S/O guests. Feeding family

amother

Sun, Jan 05 2025, 2:55 pm

What do you feed your family on Friday.

In the winter, we have grilled cheese or frozen pizza at 12:30/1 when they get home
If they're hungry later, they take fruit, cheese, crackers.
We hold not to have significant meal foods too close to Shabbos.

In the spring/summer (after the clocks change) we have the same grilled cheese/frozen pizza at 12:30.
And at 5ish, I offer kugel, soup, and chicken nuggets.

If I have company, I do the same. In the winter if they come after 2, I offer fruit, cheese, cake. In the summer, kugel and chicken nuggets.

Cheiny

Sun, Jan 05 2025, 2:57 pm

amother OP wrote:

Usually pizza for lunch, sometimes cereal, and a bit later, potato kugel. We hold not to have fleishigs on erev Shabbos.

sweetpotato

Sun, Jan 05 2025, 3:06 pm

Cereal, cheese toast, bagel and cream cheese— something that can be prepared in the toaster oven. If a younger kid is really hungry and I know they won’t make it to the meal I’ll serve them more of a full meal out of something from what I’ve prepared for dinner.

flowerpower

Sun, Jan 05 2025, 3:14 pm

Lunch are paninis

Then before the zman I prepare cholent, ferfel, and overnight potato kugal.

If I have guest I serve toyamehu

Reality

Sun, Jan 05 2025, 3:16 pm

Lunch is whatever people want, grilled cheese or tuna etc.

I put out potato kugel and usually vegetable kugel for an afternoon snack. We are usually too full by the main course on shabbos to eat the side dishes. I'd rather it get eaten earlier then have starving kids in bad moods.

Some of my kids are in sports leagues on Fridays. No way they can wait until shabbos to eat. They usually have some chicken and or soup when they get home at 3ish. I prefer that to starting with the milchigs again. And they are still hungry for the Friday night meal. Kids playing sports for 2+ hours are hungry!

amother

Olive

Sun, Jan 05 2025, 5:12 pm

flowerpower wrote:

If I have guest I serve toyamehu

Is that something Japanese, Hawaiian, or more like tiramisu , which sounds Japanese but is Italian?

amother

Babypink

Sun, Jan 05 2025, 5:14 pm

My kids are in school until 2 in the winter so they eat in school and have a snack when they get home.

giftedmom

Sun, Jan 05 2025, 5:16 pm

Dairy lunch and then cholent and salami closer to the zman. If they were bigger eaters I’d serve more but they barely eat even that.

ra_mom

Sun, Jan 05 2025, 5:16 pm

Pizza for lunch.

Roasted veggies and baby potatoes for Friday night get muched on Friday afternoon. Long Fridays, we add some extra chicken that's ready early as well.

Erev Yom Tov or when we have guests I make a large potato kugel, extra chicken, and those veggies are available too.

amother

White

Sun, Jan 05 2025, 5:17 pm

amother Olive wrote:

Is that something Japanese, Hawaiian, or more like tiramisu , which sounds Japanese but is Italian?

Lol to'amehu means serving a tasting of shabbos foods before shabbos. Like kugel, chulent....
I offer chulent and kugel or cake/fruits. Over bar mitzvah they mostly will take a piece of kugel and some cake cuz they don't want a full meal

amother

DarkYellow

Sun, Jan 05 2025, 5:17 pm

When my husband goes to get challahs, he gets take out shnitzel. Its our weekly thing so nobody has to make anything for lunch.