With the summer in full swing, we are excited to remind you about a beautiful initiative, in its 3rd season: The Gitty Nosh, Le’iluy Nishmas Gitty Greenberg a”h.
This year with an extra healthy twist!
To recap for the first timers here, there is a minhag Lakewood that when kids go on trips, they absolutely must load up with a boatload of nosh. (Once upon a time the minhag was to bring a small nosh and a drink, but sometimes minhagim change with the times…)
But as life happens, there is often a kid that either left their nosh behind, parents were dealing with a situation and unable to get a nosh, or only brought one sweet while everyone else brought ten.
This is where the Gitty Nosh comes in. When shopping for your child’s trip nosh, grab an extra treat (not too expensive) to send along as a Gitty Nosh and explain to your kids to look out for someone that doesn’t have, or that has less. You can tell them to look around and try to notice if someone looks sad or like something is bothering them and to offer them the nosh. You can teach them to offer it in a way that they feel good about taking it too. (Always make sure to check hechsher and allergy before offering). You can also tell them that its ok if everyone had and they didnt need to use it. They can bring it yome and keep it in a special place for the next trip and be proud that they looked out for others kids feelings.
We have received incredible feedback from this initiative BH.
We have also received many requests to start a healthy nosh initiative as well.
This year, we decided to make Healthy Snacks Great Again. (HSGA?) 😀
Many kids will start with an 🙄 but it’s already starting to take off. You can pack those cool snack boxes with cut up carrots, celery, pickles, and a mini dip. Grapes, crackers, pretzels… or make them a salad in a cup.
The ideas are endless, and it can be pretty cool with many kids copying the idea and wanting to share too!
So send those healthy snacks and send a healthy Gitty Nosh too while you’re at it.
May it be a zechus for Gittel a”h bas R’ Shraga Meir Hakohen
(If you would like to be an ambassador to push these initiatives out and share/reminders others, please text or WhatsApp only Mrs Devorah Wahl 646-229-9753).
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Very nice. While healthy snacks can indeed be fruits and vegetables – which are important to have some of each every day, they can also be healthy cake etc. There are healthy ways of making cake – such as with healthy types of flour – not enchemicalized, enpoored flour, and with healthy types of sweeteners – such as stevia or healthier sugars such as coconut sugar, raw honey or maple syrup, and obviously without margarine and not to use unhealthy oils – such as canola, soybean and cottonseed which are extremely unhealthy. Use coconut oil or olive oil (light olive is probably best for cooking and baking, as not as pungent as regular).
Beautiful idea to help a child and also teach your child to look out for others
The only problem with this is that there are only 30 kids per class. So if each one brings one nosh, then the kid who didn’t bring will have 30 noshes. And she STILL won’t fit in, because all the other girls have 40! So what will you have accomplished??