I saw a wee brisket yesterday. I bought it. That’s my prep.
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This looks good. https://www.jewishfoodsociety.org/recipes/mina-de-espinaka-matzo-pie-with-spinach-and-cheese
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My dinnerware again!! And something tasty-looking to put in it! Win!
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I wised up and started serving poached salmon instead of gefilte fish if I know that there are going to be guests who weren’t raised in it.
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This is why I don’t serve shrimp cocktail at a Seder. 
Too bad since the horseradish is already there.
I went to a bat mitzvah where there was a raw bar. Right when you walked in there was a giant mound of ice and 3 or 4 people working quickly shucking oysters and clams to order for the guests. Shrimp, lobster and crabs were piled up. There was some cocktail sauce somewhere.
I am preparing myself for tonight’s gefilte fish. Enough horseradish covers up everything.
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Bet it was a Reform Bat Mitzvah …. And I agree about the horse radish!!!
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Lots of recipes that look good on the Nosher
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Wait for it … the Aberdeen (NJ) ShopRite has empty shelves in their seasonal area and baskets of what looks like kosher food. By next week, I expect everything to be out.
The ad this week says $400 between March 1 and April 4 for the free turkey/ham/whatever. I expect the matzoh will again be mostly in four-pound packages–not sure what the minimum purchase will be for those.
Do they supply the Maxwell House Hagaddahs?
If chicken soup is Jewish penicillin, then 4 lbs of matzoh is Jewish Imodium 
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I will try to remember to check for Hagaddahs when I go next week.
Well, I don’t know what happens when you eat 4 lbs of matzoh in one sitting. I eat it year-round: a half a sheet with unsalted butter every morning for breakfast (with a cup of black coffee). I used to be able to get a years’ supply free when you could get a 5-lb package every week of the sale. Now it’s a 4-lb package, and for only two weeks out of the sale. I need basically a box a month now that I’m not making stuffing and matzoh balls from it as well.
Actually, between not doing the seder any more (I go to a friend’s house), cooking for just me, and the new, less restrictive rules for those of us who buy into them, my actual Passover purchasing is down considerably. Mark wanted macaroons, and cream cheese, and jam, and chocolate spread, and a lot of other things that I have no interest in. I just wish Costco hadn’t discontinued the raspberry jell rings. 
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For those who indulge, don’t forget the kosher for Passover Coke, which is made with real sugar.
Mentioned upthread, but also a warning against the “imitation” Pepsi, which at least a couple of years ago add adopted the yellow cap that Coke used to distinguish its “kosher for Passover–made with real sugar” version. The Pepsi was not made with real sugar. Of course, now that a lot of places have Mexican Coke (in glass bottles, no less) it isn’t as critical, though the domestic “kosher for Passover” Coke is much cheaper. The domestic has been the same price as the HFCS version: $3.99/67.6 ounces here (not on sale). The Mexican Coke is $2.69/12 ounces (but is available year-round).
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I stopped by the Old Bridge ShopRite on my way down Route 9 today. I looked at their Passover section, and I can say that it is not the place to do serious Passover shopping. Assuming one is not going down to Lakewood, the Aberdeen and Marlboro ShopRites are the places to go.
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Photos of Passover section in Aberdeen (NJ) ShopRite when I went today:
The bulk matzoh are around the back (Yehuda, Streit’s, and Manischewitz only, IIRC). They also have a lot of single boxes of gluten-free matzoh.
Didn’t see any Maxwell House haggadot; they are usually at the check-outs, and may yet appear, since the bulk matzoh didn’t even arrive until this week.
As for free matzoh, it takes $75 in purchases in a single visit, but I couldn’t even find the supposed digital coupon on-line. Given that there is no way I will be spending $75 in a single week, this is the first year I will have to buy matzoh in … well, as long back as I can remember.
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For the first years we lived on the Lower East Side, the Streit’s matzoh factory (then on Rivington Street) would offer tours this time of year, with a free box of matzoh to all visitors. I love a factory tour (and free matzoh!) and so did the rest of the neighborhood, especially the kids. And there were A LOT of kids, since there are many Orthodox families around here. The stroller parking area was something to behold.
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The Neptune ShopRite, on Route 66, also has a large KFP section. I will probably head over there in a couple of days. I like the thinner style matzoh Iand last year they ran out before I had a chance to make it to the sore. I do have the digital coupon for free matzoh and will likely spend $75. If I don’t it’s not worth forcing myself to do so.
