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Please Join Our Table - Lending You Great Lenten Recipes
Meatless, oil- and dairy-free meals can be wonderful.

Meatless, oil- and dairy-free meals can be wonderful. Lenten foods can be delicious and several of my friends have shared with me their favorite recipes. From Wednesday, March 1, to Thursday, April 13, many of our readers will be observing Lent. I know giving up eggs, oil, meat, dairy, alcohol and other foods makes for hard meal planning. Iβm going to help you with that today with some easy and tasty vegetarian dishes, including one using jackfruit. Jackfruit is a giant, prickly oval fruit grown in India, Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America. Itβs the largest tree-borne fruit in the world. Ripe jackfruit (I found it at Kroger Marketplace) is sweet and eaten as a dessert. Our granddaughters say it tastes like ice cream.
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