The Thursday Before The Shabbat Before Pesach

In a normal year, the last Shabbat totally chametzdik would be Shabbat HaGadol, but this year it isn't.

There's no way to have a totally chametzdik Shabbat HaGadol this year, since it's forbidden to eat chametz very early Shabbat morning, since the Passover seder is Motzei Shabbat, Saturday night.

The house has to be ready for Pesach before Shabbat, since we can't do the work and changes on Shabbat. So on that Shabbat, it would probably be a good idea to have some (pre-prepared) sandwiches and coffee right after dovening (praying), earlier than usual, and then eat a Shabbat meal, either meat or fish, sans bread/matzah early afternoon. Then a snack late Shabbat afternoon, but we can't have bread, matzah nor cakes and cookies made of matzah meal. We have the food tradition of eating lots and lots of bananas.

And back to this Shabbat. I have to cook "just enough," not a week's worth of left-overs, since by the time I want to switch the kitchen, there shouldn't be any food left-over. And, of course, I must use up everything in the freezer and all the little bits of pasta left over in the closet. Why are all those "use up fast foods" always calorie-laden carbohydrates?