Day 2 of Low-Carb Diet
Ok…so it’s not really a low carb diet. It’s just the second day of Passover coming to an end. We are apparently an Ashkenazi family and not a Sephardic and that means it is not only leavened flour we can’t have but a slew of other things that might sorta have the appearance of leavening. The long list includes corn (and hello…corn syrup is in EVERYTHING), mustard, poppy seeds (just found this out after a little research–ignorance is bliss), and the worst…beans & rice (which are totally acceptable if you are Sephardic).
What’s that? How am I doing, you ask (I just saw Horton Hears a Who and it really heightened by hearing). I’m hungry…that’s how I’m doing. I get up in the morning and freak out a little that I can’t have shredded wheat (which doesn’t look leavened AT ALL and manages to keep me very regular ifyouknowwhatImean). I could have eggs and potatoes but that is a lot of work and this whole passover is a lot of work so I don’t want to start my day with that much work. Yesterday I waited until I was ready to pass out and then made chicken salad to put on matzo crackers. Today I cut up leftover steak and put in on top of baby greens with a lovely basil vinaigrette dressing that I made a couple of days ago. For the movies I found some candy made with sugar and not corn syrup (Reese’s peanut butter cups & a dark chocolate with almonds), but it was hard to walk by the popcorn.
I did tell the kids that they don’t have to be strict with the whole Kosher for Passover thing since they are still young and are already skinny. The nearly 5 year old girl said she wanted to combine Kosher with non-Kosher and she mixed some of the tasteless Matzo-O’s with her Lucky Charms for breakfast. I told her that would be fine and that at her age she could have the goal of one Kosher for Passover meal every day.
Tonight we are having brisket (my first attempt), mashed potatoes (made without dairy*), and veggies. Woohoo! The kids will hate it. There’s left over movie candy, so I know they’ll survive**.
For more info on the whole Ashekenazi vs. Sephardic Jewish thing go here. I just re-read it and now see that peanuts aren’t allowed. There goes the Reese’s. Crap. Ignorance really is bliss.
*It’s a big step for me to avoid dairy and meat together, but I thought I’d try to be more Kosher in general during Passover. Unlike the year I ate a BBQ pork & cheese sandwich but held the bread and called it Kosher for Passover. A wonderful Rabbi recently told me it’s about baby steps.
**Survival is dependent on a variety of things and considering this is the first official day of the kids’ spring break from school, the second day of no bread, beans, rice, etc, and I’m PMSing, we will see about this survival thing.
