Okay, I am sure that there must be a restaurant in LA that meets all of our needs that can accommodate a large reservation tomorrow, but I can't find it, and I am tired of looking, so we are eating at my place. People can show up anytime after 6:30. If you need directions, please let me know at my profile address.

For those of you who don't need directions, remember to tell the guards that you are there to see Lee [edited, since hopefully all the right people have seen it by now]

deb - my daughter may or may not tag along one of the days. She is still reorganizing her "social calendar" as only a 14 year old can, so I probably won't know until the last minute.

lexine, either way works fine - she's welcome, as you know.

it's a pity Betsy won't be here with the clan after all (they're visiting family back east that weekend), because she'd have had her 13 going on 14 daughter with her.

Oh, man, I didn't realize Betsy wouldn't be there. I'm sorry to miss her.

Deb, if you're around, could you email me the kosher symbols that Nilly sent you a couple weeks ago? The ones that need to be present on any food purchased?

I'm now leaning toward just letting Nilly pick out whatever she would like to snack on for the Monday night gathering, and doing my usual thing for the rest of us, but I'd like to be armed with the proper symbols. I know Allyson specifically mentioned the heart with the K in it, but upthread (I just sucked and searched) Deb mentioned a variety of symbols, sent by Nilly.

I'd love to take a look-see, if possible. Profile address good. Thanks!

I know Allyson specifically mentioned the heart with the K in it, but upthread (I just sucked and searched) Deb mentioned a variety of symbols, sent by Nilly.

I am pretty sure the heart one was a restaurant symbol Nora (and applicable only to that area of Cali)

Yep, the heart symbol is purely the SoCal/LA neck of the woods.

Nora, insent a moment ago, with the full. The most common one on prepackaged foods (beans, pasta, etc) seems the (U) symbol.

There's a list of symbols here.

Thanks, Deb, thanks Jon. I got confused in my thinking and thought the symbols that were OK were much more limited than they seem to be. File downloaded, page marked.

The U inside the circle is the most common on prepackaged foods (Oreos, for example!), and that symbol is Nilly-friendly.

We're obsessing about food in a way that Nilly is just not. She drinks mostly all water, (and a tiny bottle of kosher wine for seder will be fine). Sahara brand pita bread has the U symbol, and is PERFECT for Nilly-friendly cheese sandwiches.

There's really, truly, absolutely, no need to go mental about the food, this I have learned. It's harder for me to feed vegans than Nillys.

She's been having bread and cheese and tea biscuits and some favorite snacks she brought from Israel.

Just have some water and that Sahara pita bread on hand, and take a walk to the grocery with Nilly and she'll pick up the fresh foods she likes and knows are the right kind o' kosher.

Because Nilly exploring the American grocery stores? So much fun.