[Magdalen] Meatless, but definitely NOT penitential

[Marion Thompson]

In the end I have no self-discipline and, on my own, food is a pretty 
haphazard business.  I've made a YUUUGE fruit salad to be some or all of 
my dinner this evening, maybe some greens with it so my teeth don't fall 
out.

Marion, a pilgrim

On 2/12/2016 5:20 PM, Ann Markle wrote:
> The older I get, the less I mind giving things up for Lent, and find it a
> useful exercise.  I'm already so virtuous that it almost makes my teeth
> hurt; but Fridays in Lent I tend to go meatless, as I have/am today.  For
> lunch I make a meatless chili out of refried beans and diced tomatoes with
> chili powder, heated in the microwave, and for dinner we'll have salad and
> a frittata with cooked veggies added.  Sigh, not even any bacon on my
> Friday breakfasts out with the girlfriends -- but it makes me glad when
> Easter comes.
>
> Today we got about 4 inches of snow.  More was predicted, and it looked
> like a whiteout sometimes, but not much accumulation, as it turned out, and
> light -- could almost have been cleared with a broom, but I used a shovel
> this early afternoon, and not much more collected after that.
>
> Ann
>
> The Rev. Ann Markle
> Buffalo, NY
> ann.markle at aya.yale.edu
> blog:  www.onewildandpreciouslife.typepad.com
>
> On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 5:13 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>   Our group of four goes out for a pint after running the Food Bank on
>> Tuesdays and they are all giving up alcohol for Lent and one who is
>> vegetarian is going vegan.   They've already said they'll sit and watch
>> me.  I used to do all this so strictly and am now an elderly backslider. :-(
>>