In the days of Lent diet varies considerably. This time is intended to refer to God and abstinence to purify before Holy Easter and to get rid of the accumulated sins of the year.
During Lent fasting pacify their lust and desire to become closer to the Lord. Daily prayer and penance, renunciation of worldly pleasures elevate the soul and allow you to become steadfast in their faith. During Lent the Orthodox Church is not allowed to eat certain foods, particularly animal. Lenten menu allows Orthodox Christians cleansed before the main holiday - the Resurrection of Christ.
In Lent permitted vegetable food / istockphoto.com
The first week of Lent 2019
The beginning of Lent. The first week of the most severe. In Monday, March 11, fasting completely refuse food, using only plain water.
In the Tuesday, March 12, you can eat rye bread, and drink of the fruit drinks are allowed, water, fruit drinks and kvass without sugar.
From Wednesday to Saturday, it is necessary to exclude cooked food, raw food is permitted. You can use fresh and dried fruits, vegetables, herbs, as well as the dried bread.
On Sunday you can eat meatless soups and porridge on the water. It is also allowed to add a small amount of vegetable oil. Even on a Sunday you can enjoy a bit of dry red wine.
2 - 6 weeks of Lent in 2019
From the second to the sixth week of Lenten menu becomes more diverse. So, on Mondays allowed to eat breakfast buckwheat porridge for dinner - a cabbage or pea soup, potato patties, and some fruit. For dessert, it is not forbidden to eat lean cake. Before going to sleep better to refuse food and read prayers to the Lord.
On Tuesdays for breakfast, you can have a variety of porridge without butter, vegetable salads and fruits, caviar eggplant or squash. During dinner, eat soups and vermicelli porridge with mushrooms, grilled tomatoes or zucchini. Supper should be abandoned altogether.
On Wednesdays, you can eat porridge of rice, mushrooms and vegetable salads, lean cookies, vegetarian pilaf. Dinner is prohibited.
On Thursdays allowed breakfast corn porridge with dried fruit. During dinner is best to eat cabbage soup with bread, fruit or vegetable salad, mashed beans or peas them. For dinner you can cook a baked potato with homemade goodies.
Meatless meals of beans - the source of protein during Lent 2019 / istockphoto.com
Saturday morning, prepare the vinaigrette, and during lunch - rice or wheat porridge, cooked in the oven or multivarka. dried fruits are also permitted. For dinner is not allowed pasta and a variety of homemade vegetable harvesting.
On Sunday there is a better gruel on the water, fruits and lean pancakes. By lunchtime, you can cook vegetable soup, the second post fried vegetables or baked potatoes. Dining better vegetable pilaf with mushrooms.
On the last day of the sixth week, on Palm Sunday April 14, 2019, you can eat fish. You can also treat yourself to fish specialties on the Annunciation (April 7, 2019).
The fish can be eaten on Palm Sunday and Annunciation / istockphoto.com
Menu for Holy Week
From Monday to Wednesday, should be consumed that does not require cooking: allowed fruits, vegetables and nuts.In Maundy Thursday you can eat a variety of porridge, cooked in water, and some dried fruit. Allowed only one meal.
On Friday, are not prohibited only bread and water in the morning, only water can be drunk in the afternoon.
Saturday - day of refusing food.
On Sunday, April 28, Orthodox Christians begin to use products of animal origin and celebrate the Resurrection of Christ, Happy Easter.
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