Your minhag? | Imamother

watergirl

Mon, Apr 15 2024, 5:21 pm

amother Strawberry wrote:

Meats & chicken
Only carp fish that arrived to the kosher store alive
Salt & sugar, no spices
Hand matza only, no gebrogts
Only certain fruits & veggies that can be peeled ( I personally do buy a bigger variety of produce that can be peeled)
No garlic
Eggs
Potatoes
Potato starch
Plain unfavored dairy like milk & yogurt
Grape juice & wine (grandparents would make their own but I haven't mastered that)
Instant coffee with kosher for passover certification

Re: the carp - why?

Goody2shoes

Mon, Apr 15 2024, 5:33 pm

amother Apple wrote:

Lubavitch.
No gebrochtz no kitnyas. No no garlic no ginger no radishes. No spices.
To make it easier lol
We make our own g fish.
We eat potatoes and sweet potatoes
Carrots
Avacado
Juice our own lemons and oranges
Kosher salt which we check.
Onions
Zucchini
Apples
Bananas
Eggs
Chicken
Meat
We make Matza (FIL makes) wine grape juice.
Matza is in bags and away from the table.
Milk anmerican and cottage cheese for under Bar and bas mitzvah.
And plain yogurt. (Don’t see and klp vanillas)
We crack our own nuts
We changed from shmaltz to oil
And eggs
I love making my own potato chips
One set of grandparents don’t eat fish so have egg and onion instead.
Ha my name is apple lol.

Same. Chabad and we eat almost nothing that isn't homemade.
People always ask me how come I don't mind, and I always tell them that I more then don't mind. I'm proud of our minhagim! Sure it's hard but it feels so special and exciting.
No potato starch
No oil
No dairy (with the exception of milk)
No spices or flavoring
No oil
Only fruit and veggies that can be peeled

My mother's family had the mnhag of not eating veggies with seeds so growing up we had no cucumbers, squash or melon.

amother

Strawberry

Mon, Apr 15 2024, 5:41 pm

amother Apple wrote:

Same with my fam. We buy the fish alive.

Carp was common back then as most fish was in vinegar which is chometz.

This. Already processed fish can be preserved in other foods.

amother

Salmon

Mon, Apr 15 2024, 6:34 pm

amother Black wrote:

We're chabad.
We only eat sides of salmon, chicken, roasts, fruits or vegetables that can be peeled. No garlic or ginger. Grape juice, wine, matza, coarse salt that we check.
No kitnios, no gebrochts.

Same plus only veggies that don't have seeds (hello root vegetables)
And if something falls on the floor we can't use it until the next year
And we check the salt and strain the oil before Chatzos of Erev Pesach

amother

Strawberry

Mon, Apr 15 2024, 7:01 pm

amother Salmon wrote:

Same for no veggies that have seeds.

amother

Hosta

Mon, Apr 15 2024, 7:05 pm

amother Salmon wrote:

You mean you can't use it on Pesach right?
We have that minhag too.

amother

Apple

Mon, Apr 15 2024, 7:07 pm

amother Hosta wrote:

You mean you can't use it on Pesach right?
We have that minhag too.

Same.

If matza falls on the floor and it’s a big piece and it’s less than 5 seconds we’ll save it for after pesach.

Ema of 5

Mon, Apr 15 2024, 7:28 pm

amother OP wrote:

Just curious, what doesn't your family eat? What special foods get used?

We don't eat kitniyos or gebrakst (only actually water/matzoh). Otherwise we are very easy going on the rest of the food.

Jpf/litvish/bit of chassidish ancestry on husbands family minhagim.

My in laws eat minimal spices and products. They have become a little more lenient over the years with what they buy in terms of snacks and drinks, because of the grandkids.
I’m not as makpid, I made it very clear to my husband when we decided to be home the first time. I have little kids, some with food issues, and I just wasn’t interested in making that harder. No kitniyos, yes gebroks.

Ema of 5

Mon, Apr 15 2024, 7:30 pm

amother Apple wrote:

Same.

If matza falls on the floor and it’s a big piece and it’s less than 5 seconds we’ll save it for after pesach.

Can you explain this? I don’t get it, and I never heard of it until I got married. You clean and clean and clean, so what is the concern? Why can’t you just wash it in the sink? Your floor is, presumably, clean so why can’t you use it?

amother

Apple

Mon, Apr 15 2024, 7:31 pm

Ema of 5 wrote:

We don’t eat from the floor on pesach or don’t use things that fell until the next year.
Don’t know the reason but it’s been a minhag for as far back as I can recall.

Ema of 5

Mon, Apr 15 2024, 7:33 pm

amother Apple wrote:

We don’t eat from the floor on pesach or don’t use things that fell until the next year.
Don’t know the reason but it’s been a minhag for as far back as I can recall.

I know it’s a minhag :-) I’m wondering if anyone knows WHERE it came from, or why they do it.

amother

Steelblue

Mon, Apr 15 2024, 7:37 pm

Ema of 5 wrote:

I think something about iodine vs. no iodine? But I could be wrong.

Ok, thanks. [not understanding a word]
To me salt is salt and I don’t know about anything besides looking for a kosher certification

Ema of 5

Mon, Apr 15 2024, 7:38 pm

amother Apple wrote:

Kosher salt that I look thru to make sure it’s clean from Chometz.

Guess I was wrong. Kosher as in koshrus or kosher as in the type of salt, as opposed to table salt?

amother

Steelblue

Mon, Apr 15 2024, 7:38 pm

amother Apple wrote:

Kosher salt that I look thru to make sure it’s clean from Chometz.

You mean you spill it to look through it?
You do that for sugar and potato starch or is salt specifically something that could have chometz more than the other items?

amother

Apple

Mon, Apr 15 2024, 7:39 pm

Ema of 5 wrote:

Guess I was wrong. Kosher as in koshrus or kosher as in the type of salt, as opposed to table salt?

Kosher as in kosher salt meaning big pieces. We don’t use table salt (regular) on pesach.