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Originally posted by mommatbird
This is what our bulletin says:
"...it is recommended that during Lent all Catholics eat meat only once at the main meal, apart from Fridays when they abstain completely."
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I'm glad to see this in the bulletin. Many people don't realize that this is the RECOMMENDED approach to lent. They only realize what is REQUIRED (fasting on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday and abstaining from meat on each Friday.)
Many people also don't realize that the Church STILL recommends we abstain from meat on ALL Fridays throughout the year...not just during Lent.
Anyway, I think it is a GREAT approach to Lent, and it certainly can be done via Low Carbing.
Yes, eggs are great for breakfast, so find all sorts of ways to do eggs
(mock danish; or adding cream cheese to scrambled eggs).
A protein shake might be a good change every now and then.
Lunches with tuna or shrimp. (Make sure to add the fats)
Cottage cheese (higher carb, but good protein bang for the buck).
Lots more veggies and salads.
Learn how to bake/broil fishes for dinners (so you can choose chicken or beef for lunch sometimes). I have always been afraid of cooking fish 'cause I never really knew how. But over the course of LCing, I've had to do it to get variety in the diet.
Now might be a good time to invest in one of the LC cookbooks out there. Make sure it has a decent-sized fish section!
Being limited/restricted IS the idea. That we are in control of what we do to/with our body, instead of our body/appetite controling what we choose.
So when you feel limited, just remember WHY you're doing it!
I'm going to join you in the recommended Lenten approach.
Harder for me! I am eating 6 meals a day!
-- Loretta