I hope your Sukkos preparations have been going smoothly! The kids put up the main part of the sukka before Yom Kippur and then ds16 and ds10 built a couple of sections so we can extend it. So now it’s four feet wider (for a total of 16′ long by 12′ wide) and it feels so expansive!
Ds16 put the schach on yesterday and the kids also did most of the decorating yesterday. That was nice since it means we are focusing today on the cooking and cleaning.
Here’s our menu plan for the next two days – for simplicity, I’m listing all the foods at once instead of saying what we’ll have for which meal.
- challah
- roast
- turkey
- chicken
- potato kugel
- stuffing
- mashed potatoes
- sweet potato pie
- tabouli (cracked wheat salad)
- beet salad
- corn salad
- coleslaw
- roast vegetables
- fresh salad
- power bars
- snickerdoodles
- cake (don’t know which one the girls decided on)
We’re going out for lunch tomorrow and having guests for lunch the next day. The night meals will be just the family, unless dh brings someone home from shul. We’ll be enjoying having our newly expanded sukka on our new patio! We wouldn’t have been able to make it larger this year if we hadn’t built the patio.
Have a wonderful yom tov!
Avivah
With your family’s food needs (the no sugar people) and desires (for food which most people don’t seem to make, especially for Shabbos/YT), how do you deal with going out? I know with allergies, it can be downright confusing for our friends to make sure there is food for our daughter to eat (and I try my best to bring her food along) and I don’t even make a fuss about what goes in the food we eat! Are all your friends similar to you in food hashkafa?