What aren't you allowed to eat during lent?

Answer 1

Originally, Lent meant no meat or other animal products.

But in modern practice, various foods are abstained from, to honor Jesus who is said to have walked through the desert with no food for forty days.

Answer 2

Roman Catholic AnswerThe current regulations are contained in Pope Paul VI's Encyclical on Penance, which is at the link below. Currently, you may eat anything during Lent, except on Ash Wednesday and all Fridays when you must abstain from flesh meat. This would include beef, pork, poultry, lamb, etc. It does not include reptiles, fish, etc.

Answer 3

Below is a link to Paenitemini, Pope Paul VI's apostolic constitution regulating penance, particularly the new laws regarding fast and abstinence. Here is the appropriate paragraph on abstinence. Meat in Church law is usually regarded to be warm blooded: beef, lamb, poultry, pork, etc. Thus if you don't like fish, grilled rattlesnake is fine.

III. 1. The law of abstinence forbids the use of meat, but not of eggs, the products of milk or condiments made of animal fat.

Answer 4

Red meat on Ash Wednesday and all Fridays of Lent.

Answer 5

Meat is not eaten on Good Friday. Also, adult Catholics should fast on this day.

Answer 6

That would depend on the country in which you live. However, meat is not eaten on all Fridays during Lent as well as on Ash Wednesday.

Answer 7

Meat is not eaten on Ash Wednesday or all Fridays during Lent.