Jewish tradesmen snacks help

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Completely random thread but I can't find a straight answer online and I'm so busy I can barely breathe so please help me out!

I have a team of Jewish tradesmen coming to help me this week. I want to make sure they have plenty to drink and some snacks.

I have absolutely 0 experience with kosher food.

Is tea/coffee semi skimmed cows milk ok for them?

And then biscuits I was just thinking chocolate biscuits and some crisps.

I have 2 hours to add things to my Tesco delivery!! Many thanks

If this i'm being utterly stupid and all of the above is perfectly kosher then please forgive my ignorance

I can't help, but I believe we have a Jewish board? Try there. The Jewish women on here all seem lovely and very willing to help.

Good luck

It’s all fine, you can’t mix meat with diary but biscuits will probably be ok. Just make sure they’re not made with lard (unlikely nowadays in the era of palm oils but…). Are they even religious? How do you know they’re Jewish?

Vegetarian stuff should be fine.

Jacob’s Club biscuits are kosher!

Could you search for Kosher items on the website?

I don’t think they are. Some McVities biscuits are - plain and chocolate digestives/hobnobs. But how do you know they 1, Jewish and 2, care about kosher. Only observant Jewish people would care that much about whether a biscuit is supervised as kosher or not.

All Jews are different. I’m Jewish and I eat everything. Generally speaking, tea and coffee and milk is fine, though if they strictly keep kosher they may not take milk (milk and meat can’t be eaten close together so may depend on what they had for breakfast or are having for lunch).

Keep everything vegetarian/dairy only or vegan and look for kosher symbols on packaging. Or better yet, google what biscuit brands are kosher.

If they are very strict, they may not eat anything from your kitchen as not kosher/Jewish household, so don’t be too offended if they politely decline.

If they are taking jobs in non-Jewish homes though, I can’t imagine they’ll be too fussed or will be very used to dealing with this/may bring their own.

Enter snacks in the search bar and then click on the lifestyle options and click kosher. That's not meant snarky, just you might not know it's in there

That's so kind of you. Regular cows milk is fine for most people. Walkers ready salted crisps are fine, as are Kitkats, Walkers shortbread biscuits are ok . Hobnobs and McVities digestives are ok if they have a product code "h" on packaging. Most Cadbury/Mars are ok too.

It will vary. My best friend is Jewish and she is fairly strict on not mixing meat and dairy, and very hot on everything being kosher.

I’ve another good friend who I lived with for a while who won’t eat pork but that’s so far as observing it goes for him

Oh, I should have said. They're kind of family friends but they are definitely Jewish, active, have bar/batmitzvahs for their children, do the sabbath etc.

Again apologies if my wording is wrong

Thanks!!!

@Pennina super helpful, thank you!

Have tea, coffee and water available and some biscuits.

If they're kosher, they will most likely bring their own snacks/lunch.

I'd swerve the bacon butties. (I am allowed to joke as I have Jewish heritage).

TBF in the next week or so I'd be more concerned if I had Muslim workmen coming due to Ramadan.

Fruit, up to them about milk. Just say use kettle if they like.

Thinking about this my father always liked a slice of lemon in black tea and drank coffee black.

Sorry, is this performance plumbing or something? Did I miss the latest installment of keeping up with the brown-nosers? The odd cuppa is sufficient to assuage guilt - you do not have to feed tradesmen. Or shag them.