Need suggestions!!

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Need suggestions!!
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Tue, 02-22-2005 - 12:23pm
I am Catholic, and it is Lent. For those who may not know, we cannot eat meat on Friday's except for fish and seafood from Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday (about 40 days or so). I really need some breakfast suggestions since I'm on Phase 1 and most of the recipes call for some form of an egg. And being that I can't eat eggs or bacon, I'm really limited. I have the book and there are some recipes for some frittas but those are too complicated and take too long to make in the morning when I have to go to work. Please let me know what you make for breakfast that is meatless but safe for Phase 1. Thanks!!!
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Tue, 02-22-2005 - 2:42pm
When I was on P1 I made the mini quiches (recipe in book) - I would freeze them and then just nuke them when I got to work. They were very good and easy to make
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Registered: 04-08-2003
Tue, 02-22-2005 - 3:08pm

I'm not big on eggs for breakfast, so I often have cottage cheese with tuna mixed in along with some cherry tomatoes. You could also have a peanut butter ricotta creme and a V8. Since Phase 1 is only two weeks, you should only have to think of breakfast for those two Fridays. The others you can have cereal or oatmeal.

HTH!
Michelle

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Registered: 02-23-2004
Tue, 02-22-2005 - 4:36pm

Or you could have a shake - in phase 1 I made them with yogurt, soy milk, ice - then added flavored syrups and/or things like peanut butter, unsweetened cocoa, splenda, etc. They soy will give you some protein too.

Its interesting, I never heard that you can't eat eggs as part of the "no meat on Fridays" thing. I grew up Catholic (very strict actually, straight from Italy, went to Catholic school, brother's were alter boys, said the rosary every Wednesday night, etc.) and we never included eggs as "meat"? I don't eat them for breakfast ever because I just don't like them LOL! So I'd do a shake of some sort and then when you move to phase 2 oatmeal or cereal (or still do shakes but add fruit, yum!)

MichaelAnn
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Tue, 02-22-2005 - 4:47pm
Growing up I was always told that eggs were forbidden on Friday's as well. My parents did Atkins a few years ago (and did very well... still keeping the weight off). Anyways, they had to find alternatives to eggs on Fridays. Maybe I should further investigate the "no eggs" rule! :)
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Tue, 02-22-2005 - 5:01pm

I also grew up in a strict catholic home and we always had eggs on Friday.

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Tue, 02-22-2005 - 10:46pm
Us Catholics aren't suppose to eat eggs on Fridays during lent? That's some news to me......
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Wed, 02-23-2005 - 9:54am

In P1, I really enjoyed smoked salmon with lite rondele cheese rolled up.

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Wed, 02-23-2005 - 12:55pm
Yeah I don't know but that is what my parents told me while I was growing up. My dad grew up Catholic and his family is pretty strict when it comes to religion so who knows...I don't remember going over it too much during my religious education (which wasn't that great, had it only up until 10 years old or so). But if I can really eat eggs then I will! Thanks to all for your suggestions!
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Registered: 04-01-2004
Wed, 02-23-2005 - 2:09pm

Something I try to emphasize with my kids during Lent is that although I grew up giving something up and abstaining from meat on Friday, is that God doesn't really care if you eat chocolate, meat, etc. during Lent.

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Wed, 02-23-2005 - 4:07pm

Ya know, I was just trying to look up today if eggs were a yes or a no for Catholics on Fridays - cuz I was really very curious. I ended up calling one of my old teachers from Catholic school (really just looking it up made me think about her and it felt like a good excuse to call LOL!) - she has been a Dominican nun for 40 years. First she said that she had never heard about no eggs. When the Catholic church originally got rid of the "no meat on Friday" rule (in 1966, Pope Paul VI authorized local Church officials to modify this abstinence requirement in their countries as they saw fit. The pope was acting in line with recommendations made at the recently completed Second Vatican Council) She said at that point a lot of indivial diocese made their own rules - so it could be that in the church your father attened that pastor just included egg for his own reason!

Currently, this is what the new Code of Canon Law brought out in 1983 says about the matter:

Canon 1251
Abstinence from meat, or from some other food as determined by the Conference, is to be observed on all Fridays, unless a solemnity should fall on a Friday. Abstinence and fasting are to be observed on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.

So actually its EVERY Friday of the year that you are supposed to not eat meat or it is a "mortal sin", if you want to get really technical! But even Sister Barbara said she doesn't follow that! The current teaching they are doing in my old diocese is more like what Cathy said. They teach children to use Friday as a day of penence to do a good deed or sacrifice something special to you. She said that a huge part of the meat thing was that way back when it was started meat was a "luxury", it was more expensive than seafood and something special. So it symbolized giving up a luxury and sacrificing something. Now a days, its the opposite for most people. Seafood is harder to get and more expensive, so giving up something that is "ordinary" to us nowadays, like ground beef or chicken and going out for lobster - just doesn't symbolize the reason behind the rule. She says she usually does still observe it, more out of habit - but they don't "teach" it that way anymore.

So take it for what its worth, but that is the info I got from someone I consider a very reliable source! If you have any questions I would call your local pastor and ask!

MichaelAnn (who did 13 years time "in the plaid" - otherwise know as Catholic School! :-)




Edited 2/23/2005 4:15 pm ET ET by desert_mom


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