How to keep a great post? How to fast? Food in post

The article includes tips and delicious recipes for those who decided to keep the post for the first time or repeatedly passed this test for the soul and body.

The great post before the main holiday of Christianity - Easter - the main test that every believer should pass. Unfortunately, not everyone knows that in the post according to the rules you need to not only eat, but also live.

Do I need to keep a post? For what?

Many now believe that fasting is only to limit themselves to food by excluding products of animal origin from their menu. In fact, the great post is other bodily restrictions, work on their soul and conscience, on its repentance.

Important: to the question of whether it is necessary to keep the great post, everyone must find the answer themselves. Such a decision must be made independently, taking full responsibility. Only then at the end of the post can you feel the grace and joy of every person in life

So, for example, during fasting you need to indulge in external entertainment, and switch to a calm, contemplative lifestyle, turning deep into yourself, think more about God and the eternal.

Those who are used to praying are praying more and more often, those who have not done this before should turn to prayers. During fasting, you can not be angry, swearing with swear words, drink alcohol, even have sex.

Thus, restrictions in food are only part of the bodily restrictions necessary for testing the soul and body of a person.

How to follow a post 40 days?

To withstand all 40 days of fasting, you need to psychologically tune in to this not a simple test.

1. You need to consult with the priest. Perhaps, knowing his parishioner, he will give his blessing to a nested post, to certain concessions in restrictions
2. Violation of the principle of nutrition in fasting is not such a great sin. It is much worse if a person has unkind thoughts and does unkind acts, and does not repent of them
3. Ask for support from loved ones. Perhaps they will also join the post, and perhaps just help to overcome their carnal desires

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How to keep a post for the first time?

Those who think to fast for the first time often have a question of how to eat in fasting, what to cook for themselves. There are several answers here:

1. If this is not a diet, but really a post prescribed by the church, then you need to see the church schedule of posts. Almost everyone knows about the great post, but in Orthodoxy there are also other, less long posts
2. The Christian post involves following other canons of Christianity. For example, before fasting, you need to go to church and conduct rites of confession and communion, thus preparing your soul and body for post
3. Those who have been fasting for more than one year know that you can not eat up in front of the post for the future, it is necessary to gradually, in a few days to start certain restrictions, even despite the abundance of Shrovetide. Those who turn to the post for the first time should definitely know about the “transition” period for the period - do not abruptly throw the use of meat and dairy products, but do this in advance

How to keep the great post before Easter? How to observe the first week of fasting?

• According to Christian canons, there is a so -called strict post and just post
• During a strict post, the food of animal origin is completely excluded from the diet. Not only meat and fish, eggs and poultry are unacceptable, but also milk, butter and other dairy products
• A strict post means the transition to bread and water on the first day of post and on a passionate Friday, the last Friday before the Holy Resurrection

True Christians follow the schedule provided by the Church, according to which, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, only raw materials need to be engaged in raw. On Thursday and Tuesday, you can eat boiled food, however, without adding oil. On Saturday and Sunday, dishes with the addition of oil, of course, of vegetable.

Important: raw food diet includes plant foods that are not processed thermally, seeds, cereals, etc.

On some days of fasting, on the day of the Annunciation and on Palm Sunday, you can use fish or fish caviar.
A small amount of grape wine is allowed on certain days, all other alcohol is prohibited.

How to follow a post for pregnant women?

• In addition to a strict post, churchmen also allow a post during which a person prescribes restrictions on food, but, due to different reasons, some dishes, such as fish or milk are allowed
• These permits imply individual categories of people, for example, with health problems, pregnant women and young children. They allow them to be more diverse and saturated food due to the physiological need for additional maintenance of the body
• Representatives of the church often make explanations on this subject and give their blessing to comply with a strict post. At the same time, they still invite to visit their priest and consult a doctor
• So pregnant women can limit themselves in nutrition, subject to constant monitoring of the body. Doctors categorically do not recommend that they abandon animal proteins, since the products of their metabolism are structural elements necessary for the formation of fetal cells

Important: clergymen advise pregnant women who decided to observe the great post, weaken it, introducing eggs and dairy products on the menu.

At the same time, they say that future mothers during this period pay more attention to their inner world, pray more, abandoned worldly entertainment

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What can you eat in fasting?

The basis of the person who fasts is plant food:

• vegetables, mainly raw or stewed
• fruits and berries
• cereals and cereals, cereals
• mushrooms
• legumes: beans, beans, lentils
• seeds and seeds
• rye bread on water

Important: meat and meat products, fish (with exceptions), eggs, dairy products, confectionery, alcohol are prohibited in fasting

How to fast in great post: food and menu in the post

A lean diet must be built according to the following rules:

1. The first day of fasting is a strict rejection of all food, except for bread and water
2. Passion Friday (last Friday of a 40-day post before a bright resurrection)-bread and water
3. As an option, you can strictly fast in the first and last week of fasting. In the rest of the days, with the blessing of the priest, you can sometimes afford something from dairy products
4. Food should take shape, if possible, from natural products. Vegetables and fruits - from the garden or from the market, but not those that are sold canned or processed in supermarkets
5. Food should be small portions and often, 4 - 5 times a day. For example, porridge, then cabbage soup, then okroshki, then a vegetable salad

Books of grandmother's recipes will help to compose the menu, which describes the ingredients and methods of preparing lean dishes. For example, such.
Recipe No. 1: Lenten borsch with prunes.

• Boil beets. Soak mushrooms (dried, preferably white) for 3 - 4 hours. Boil mushrooms, strain the broth. Cut the beets with strips, mushrooms - slices, fry them in vegetable oil
• Separately chop and pass finely chopped carrots, onions. Before they begin to change the color when passing, add tomatoes or tomatoes to them and steal them still mines 5-7
• Cut pre -soaked prunes and cut it with slices, having previously removed the seeds
  Put chopped cabbage in a boiling mushroom decoction
• Cook for 10 - 15 minutes. Add fried mushrooms, passed vegetables with tomato, prunes to the mushroom broth. Boil another 5-7 minutes until cooked Recipe No. 2: Okroshka on bread kvass.

Pre -cook bread kvass from sourdough and crackers from rye bread.
Grate radish on a grater.
Boil potatoes in a uniform, cut cold potatoes.
Mix radish with potatoes. Salt.
Leave stand for 40 - 50 minutes.
Add chilled kvass and grated horseradish (to taste).
Serve to the table with greens.
Recipe number 3: Mushroom salad with lean mayonnaise.

Boil up to 3 medium -sized potatoes until cooked, 1 carrot, cut into cubes. 300 g of champignons are cleaned and boiled for 5 minutes, cut into slices. Two fresh cucumbers are cut into thin half rings. Greens and green onions are crushed. Everything is mixed, sprinkled with sesame seeds and seasoned with lean mayonnaise.

Important: today those who fast can pamper themselves with sweets: lean cookies and halva are sold in almost all confectionery and supermarkets

How to follow the post of 16 Mondays?

In Hinduism there is a tradition of post 16 Mondays.

The tradition comes from the god Shiva, or rather, his wife Parvati, who, in order to become worthy of Shiva and become his wife, observed the gates of 16 Mondays. For modern girls in the Hindu tradition, fasting 16 Mondays means a successful marriage and a prosperous family life.

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