How much did pesach food cost you?

Mevater

Mon, May 02 2016, 11:34 pm

She must have been serving Gold Matzahs. Yum.

http://www.jewelryjudaica.com/.....sover

chouli

Tue, May 03 2016, 3:51 am

We spent around $700 on Pessach. Family of 7, having had guests for four meals on Pessach. Food and some Pessah items included. We also bought takeout twice before Pessach with this. But even when its not Pessach I have to buy groceries and stuff..

amother

Bronze

Tue, May 03 2016, 8:14 am

Six boyz wrote:

She probably meant $1,500

No, I meant $15,000.

With 75 lbs of hand shemurah matzah to start

2 types of meat for each meal and supper ( inclu ding roasts/ tongue/ veal etc.)

Lots of cheese snacks (like 75-100)

To give you an idea....these things add up.

Rubber Ducky

Tue, May 03 2016, 9:03 am

$15K.... Wow, that's a lot of cheese snacks!

I spent in the neighborhood of $1100 or $1200. DS#1 and his young family for 1st days, DS#2 for all of Pesach, 4 guests for 1 seder and 4 guests for 1 other YomTov meal.

amother

Bronze

Tue, May 03 2016, 9:55 am

Are you all including:
Meat, fish, wine, grape juice, papergoods, all dairy products, all raw ingredients, all those cases of eggs, potatoes, drink, fruits, cake, oil, nuts, marror etc????

To bake erev pesach matzah alone costs around $100 per person for 6 matzohs.

Because they do add up quite fast. I know 15k is a lot, but I expected to hear closer to 5k.

thunderstorm

Tue, May 03 2016, 9:55 am

amother wrote:

She spent more in one week than I spend in a year!!! I'm happy to hear that Hashem has blessed people with bounty like that.

amother

Lemon

Tue, May 03 2016, 10:54 am

A little over $2,000.

8 people (some are kids and don't eact much)

15 lbs shmura matza

wine, grape juice, 4 types of meat, lots of chicken and cutlets, lots of eggs - probably close to 20 dozen, tons of ground nuts and potato starch .... you get the picture!!

sky

Tue, May 03 2016, 11:08 am

amother wrote:

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With 75 lbs of hand shemurah matzah to start

...

That alone is at least the $1500 other posters guessing.

amother

Mustard

Tue, May 03 2016, 11:26 am

amother wrote:

Yes I added all that plus detergents and whatever else we needed for Pesach. That totaled $1700 for family of 4 with guests and also included the week before Pesach when home was Pesachdig and we started cooking the Pesach food.

Raisin

Tue, May 03 2016, 11:28 am

amother wrote:

how many people was she feeding???

amother

Bronze

Tue, May 03 2016, 11:45 am

Raisin wrote:

how many people was she feeding???

Approximately 30 people throughout

SRS

Tue, May 03 2016, 11:49 am

No more than $20 extra a person that I would not have spent (more expensive cream cheese, yogurt, meat and fish we would have done without, wine, quinoa that replaced rice). Except for seder, we don't use shmura. The grocery gives away the 5 lb matza with a $50 purchase. We are out for sedarim.

HonesttoGod

Tue, May 03 2016, 12:26 pm

$800 including take out once the week before.
2 adults 2 full meal eating kids and guests for most meals. And seder. Not as low as I wanted it but not as high as I thought it would be.

amother

Azure

Tue, May 03 2016, 1:16 pm

amother wrote:

Wo! Bli Ayin Hara!

Im now less interested in the cost of food.

How much was spent on cleaning and cooking help? How many helper people, how many hours each?

Are your parents Rabbi and Rebbitzen of a Shul, and have an open house kind of thing, and this is their community's expectation?

If not, whats their yearly income, (being that youre anonymous)?

amother

Gray

Tue, May 03 2016, 1:27 pm

I don't know if the is the story of the $15K poster.
But I know someone who goes to a family "Pesach hotel" in a private home.
They have very large home to host the extended family comfortably.
A cook and mashgiach are hired for the entire pesach and the kitchen is locked. There is a mini kitchen that serves as a 24 hour tea room and food area for families with young children.
3 elaborate catered meals are served to at least 30 people daily. Plus there are pre-meals served for children. And boxed meals available for trips.
Such a setup can easly cost over $15K for the food alone (plus mashgiach, cook, waiters, cleanup, etc).

amother

Seafoam

Tue, May 03 2016, 1:37 pm

I didnt eat at any meals at home.. but at one relative, each person was served a veal steak on the bone, chicken, 3 different types of fish. Also, around 3 bottles of wine were finished at every meal. (sometimes it was a $60 bottle..)
no where near 30 ppl, but yes I can imagine it cost the 15,000 without a cook or mashgiach