Dry eating in fasting and what you can eat

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

Those who observe long-standing traditions should know about what you can eat, what foods to exclude during dry eating during fasting. The methods of cooking and the absence of thermal processing for this significant period for Christians have their own long-established rules.

What does the prescription mean

In modern reality, the duration of the preparation of the soul and body is almost seven weeks. Each of them has its own rules, indulgences and strict prohibitions. It is believed that fasting makes sense only if food restrictions are accompanied by a refusal of entertainment, turning to God and prayers.

On certain days of Lenten weeks, believers must observe dry food during fasting. With the 2021 grocery and ready-to-eat list, you'll be sure of exactly which foods are allowed.

There are days of the week and church dates on which small indulgences are allowed, and days when hot food is allowed for parishioners of the Orthodox Church. Many sources remind people who choose to fast that fasting is not a diet. At the same time, indulge in gluttony, replacing meat food with culinary delights, means a misunderstanding of its essence.

Strict rules for those who understand the true essence of fasting provide for certain patterns by day of the week:

1. Monday, Wednesday and Friday - exclusively dry food. It cannot be thermally processed, flavored with seasonings and vegetable fats.
2. On the first day of Lent, fasting is recommended (rest from overeating during Maslenitsa week). This year it is March 15th.
3. Hot food is allowed on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday (with oil on weekends, without oil on other days).
4. On three big holidays - Lazarev Saturday, Palm Sunday and Annunciation (April 7) - grape wine (quite a bit), fish and seafood are allowed.
5. April 30 - Good Friday. Complete refusal of food is prescribed on this day.

Lent is a special time that true believers choose for physical and spiritual cleansing. Its duration is not accidental - this is the time Jesus Christ spent in the desert.

What you can eat on dry eating days

On dry eating days, you can eat:

• any raw vegetables and fruits, including exotic ones like pineapples, kiwi, avocados and bananas;
• pickled and pickled vegetables (now vinegar is allowed as a seasoning for food, so marinades are also allowed), seaweed is allowed;
• nuts and dried fruits - any: from prunes to raisins, from walnuts to almonds and cashews, peanuts;
• cereals, if steamed, and not boiled, can become an excellent breakfast (you can corn, wheat and buckwheat, rice of any kind, quinoa and barley porridge);
• mushrooms - this product is included in the group of what you can eat (but only salted and pickled). On the days of indulgence, you can eat stewed and boiled (soup without sauteing);
• legumes are an excellent opportunity to replenish the body's supply of protein and biologically active compounds, but on days of restrictions this is an unsuitable food, but you can use soy milk and cottage cheese;
• bread and bakery products - rye and bran bread, lean baked goods - with honey, no animal fats, oatmeal; now on sale there are many offers from bakeries and bakeries.

The basic principle - the rejection of animal food - passed from the Slavs from the times of paganism. They refused to slaughter livestock in order to obtain offspring and dairy products.

Cooking meals

The essence of dry eating is not gluttony and imitation of delicacies, but a severe restriction, eating food in small portions. Therefore, the list of allowed dishes in 2021 will not please those who are fasting.

On some days, people who observe a severe fast refuse to eat in the morning or in the evening. But those who work these days need nutrients and energy. Therefore, you can prepare salads from vegetables and fruits.

It can be two- and multi-component dishes, consisting of the following ingredients:

• grated carrots and apples;
• beets and carrots, chopped in a blender, with the addition of herbs, grape or apple cider vinegar;
• cabbage and carrots, with apple or onion;
• avocado;
• canned peppers, Chinese cabbage, rye croutons;
• tomatoes, cucumbers and greens with mustard dressing;
• Chinese cabbage with cucumber, herbs and a drop of vinegar;
• raw beets, grated, and pickled cucumbers;
• nuts and raisins;
• carrots, oranges, apples, raisins and nuts;
• banana, apple, pineapple and kiwi with honey, etc.

In some sources, salads with lean mayonnaise are recommended under the guise of lean ones. But they have cooked vegetables that have been cooked, fried onions, mushrooms cooked using thermal treatment.

When choosing recipes and dishes in order to observe dry eating during fasting, you need to know what you can eat, and select all the ingredients especially strictly. For example, homemade crackers, dried in the oven, are already thermally processed, and in the store can contain vegetable oil or animal fats prohibited in days of severe restrictions in flavoring flavors. For the same reason, on dry eating days, you cannot eat purchased Korean salads - each of them contains vegetable oil in the recipe.

In the preparation of salads, you can safely use soy sauce, garlic and onions, hot peppers, herbs, sesame and flax seeds, cinnamon and vanilla. It is impossible to cook dried fruit compote on days of strict restrictions, but you can soak them, prepare delicious snacks. For example, you can stuff prunes with walnuts and season with honey, grind with nuts in a meat grinder or blender, make a paste with honey, cookies with fresh berries, or balls.

An excellent option to cheat hunger is rye bread sandwiches with tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, garlic, sesame seeds or caraway seeds, with chopped and ground herbs. In modern reality, the market offers the consumer many interesting offers with the enticing inscription "lean". However, before using them for food, you need to study the composition.

Outcomes

Great fast - food restrictions. The purpose of any fast is to achieve spiritual and bodily cleansing:

1. It is necessary to follow the prescriptions and church recommendations: there are days when cooked food is allowed, and there are those that are intended for a raw food diet.
2. On these days, you can only eat food that is not thermally processed, without vegetable oil.
3. Fasting in itself is useless if during its observance you do not turn to God with prayers.
4. Fasting falls on May 1st this year, because Easter is May 2nd.