Lent in front of one of the most significant and important religious holidays - Easter - for many it becomes a serious challenge.In the old church demanded its strict observance.And post covers virtually all spheres of life.It was impossible to organize balls, go to the theater, ordered strict abstinence in sexual life.But mostly for the layman "post" meaning the change of the usual diet.What can not be eaten during Lent, people had known since childhood, and one way or another all his life observed the prescribed rules.
Drinking post today is somewhat different.A really fast churched people, and for most of the people - is abstinence from protein, fat, sugary foods.
fact that you can not have in the post, so it is the food of animal origin: meat (in any form), fat, offal (liver, kidney, heart, lung), milk and dairy products, dishes prepared on this basis, fish,eggs, butter - butter and vegetable.In all fast days should not drink alcoholic beverages.
This general advice, but the post lasts seven weeks, every week and every day of the week has its own peculiarities.Rules strictly determine that you can not have it in the post this week on this day.
first week, the middle post (fourth week) and last week (seven) - the most strict.
These five days a week, you can only have a very simple, vegetarian food without oil.This is the bread, salted or pickled vegetables, mushrooms, dried or frozen berries, various fermentation (cabbage, pickled apples), dried fruits and nuts.Food must be cold.These tough requirements are allowed to break a sick, pregnant or lactating, young children and travelers.These exemptions apply to all posts.Drink in the days of strict fasting can be a lot: water, herbal tea, fruit drinks from the berries, fruit infusions, but cold and cooked without sugar.
the second, third, fifth and sixth week, on weekdays you can eat cooked food.This porridge can be cooked on the water, potatoes, stewed (only water) cabbage, meatless vegetable soups.Very rarely allowed in the dish add the vegetable oil.Three days a week (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday) can be eaten steamed or boiled lean fish.
On Saturdays and Sundays, all the days of Lent (except the last week) can be added to the diet of fish and a little vegetable oil.Also, some concessions are permissible on the feast of the Annunciation and Palm Sunday (the last before Easter).
In the last week of fasting before the great feast of the Resurrection is recommended to observe a strict fast all the days, and on Good Friday - especially.What can not be there in the post before Easter, so it is cooked food, fish, vegetable oil, sweet bread, you can not drink warmed drinks.Prescribed only cold and dry food.On Saturday before Easter is generally better not to eat anything - until the first stars.
In our stores there are now products that can diversify the Lenten table.This seafood (shrimp, mussels, scallop meat, crabs), they sometimes successfully replace the fish.Sale lean mayonnaise (but it in vegetable oil), lean cookies.Well fill protein deficiency legumes: peas, lentils, chickpeas.Sometimes you can use soy products.
Knowing that you can not eat in the office, you can prepare for a change in diet, to make the blank.Pickled cucumbers and tomatoes, mushrooms, salted and dried, pickled apples, frozen or dried berries, roots and herbs - all this diversity lean table.On days when you can eat fish (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday), very lean lunch and decorate homemade canned vegetables: zucchini and caviar eggplant, bell pepper with rice and vegetables.
The four year post - Great, Peter, Assumption and Christmas.Many people know that you can not eat in the post and to the best of its compliance.But wait - is not only abstinence, it is also a focus, repentance, prayer.
