Lent
12Ok it is lent which is a season for denial and good works. For lent I have decided to go on a diet. No more then 1900 calories a day unless made up by exercise. I will also drink more water. I am also volunteering weekly at food bank. So anyone else make lent resolutions
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1 spring resolution to clean out storage.
Let it be noted that I have not started yet. I have to plan my approach to starting carefully. It may take weeks.
Cut out fast food, except coffee at McD and pizza once a week. This after I noticed the trash bag in the car was 2/3 fast food receipts. Made a big pot of soup to start off right, and besides, I like soup.
@OldCatLady - Lentil soup?
@KDemo No, cawl, a Welsh recipe. Lamb shanks and lots of vegetables. Next will be bean soup of some kind.
@KDemo Gah. Just saw the pun. It’s @mikibell’s fault that I’m slow today, because no fast food.
@OldCatLady
I feel your pain, I was slow on the uptake over in @narfcake’s Very Much Past thread. It’s all on @mikibell.
Slow goat
@KDemo @mikibell has abdicated for the day. She says she and her husband were married in 1904 or some such.
@OldCatLady And here I am not knowing what the pun is…
@SirLouie - Since you asked so nicely -
Lent-il soup.
@OldCatLady @kdemo I am not sure how I can be blamed that you two are slow… I am typically the first to see the puns!!! Follow the leader …
@KDemo OMG how did I miss that! It was so obvious that I couldn’t see it. Thank you so much!
I gave up fasting for Lent.
I’m not drinking booze this Lent, mostly to prove to myself that I can. (I drink socially and try to be very social, though I’ve started dating someone who abstains, which should help me disconnect social activity and alcohol.)
@Kawa
/giphy beer pour
My Catholic School educated child stated that “Lent is my favorite time of year” – something is lacking in that statement!! Her contention is that Grandma makes THE best food during Lent. Every Friday night is a meatless meal and all my daughter’s favorites (not that she says no to much when it comes to food!!!). I tried to explain that she should not go around making that statement, but it seems lost on her!
Tonight is homemade pierogies night… and then I make soup from the leftover mashed potatoes… the kid is in her glory!
@mikibell if someone made me perogies it would be my favorite too
@CaptAmehrican pierogies, pasta fagioli, broccoli casserole, seafood casserole, mac and cheese are all part of Lent menu… and cinnamon raisin bread minus the raisins – you would not believe the curse words my FIL uses when he makes me cinnamon raisin bread minus the raisins
@mikibell In college, I’d have sushi every Friday during Lent, because meatless. (Also, I was near an incredible sushi place, that is sadly closed now.) It was so bad my boyfriend-at-the-time got sick of Japanese food for a year…
@mikibell I blame you I can’t come to dinner.
@CaptAmehrican my MIL would feed you in a heartbeat! But even I am not getting fed tonight…snuggled under blankets, pretending the world doesn’t exist…from head to toes I hurt…
Oh and fried dough, homemade pizza and I forgot the other item are also on the menu…
@mikibell - Poor goat.
@KDemo thank you!
@mikibell
Goat Must Be Pampered And Fussed Over And Indulged.
@mikibell Geez, she’s lucky for me it was always fish and chips on Friday.
@cranky1950 she is spoiled…for us, it was canned tuna or pasta and sauce…
As someone raised in a Southern Baptist church, I’d never even heard of Lent until five or so years ago when it became popular to have social media competitions on how much you were sacrificing during Lent. Since then, I’ve wondered if I should join in (not necessarily the posting about it, but the act itself) but I can’t bring myself to do it because I feel like I’d be doing it for the wrong reasons at this point. I do think it’s a pretty awesome thing for those who are doing it for more than internet points.
*Please note, I’m not referring to anything going on in this thread or casting aspersions. My Facebook feed is just filled this time of year with people bragging about the things they’re giving up and it just seems a bit hypocritical in that particular forum from those particular people.
@PurplePawprints Ex-Catholic here! There are three pillars of Lent: fasting, almsgiving, and prayer. A proper Lenten tradition should include all three, if you’re a believer. “Fasting” has gotten lumped in with what are effectively New Year’s resolutions in the secular world, which is kind of logical but also a shame.
If you’d like to participate, but feel weird about the “wrong reasons”, focus more on prayer and almsgiving, as I think those are universally good things regardless of when you do them.
This is a really good description of what Lent is, written for the non-Catholic: http://www.vox.com/2017/3/1/14715240/lent-explained-ash-wednesday-easter
@Kawa That was really interesting and I learned quite a bit from it. Thank you for sharing! My husband is Catholic, but hasn’t really been practicing during the seven years we’ve been together. He saw me reading it though and it sparked a conversation so I learned even more.
I gave up wild nights on the town and eating in expensive restaurants for lent. No really.
No XBox gaming.
I think I gave up giving up stuff.
I plan to search the spirit of sacrifice, self-knowledge, repentance, resolution, purification, empathy, etc in a big pile of excess.
Not really. Just wanted to say that.
@f00l … and now you have!
@chienfou
The concept of self-sacrifice for lent is a noble one, but can easily be misappropriated by feeling smug about it. Ideally one should give up something but not make a big fuss about it, as it is between you and God. When you start talking about what you are sacrificing you often start losing site of the reason you are doing it in the first place.
@chienfou
then i give up worrying over feeling smug?
@f00l OK…
@chienfou
Just messin’ around w ya.
@f00l No offense taken,.I figured as much. I didn’t mean to sound preachy, (especially as a marginally faithful catholic) just wanted to put out some perspective on the subject. I always have trouble with the “OH, LOOK AT WHAT I DID/SACRIFICED” crowd. I am much more comfortable with anonymous giving, paying it forward kind of actions.
@chienfou
Cool. All good.
Fyi the diet thing is obnoxious. I down 3lbs but really veggies and more water and more veggies and more water ugh i want a cookie
@CaptAmehrican Problem solved:Broccoli cookies
Progress check: Cut fast food, except coffee: good. Got another Kindle and started buying ebooks again: bad. Refrained from reporting neighbors who were shooting at redtailed hawk in pine next door: pragmatic - didn’t get pix.