Following Lent diet, and cooking for family

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Just curious if you follow a Lent ‘diet,’ where you eat less everyday, or on certain days…or just fast on Fridays? I would like to incorporate some Lent meals for dinner…for my family, too.

If you have any ideas, or menus you could share…that would be great. (not recipes though, I would rather just have this thread devoted to menu ideas, and your personal approach or testimony to how you fast during Lent, and how often)

Thanks!
 
We fast as the Eastern Catholic rites do; year-round we abstain from meat on Wednesdays and Fridays (my husband abstains from dairy products on Fridays as well).

During Lent, we abstain from meat and dairy on M-W-F, from meat on T/Th, and I believe Saturdays and Sundays are non-abstinence days.

So some of the menus I would have would be:

Meat/dairy fast: Lentil shepherd’s pie and fruit
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                    Pasta with vegetarian sauce

                   Shrimp fried rice (no eggs) with veggies
Meat fast: Macaroni and cheese with broccoli
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              tuna casserole

              baked fish and coleslaw

              breakfast for dinner (scrambled eggs and toast or French toast)
My husband does not think soup=a meal, so all the wonderful veggie and bean soups out there I could do for meals are out. He gets very grumpy if soup is offered as a meal, which I don’t understand. i grew up eating vegetable soup and bread and butter for a dinner, or chili and crackers.
 
samcarter14 said:
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My husband does not think soup=a meal, so all the wonderful veggie and bean soups out there I could do for meals are out. He gets very grumpy if soup is offered as a meal, which I don’t understand. i grew up eating vegetable soup and bread and butter for a dinner, or chili and crackers.
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make it a little thicker and serve it in a bread bowl, or over bread, english muffins etc. If it is on a plate, not a bowl, he might accept it (my dad did).
 
We fast on Ash Wed and Good Friday, and abstain from meat on Fridays, the entire family, have ever since we became Catholic.
 
DH did an aweful job last year with lent 😦

we were both working and going to school and it seemed like we just couldn’t keep our days straight. So we accidentally had meat a few times and I’d just feel aweful after. I’d get sick to my stomach with guilt.

This year is more hopeful, we’re out of school and have a steady schedule and now I’m doing meal planning so I’ll have already picked out a meat free meal long before.

When we did remember some favorites of our were:

quiche (any veggie and cheese)

bean burritos

cheese enchiladas

pea soup and sourdough bread bowls

tuna casserole

homemade mac and cheese

pasta puttanesca

we basically had alot of Mexican or Italian pasta dishes…

I like this thread 🙂 good idea!!!
 
samcarter14 said:
My husband does not think soup=a meal, so all the wonderful veggie and bean soups out there I could do for meals are out. He gets very grumpy if soup is offered as a meal, which I don’t understand. i grew up eating vegetable soup and bread and butter for a dinner, or chili and crackers.
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puzzleannie said:
make it a little thicker and serve it in a bread bowl, or over bread, english muffins etc. If it is on a plate, not a bowl, he might accept it (my dad did).
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Excellent idea there, and also never call it soup, I often served a mince (ground beef) dish to my husband, but if I called it bobotie (which it was) = long face and longer teeth, if I called it savoury mince = no problem.
 
A good one is to make thick fchicken soup, or cream of chicken, and serve it over mashed potatoes. Provides more substance than soup alone.
A lot of dishes with hamburger can have beans of some sort substituted.
We have Mexican a lot–beans and rice instead of ground beef for the tacos or enchiladas.
Pasta is always good–add a lot of veggies to fill you up.
Of course fish and shellfish–shrimp goes over well in a lot of dishes.
 
kage_ar said:
Question… does one have to go to a special store to get a thick fchicken? 😛
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No, you can go to your local fKroger, fWal-fMart, or any other ffine ffood fstores. Or perhaps she’s just demonstrating how the thick fchicken can affect your fspeech.😃
 
Or you can just be writing on a laptop and keep hitting the little mouse-screen thingy (can you tell I’m not the techno-geek in the family?) and insert random letters in every other word. I have to edit my posts 10 times, and they still slip through! 😛
 
Teakafrog said:
Or you can just be writing on a laptop and keep hitting the little mouse-screen thingy (can you tell I’m not the techno-geek in the family?) and insert random letters in every other word. I have to edit my posts 10 times, and they still slip through! 😛
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Well, there’s your problem. You’re supposed to type, not write on a computer. It lowers the resale value if it’s all marked up!😛
 
ROFL You guys make me laugh.😃

I like the thicker soup idea over mashed potatoes…it doesn’t seem like I’d be feeling hungry though after that! :o
 
Lila_grace said:
DH did an aweful job last year with lent 😦

we were both working and going to school and it seemed like we just couldn’t keep our days straight. So we accidentally had meat a few times and I’d just feel aweful after. I’d get sick to my stomach with guilt.

This year is more hopeful, we’re out of school and have a steady schedule and now I’m doing meal planning so I’ll have already picked out a meat free meal long before.

When we did remember some favorites of our were:

quiche (any veggie and cheese)

bean burritos

cheese enchiladas

pea soup and sourdough bread bowls

tuna casserole

homemade mac and cheese

pasta puttanesca

we basically had alot of Mexican or Italian pasta dishes…

I like this thread 🙂 good idea!!!
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Oooohhhh quiche…wow, can you believe all these years of being a practicing Catholic, and I never once thought of quiche instead of fish on Fridays? 😊 That is a GREAT thing to make…sometimes I feel guilty though…shouldn’t sacrficing meat cause us to pick something less gratifying than meat would be? I don’t know, what do you all think? If we are giving up meat …I might feel guilty eating a delicious piece of quiche…😊
 
One thing we’re going to start is having a very simple meal on Fridays–bread, cheese (for the kids) and fruit. This started when my four year old, when asked what he wanted for his birthday dinner, said, “church bread (he meant the prosfora, a very simple bread), cheese and fruit.” I set out a loaf of the bread, sliced, butter and honey for the kids if they wanted it, some cut up fruit, and cheese cubes; everybody helped themselves and we had picnic-type meal.

DH suggested we do this every friday night. Since I bake the prosfora for church, it is no problem to make two loaves on Friday, one for us, and serve it up with cheese cubes and fruit.

It eliminates cooking on Friday night 😃 and makes a meal the kids can eat on a picnic blanket without making a mess, and is a nice way to end the workweek. It also makes for a less “satisfying” meal for the adults than a meal of tuna casserole or fish sticks. 🙂
 
samcarter14 said:
One thing we’re going to start is having a very simple meal on Fridays–bread, cheese (for the kids) and fruit. This started when my four year old, when asked what he wanted for his birthday dinner, said, “church bread (he meant the prosfora, a very simple bread), cheese and fruit.” I set out a loaf of the bread, sliced, butter and honey for the kids if they wanted it, some cut up fruit, and cheese cubes; everybody helped themselves and we had picnic-type meal.

DH suggested we do this every friday night. Since I bake the prosfora for church, it is no problem to make two loaves on Friday, one for us, and serve it up with cheese cubes and fruit.

It eliminates cooking on Friday night 😃 and makes a meal the kids can eat on a picnic blanket without making a mess, and is a nice way to end the workweek. It also makes for a less “satisfying” meal for the adults than a meal of tuna casserole or fish sticks. 🙂
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Thank you for this idea…it’s so simple…I never thought of it, though! lol:o I love this idea, and I really think personally, that it’s better than the typical fish fries. I love supporting our parishes, over the years, but somehow, eating fried fish and french fries on Fridays during Lent, doesn’t seem like a sacrifice, really. lol
 
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