<p>So what do you plan to include in your college student’s Passover survival care package? Looking for suggestions and tips.</p>
<p>Ummmmm – matzah?</p>
<p>Macaroons
whipped butter (if you can) - spreads much better on matzah
peanut butter (if no allergies) - ditto
Barton’s chocolate
fruit</p>
<p>I always wanted to mail them charoset but didn’t; worried about how the unrefrigerated time might affect the ingredients. The Ashkenazi recipe with raw apples seems like they’d turn brown; the delicious Sephardi recipes I use all require boiling the dried fruits in water first, so then they get moldy if not eaten soon. Never solved it. </p>
<p>I could imagine sending raw horseradish and a grater, so their roommates can delight in the real deal.</p>
<p>Thanks for those ideas, Chedva. It’s not our custom to eat peanuts (kitniyot), and according to D’s LAC’s website, last year the school offered KLP dinners, but not lunches or breakfasts. D has a refrigerator and a microwave, but no car. For years we relied on whitefish salad and TamTams for school lunches during Pesach, but the last few years the stores in our semi-rural area haven’t carried KLP whitefish salad. Sigh.</p>
<p>Our local supermarkets are selling KLP beef jerky. How about a salami? Especially if there’s time to let it hang and dry out?</p>
<p>Some of those matzo meal rolls would ship well and are always delicious. </p>
<p>Tuna and a small jar (well wrapped) of KLP mayo. </p>
<p>Depending on the level of strictness you have about kitniyot, the Elite chocolate spread. Almond butter, if you are OK with just a regular non-KLP hechser. Boxed fruit juices from Ceres, all those wonderful flavors like mango and passion fruit. </p>
<p>KLP jam and whipped cream cheese.</p>
<p>Matzo buttercrunch candy.</p>
<p>Bazooka KLP bubblegum</p>
<p>Bissli, the crunchy Israeli snack, in a variety of flavors.</p>
<p>My kids will be coming home, but if I had to send a care package, I’d whip up a batch of matzoh caramel crunch (recipe easily googled). It’s easy to make, would pack well, since it’s meant to be broken up, and everybody adores it.</p>
<p>Usually send macaroons & candy/chocolates…S2, in particular, would live on junk food, so sending him anything else will just likely be tossed.</p>
<p>P3T: You should send Yemenite haroset. It’s made from dried fruit and spices and is in dry form (no boiling) to be mixed with wine or grape juice.</p>
<p>Chocolate covered macaroons are usually welcome, or homemade mandelbrot.</p>
<p>No Passover care package to DS2 would be complete without a box of Ring Jels, those horrid chocolate covered artificial raspberry jellies that he inexplicably adores.</p>
<p>Chocolate lentils, i.e. Passover M&M’s. I didn’t send foodstuffs other than candy since DS actually had better shopping opportunities close to campus than I do close to our home - we make an annual run to the northern suburbs. But I’d get an annual call from the Passover aisle at Giant Eagle in Pittsburgh re what to buy for the dorm room. Oh - I did send Passover puffs one year.</p>
<p>dadofsam, thanks for the alternative!</p>
<p>Slithey Tove, many thanks for the Bissli recommendation. Found a selection of them at the store, to my great surprise. Since a friend is taking her D to visit campus next week, I was able to send two whole bags full of goodies–I think my D will be able to start her own Passover store! (And P3T, I sent a small container of my Portuguese charoset for her to put in her tiny freezer–we’ll see how that works.) Thank you all for your help!</p>