Great post. How to start fasting?

If you decide to fast for the first time, sign in to post a step by step process. If you give up all the foods on the first day it can harm your health. In addition, nutritionists advise to replace animal protein vegetable protein-rich products such as beans, peas, nuts, mushrooms, dried fruits.


So by the most stringent rules, during lent, you cannot use:





- meat and meat products;


products containing milk and milk products, including milk powder;


all products containing eggs;


- fish (except for some days);


- vegetable oil (except for some days);


- alcohol (except wine on some days).










But even during the most severe post some exceptions: oil and wine can be drunk on Saturdays and Sundays (except Saturday in Holy week). Vegetable oil is allowed to eat in the days of memory of the most revered saints. You can also cook fish dishes during the holidays - the Annunciation (April 7) and the Entry of Christ into Jerusalem (the last Sunday before Easter). Fish ROE is allowed to eat on Lazarus Saturday (the day before palm Sunday). As an exception can be varied menu of seafood: squid, mussels and prawns. Note that in lent is especially important timely usage of the first and second dishes hot.





Foods that can be eaten during lent:





- homework: pickles and fermented, pickled vegetables and berries, juices and jams;


- frozen and fresh vegetables, fruits and mushrooms, and nuts, legumes, seeds, dried fruits;


- herbs and spices of all kinds: they are able to spice up any dish;


- vegetable products: soy mayonnaise, soy yogurt, soy milk, soy cheese, and cheese, as well as special Lenten sweets (which not so long ago appeared on the shelves of supermarkets);


- cereals, bread and bakery products that do not contain muffin.





At the same time, earlier it was considered a great sin to eat during lent the white flour products. It might make sense to replace it with whole grain, because it is much more useful.





In order not to confuse, it's best to use the calendar, where clear days written what foods can and cannot be eaten:







First week: February 27-March 4





Monday, 27 February - clean Monday - recommended total abstinence from food.





In the evening, the first day of lent in the Church begin a four-day Penitential reading of the Canon, the text of which provides a powerful approach to understanding and correcting their sins.





Tuesday, 28 February - you can eat hot food without oil.





Wednesday, 29 February - shoedini. You can enable the menu bread, vegetables, fruit.





Thursday, March 1 - you can eat hot food without oil.





Friday, March 2 - shoedini.





Saturday, March 3 - you can eat hot vegetable food with oil and wine.





Sunday, March 4 - you can eat food with oil and wine.





The triumph of Orthodoxy. Religious holiday on which the Church prays to God about the approval in the faith of Orthodox Christians and the conversion to the truth of all apostates from the Church. It is important to be in the morning on the Liturgy, to confess and take communion.










Recall that from the strict fasting are exempt:


children;


the elderly;


pregnant women and those planning pregnancy;


those who have recently suffered any disease;


people with any chronic diseases;


cancer;


those who are engaged in hard physical or mental work.

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