Extra food

[Little_Boy_Lost]

What do you all do with extra food that happens to be perishable during a time of fasting?

Saving it would invariably lead it to spoiling or becoming sketchy to eat (Think brown carrots or meat past it’s expiration date). Do you give it to neighbors? I have roommates but the times I’ve given them food, it will usually sit there and spoil. I’ve broken the fast a few times to consume food that might otherwise spoil.

 

[Ridgerunner]

What do you all do with extra food that happens to be perishable during a time of fasting?

Saving it would invariably lead it to spoiling or becoming sketchy. Do you give it to neighbors? I have roommates but the times I’ve given them food, it will usually sit there and spoil. I’ve broken the fast a few times to consume food that might otherwise spoil.

You need to ask a priest about this. I’m not one. Nor do I know what “sketchy” is. I have been in that position a few times and I just waited out the fasting period and ate it even if it was at 12:01 a.m.

But I also have dogs now, so I never have the problem anymore. (Yes, they’ll eat salad too, if it has dressing on it.) Might not help much, but one can be sure somebody in the neighborhood has a dog and doesn’t buy into that “never feed them table scraps” bugaboo.

 

[ciero]

What do you all do with extra food that happens to be perishable during a time of fasting?

Saving it would invariably lead it to spoiling or becoming sketchy to eat (Think brown carrots or meat past it’s expiration date). Do you give it to neighbors? I have roommates but the times I’ve given them food, it will usually sit there and spoil. I’ve broken the fast a few times to consume food that might otherwise spoil.

Are you fasting from carrots too???

Part of observing the fasts is preparing for them…not only having fasting foods available but also planning on eating up or giving away or even freezing foods that you will be fasting from…it all takes some getting used to.

 

[5Loaves]

What do you all do with extra food that happens to be perishable during a time of fasting?

Saving it would invariably lead it to spoiling or becoming sketchy. Do you give it to neighbors? I have roommates but the times I’ve given them food, it will usually sit there and spoil. I’ve broken the fast a few times to consume food that might otherwise spoil.

Use it up before the Fast. Keep an eye on your calendar. There’s never any confusion about when we start a Fast and how long it will be. This Fast is only 10 days so eggs and cheese will still be fine after that time. Dormition Fast is also short.

If you’re thinking of Great Lent and Nativity Fast again you know when they start so plan ahead. Eggs, cheese, and milk can all be frozen if necessary, as can meat and fish. Nothing wrong with giving food away, tho if as you say those you give it to let it spoil, then better to freeze it if you haven’t planned to use it up before the Fast begins.

Do you have a wall calendar that shows each month and indicates the Fasts as observed by your Church on it?

 

[puzzleannie]

What do you all do with extra food that happens to be perishable during a time of fasting?

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not sure I understand the question
you know when the time of fast is coming - Lent so you purchase food accordingly. Even in an ordinary time you don’t buy so much perishable food that it can spoil before you use it, and if you have, you just freeze it.

the reason for the traditional holidays immediately before Lent and fast days was to prepare, by using up all the forbidden foods. Fat Tuesday was the day all the cooking fat was used up to make pancakes and similar foods since they used to be forbidden in Lent. If you are preparing for fast, you prepare by dealing with what is in the house, and wasting is never an option.

 

[Rawb]

This one caught me by surprise. I forgot about it last time I was at the store, so I have a bunch of non-Fasting foods right now and, being a poor college student, I can’t afford to go buy all new food for the fast (which pretty much would negate the spirit of the fast anyway)

So I’ll be eating less than normal, avoiding meat when I can, and since my parish is on the Old Calendar our fast is long enough to be visiting the grocery store again where I’ll be buying fasting foods. I’ll increase prayer beyond what I normally do during fasting, and maybe fast from something else (I’ve debated fasting from CAF).

So make it up in other ways, but letting your food spoil just so you keep the fast is rather pointless IMO. Speak to your SF about it, it may be Catholicism is stricter than Orthodoxy, but that’s my suggestion.

 

[Bluegoat]

A good general strategy for left-overs that would work here is to freeze things for stew and soup. You can freeze even cooked foods that you have for this. If you have containers, you can put combinations that would be good for a stew into different containers.

You can also freeze butter and milk, and oil should be fine in a cool dark place.

Also, keeping pigs or chickens can work well for this problem. Eat the pigs and chicken once the fast is done.

 

[Aramis]

Your meats should freeze just fine. And your jurisdiction might not require full-fast abstinence (tho’ all encourage it); if not, simply use it up on the non-abstinence days.