Your Erev Yom Kippur Menu

sky

Mon, Sep 17 2018, 11:30 am

We eat 2 fleishig meals

Meal 1:
Mushroom barley soup
Baked sesame chicken
Broccoli
Apple kugel
Lettuce salad

Meal 2:
Chicken soup with kreplach
One pan chicken: chicken quarters, brown rice, sweet potato. I find everyone fasts well with the brown rice.
Leftover apple kugel
Potato kugel (because they’ll also want after the fast and this way I’ll have)
Salad

ShishKabob

Mon, Sep 17 2018, 11:59 am

First meal is fish, soup with kreplach, breaded chicken cutlets, stir fry meat, farfel, tzimmes, dessert.
Second meal is chicken soup, chicken from the soup, mashed potatoes, salad, watermelon and compote.

pesek zman

Mon, Sep 17 2018, 12:08 pm

I ask this every year but re: 2 seudahs. Do people take a day off on erev YT? Does everyone work at heimish offices where this is accepted?

salt

Mon, Sep 17 2018, 12:13 pm

pesek zman wrote:

I ask this every year but re: 2 seudahs. Do people take a day off on erev YT? Does everyone work at heimish offices where this is accepted?

B"h live in Israel. It's considered a half a day - but I take it off.

As for meals
1. salmon, potatoes and salad.
2. chicken, potatoes and salad.
(we like potatoes and I like to keep it simple)

amother

Maroon

Mon, Sep 17 2018, 12:28 pm

First meal:
Cauliflower soup & kreplach
Meatloaf
Peas
Garden Salad

Second:
Salmon
Roasted Potatoes
Sauteed Green Beans
(Maybe more soup)

Melon for dessert both meals. And lekach.

amother

Puce

Mon, Sep 17 2018, 12:32 pm

pesek zman wrote:

I ask this every year but re: 2 seudahs. Do people take a day off on erev YT? Does everyone work at heimish offices where this is accepted?

Yes my husband always takes off on erev Yom Kippur.

amother

Slateblue

Mon, Sep 17 2018, 12:32 pm

pesek zman wrote:

I ask this every year but re: 2 seudahs. Do people take a day off on erev YT? Does everyone work at heimish offices where this is accepted?

I take half the day off.

thunderstorm

Mon, Sep 17 2018, 12:36 pm

pesek zman wrote:

I ask this every year but re: 2 seudahs. Do people take a day off on erev YT? Does everyone work at heimish offices where this is accepted?

Some people take a day off . Other frum offices are either closed or may close early like a Friday . My mother works in a public school, some years she uses it as a day off , depending on what days Succos falls out . Other years she works and brings along a mini seudah to eat on her lunch break.

thunderstorm

Mon, Sep 17 2018, 12:39 pm

amother wrote:

First meal:
Cauliflower soup & kreplach
Meatloaf
Peas
Garden Salad

Second:
Salmon
Roasted Potatoes
Sauteed Green Beans
(Maybe more soup)

Melon for dessert both meals. And lekach.

As far as I learned you are not supposed to eat fish at the second seuda which is the Seudos hamafsekes. Please double check though, because I could be wrong and it may just be a minhag. I thought the reason was because fish causes thirst and fish can have bones and you don't want a bone to get stuck or something right before Yom Kippur. I vaguely recall learning this but my brain is a bit mushy so not sure.

keym

Mon, Sep 17 2018, 12:40 pm

pesek zman wrote:

I ask this every year but re: 2 seudahs. Do people take a day off on erev YT? Does everyone work at heimish offices where this is accepted?

We hold two fleishig seudahs with washing. But years my husband can't take off (like this year with all the weekdays), I send a fleishig sandwich. Cold cuts or grilled chicken. We end up eating the same at home.

Then seudas hamefsekes we have
Melon
Chicken soup w kreplach
Chicken
Orzo
Apple kugel
Some cooked vegie.

bigsis144

Mon, Sep 17 2018, 12:44 pm

I pretty much make the same thing every year.

Hamotzi
chicken soup with veggies (kreplach if I have time)
whole wheat pasta with meat sauce (lighter on the garlic than usual)
grapes/watermelon

DH likes to drink lots of red grape juice to hydrate before fast.

amother

Mustard

Mon, Sep 17 2018, 12:56 pm

Does everyone do two seudas? I make one, usually the same thing every year.
Schnitzel
Mashed potatoes
Brown rice
Sweet potatoes
Vitamin water/water throughout the entire day AND the day before!(makes all the difference!).

weasley

Mon, Sep 17 2018, 1:02 pm

This is the first im hearing of 2 meals? Is that a minaga or does everyone do that?

pesek zman

Mon, Sep 17 2018, 1:05 pm

weasley wrote:

This is the first im hearing of 2 meals? Is that a minaga or does everyone do that?

I've been on imamother for a whole but this is the only place I've seen it. I wonder who keeps the minhag (chassidim?) we definitely have only one meal. Erev YT is a regular work day: I rush home and we squeeze in a meal before the fast. The end

mommyla

Mon, Sep 17 2018, 1:09 pm

We also have two meals. My parents don't, but my husband's family does. Not chassidish in the slightest. I usually make the first meal lighter - it's more like splitting a full meal into two (for us, at least). We usually have the first meal, then bentch and wash dishes, take showers, etc., then sit down for the second meal.

This year I'm doing:
1st meal:
Challah
Chicken soup with kreplach

2nd meal:
Challah
Chicken (not sure what kind yet)
Cabbage & noodles
Mashed potatoes
Salad or veggie
Cake
Watermelon and/or grapes

pesek zman

Mon, Sep 17 2018, 1:22 pm

thunderstorm wrote:

Two Meals is a Chasidish minhag.

I thought so. Both mine and my husband's family are not Chasidish which is why I've never heard of it

mommyla

Mon, Sep 17 2018, 1:27 pm

thunderstorm wrote:

Two Meals is a Chasidish minhag.

Not sure where my husband's family picked it up then What

we're as litvish as they come. Interestingly, the brothers-in-law all do it too, and none of them are Chassidish either.