Three Tips For Passover Plates

By Lev Novak

So, it’s Passover.

If you’re celebrating the holiday, that means you can’t be eating bread. Many won’t eat rice or bread-like items, opting to go with Matzah instead. So, if you’re participating, this raises some serious questions.

Namely: what can you eat on Passover that aren’t just leftovers?

1. Fruits

When it comes to passover, people are going to lament the loss of bread. And they should! Bread is good! I miss bread! I use a loaf as a pillow every night!

Eat fruit and veggies.

Fruit and veggies are the weirdly ignored staples of our every day eating. Think about your favorite meals- often they’re meat and starches because that’s what’s easiest to pick up or make in a pinch- awesome sandwiches and hamburgers, for example, fill up a third of my meals.

Vegetables dishes are easy enough to cook, even if they’re a little more expensive and less delicious than, say, hamburgers and sandwiches. Oh, hamburgers and sandwiches- how I miss you in my time of need.

Bananas, apples and pears, for example, are good picks. They’re portable (most food out and about has bread involved) as well as filling (it’s tough to get full without bread.)

Similarly, peanut butter could save your kosher-for-passover-buns, but there’s a catch- peanuts are technically a second class of banned food, called “Kitneyot” which includes many legumes. Some people don’t eat them, some people do, but if you’re on the fence, consider it either way.

2. Veggies

Ah yes, veggies.

Here’s the catch- you’re going to get sick of salads. Don’t have salads at home, because when you’re out and about on the town and you can’t eat bread, you might get a salad on the menu, and if you’re already sick of them, you’re going to be having a bad time. So, when it comes to veggies, don’t go overboard. Instead, think outside the box.

Treat your veggies like wack rappers and roast them.

Roasted vegetables are delicious, good additions to the meats and fishes you’ll be eating without bread, and, again, are filling without being a salad. You can have them warm, save them for cold, and otherwise use them as a means of continued nourishment.

“Continued nourishment” may not be the most appetizing phrase, but this is Passover, yo- stay good.

3. Matzah, Creative

Okay, so you can have Matzah. But you’re going to get sick of it.

Matzah Pizza is good, but save it for emergencies. You can only really have it two or three times in a week before it drives you crazy.

Matzah cold-cut sandwiches are going to be crumbly, but keep them in mind- good cold-cuts (and pickles! Trust me) are going to be good matzah toppings, but what about chocolate covered frozen matzah? Or fried matzah-egg breakfasts covered in maple syrup? That’s going to help tremendously as a filling breakfast, starting your no-bread days off right.

Matzah is fun, but you get sick of it quick. Stay aware and mix it up to keep it fresh for the whole week.

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