Pre-Fast menu

Yom Kippur is almost here. Wishing you all a meaningful and successful fast and a good year ahead, full of health and happiness and peace and lovingkindness.

I'll quickly share my pre-fast menu - I have been very busy and haven't been posting much lately, but I really hope to get back into the swing of things, starting now!

Here's our plan:

Homemade Spelt and Oat Bran Challot (from the freezer)
Mushroom-Vegetable-Barley Soup
Date Honey Chicken
Potato Kugel
Apple Crisp
Roasted Veggies
Steamed Broccoli
Cucumbers and Tomatoes

We probably won't have any room for dessert, but I'm making chocolate chip squares right now!

Pre-Fast Menu

Here's what we're having for our pre-fast meal!
I always have a huge debate about what to serve for the pre-fast meal. This year we're going with Shabbat food because Yom Kippur falls on Shabbat.

Whole Wheat Challah Rolls
Split Pea Soup
Chicken (not sure what kind, seems likely it will be whatever I find in the freezer )
Rice
Steamed Broccoli (found a bag of broccoli in the back of the freezer, may as well use it!)
Salad

For our post-fast meal, we'll be a little less formal.

We'll start with some juice and fruit, maybe the honey cake.
Then we'll have the leftover soup, and if anyone wants a sandwich or some pasta, that will be available too.

Wishing everyone an easy fast, and a gmar chatimah tovah.

Post Fast Menu

I haven't figured out my pre-fast menu, but I am going to share my post-fast menu, since I already planned that one!

Fruit Salad (using whatever fruits I have in the house - mostly apples and plums, that we managed to find for under 5 NIS/kg. So many fruit prices have skyrocketed lately, and the quality is questionable too, so we've had to skimp a bit on fruit, sadly. We love fruit. Hopefully there is something else here to jazz this up. Maybe I'll hide away that last cluster of grapes I just spotted!)

Homemade Whole Wheat Sesame Bagels, with cream cheese (well, shamenet with the whey drained off. Is that cream cheese?), tomatoes, cucumbers...

Split Pea Soup (? I hope. The store had NO carrots or celery, and I ALWAYS put carrots and celery in my split pea soup. Maybe I can find a substitute?)

Honey Cake, of course! (I have one in the freezer for this occasion)

Now, to plan the pre-fast meal...

I'm open to ideas!

What are you making for Pre- and Post-Yom Kippur?