and its only the first week

For lent, as a family, we chose to give up meat and chocolate.

It is 40 days and 40 nights of fasting.

We try and do lent most years and usually last the period. This year we chose to do it as a family.

And it is hard.

For now chocolate is the easier of the two.  But avoiding meat is a real challenge. It's only a few days in and I can't seem to think of recipes without bacon bits in, or chose a sandwich without ham on, or chose a stir fry lunch without chicken in. Meat is just simply everywhere.

We are also trying to avoid just cooking a usual meal without the meat in, as this is somehow noticeable. We are trying to thus cook vegetarian, using vegetarian recipes. Leaving out the meat just does not work.

Cooking vegeterian recipes requires time and patience.  Shifting food patterns takes time.

And the worst moment of the week was this morning at breakfast in a hotel. The choice of a full cooked english breakfast with my favourite bacon and sausages OR toast!

The toast it was :-(

How many days to go.......................