Fasting struggles.

[Theophorus]

Yes.


Can do these but how often? Mexican the options are pretty limited in my experience. Beans and rice only go so far.

You have forgotten about the blessed avacado!!!. Guacomole without sour cream.

Smash up an avacado. A little lemon juice, garlic powder and cumin to taste. Now get some flour tortias, some shredded lettuce, vegetarian refried beans and a good salsa. Almost like eating meat and cheese!!!!!

Most of this stuff comes in bags, cans, jars and plastic of some sort, no heady preperation. The hardest part is cutting and smooshing the blessed avacado.

 

[kamikat]

The other fasting struggle I have is keeping quiet. Everyone around me likes to talk about their fasting. Yesterday, when I picked up Liam from preschool, all the other moms were talking about how awful it was that St Patrick's day falls on a Friday this year and were lamenting about corned beef and cabbage. At Sunday dinner at my mom's house, everyone talks about how well they did or if they "cheated". They will even pick on each other if they see someone eating something they had promised to give up.
kamikat

 

[Xpycoctomos]

Yes, I would totally advise some separate cooking
two picky eaters, huh? How did you never notice this before?

yeah, I think that's the best advise.

 

[Fotina]

The problem is that it takes practice and preperation to do this and I have neither at this point. All my preperation(hours) has been tanked. I have about 4 recipies that don't get a "no" and about 500 (literally) that do. That is a struggle for me.

Perhaps, this is exactly the struggle you need, not the food you eat, but self-denial (sacrificing your preference for your wife's) which virtue is more profitable for your salvation but much more difficult to plan and even more to practice.

just a thought.

Fotina

 

[David65]

That's kind of an odd subject around here.

Excuse my bluntness, but do Orthodox forgo all maritial relations for 8 weeks of Lent?

 

[Theophorus]

Excuse my bluntness, but do Orthodox forgo all maritial relations for 8 weeks of Lent?

See here.

 

[choirfiend]

Some do. Some may not. Only their spiritual director knows

 

[eoe]

Excuse my bluntness, but do Orthodox forgo all maritial relations for 8 weeks of Lent?

My Spritual Father told me to simply follow the calendar. There is nothing about "relations" on the calendar. I am having a hard enough time just following the calendar. Maybe someday I will be at a level where I can do more but today this is my struggle.

 

[Monica child of God 1]

Excuse my bluntness, but do Orthodox forgo all maritial relations for 8 weeks of Lent?

Traditionally marital fasting is observed during Lenten seasons. Whether a particular Orthodox couple is ready for this discipline is between them and their confessor(s).

M.

 

[Tsarina]

The other fasting struggle I have is keeping quiet. Everyone around me likes to talk about their fasting. Yesterday, when I picked up Liam from preschool, all the other moms were talking about how awful it was that St Patrick's day falls on a Friday this year and were lamenting about corned beef and cabbage. At Sunday dinner at my mom's house, everyone talks about how well they did or if they "cheated". They will even pick on each other if they see someone eating something they had promised to give up.
kamikat

My struggle as well is to keep quiet. I talk too much and engange in many converstions.

I'm working on it. *Zip up mouth*.

My Priest said a quote the other day that is stuck in my head, "Don't eat people, just stay quiet."