For all the dopers who fasted today, how did you break your fast?
cereal and feta cheese (but not combined!)
We are not religious, but we fast anyway (except for water) out of some sense of solidarity. We had half a frozen dish of chicken tetrazini on Tuesday at about 5:45 and had the other half yesterday at 6:15. So nothing special.
I find fasting easier the older I get. Maybe because time passes faster.
A slice of wheat toast with peanut butter.
Is there a traditional meal with which you break the fast?
I think Muslims who fast during the day during Ramadan have big parties at night. I’m not Jewish nor Muslim, but I fast periodically, and I have found that a big meal to break the fast is a sure route to indigestion. I always have to have a light meal first, then go back to normal portions over the next day or so.
Regards,
Shodan
Grape juice from havdalah, veggies, crackers, cheese. I was feeling pretty weird toward the end and had to sit down a couple times during Neilah, but rebounded pretty quickly.
There’s no one food that is traditional for everyone, but a lot of families end up doing the same thing after every fast, so it sort of becomes a family tradition. Bagels are pretty popular, with or without lox. I also know people who break their fasts with light pasta dishes. My family usually has bagels and lox, vegetables, cheese, and maybe some scrambled eggs as well.
The synagogue has a dairy break-the-fast, and I wisely sat on the side of the sanctuary that exits first. Took me 20 years to figure out THAT was the side to sit on on YK. :smack: Toward the end, all I could think about was food.
They had fruit, crackers, challah, some extremely good pickled herring, tuna salad, egg salad, and various fruit juices. When I got home I was still hungry, and I had some Trader Joe’s Mini Tacos in the freezer–they’re quite good with a little sour cream on top. And some pineapple-coconut juice.
I’ve not done the fasting for many years, but instead, for my atonement, I eat store-bought gefilte fish. So no need to break the fast, just finish off the jar and move on.
You mean the kind in the jar? Sheesh, what did you do that you need that kind of atonement?
Whoa! That exchange got tied up in my brain as trapezoidal gefilte fish.
We usually go to a buffet. Hit Golden Corral this year. Say what you will about the place, when you have been fasting it’s DELICIOUS.
On honey dew, of course.
I’m going to save that for when I start a band.
Everyone will want your band at their bar/bat mitzvah. 
I didn’t fast on Yom Kippur. I ate the shiur (a minimally determined amount) because I was taking an antibiotic. It actually made fasting harder, because it was like a tease.
I broke my fast at a pitch-in at my synagogue. My contribution was saag paneer (milder than authentic Indian food), and I ate that, plus some kugle, cheese, a bagel, and some desserts.
My shiur was a slice of bread with a tablespoon of PB, folded over, and cut in thirds. At bedtime, I ate 1/3 with water, because I already had dinner in my system. In the morning, I ate 1/3 with 1/2 c. of OJ and a cup of water. At lunch, I ate the rest with 1/2 a banana and 1/2 c. or milk plus a cup of water. Directions on the pill bottle said “food and a full cup of water.” I ate a little more each time because of less residual food in my system. I had four doses a day. On Yom Kippur, I took the last dose with break-the-fast, and at bedtime with a bagel.
Think I’ll get sued if I change it to Trapezoidal Gefilte Phish?
(Sorry to continue the thread hijack, I just couldn’t resist…)
Traditionally my family would always do what my Mom called “dairy” which was bagels, cream cheese, lox (yuck), white fish (yum!) both chubs and salad and that sort of thing. But my parents, unfortunately are gone, and my siblings don’t really observe so this year I just had a nice dinner of Roast chicken and vegetables which were left over from the dinner I had prior to the fast.
My wife doesn’t fast, and my son’s too young, so I spent the holiday with my parents, as usual. We had pretzels, cake and lemonade at the shul, and then went back to their place, where my dad poured us all the traditional post-Kippur shot of whisky (Tullamore Dew). My folks were invited out, my brother had other plans and I had to catch a bus back to Tel Aviv, so they left us baguettes with lox and cream cheese, muffins, scrambled eggs and orange juice. I’ve found that breakfast food is best for breaking the fast - which should be pretty obvious, actually.
As is the ultra-reform Jewish tradition - Chinese food.
No, seriously. We were in London to celebrate our wedding anniversary. We ate at Hutong, 35 floors up the Shard building with a spectacular view of north London spanning from Westminster to the London Tower bridge and St. Paul’s Cathedral right in the center.