[Magdalen] Meatless, but definitely NOT penitential

[Grace Cangialosi]

LOL!  I wonder how long it will be before "Yuge" or even "Yuuuge" makes it into our daily speech...
It's definitely on it's way!

> On Feb 12, 2016, at 5:42 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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. :-(
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