Kosher food

Here's some food for thought (get it?)

Anyway, here is how we survive with or without food.

Our first month here was spent trying to get milk and chickens.

See, this is the way it works. We can only buy certain foods, such as fresh fish (which we barely ever find) or salted fish (which is kosher in Russia for several halachic reasons). We can also buy fruits and vegetables, and some spices.

So in short, Chayale must cook everything from scratch. This merans that to make Challah, she uses fresh yeast (the blocks), eggs, and flour and makes it from the beginnig. She's an awesome cook though.

We get milk and chickens shipped from Moscow. Other kosher food they cannot and do not ship. Also, they only ship bulk, so we need to order like 90 kilograms of chickens, which come in 3 huge bags.

Those we keep outside (until we get a freezer).

Every time someone comes in, or we go ANYWEHERE, we make sure to get kosher food.

Boruch Hashem we found someone who sells kosher wine (Fortant red and white) , and sometimes in Metro you find kosher food. We've been living off Americna granola bars from there, and recently we found peanut butter there with an OU.