Christian's prepare during this time by fasting, giving up their luxuries and practicing self-discipline. Now I am not strictly a Christian (ok I am not a Christian at all) but each year I do use this time to give something up, I guess in the traditional sense I do it to practice my own self-discipline.
For the past few years, this has been the five amazing things listed below:
- Chocolate
- Crisps
- Cakes
- Sweets
- Biscuits
- And last year I did cheese too...it was tough going...I heart cheese...so much!
- Oh and I also did my local Tesco Metro (to my work) last year too as I would go in there nearly every day...bad I know. I ended up just popping to Sainsbury's or Londis instead (kind of defeats the object!)
This year I am a bit stuck as to what to give up. I defo want to do something different, although chocolate is a good one as I do LOVE chocolate and it does test me. I am thinking meat, but I am going to my friend's for dinner tonight and she is making homemade steak and ale pie....mmmmm.....salivating at the thought...
Maybe I could do meat but start tomorrow. Is this allowed? Yep that's what I am going to do. I have often thought about giving up meat for a bit having lived with two vegetarians. My lovely Gayle is a veggie and she used to make the best meals; bubble and squeak with horseradish, ratatouille, ooo and hummus and snack-a-jacks...yum! The last one she obv didn't make but coupled with a glass of wine, that would often be our dinnertime meal, together with some jigsaw playing - cool huh?! We were rock and roll.
So they are my two things this year; 1) chocolate, as Easter Eggs always taste so much better when you haven't scoffed any of the milky stuff for 40 days, and 2) meat, but this one I will abstain from until midnight on Sunday 31st March.
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