What can you eat every day during Lent 2019?

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-18 00:05

Lent is the harshest and longest of all Christian fasts of the year. In 2019, many do not know what you can eat every day, but still plan to adhere to all the rules established by the church. Lent 2019 is based on imitation of the forty-day stay of Jesus Christ in the wilderness, during which he voluntarily and completely renounced all blessings.

This period is not attached to any secular calendar and therefore each year falls on a different date. In 2019, the Bright holiday of Easter will come on March 28, and it is preceded by 48 days of abstinence. From March 11 to April 27, all Christians must cleanse their minds, souls and bodies of negativity and evil.

The Holy Week is considered the most severe, during which believers must adhere to dry food and pray tirelessly.

Lent Nutrition Calendar 2019: Table for Laymen

The final 7 days before Easter are accompanied by the strictest restrictions on the menu. What you can eat on a daily basis in the last week of Great Lent in 2019 can be clearly seen in this table.

Day of week	Recommendations
Monday - March 11	refusal of food
Tuesday - March 12	bread and water
Wednesday - March 13	dry eating - cold food without oil
Thursday - March 14	dry eating - cold plant food without oil
Friday - March 15	boiled vegetable food without oil
Saturday - March 16	boiled food with vegetable oil, wine
Sunday - March 17	boiled food with vegetable oil, wine
Monday - March 18	dry eating - raw foods without oil
Tuesday - March 19	cooked or stewed food without oil
Wednesday - March 20	dry eating - raw foods without oil
Thursday - March 21	Is it a cooked stew without oil
Friday - March 22	xerophagy
Saturday - March 23	boiled food with vegetable oil, wine
Sunday - March 24	boiled food with vegetable oil, wine
Monday - March 25	dry eating - raw foods without oil
Tuesday - March 26	cooked or stewed food without oil
Wednesday - March 27	dry eating - raw foods without oil
Thursday - March 28	cooked or stewed food without oil
Friday - March 29	xerophagy
Saturday - March 30	boiled food with vegetable oil, wine
Sunday - March 31	boiled food with vegetable oil, wine
Monday - April 1	dry eating - raw foods without oil
Tuesday - April 2	cooked or stewed food without oil
Wednesday - April 3	dry eating - raw foods without oil
Thursday - April 4	cooked or stewed food without oil
Friday - April 5	xerophagy
Saturday - April 6	boiled food with vegetable oil, wine
Sunday - April 7	boiled food with vegetable oil, wine, fish
Monday - April 8	dry eating - raw foods without oil
Tuesday - April 9	cooked or stewed food without oil
Wednesday - April 10	dry eating - raw foods without oil
Thursday - April 11	cooked or stewed food without oil
Friday - April 12	xerophagy
Saturday - April 13	boiled food with vegetable oil, wine
Sunday - April 14	boiled food with vegetable oil, wine
Monday - April 15	dry eating - raw foods without oil
Tuesday - April 16	cooked or stewed food without oil
Wednesday - April 17	dry eating - raw foods without oil
Thursday - April 18	cooked or stewed food without oil
Friday - April 19	xerophagy
Saturday - April 20	boiled food with vegetable oil, wine, caviar
Sunday - April 21	boiled food with vegetable oil, wine, fish
Monday - April 22	xerophagy
Tuesday - April 23	xerophagy
Wednesday - April 24	xerophagy
Thursday - April 25	xerophagy
Friday - April 26	complete abstinence from food
Saturday - April 27	xerophagy
Sunday - April 28 Easter	festive dinner

For pregnant women, lactating women, children and seriously ill people, fasting makes indulgences. It is usually enough for them to deny themselves meat (unless there are special instructions from the doctor). But at the same time, think about what tasty, especially beloved, but not at all necessary, you can deny yourself, for example, sweet.

What you can and cannot eat during Lent 2019

We are used to thinking that all non-herbal foods are strictly prohibited, and this is indeed the case. So what can you eat every day during Lent in 2019?

You should not eat milk in any form, eggs, as well as all types of meat. The exceptions are Palm Sunday and the Feast of the Annunciation, when believers can afford to cook fish or seafood for dinner, as well as put a glass of red wine on the table.

On other days, you need to avoid fatty and fried foods, preferring boiled or baked vegetables and fruits, as well as cereals and jam. On dry eating days, it is necessary to completely exclude liquid food from the diet and switch to bread, porridge and raw vegetables.

How to fast for Orthodox laity

The ministers of the church, according to their charter, adhere to strict abstinence and self-denial. The food calendar for the days of Great Lent fully shows what you can eat during this period, what you should refuse and when to indulge yourself. Throughout the last week, until the moment the shroud is taken out, dry eating is practiced, that is, the use of raw, lean food, which is customary to drink with water.

On Mondays and Fridays, believers are required to spend in prayer and refuse to eat during the day.

These strict rules apply to ministers of the church, while many lay people have the opportunity to fast more leniently. They are allowed, with the blessing of the confessor, to adjust their menu during Lent to the work schedule. The main thing during this period is to abandon negative thoughts and actions in order to get as close as possible to faith.

Recipes for Lent 2019

Anyone who thinks that the lean menu is not tasty, nutritious and monotonous is fundamentally wrong. In fact, the meals that can be eaten during Lent 2019 by day can be very varied and delicious. Here are just a small part of the recipes that you can please your family with on abstinence days.

Lean borsch

It does not take much time to prepare lean borscht, and the products for it are extremely simple and unpretentious. But at the same time, the dish turns out to be no less tasty and nutritious than its rich counterpart.

Ingredients:

• 2 beets;
• 1 carrot;
• 2 potatoes;
• 1 onion;
• 0.5 heads of cabbage;
• 2 tomatoes;
• 2 tbsp. l. vegetable oil;
• 1 bay leaf;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 1 tbsp. l. salt;
• sugar and vinegar to taste.

Recipe:

1. We cut vegetables: beets and potatoes - into strips, onions - into cubes. Grate the carrots. Shred cabbage. We make a cross-shaped incision on the tomatoes, immerse them in boiling water for a few minutes, and after fasting in cold water. Carefully remove the peel from the tomatoes and cut the pulp into small cubes. Pass the garlic through a press.
2. In boiling, salted water, first throw potatoes, and then cabbage.
3. At this time, fry the onions and carrots in hot sunflower oil for 5 minutes. Then add half the beets to the pan and simmer under the lid on low heat.
4. Fill the remaining beets with hot water and add 1 tsp. vinegar. Leave to infuse for 10 minutes.
5. After 8-12 minutes, send the tomatoes into the pan, season with salt and pepper and leave under the lid for another 20 minutes.
6. We shift the finished dressing into a saucepan, throw in the lavrushka and bring the borsch to a boil.
7. Throw the garlic last in the pan. We pick up the lid, turn off the heating and insist the borscht for 10 minutes.

Serve at lunchtime, sprinkled with plenty of fresh herbs.

Buckwheat with mushrooms

This is another versatile dish that complements the daily menu not only during Lent, but also on ordinary days.

Ingredients:

• 1, 5 Art. buckwheat;
• 300 g of champignons;
• 1 onion;
• 1 carrot;
• salt;
• pepper;
• vegetable oil.

Recipe:

We sort out buckwheat from litter and other foreign inclusions. We wash the cereals in running water. Put in a saucepan and fill with 3 glasses of water. Add salt and bring to a boil. Cover and cook until tender

Peel the carrots, rub on a coarse grater

We also peel the onion and cut it into strips or cubes

We wash the mushrooms, dry them, cut them into arbitrary small pieces

Preheat a frying pan with vegetable oil, fry the onion for 2-3 minutes first, then add the carrots. After a couple of minutes, throw mushrooms to the vegetables. Sprinkle with salt, pepper, cover and leave to simmer for 5-10 minutes

We send the buckwheat cooked until cooked to the pan to the mushrooms, mix with a spatula and leave to simmer for another 5 minutes under the lid. Serve hot, sprinkled with herbs

To make the dish spicy, you can add chopped garlic or a little hot chili to it.

Vegetable stew

Thinking about what you can eat in Lent 2019 by day, many imagine insipid, tasteless dishes that cannot be satiated with. But in reality, adhering to the rules is not as difficult as it might seem.

Ideal for a lean menu, a juicy, balanced vegetable stew that will not only feed a large family, but also delight the eye with its colors.

Ingredients:

• 4 potatoes;
• 4 carrots;
• 1 onion;
• 250 g of mushrooms;
• 2 tomatoes;
• rosemary;
• salt;
• pepper;
• vegetable oil;
• greens.

Recipe:

We clean vegetables. Cut the onion into half rings, carrots and potatoes into cubes, mushrooms and tomatoes into arbitrary pieces

Heat the sunflower oil in a frying pan, fry the onion until golden brown. Add the carrots and cook for another 5-7 minutes

• Throw potatoes into the pan, cover and fry for a few more minutes. Add salt and pepper.
• When the potatoes become soft, send mushrooms to it. Reduce heat and simmer for another 6 minutes.

We send the tomatoes into the pan, mix, cover and simmer for a while

Sprinkle rosemary over the hot dish before serving for flavor. Decorate with dill and parsley. Vegetable stew will be just as delicious if eaten cold on dry days.

Dumplings with potatoes and mushrooms

Everyone loves this dish and is prepared with a variety of fillings. Traditional dumplings with potatoes and mushrooms can perfectly diversify the lean table.

Ingredients:

• 300-350 g flour;
• 180 ml of water;
• 1-2 tbsp. l. vegetable oil;
• 1 tsp salt;
• 4-6 potatoes;
• 15 g dried mushrooms;
• 1 onion;
• pepper.

Recipe:

1. Sift flour, add salt and vegetable oil. Pour water in a thin stream. Stir with a spatula and knead soft, elastic dough.
2. Knead the dough for 3-5 minutes, then wrap it in plastic wrap and leave it on the table for 40-60 minutes.
3. Pour boiling water over the dried mushrooms and leave for 20-30 minutes. We filter the resulting broth several times through cheesecloth, fill in the washed mushrooms and boil for 30 minutes.
4. When the mushrooms are cooked, remove them from the broth with a slotted spoon, cool and chop finely. You can take fresh or frozen mushrooms, which you just need to fry.
5. Peel the potatoes, fill them with cold water and then boil them. After 40-60 minutes, when it becomes soft, drain the broth. We arm ourselves with a crush and make mashed potatoes.
6. Peel and finely dice the onion.
7. Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan, fry onions and mushrooms in it. Salt and pepper.
8. Mix mashed potatoes with mushrooms. We bring it to taste - add salt and pepper if necessary.
9. Roll out the dough into a thin layer, cut out even, beautiful circles with a glass or other shape. We spread a teaspoon on each filling and carefully pinch the edges. If desired, you can decorate the edge with a pigtail.
10. Boil water in a large saucepan, add salt to taste and send the dumplings into it. We are waiting for them to float up, measure for another 5-6 minutes and take out with a slotted spoon.

If desired, the dumplings with potatoes and mushrooms can be garnished with fresh herbs or fried onions.

It is important, when going to observe Great Lent, not only to learn what is possible and what is not, and to change your gastronomic habits for a while, but to prepare mentally. Without spiritual cleansing from worldly blessings, negativity and charity, the rejection of animal food will be nothing more than an ordinary diet.