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Pass(over) Your
Diet During Pesach

ERICA MEYER RAUZIN
SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS

The days of Passover are no time
to diet, but since I've been diet-
ing since Rosh Hashanah, I'm
sort of on a roll. Unfortunately,
we can't have any rolls Passover
week, but I will make do.
Actually, there is nothing to
eat in my house at all during
Passover, unless you count seder
leftovers and Pesachdik break-
fast cereal. This is OK if you feel
like cold veal breast or gluey
tsimmes, again, or if you are 6
years old and live off cereal any-
way, as my son does. It is not OK
if you follow any kind of rules (ex-
cept for kashrut, which contin-
ues in good health) about what
you eat.
On my particular diet, I can
eat protein, plus a little fat and
a feW vegetables. I cannot eat
carbohydrates. But Passover
week could be the National Hol-
iday of Carbs: matzah, matzah
balls, matzah stuffing, and pota-
toes in every conceivable form,
from mashed to minced, from

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Staring at the filled
refrigerator.

Helping You Along The Way:

baked to broiled to boiled.
For a holiday with a restric-
tion on starches, we don't have
any trouble locating bland white
stuff that tastes better with but-
ter.
Having eaten all the veal
breast I can stand, I am usual-
ly reduced to eating chicken or
cheese for every meal. I don't re-
ally mind (that's what I've been
eating for months), but it doesn't
feel particularly festive.
My husband is lactose intoler-
ant: so much for cream cheese or
butter or sour cream, all things
which make Passover living
worthwhile. My oldest daughter
has low blood sugar, which
means forget about the chocolate
matzah candy, the chocolate-
covered almond candy, the
marshmallows in coconut, the
macaroons, the chocolate trian-
gular lollipops, or the maple
syrup over matzah brie.
So the three of us stand in
front of the refrigerator. We
know we want something. We
suspect that the fridge does con-
tain things we could supposedly
eat, but our search has peculiar
results. We find that we have
cornered the world market on
horseradish. It would be possi-
ble to conduct five or six more
seders and not use up the supply

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