today i'm so excited because i will share with you 10 tips that help me go from a
super stressed exhausted and overwhelmed mommy to a calm organized and on a healthy
budget mommy when i prepare for passover as a full-time working mom with small kiddos
this is part one of my passover series on how we celebrate passover as an orthodox jewish family
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any of our passover videos so let me put on a pretty tichel and let's jump into it
my first tip to reduce the stress of passover is to decrease the spending on passover to do that
i will go around the house and see what i have that is unopened and kosher for passover in my
freezer and pantry so i can use these items and save money to recognize a product that is kosher
for passover i'm going to be looking for a p next to the kosher certification like these products
sometimes the kosher for passover certification is in a written form like on these products that
state that the product is kosher for passover for people who eat KITNYOT or grains like us
Sefardic Jews once that i know what i have my second step is to create my passover menu
and this is my tip number two i plan my menu for passover for the seders and the rest of
the eight days around what i have that is kosher for passover and the recipes i will use so i know
exactly what i need to buy to stay on budget i use my recipe book where i keep all our favorite
recipes i choose the recipes i want to do i look at their ingredient list and i write what i need
on my passover shopping list and of course i will leave a link to my free printable passover list
in the description box below as well as my regular shopping list i used to choose new
and elaborate recipes for passover to dazzle our guests but i realized that it was so stressful to
do a new recipe and the end result was not always the best so all in all it was just another source
of stress for me so i have decided in the last years to stick to what i know and the recipes
we love and that is my tip number three i stick to what i'm used to bake or cook so i know everybody
will enjoy the meal i will be more relaxed and i will be able to enjoy our passover seder and it is
better in my opinion to have a calm mommy with a more simple but delicious meal than a fancy meal
and a super stressed mommy once that i have my list i will take you shopping with me for passover
this is my local grocery store and for passover they love to increase the prices to make a
bigger profit so i will show you how i save hundreds of dollars with the next few tips
as you can see the prices for items like cranberries are three times the regular price
when it is certified kosher for passover so my tip number four is i avoid super pricey items and
replace them with more affordable one so i will replace the cranberries with raisins and almonds
if i would take these kosher for passover slivered almonds they would be 6.49$ for 120 grams but i
don't pay that price at all because i use my super tip number five which is to use the guides from
kosher certification agencies like OU MK and COR which tells us what item can be used on passover
with a regular Kosher certification for example they say that natural almonds without additives
or blanching are kosher for passover with a regular kosher symbol so when i go in the nut
section i see that i can get more than three times the amount of almonds and pay less than
half the price compared to the price per 100 grams for the kosher for passover almonds
i will give you more examples of products that can be used on passover with a regular kosher
certification later in the video and of course i will leave the link to the passover guides
in the description box below a special item we buy on passover as a treat are chips and the
price varies tremendously from two dollars to eight dollars per bag and here is where
my tip number six comes in handy i choose items that are delicious and perhaps not the cheapest
for our children to make a positive association between passover and how delicious everything is
instead of taking the cheapest items that are often not so tasty and will create a link between
passover and icky food here is my tip number seven i do not wait just before pesach to buy my meat
i buy it as soon as i can to have the best selection and not to be stuck with the leftovers
because this year there will be two shabbat within passover i will take two kinds of meat
some jarret/shank as well as some lambs stew and some extra bones to make it super special
i will also take some lamb for the first seder as well as minced meat to make my amazing meatballs
and so much more and of course i will share how i prepare all these recipes in the next videos
while my super helper is bagging everything i also took some chicken to make schnitzel
my barbecue chicken and i will leave the link in the description box below for all these recipes
we move to the spices aisle where my tip number eight will come handy
this 85 gram of garlic powder is 6.99 and this 227 grams is 12.99 so a bit better in price but
the better deal will be to take this 454 grams container and save more than 50% compared to the
price per 100 grams of our first container of garlic powder hence my tip number eight
is to look at the price per hundred grams to make sure that i have the best deal and as a bonus tip
i always check that the spices are sealed not to have an unpleasant surprise when i come home
my next stop will be the items i use to bake i make everything from scratch as buying pre-made
items are so expensive and i can make everything with easy recipes at home for a fraction of the
cost some essentials for me will be vanilla extract vanilla sugar chocolate chips and for
the sugar i looked into one of my guides and here we can use this brand of sugar and brown sugar
without kosher for passover certification and i will save more than 70 percent compared to the
kosher for passover sugars my next stop will be the matzah there are so many kinds of matzah from
two dollars per box to 26 dollars per box and the difference in price essentially comes from if the
matzah was machine made or man-made we exclusively use matzah shmurah/ guarded matzah they are the
round matzah that are fully man-made but whether you use machine made or man-made matzah my tip
number nine is to buy matzah in bulk to save sometimes up to 50 percent of your matzah bill
our tradition is to eat matzah for all our meals breakfast lunch supper so we need to make it tasty
we take a few bottles of jams i always look at every bottle to make sure that every one of them
are kosher because some brand even though some bottles have a kosher certification for passovers
in the same brand sometimes they're not even kosher like this brand we also use
this chocolate spread on our matzah as well as our filling for our cake are you like me do you
like to have items that can have many uses let me know in the comments below because we
are talking about breakfast what we're gonna take is coffee i do not take the coffee that
is certified for passover (DID YOU SEE THE PRICE!!!) i take the other one from the list
and also some UNFLAVOURED green tea that do not need kosher certification for passover
the girls love chocolate syrup they will use it in their hot cocoa and on our homemade ice cream
we get the canned goods the tuna the pickles to make pickle dip olives that we will use to
make olive dip the shabbat fish and many chicken recipes we will also take tomato paste to make
our matzah pizza and much more then we get the oil this is another item where i use the list
and i see that any cold pressed virgin oil can be used with regular year-long kosher certification
so instead of paying 17$ i paid six dollars and i will take a few bottles to use for cooking
and to light our passover and shabbat lights and because i'm talking about lights i will take
floaters as well as a memorial candle to be able to light between the days as we cannot create a
new light during the first days and the last days of passover i do not use the 26 hours one because
a lot of time they do not even last 24 hours i also do not use the plastic one as well because
they often the plastic container melts i finish our passover haul with a new tube of toothpaste
we buy a new one for passover as well as using new toothbrushes to make sure there are no hametz or
leavened product in them we finally go to the cash and while they are packing everything i compared
what we paid to what we would have paid if i did not use my tips and we saved a whopping 243$
for this shopping trip alone which definitely helped me be more relaxed knowing that i will
use this extra money for something else including for my tip number 10 which is to buy fresh produce
as much as possible as they are not only delicious but they are way way cheaper than any processed
form of them in the next video i will share with you some of my favorite recipes for passover and
in the meantime if you want to have some company to clean for passover watch these videos and to
have a head start for your recipes for passover watch these videos next thank you for being here
it means the world to me and know that in my book you are part of the reason why this world
is a wonderful place to live in since you are here until the end write in the comments MORE PASSOVER
PREP so i know i was not alone and if nobody told you know that YOU ARE LOVED and YOU ARE
ENOUGH just the way you are until next time stay safe stay blessed and don't forget to FRUM IT UP
bye