Serving hot food before shabbos

amother

OP ↓

Yesterday at 8:16 am

If you serve hot shabbos food Friday afternoon, what do you serve on shabbos? Or do you just make double of everything?

When I let my kids have kugel erev shabbos, there's one row left for the shabbos seudah . Unless I have time to make two kugels. Which is very pressuring to have to cook another whole meal for Friday afternoon.

amother

Seashell

Yesterday at 8:30 am

I find my kids never eat passed soup on Friday nights anyways.
So I always have the main course out and let them eat it.
I make enough and most of the time it's left over too.
I don't usually make kugel.
I will make hotdogs and puffed pastry,some type of nice roasted vegetable, baked sweet potatoes, and closer to Shabbos I bake the shnitzel.
If I do have guests I will just have something easy like rice , string beans and some meat for the main course.
It's important my kids grow up loving Shabbos and not having resentment and feelings like they had to fast their whole lives Erev Shabbos.

amother

Yolk

Yesterday at 8:38 am

We eat potato kugel and cholent on Friday afternoon.
The rest of the potato kugel gets added to the cholent for shabbos lunch.
For the actual meal, we eat challah, salads, dips, salmon, chicken soup and although I prepare a main dish, it’s not usually devoured in the same way the rest of the meal is.

amother

↑ OP

Yesterday at 8:53 am

I hear. Yes by us also the soup is the main course. And potato kugel is really much better fresh out of the oven. I just feel funny cooking shabbos food meant for Friday afternoon...

amother

Offwhite

Yesterday at 9:02 am

I only ever make potato kugel for Friday afternoon. If there is any left over I serve it with the cholent. For the night seuda I usually serve roasted potatoes with the main.

flowerpower

Yesterday at 9:13 am

No one here eats past the soup. Ill put out a plate of the chicken/kugal/ferfel and let people take but it barely gets touched. If I have guest I prepare individual plates. They usually don’t get touched either.

rss

Yesterday at 9:15 am

Chasidem specifically taste food before shabbos. Most of my children are eating bowls of chulent and soup. So portion wise thats not a prob. Chicken and kugel I make sure to have enough for before qnd on. Younger crowd though is eating their main dinner before shabbos.

This coming week will be lots of food eaten by suda LOL

amother

Smokey ↓

Yesterday at 9:18 am

amother Yolk wrote:

Exactly this.

Some extra cholent is almost no work or effort & everyone is satisfied.

amother

↑ Smokey

Yesterday at 9:21 am

flowerpower wrote:

Same. I feel like the fish is our main & soup tops it off. I don't even bother with a real main unless we have guest.

:)iknowit

Yesterday at 10:12 am

My husband will throw some meat and chicken on the grill for Friday afternoon. It keeps people out of the kitchen and my husband is in charge of the grill so it’s a win win.
I give them kugel as a side, coleslaw , pickles definitely works best in the winter because then I don’t make a separate main dish just whatever is left over from bbq. In the months that it’s a longer Friday I still make a full main dish since we eat so much later.

amother

Hydrangea

Yesterday at 10:20 am

these responses are fascinating. we do NOT eat anything significant before shabbos: after lunch the kids are allowed fruit or yogurt. BH they all eat a full meal. main dish and sides included. I can’t relate to the families who say no one eats past soup. I’d be devastated if staying up late into the night on thursday night to cook for shabbos went for naught

amother

Brass

Yesterday at 10:22 am

I cook kugel for Friday afternoon. By the time we get to the meat course by the Fri night meal no one is interested in kugel anymore, we are all stuffed.

amother

Sunflower

Yesterday at 10:48 am

There's potato kugel for everyone. Whoever wants is welcome to take cholent. There's chicken too, if anyone wants. If no one wants, we have enough for the Shabbos seuda and Sunday supper. I make two kugels; one for erev Shabbos and one for the seuda. The second one usually only two or three pieces get eaten.

We are not huge kugel, chicken or cholent eaters, ergo people have plenty of appetite for the whole seuda. Only one of my kids won't eat anything much of the main course.

amother

Orange

Yesterday at 10:57 am

My younger kids eat lunch in school. My bigger yeshiva kids will find something to eat for lunch when they get home (often leftovers from the night before's supper, or whatever they find that won't get in my way to prepare). Then my kids are welcome to take snacks. Shabbos is early enough that they can wait for food by the meal.

When shabbos is late, I give my younger kids to eat before shabbos. Often the meal is too late for them anyway.

amother

Anemone

Yesterday at 11:14 am

I buy chicken nuggets and frank n blanks from takeout every week and stick it into a warming drawer. Also a small potato kugel. It’s my kids pre Shabbos food. I serve regular lunch, or they eat in school, but right before the zman they like to eat a bit. I don’t have the rest by main course of seudah, I put the extras away for Sunday night dinner. By the meal I have baked chicken and kugels.

Some of my kids like a little cholent before the zman, but I still have plenty for Shabbos day meal.

When I make potato kugel, I don’t do it in a 9x13. I make a recipe out of 5 lb potatoes and get 3 small pans. One for Friday afternoon, 1 for Friday night, and one I do overnight for Shabbos morning. That way I don’t need to make a kugel special for Friday afternoon, it’s just part of my Shabbos cooking. (I do it Wednesday and freeze, especially on these short Fridays).

amother

Amaryllis

Yesterday at 11:20 am

flowerpower wrote:

This basically. My kids are 6 and under. They need dinner by 4 usually. They need food Friday and so do I.

Reality

Yesterday at 11:52 am

Most of my kids are older. I serve kugel as a snack before shabbos. I do not serve a full meal. Just some kugel to tide people over so everyone comes to the meal happy even if my husband shmoozes a little after davening.

At the seuda we eat a lot of salads, soup with kneidalach and either chicken or meat. Some people may take another piece of kugel if there's any left.