Celebrating Passover and sick of eating matzo!

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Anyone else here Jewish? Please tell me I am not alone here! I'm celebrating Passover and I'm sick of eating matzo! I'm starving! 8 days of this crap! I can't take it anymore!

You could order some take-out?

The non-carb food is pretty much the same as year-round, but I know what you mean. If you can get some gluten-free matza, I've heard it's surprisingly good (better than "regular"). If you bake, sponge cake can help alleviate the need for something soft and carb-like. There's a great recipe for "caramel" chocolate matza - very easy, very yummy. Not healthy at all. LOL!

Yep I am jewish too. Basically what I do is not eat at all but my father did grill yesterday luckily so I had something.

I hate passover too

i'm not religious so that doesnt count. i just bought two loaves of bread and put them in my freezer, because you cant buy bread here till after the holiday and most of the shelves in the supermarket are covered.
i celebrated passover with my parents and i didnt even want to, but didnt want to hurt their feelings. it was embarrassing because it was only me and my parents and i dont get along with them, and dont feel comfortable with them, never did. and i'm too shy to sing out loud, and it's not like you're in a crowd of a larger family so nobody notices. thank god it went fast.
i used to eat those mazas and i hated to taste and had stomach aches, but then i have them all the time anyway, except it gets worse.
mix egg with a bit of milk, pour it on the maza and fry it on open fire. add honey if you like. i hate honey, but many people like it. add a piece of chadder cheese on top, melted or not melted, or/and cottage cheese and maybe a slice of tomato.
like it? can add a bit of salt, too.

Happy Passover to all our Jewish members. (I revive this old thread rather than create a new one.)

For people who may not remember the details of the Passover story, here is a helpful one-minute version:

I'm partly Jewish (Sephardi) by ethnicity but raised Christian. I am very interested in that part of my heritage though, like all parts of my heritage.

But I like matzo, as long as there's something to put on it

I don't know why you call it "celebrating" when you have to eat the same things all the time just because of your religion until you're sick of it. I could care less what my own religion says I should or shouldn't eat. According to it I wasn't supposed to eat at all, or do anything I even slightly enjoyed, for Lent. Whatever, I'm not putting myself in the hospital for starving myself and being miserable for 40 days.

it's just about over! and we can eat all the chametz and kitniyot we want

Last edited by seaweed on 18 Apr 2017, 5:08 pm, edited 1 time in total.

for the jewish holidays which restrict sustenance in some form, it's not anything that is going to do harm to a healthy person. small children, the elderly, pregnant women, and sick people are not supposed to abstain.

from what i thought i knew about lent, it really isn't all that bad...some fasting days and some dietary restrictions. 40 days of fasting would absolutely be unhealthy, i mean, it's not like you're jesus or anything. i know people who will just give up one or two vices like fast food or TV, as well. your religion's take on lent is very extreme, i think!

anyways, if you're not into it then that's totally fine. there is no point in doing it if you don't want to.

but for many people, celebration in the form of eating specific foods/denial of foods, or, "being miserable" is important. every year i somehow forget how difficult it is to refrain from these things, and every year i am reminded how lucky i am to have them

I'm gluten-free all the time, and miss matzo dearly; it's a (for most people) healthy cracker that goes well with many things, whether one is Jewish or not. Me, I'm left scouring the shelves for all those 'non-gebrokt' Passover goodies...

...here is a printable PDF sharing a little about why we remember it: Haggadah Tidbits --Tzvi Freeman

Passover just started at sundown. I have applied bat blood to my doorpost, so I feel safe from the Destroying Angel.

I forgot to catch my Passover bat.

It'll be hard to find a kosher one at this late date.

The dogs were just out fighting something in a shed and I thought it was the death angel but it turned out to be an armadillo.
I hope it’s not one with leporsy.