Posted By
Najib
Mar 20, 2018 09:46
It's lent season and a lot of people tend to follow the Church's guidelines and fast daily from midnight until noon and refrain from eating meat and dairy products, even on Sundays. Not eating meat for a month may be easy to do, but abstaining from dairy products or anything that has milk, eggs or butter in it is quite tough. I have a couple of family members who abstain from dairy products, so I…
Posted By
Najib
Feb 19, 2018 11:00
Lent is a season of reflection and preparation before the Easter Celebrations and is marked by fasting both from food and festivities. As far as food is concerned, people tend to fast from meat and dairy products while others try to cut down on things they tend to consume a lot, like chocolate or coffee for example. Put aside the religious part and the different types of fasting, almost everyone looks forward to the lent…
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