mon, Apr 15 2024, 12:40 pm

amother Ultramarine wrote:

We have the same minhag!! It’s actually really rare- no gebrokts by the sedorim, yes the rest of yt

This was I believe whas Vilna Goen or Rav Chaim Velozhen (I can’t remember) minhag. And this is how my parents hold.

amother

Periwinkle

Mon, Apr 15 2024, 1:01 pm

amother Papaya wrote:

faltche fish eater here
its not half as gross as ppl think it is; its actually pretty good. for the first few days anyways lol.

it's actually delicious. we wait for it all year.

we make it salty, like the ground chicken it is. not sweet, as if it's fish.

Ruchel

Mon, Apr 15 2024, 1:06 pm

Yekke
No kitnios but for shalom if it's in your plate push it with your fork
Machine is stricter than shmura

Me heimish roots
My saba family didn't broke the two first days they were bobov Noone peeled

Sefardic grandma no potatoes

Sefardic Pessach
You have people who only eat the fresh kitniot and not the dried ones you have people who eat some yes certainly you have people who eat them all except the rice et cetera et cetera and you even have Moroccans who do not eat them
My husband adds you have those who eat them in a oil but not solid
Then you have people who don't eat certain things because the word sounds like hametz: hummus, vinegar (chometz)
Others do not eat animals that used to eat wheat or ingredients that were stored alongside the wheat.
Some people don't eat fish, dairy products, chocolate, potatoes
Some Moroccans are extremely strict

shabbatiscoming

Mon, Apr 15 2024, 1:30 pm

No chametz and pure kitniyot.
Things with derivatives of kitniyot, it depends how far down the ingredients list it is.
Its harder being ashkenazi in israel on pesach than being sfardi Smile

MO/DL

amother

Strawberry

Mon, Apr 15 2024, 2:16 pm

Meats & chicken
Only carp fish that arrived to the kosher store alive
Salt & sugar, no spices
Hand matza only, no gebrogts
Only certain fruits & veggies that can be peeled ( I personally do buy a bigger variety of produce that can be peeled)
No garlic
Eggs
Potatoes
Potato starch
Plain unfavored dairy like milk & yogurt
Grape juice & wine (grandparents would make their own but I haven't mastered that)
Instant coffee with kosher for passover certification