Thanksgiving Fish and Shellfish Recipes for Pescetarian Diet and Vegetarians This article was written for Thanksgiving vegetarian recipes, but the food ideas work perfectly for lent. It includes harvest vegetable-based meals, fish, seafood and foods tweaked for the Mediterranean Diet. My husband and I are using this diet to meat my need to lose weight and both our needs to watch cholesterol. The Mediterranean Diet could also be called the lent diet or the Catholic social justice diet: it features locally grown produced, fairly traded foods, frugality, meatless meals, fish-based foods and an emphasis on simplicity and using what's on-hand. It gels perfectly with the lenten virtues of fasting, abstinence, prayer and almsgiving.
If you don't like fish or have kids who don't, you can offer up sufferings for the persecuted World Church. My Filipino friend could list many sufferings in her homeland that could be used as lenten sacrificial fast. On a lighter note, when I homeschooled, we used to make recipes from the Catholic Social Services Operation Rice Bowl prayer calender. I once served a recipe that was a porridge made of bananas, peas and onions. We did show solidarity with the poor and it made us give thanks for our many blessings. But it was not pleasant. Each year, my kids give thanks that mom's lenten experiments have never included that recipe again.
May these recipes bless your lent
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