I frequently give up alcohol for Lent, sometimes at quite surprising times of year. Because my father was an alcoholic, whenever I find myself thinking "ooh, a drink" rather than "yum" when I drink alcohol, I immediately impose Lent and don't have a drink for six weeks. Actually this is a value of "frequently" that means "every few years".
If you give up meat entirely for six weeks and then go back to eating it at modern Western levels of consumption, you will very likely have an upset stomach for a few days. This won't apply if you keep eating fish and eat meat on Sundays, it has to do with bacteria.
Interesting final paragraph--I've been vegan and then pisco-vegan for two years now, and I wondered about what would happen if I ate, say, turkey thigh. There does seem to be a different issue that I might run into problems on, having to do with what types of fat one is used to.
carandol my ex-husband is vegetarian, and when we lived together I mostly cooked vegetarian because cooking two meals is more irritating for me than not eating meat. I'd eat meat occasionally -- whenever we ate out, or sometimes I'd buy myself a chicken leg or a chop or something. But it so happened one of those times that I'd by chance gone a couple of months without meat, and when I had a delicious chicken leg it gave me an upset gut. I then paid attention to how often I ate meat, and found four weeks was OK and six wasn't, and that fish counted as meat to my stomach bacteria.
(One odd consequence of this is that I tend to think of meat as a daring and interesting ingredient in dishes that are mostly vegetables, like lasagne.)
I've never tried being vegan -- when I lived with Ken I used to eat plenty of butter and cheese, probably more than now. So I don't know, but it seems to me you're making a good guess on the fats.
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Date: 2011-03-09 01:07 pm (UTC)I frequently give up alcohol for Lent, sometimes at quite surprising times of year. Because my father was an alcoholic, whenever I find myself thinking "ooh, a drink" rather than "yum" when I drink alcohol, I immediately impose Lent and don't have a drink for six weeks. Actually this is a value of "frequently" that means "every few years".
If you give up meat entirely for six weeks and then go back to eating it at modern Western levels of consumption, you will very likely have an upset stomach for a few days. This won't apply if you keep eating fish and eat meat on Sundays, it has to do with bacteria.
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Date: 2011-03-09 02:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-09 02:20 pm (UTC)(One odd consequence of this is that I tend to think of meat as a daring and interesting ingredient in dishes that are mostly vegetables, like lasagne.)
I've never tried being vegan -- when I lived with Ken I used to eat plenty of butter and cheese, probably more than now. So I don't know, but it seems to me you're making a good guess on the fats.