Every year, an increasing number of people want to learn how to eat fasting, as returning to faith is fully impossible without observing church canons. Despite the prevailing stereotypes, the dishes allowed for use in Lent may well be delicious.
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You will need
- products of plant origin.
Instruction manual
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When deciding to fast, remember that the first and last weeks are the most stringent. If willpower allows, then these days all food consists only of bread and water, you can also add vegetables and fruits that are not subject to heat treatment. But for those who first decided to join a lean diet, this restriction may become too severe. Therefore, it makes sense to just eat the allowed fasting dishes. Vegetable oil is also prohibited during this period.
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Particularly stringent restrictions apply to Good Friday and Saturday, preceding Easter. These days, complete fasting is prescribed in tribute to the suffering endured by Christ.
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On other days, you can eat any plant-based food, paying attention to the fact that the finished products purchased in stores may contain a certain amount of animal products. For example, ready-made pancakes with potatoes at first glance seem to be lean, but their dough most likely includes milk and egg powder.
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The ban applies not only to meat, but also to fish. It is allowed, as well as a little red wine, only on the feast of the Annunciation and on Palm Sunday. On all other days of fasting, fish products are prohibited. Opinions are divided about seafood that cannot be attributed to the fish family, but such an interpretation of the admissibility of the diet is not too ethical, because fasting is not a diet, but a cleansing of the body and soul.
note
Meat, milk, dairy products, eggs, fish, alcohol are strictly prohibited. Vegetable oil is allowed only on weekends, but even without it, lean recipes are successfully implemented.
Useful advice
It is believed that a lean table is necessarily boring, but in practice, a lot of healthy and tasty dishes can be prepared from vegetables and cereals. For sweet tooth, sugar, honey, dried fruits and dark chocolate remain allowed. Familiar meat is quite possible to replace with soy, and even mayonnaise can be found lean.