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\"lent<\/a>Lent has crept up on us all this year perhaps since it is so early (can we please have a fixed date for Easter).\u00a0 My lent guide book started talking about food.\u00a0 Its a little known fact that the medieval church tried to limit meat consumption, not just in lent but all the year round.\u00a0 In feudal Europe the church attempted to direct both when and what people could eat.\u00a0 Consumption of meat was forbidden for about at least a third of the year for one reason or another.\u00a0 Meat free days were to remember various saints or the virgin Mary (all Saturdays).\u00a0 There were also periods of fasting throughout the year, 4 days at the start of each season than advent and lent. \u00a0 Some people say a particularly devout person would have spent 8 months of the year being vegetarian.\u00a0 Fish was not completely banned and this led to those with money fish farming.\u00a0 Fish farming perhaps is not the right word but the local lords of the manor in the town where my parents lived got permission from the King to dam streams in the royal hunting ground and they stocked these pools with fish.\u00a0 These rules also seemed not apply to the monastic system at one\u00a0monastery near London in the late middle ages historians have worked out the calorie intake was 5000kcal\/day (recommended intake 2000kcal\/day).\u00a0 Much of this was meat.<\/p>\n

What does this teach us?\u00a0 It easy to sacrifice something or give something up for the wrong reasons.\u00a0 You do wonder whether the church did ban meat entirely due to religion.\u00a0 Providing enough meat for everyone would have been a challenge for medieval farming.\u00a0 However the medieval peasant diet was very low in protein (the rich probably ignored the rules).\u00a0 For us giving up something for lent can have mixed motives but still can be useful.\u00a0 What is more useful is if that change carries on beyond lent. \u00a0 To help you this blog has a No oil in the lamp lent guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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