Meat, dairy products, and many other foods are off the menu if you're an Orthodox Christian during Lent. Below are serving suggestions--some bona fide, some tongue-in-cheek--for the fast.

	Instead of... ...try Breakfast eggs and toast toast cereal in milk cereal in soy milk bacon fruit oatmeal with milk and butter plain oatmeal Lunch (at home) ham and cheese sandwich PB&J sandwich Hot Pockets pita with hummus or falafel salad with ranch dressing salad with vinagrette Lunch (out to eat) cheeseburger bean burrito with no cheese chicken sandwich bean burrito with no cheese fish sandwich bean burrito with no cheese chicken nuggets & fries fried shrimp & fries Snacks cheese doodles potato chips milk chocolate dark chocolate yogurt apple slices with peanut butter chips and salsa chips and salsa Dinner (at home) spaghetti with alfredo spaghetti with marinara beef stew lentil soup meat chili tvp & bean chili meat loaf soy loaf (it's vegalicious!) Dinner (out to eat) 12-oz. steak shrimp lo mein grilled chicken bean burritos, enchiladas, and lots of chips and salsa pizza pizza without cheese veal parmigiana grilled shrimp loaded baked potato plain baked potato Dessert chocolate chip cookie handful of semi-sweet chocolate chips cheesecake apple pie lemon meringue pie lemons ice cream toast