What do vegetarians give up on Fridays?

[dUSt]

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[AccountDeleted]

Vegetables?

[truthfinder]

Is this "must" do or "should" do? The former is "nothing", the latter is something that is a staple in your diet that would make it hard for that day, but not impossible.  (ie, do not give up water)

[Lilllabettt]

i am a vegetarian and don't give up anything extra on fridays. it felt like giving up meat on a permanent basis was hard enough. maybe i didn't think this all the way through. I don't drink soda and I rarely eat pizza or bread. idk.

actually idok ... eggs. i eat a lot of eggs.

[Luigi]

For Lent, they all have to eat meat on Mondays. 

[beatitude]

I'm a vegan. On Fridays I eat as normal but don't drink anything except water. Not guzzling tea all day is actually much harder for me than giving up meat used to be - to be honest that one never felt like much of a penance. I did like meat, but not to the extent that I love tea.

For Lent this year I gave up listening to music. I used to listen to it almost all the time - on public transport, when working at my desk, when relaxing - and going without it has been one of the most meaningful Lenten observances I've ever done. I don't know why, but whenever I've given up something food-related in the past it felt like some sort of gruelling endurance test rather than a fast, and I focused too much on my own willpower rather than on prayer and penance. Going without music has been challenging, but it's so clearly helping me to pray more and to take more notice of others (I had a wonderful chat with a small boy on the train whom I probably wouldn't have said two words to if I'd had my earphones in) that I haven't lost sight of what it's meant for.

[little2add]

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[oratefratres]

I spoke to a traditional priest about this, he said that food related fasting is best, but alternatively acts of prayer or penance would be OK in these situaions.

Some ideas for vagans and veggies are:

- treat all fridays in lent and advent as fasting and abstinence - so two snacks and one large one
- do another penance e.g sleep on the floor
- do something devotional e.g. get up extra early and go to mass or spend some time before your day in the church doing the stations
- do special good deed e.g. help out in a soup kitchen
- avoid adding spices to your food
- veggies can go vagan
- only eat bread and water

The Body is a temple and eating more fruit and vag is good for you anyway.

Also, be sure not to be confused between vagan and pagan. Two very different things haha

[Catlick]

Fast like your ancestors did: everyday during Lent (except Sundays) two snacks and one meal. Trust me, it'll teach you to sacrifice more than nonsensical things like not eating sweets.

[Egeria]

Fish, dairy, wine. But then, being Orthodox, I don't eat those on other days in Lent either (except for fish on the Annunciation and Palm Sunday and wine on certain other days) and neither does anyone else who is keeping the fast, irrespective of whether they are vegetarian or not. Of course, there are always exceptions made in cases of health etc., but that's the rule.

I've sometimes thought that I should try to follow the ancient monastic practice of not eating until the ninth hour (3 pm), or, failing that, the sixth hour (noon), but I'm not sure that I'd cope with that, or that it would be wise to take on without a blessing from one's spiritual father.

[Nihil Obstat]

Fast like your ancestors did: everyday during Lent (except Sundays) two snacks and one meal. Trust me, it'll teach you to sacrifice more than nonsensical things like not eating sweets.

I am positive you can think of a word more accurate than nonsensical.

[beatitude]

I've sometimes thought that I should try to follow the ancient monastic practice of not eating until the ninth hour (3 pm), or, failing that, the sixth hour (noon), but I'm not sure that I'd cope with that, or that it would be wise to take on without a blessing from one's spiritual father.

​To be honest, I wouldn't find that so difficult. I tend to get hungriest towards evening and sometimes I don't eat until about three p.m. anyway, as I just don't feel hungry. Giving up certain foods is always much more difficult for me than just not eating altogether until a certain hour. This is why I'm cautious of dismissing certain Lenten observances as not rigorous enough - what looks very traditional and 'difficult' may actually be hardly any trouble at all for some people, to the point that they barely notice they're fasting, whereas something that looks a very small thing to others might actually require more effort from them.