Surprise! Thick, almost normal looking stools!

I am Jewish and was raised eating Matzo for Passover , and yes you can buy it all year long just at Passover they have the "kosher for Passover " seal on them that we have to buy this time of year. I have bought mine but hadn't eaten any yet but now think I will. Enjoy it with jelly, butter or for sandwich use which we do for 8 days.

I love the whole wheat one. Tried this one for the first time this week and love it! I like it with butter on it.

During the year, I don't see the same varieties available, but there's normally at least plain or egg available.

Let us know if the other varieties have the same effect. And....thanks for the ideas on how to eat it......jelly sounds perfect!

My mother is Jewish and from Israel, and growing up I remember there were always matzos in the house. I personally never cared much for them. My mother dunked them in her coffee. My father, who is Catholic, never touched them. Because my mother's family is in Israel and my father's family is in the USA, we always celebrated Easter, although I remember one year we did both a passover traditional meal and the usual Easter traditional meal we have. Which in the case of the Eastern European Catholics means that the food has to be taken to Church and blessed before it can be eaten. As a kid my hand would be slapped if I tried to steal a piece of the unblessed food.

I had read elsewhere that matzos help thicken the stool. Essentially if you chew them carefully you're putting matzo meal in your gut, which is then forming matzo balls that you can poop out.

Matzos are sold year round. If you go to a supermarket in an area where there is a large Jewish population, you will see many more varieties of Manischewitz matzos than what has been described in this thread.

http://www.manischewitz.com/ma...uctsandcrackers.html

Just don't over do it. Wheat doesn't normally bother me which is why I went for the whole wheat this time. I enjoyed a few too many the other day and was a bit crampy and slowed down a bit too much. I guess they really do work!

Am going to pick some up today. Am wondering if one of these an hour or so before bedtime might slow down the night time potty visits...????

Maybe I'm the odd one, but a lot of foods come out that way for me. Off the top of my head, melon fruits creates very formed stool.

Sue

Not for me!