Among all posts the Great Lent is considered the most strict and important. During fasting, alcohol is not allowed, and you can not smoke. Fast food in Lent, should not consist of meat, fish, milk and eggs, buns, sweets, mayonnaise - all this is excluded. During the fasting, recipes for Lenten food include products of plant origin. You can use products such as cauliflower, potatoes . Also rice, vegetables, eggplant, pumpkin, zucchini, mushrooms, beans. Lenten days are appropriate simple lenten food - a variety of pickles, crackers, nuts, black bread, cereals cooked on the water. On holidays, you can use festive, lean fish dishes.
Nutrition rules
The strictest fast is the first and last week. On the first Friday, it is customary to eat boiled wheat with sugar and honey. And on Net Monday, you need to starve.
On Monday, Wednesday, Friday is observed dryness. Complied with the use of water, bread, fruits, vegetables, compote. On Tuesday and Thursday you need to eat hot dishes, without adding oil. And on Saturday and Sunday to eat food, seasoned with vegetable oil.
Many people confuse lean dishes with vegetarian cuisine. Not strict vegetarians can consume oil, milk , cheese, eggs, but do not eat fish. In Lent, on the contrary, one can not eat eggs and dairy products, but it is allowed to consume fish and seafood on certain days.
Someone believes that eating on fasting days is of no use and quite tasteless. But today the lean recipes are so diverse that they exceed the taste of ordinary food.
There is a huge variety of recipes for the table. They are not so difficult to prepare and often they are used in raw form. As it was said above on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. This is a huge plus, as these days do not have to stand by the stove, which will save time and effort.
In ancient times, for children, the rule was established: to fast only in the first and last week of fasting. But in our century, parents rarely feed children with lean dishes, because they believe that fasting is a personal choice and beliefs that children are not yet inherent in.
Lenten food on Christmas Eve
The Christmas fast, also called Filippov, begins and ends yearly at the same time. From November 28 to January 6 before Christmas.
Unlike Lent, the Christmas fast is not so strict in abstinence from food. But also the use of products of animal origin is forbidden. On certain days monks are forbidden to eat fish and vegetable oil.
At the beginning of fasting, the quality of our food changes dramatically. It becomes not so high-calorie and digested much faster. That is why it is not so easy to move from quick dishes to more simple, lean. The hardest thing is if the fast is observed for the first time. On Christmas Eve, people learn an important lesson - thoroughly chewing food.
There are situations when personal holidays coincide with the Christmas fast. In this case, it is best to postpone the celebration for days after the end of the fast. If there is no such possibility, then on the table should be lean products.