Passover Cleaning/Reorganizing

Since we have to change out all of our "regular" food for Passover food, it is quite a production.

We have two fridges and freezers that have to get combined down into one so that the other one can be the Passover fridge.  It's always a big decision which one will be which LOL

 

This is our fridge with all of the "regular" food crammed into it.

This is our fridge and freezer with all of our perishable goods.  It doesn't look like very much food LOL

This is our pantry shoved full of all the "regular" food that we can't eat for eight days.

This is all of our dry, non-perishable goods for the next eight days.

We always seem to have tons of leftovers even though it doesn't look like that much food.  I really hope we can eat most of this in the next eight days LOL

Do you ever clean out your kitchen?  Isn't it a pain?

Passover is Coming

If you're Jewish or have ever had a Jewish friend, you have probably heard of Passover (Pesach in Hebrew).  The short version of the story is that the Jews were slaves in Egypt, Moses finally convinced Pharoah to let the Jewish people go, now we remember every year.

Passover lasts for 8 very long days.  We start the first two nights with seders, where we retell the Passover story and enjoy a holiday meal.  For the whole 8 days, we refrain from eating any bread, pasta, rice, beans, corn, etc.  My family is really strict about it, so we change out everything in our house, and only eat foods labeled Kosher for Passover.  Without fail every year, we are all very hungry by the 3rd or 4th day.  Not having real bread just somehow leaves us hungrier than usual!

Passover this year starts Friday night.  We have a custom starting around 10am Friday, not to eat bread or chometz (any food that is prohibited during the 8 days).  I always have trouble coming up with what to eat! LOL  Normally I end up with a piece of meat and some potatoes...so I start off the holiday hungry!

Do you celebrate Passover or have you ever sympathized with a friend who did?