Ukrainians reminded that you can eat during the Nativity fast

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Advent in 2017 lasts for 40 days. Advent is one of the longest and strictest in the year. What you can eat in the Christmas post and which products should be discarded, and the calendar of meals for every day – read our material.

If you decided to fast in advent 2017, you should think about how to eat during this period to receive benefits for the body and soul and not to harm your health. Even while fasting people can eat healthy, varied, nutritious and tasty food.

Advent 2017: a calendar of food every day

In the period of advent should refrain from a number of products: meat, milk, eggs, cheese, butter, and some days off to fish.

What you can have from 28 November to 19 December 2017:

Monday: you can eat hot food of plant origin, but without oil.
Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, Sunday: vegetable oil is allowed in small amounts, plus fish.
Wednesday and Friday: shoedini.
4 December 2017 (Monday) is the feast of the presentation of the blessed virgin. And on this day allowed to eat a little red wine.

What you can eat from 20 December 2017 to 1 January 2018:

Monday: food of plant origin, but no oil
Tuesday and Thursday: vegetable food with a vegetable oil.
Wednesday and Friday: shoedini
Saturday: food of plant origin with butter, fish.
1 January after the New Year, allowed to drink a little red wine.

What you can have from 2 to 5 January 2018 (the post increases, it is impossible to eat even the fish):

Monday and Wednesday: shoedini
Tuesday and Thursday: food of plant origin, but without oil.
6 January – Christmas eve – the day you need to follow a particularly strict fast. After the evening allowed to eat Christmas pudding.

Advent 2017: what you can eat

Advent is less strict than the Great and the assumption posts. In the diet post requires to abandon the products of animal origin: meat, eggs, milk and dairy products.

Despite the ban, your diet during advent can be quite rich and varied and include the following products: cereal, bread, crackers, vegetables, mushrooms, herbs, berries, fruits, dried fruits, nuts, seeds, honey, and some days fish, seafood, oil and even wine.

During advent can be consumed raw, boiled, steamed, roasted, savoury food. It can be a variety of salads, pickles and canning, soups, stews, casseroles, dumplings, pies and pastries, juices, fruit drinks, jelly, tea.

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