What about fish?

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midori said:
Think of it like “eating like a peasant” as a sacrifice, where you give up something nice as a small luxury. It doesn’t mean that you run off to Red Lobster and enjoy bottomless shrimp or something. It also doesn’t mean run off to Red Lobster and eat bottomless shrimp, because you hate shrimp, and so eating it is your sacrifice. 🙂 Just have some plain food, and avoid the carne.
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OraLabora said:
I’m not fond of fish either except that I love salmon. Salmon is such a fine dish though, in all its forms, that I wouldn’t feel very penitential eating it on meatless days!
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brian_custer said:
i look forward to lenten fridays because i like seafood

i know that is no sacrifice and i get no credit for it… 😦
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THE CHURCH DOES NOT REQUIRE US TO EAT SOMETHING UNENJOYABLE!
She only asks us to abstain from flesh-meat, whether we enjoy it regularly or not.
(Sheesh! :roll_eyes:)

(If we were required to not enjoy our food, poor @Titivillus would be stuck with one of two options: Watermelon 🍉 (yuck 🤢), or … a rare steak 🥩 (😝 please, I prefer my steaks to be cooked))

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(who unapologetically enjoys fish 🍣, church fish fries, and, yes, even McDonald “filet-o-fish”)
 
What I do for the Lenten fish fries is, try to eat them at a church.
The churches make a lot of money off those fish fries - it is a benefit for them.
That way I get the good fish and the church gets its money.
Usually it’s also a nice social time.

I would not feel right about going out and having great fish in a restaurant somewhere on a Friday in Lent (a Wendy’s fish sandwich does not count as “great fish”). The only exception was when I was a kid, our parish did not have its own fish fry, instead everyone right up to the pastor went out to a restaurant/ bar owned by a parishioner, so it was like an unofficial church activity because you would be seeing other parishioners and the pastor there.
 
midori said:
Think of it like “eating like a peasant” as a sacrifice, where you give up something nice as a small luxury. It doesn’t mean that you run off to Red Lobster and enjoy bottomless shrimp or something. It also doesn’t mean run off to Red Lobster and eat bottomless shrimp, because you hate shrimp, and so eating it is your sacrifice. 🙂 Just have some plain food, and avoid the carne.
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Yes.

I always thought that it was kind of funny that I couldn’t eat a Big Mac, which is cheap junk food, but I could, strictly speaking, go to Blue Ribbon (expensive and incredibly good fish restaurant), and be in compliance. Or Nobu.

For me, eating a Big Mac would be a harsh penance indeed.

Of course, that’s not how I approach it, but it is funny.
 
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In the Eastern tradition, both meat AND fish are abstained from every Wednesday and Friday throughout the year, and through all of Advent, Lent, and two other penitential seasons during the year… we Latins aren’t asked to go that far… but we certainly aren’t required to eat fish!
 
Did you mean vegetarian? Vegen means no products coming from animals. Such as cheese or milk.
 
Really? I did not think it was mandatory for every Friday. Let me check my “Catholicism For Dummies.”
 
People whinge about this so much. When it wasn’t obligatory to not eat meat on all Fridays through the year it was still called a worthy thing to do.

I never eat meat on any Friday and fast on them. It is spiritually benefiting. Once you become used to it and get in the routine it is easy.
 
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I believe Ash Wednesday and Good Friday are not only days of no meat but also a day of fasting. Fasting is so beautiful. And it doesn’t mean starving yourself. It doesn’t even have to be food. Like if you are a coffee feene give it up for a day. Fast from tv or any vice. Fasting is always looked as food but it really is abstaining from any vice or habit we have which may be a barrier to our spiritual lives.
 
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It’s no longer every Friday. Fridays of Lent are no meat and Ash Wednesday and Good Friday are days of no meat and fasting.
However when this was changed it was still said to be a worthy practice to abstain from meat on all Fridays. It just is not obligatory anymore . Going to daily Mass is also a worthy practice but it is not obligatory. Before Pope Plus X moved the amount of Holy Days of Obligation from 38 to 8 it was still worthy to go to Mass.
 
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I am Hypoglycemic. I have been since my teenage years. So protein is very important. And as someone currently in RCIA, I am just navigating the new waters, so to speak. Not complaining. Just curious and trying to follow the rules.
 
Are you old enough to say to your parents, no thanks, I don’t want fish, I just want salad?
 
You do not have to eat fish if you do not like it… :confused:

If you are looking for non-meat dishes to eat during Lent, try spaghetti and tomato sauce, veggies burgers, soy products, etc.
 
These are good suggestions, to those who made other suggestions besides fish.

I try to vary what I eat during Lent, besides fish.

I’ll make cheese pizzas, or meatless spaghetti and make it with veggies in it like mushrooms and olives, for example.

I love seafood but I understand if others don’t like it. 🙂

I’ll make grilled cheese too, or I’ll make some veggie soup like Minestrone.

There’s also macaroni and cheese, if you like that.

Lots of different possibilities out there…

Salads, like you mentioned…

Legumes, like peas, beans, lentils.
 
I’m to understand alligator, muskrat, and beaver tail are all considered fish by the Church?
 
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