What's your favorite meatless meal for Lent?

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this is my first year participating in lent…i will be going through rcia in the fall 😃 I have a few ideas…but im not much of a veggie person OR a fish person so this will be a pretty big sacrifice for me…first off me and my family do tuna melts…i take tuna and miracle whip and shredded cheddar cheese and mix it all together then you put that onto a hamburger bun…wrap the sandwich with foil and heat in the oven for about 10-15 minutes on 350…SO yummy and i hear cheese is ok to eat too 😃
Also tomato soup w/cheese sandwiches sounds nice…
or a ceasar salad w/ no chicken…i suppose i could add tuna and it shouldnt taste TOO awful lol…can you tell tuna is the only seafood i eat…
i had another idea but i cant quite think of it at the moment…OH bean burritos will probably be a regular as well for me…OH! I also have a question…Im nursing my son partially he gets formula as well but we are in the middle of trying to go back to JUST breastfeeding…since tomorrow is ash wednesday would it be ok for me to drink a glass of milk with carnation instant breakfast? i want to honor the fasting and abstaining as much as possible…but i hear milk is a no no on ash wednesday and good friday is this so?
 
Em_in_FL said:
BEANS BEANS! 😃 We eat lots bean dishes! Black beans & rice, bean soups, etc. Soups go great with a salad.

Look at Costco/Sams for large quantities of frozen fish. We buy a bag of salmon filets maybe once or twice a month - those are DELICIOUS baked in the oven with a little olive oil, garlic salt, and pepper! 🙂 I know the warehouse stores often have large quantities of frozen fish in several varieties!

Those are our favorite meat-free dishes!
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Do canned pork and beans have any meat (besides the scarce amount of pork cubes). I was forced to eat it one Lenten Friday a few years ago until I remembered the stuff was called “Pork and Beans,” LOL. I think I had to go to Confession that week.

If the molecules of the pork were to get mixed into the sauce, does that count as eating meat?

Luckily my favorite food, french fries, is not made of meat.

There’s only two hours left until Ash Wednesday (for those of you in the West Coast). Quick, eat all the meat you can before it’s too late, hahaha. :bowdown: 🍕 :sad_bye:
 
Enchiladas, veggie pizzas, ramen noodles (you can stir fry the steamed noodles with some diced veggies), the veggie delight sub at Subway, pinto beans (fresh made, refried, refried topped with cheese, etc.).

Joe
 
JPUSC said:
Do canned pork and beans have any meat (besides the scarce amount of pork cubes). I was forced to eat it one Lenten Friday a few years ago until I remembered the stuff was called “Pork and Beans,” LOL. I think I had to go to Confession that week.

If the molecules of the pork were to get mixed into the sauce, does that count as eating meat?

Luckily my favorite food, french fries, is not made of meat.

There’s only two hours left until Ash Wednesday (for those of you in the West Coast). Quick, eat all the meat you can before it’s too late, hahaha. :bowdown: 🍕 :sad_bye:
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You can eat the pork and beans as long as you don’t eat the tiny cube of pork…We are allowed meat broths and things with tiny amounts of meat like might occur in the pork and beans
 
Tuna Casserole
Scrambled Eggs or Cheese Ommelette
Poached Salmon
PB&J
Grilled Cheese and Tomatoes

Rinse
Repeat
 
I am not a vegetarian but I rarely eat meat. I just don’t care for it. But there are essential amino acids that you have to have that you can only get from food sources. Since Lent lasts for six weeks, you need to be mindful of that. I am glad to hear you are going to allow yourself seafood because that will help out a lot. Also, eating a combination of beans and rice (it has to be together) will give you a lot of the essential amino acids.

OK, so you want some suggestions.

One thing I LOVE are the Morning Star Farm Grillers meatless burgers. They are WONDERFUL. I also like dishes with tofu. I don’t have any specific recipes but there are vegetarian restaurants around my area that have great tofu dishes.

Like someone else suggested, cheese filled ravioli with spaghetti sauce is awesome and very easy to fix. You can buy frozen cheese filled pasta at your grocery store. I have to watch my sodium so I make my own maranara sauce and I have to be choosy about the ravioli but there is one brand (I can’t think of the name right now) that is low sodium.

Eat big big salads. I love to do this. I buy the bagged lettuce, mushrooms, tomatoes, cheese, cucumbers, carrots and these really good tortilla crunch things that are available near the salad dressings. The crunchy things are very low sodium too. For my dressing I mix a nice balsamic vinegar with extra virgin olive oil. mmmmm I want some right now. 🙂

For snacks I like Carr Crackers (remember, my brand choices are all about low sodium but you may not have to worry about that) with Laughing Cow spreadable cheese. (regular, not light). One wedge and about five crackers is a good 200 calorie snack that will stick to your ribs. 🙂

For breakfast, All Bran cereal and a little milk is great. The cereal looks like rabbit food but it tastes really good and is very filling. 1/3 cup will last for hours.

The reason I am giving you snack/breakfast ideas is because you will find that when you don’t eat meat you will get hungrier faster unless you make sure to take in protien. Protien is what makes you feel fuller longer.

Good luck!!!
 
lovingarmstrong said:
this is my first year participating in lent…Im nursing my son partially he gets formula as well but we are in the middle of trying to go back to JUST breastfeeding…since tomorrow is ash wednesday would it be ok for me to drink a glass of milk with carnation instant breakfast? i want to honor the fasting and abstaining as much as possible…but i hear milk is a no no on ash wednesday and good friday is this so?
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Pregnant or nursing women are excused from the rules of fasting as are those who are ill, frail, or whose physical labor is such that they need the sustenance. Of course those over or under the age limits are excused as well.

Now for the food - lots of good ideas in this thread. We have the added constraint of celiac disease but we love rice pasta, fritattas, and seafood using gluten free flour if pan-fried.

One of my all-time favorites - potatoes, kale and onions. Boil the potatoes first and slice after cooled somewhat. Remove the main stems of the kale and blanch it. Saute the onions in a mix of butter and good olive oil. (I like sweet onions and depending on the flavor, may add a touch of sugar to them as they cook.) Add the potatoes. I like them to brown a bit so I usually wind up removing the onions to keep them from getting too dark. Once the potatoes are done the way I want, I add the kale and put the onions back in. Yum. We consider this a big treat.
 
At home, grilled salmon with rice.

Eating out, cheese enchiladas. Our local place actually has a meatless speciall that is out of sight, if you like texmex.
 
Cristiano said:
I am sorry, but I am really picky about cooking. The ingredients of pasta carbonara are eggs, bacon, parmesan cheese and pepper. Not really a meatless meal.
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kage_ar said:
Lentils - in tacos or chili

Black beans - black bean chili is heaven

Non-trad carbonara made with mushrooms or olives.

Fritatas

HUMMUS
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:banghead: :banghead: :banghead: Are you picking on me? 😃 😃 😃

I will have to ask the mods to start a thread on Traditional Cooking where only traditional recipes are discussed, possibly pre-1500’s to keep the protestant influence out of it.😃 😃
 
My little Mexican neighbor, well, at 37 and mother of a 6-3 son, she’s not little anymore, always wanted “pizza wit fitch”.

Then she would strip all the anchovies off it and eat it bare. English was a language in progress, and she always wore “chooz” when we went to the pizzaría.

She and her siblings got accustomed to my peanutbutter tacos, too,
 
Cristiano said:
I am sorry, but I am really picky about cooking. The ingredients of pasta carbonara are eggs, bacon, parmesan cheese and pepper. Not really a meatless meal.
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Uhh … well then what I make ain’t a carbonara. Apologies for my ignorance of the correct name.

I have no bacon in it, only the mushroom, eggs, cheese etc, which for a Latin Catholic makes it fine. What would that make it? I don’t think it’s a boscaiola.
 
Cristiano said:
Are you picking on me?

I will have to ask the mods to start a thread on Traditional Cooking where only traditional recipes are discussed, possibly pre-1500’s to keep the protestant influence out of it.😃 😃
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:eek: Pre-1500’s means you can’t have potatoes or tomato sauce - the Irish and Italians would have at least as much problem with that as with giving up meat 😉 .

Tonight was red beans and rice with broiled salmon
 
catharina said:
Tuna Casserole
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:bigyikes: Speak not the name of the Devil lest he appear!

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Oh Lord, save us from the evils of Abortion, Birth Control, War and the TC thing that Catharina, knowing not the gravity of the sin, has mentioned above. :signofcross:

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Dominus Ominus Pax Vobiscum
 
sandraladeda said:
Ooh, I have a variation on your recipe.

Grill it, just as you would a grilled cheese sandwich…I learned this “recipe” from a very dear priest 👍
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Have to try this. Perhaps this will ease the ill feelings that still persist from the mentioning of that great evil :frighten: :stretcher:
 
Thanks everyone for all the great ideas! 👍 I don’t even know where to start now! 😃 I am definitely looking to try out some of your ideas.

God Bless you all, and may you all have a fruitful Lent!
 
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