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ent food is almost traditional type because Lent is a traditional religious ceremony celebrated by Catholics before Ester and Good Friday. Length of Lent ceremony is quite prolonged; Christians maintain the ritual for 40 days at a stretch. The specialty of Lent meal is that it is to be meat free dish and Lent meal can be taken only for one time a day. Therefore Lent meals are vegan meals and for obvious reason sugar-free Lent foods are in better demand for the sake of maintaining health.

A few sugar-free lent food ideas

• Nothing can substitute in Lent meal other than green vegetables and natural fruits. You can make vegetable salads with boiled vegetables. Also you can add some fruits to the meal plan as tasty dessert. 

• You can make Lent meal with sea foods; seafood-dishes are tasty and hardly have any sugary content. Shrimps are wonderful ingredients for making noodles and rice recipes.  

• Beet is a nutritious vegetable loaded with iron and vitamins. You can exploit the food potential of beet by incorporating it into Lent meal plan. For example, roasted beet salad is a wonderful healthy sugar-free dish. The recipe goes well with citronette dressing or vinaigrette dressing however, for a twist in flavor, you can also try blood orange dressing .

• Tomato rice soup recipe is one of the most ideal sugar- free foods for Lent ceremony. The healthy fullness of rice gets combined with tangy taste of tomatoes; you can add dried and fresh herbs to spice the starchy taste.

• You can bake some cakes with honey; honey is a wonderful sugar substitute and offers excellent taste for the prepared cake. Add some fruits and raisins into the cake. It will add special flavor and freshness in the baked item. The honey baked cake is traditional Lent food.

When we mean sugar-free Lent food we generally mean white sugar free foods. Natural sugar based foods are always good for health and it will keep you healthy and refreshed during the complete length of Lent.

Wish you a happy Lenten ahead

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