What cooked food to send your kids in Israel?

amother

OP ↓

Sun, Aug 18 2024, 11:34 pm

My married kids are going back to Israel soon and will be there over the coming Holidays.

Any suggestions what I can cook/bake them here and they can take back with them, to make their lives a bit easier with all the yomtov meals?

Would love any suggestions! I am already planning to make meat/roasts.

Thanks in advance

Brit in Israel

Sun, Aug 18 2024, 11:44 pm

If you were my mum I'd want things like shepherds pie and kugel which are time consuming and hardly manage to do it with little kids especially when they are on vacation or I'm working.

amother

↑ OP ↓

Sun, Aug 18 2024, 11:48 pm

Thanks for the ideas.
Anyone know if kugel travels well?

amother

RosePink ↓

Sun, Aug 18 2024, 11:52 pm

Cooked meats are always welcome. My mil opened my suitcases in the trunk one visit and stuck in some roasts (she didn't exactly ask us about weight limits) and was so helpful for the shabbosim after because they were already cooked and sliced.

DrMom

Mon, Aug 19 2024, 1:16 am

Make sure it's something they can take in their carry-on baggage. If they check it and their luggage is delayed, it'll stink up their suitcases.

amother

Camellia

Mon, Aug 19 2024, 1:19 am

Breaded chicken cutlets that can be popped into the oven! So helpful for when they land and any other time they need a quick dinner

amother

↑ RosePink

Mon, Aug 19 2024, 1:22 am

DrMom wrote:

Make sure it's something they can take in their carry-on baggage. If they check it and their luggage is delayed, it'll stink up their suitcases.

I would never recommend cooked food that you want to last in carry on luggage. It should ALWAYS be under the plane where temps are much cooler.
If your suitcase gets lost, then you'll lose the food.
But if you take it in your carry on then it most certainly won't last past 1-2 days afterwards.

And also, I'm assuming they have children and need minimalistic carry ons in order to manage.

Bnei Berak 10

Mon, Aug 19 2024, 5:36 am

amother Camellia wrote:

Breaded chicken cutlets that can be popped into the oven! So helpful for when they land and any other time they need a quick dinner

Op was thing of chagei Tishrei and not for now.

amother

Fern

Mon, Aug 19 2024, 5:56 am

Bnei Berak 10 wrote:

Op was thing of chagei Tishrei and not for now.

So?
Being helpful in a variety of ways is only a plus

amother

↑ OP

Mon, Aug 19 2024, 7:01 am

Will breaded chicken cutlets last if frozen and in the hold/luggage area?

613mitzvahgirl

Mon, Aug 19 2024, 7:04 am

I’d suggest cookies, cakes and challahs do very well with traveling

ora_43

Mon, Aug 19 2024, 7:12 am

TBH I'd probably just send them with tasty home-cooked snacks for the plane ride itself, and then order them food online to help with chag 1-2 days before chag. I don't know where they are in Israel but almost everywhere has somewhere that sells kosher kugel and schnitzels and the like.

Just because I'm generally paranoid about food safety, and the chagim are a while from now.

But if the point is to give them a special family classic, I'd make whatever they like most, freeze it, and have them carry it in their checked luggage where hopefully it will stay frozen.

leaf ↓

Mon, Aug 19 2024, 8:13 am

Why dont you ask them? And make sure they have enough room/ weight allowances to take with them..
Twenty yrs ago the airlines reduced weight allowance from 70 lb a suitcase, 2 suitcases per passenger (= total of 140 lbs) to 50 lb per suitcase, 1 suitcase per passenger. I think we sometimes still think in terms of how it once was...

amother

Diamond

Mon, Aug 19 2024, 8:15 am

amother OP wrote:

Thanks for the ideas.
Anyone know if kugel travels well?

Yes it should. I'd rewarm it on low temp overnight for overnight kugel.

↑ leaf

Mon, Aug 19 2024, 8:15 am

Also tread carefully with dils. In the beg of our marriage I used to get annoyed from all of the care packages. (She doesnt trust me to feed dh?). Now over 20 yrs later, I just enjoy!

blueberry32

Mon, Aug 19 2024, 8:46 am

Thats so nice of you... I would love if my mother did this for me.

Cassie

Mon, Aug 19 2024, 9:18 am

A good roast or brisket, marinated perhaps, cooked or raw, is usually very much appreciated. Beef is difficult to find, and is relatively compact. Send it frozen and well insulated

amother

Sapphire

Mon, Aug 19 2024, 2:19 pm

Meat is very expensive in EY.
I'd do meat.

The way you travel with perishables like that (we did it on flights that were longer than NY to EY) is you freeze the food well for a few days, and then you put it in the checked luggage.
It will stay frozen.