What Can You Eat During Lent?

If you decide to fast, better think about your diet so as not to harm your health.

All of us have more than once wondered what to eat during Lent and how to diversify the table so as not to harm the body. After all, it is known that Great Lent will help you cleanse yourself only if you follow the rules of eating and provide yourself with adequate nutrition.

If you decide to follow the rules of strict fasting, this does not mean that you will have to starve. Be prudent and try not to harm your body by zealous "mortification" of the flesh. Even during fasting, you can provide yourself with a complete, healthier diet.

Great Lent: allowed foods

In order for your soul and body to be able to feel the joy and holiness of eating, your food should be varied, but simple.

 

Vegetables and fruits : boiled, stewed, baked - should become the basis of your diet. Let there be carrots, potatoes, beets, sauerkraut and cucumbers on your table. Do not forget about corn, peas, salad peppers, apples, pomegranates, bananas and citrus fruits. The more diverse, the better.

Spices, salt, sugar and fried food should not be abused during fasting. Give preference to food cooked in a steam bath or grilled.

Tip : when boiling vegetables, throw them into already boiling water and do not allow it to boil strongly. In this way, it will be possible to preserve a larger amount of useful substances in them.

 

Porridge : Porridge should become another important part of your diet. Do not forget that they should be cooked only in water and will have to do without adding oil. But you will have an additional reason for culinary experiments.

Tip : add nuts, carrots, mushrooms and onions to your porridge, dried fruits and raisins are suitable for sweet porridge.

Instead of meat, milk and eggs : if you include vegetable protein in your diet, your body will not suffer from the lack of meat. Vegetable protein is found in eggplant, peanuts, lentils, soybeans and all plants of the legume family. Currently, there is "soy meat" on sale, which, subject to compliance with the manufacturing technology, can completely replace the real thing.

By the way, nutritionists confirm that soy protein can compensate for the protein contained in meat and fish.

Great Lent: forbidden foods

The following foods should be avoided during the entire fast:

• Meat and meat products
• Fish and fish products (except non-strict days).
• Bird
• Eggs
• Milk and dairy products
• Sweets
• Baking
• Fast food
• Alcohol

Strict and non-strict fasting days

The first 4 days, as well as the last week before Easter, are considered the strictest days of fasting. Clean Monday (the first day of fasting) and Good Friday (the last Friday before Easter) belong to the strictest days of fasting, when you cannot eat at all. But on the first Friday of Great Lent, boiled wheat sweetened with honey or sugar is allowed.