Our Florida home is diagonally across from Chabad in Boynton. I make sure to leave before the kiddush. Too many empty calories and fat....and to be perfectly honest. I love to cook and I make much better (IMHO) renditions of most of what they serve.
The odd thing is that I sponsor a kiddush there for my father's Yahrzeit (my parents lived in that location for 20 years and helped build the shul) but but's in the middle of the summer and I never am in Boynton then.
About 15 years ago I cooked the kiddush food in the shul in January and February. The Rebbetzin was not happy about the compliments I received and I was politely asked to step aside by the board. Now you can pay for and sponsor a kiddush, but not cook.
Today my wife and youngest made all the blintzes for Shavous. I went to the nursing home to see my mother and actually got her to eat a cheese blintz and a small piece of cheesecake (her recipe). First time I've gotten her to eat solid food in two months, now if she would only speak..................
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