The Lent is designed to clean bodies and souls of the believing Christians before a light holiday of Easter. It is the most strict period of the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar. If your family observes a post, it is expedient to accustom gradually to it and the child. But don't demand from it total rejection of wordly pleasures, sometimes give ease in the form of the resolved sweeties. Let the kid will find for himself new flavoring habits and feelings.
The breakfast, as we know, has to make 30 percent of a day diet. The best option — porridge on water. It can be buckwheat with mushrooms, millet with pumpkin, rice with raisin and dried apricots, wheat, barley, corn with vegetable oil. Dried fruits and nuts can act as sweet and useful addition. For a change it is possible to offer various Deepa and sandwich-type pastes, such as, bean paste, a marrow or aubergine paste, honey.
The fast lunch differs in nothing from usual, except lack of animal products. The child surely has to receive the first, second and third dishes. It is possible to find a large number of meatless soups, Russian cabbage soup, rassolniks in modern recipe-books. They may contain grain, vegetables, pasta. It is desirable to add to the first I skin or the frozen greens. On the second it is good to serve vegetable stews and casseroles, a potato patties with prunes, rice minced collops with a mushroom sauce, etc. As a dessert offer berry kissel, dense compote, jam, fast ship's biscuits or cake. The main thing is to diversify food that the post didn't seem to the child something boring and terrible. At the same time don't focus attention of the kid only on food. The post includes also refusal of fun and entertainments, assumes daily prayers and reading spiritual books.
The dinner has to be a lung, it is desirable vegetable. It is good to serve the bright salad filled with vegetable oil and lemon juice. Options of such salads set: carrots with orange or apple with addition of the cleaned sunflower seeds, beet with prunes and nuts, green radish salad, a root celeriac and pumpkin sunflower seeds, potatoes with pickled cucumbers. Even the simplest vinaigrette can be diversified with addition of peas and haricot, fish or squids. By the way about fish. It is better to limit not too its consumption in a post as she is the most valuable supplier of phosphorus, fatty acids and useful minerals which are especially important to the growing organism. Despite all pluses the post nevertheless deprives an organism of the child of some vitamins. That to fill them, daily give it plain mix from the walnuts scrolled via the meat grinder, dried fruits and a lemon with addition of honey. Include in a diet of your kid as much as possible fresh fruit and dishes with them. And in order that the child and in a post ate with pleasure, don't regret time for decoration of dishes. A simple branch of greens it is also fancy the cut carrot we are capable to give to any food an appetizing look. Use color ware and bright napkins for registration of a table.