The whole of Lent, already planned

123 Lenten recipes and a ready menu: breakfast, lunch and dinner for every day of the four weeks, plus a whole week of recipes cooked with water, without a drop of oil, for the strictest days.

Cover of the book The Lenten Handbook

From the contents

  1. Four weeks of ready menus 84
  2. Water-only recipes, no oil 21
  3. Sweets and secret recipes 18

84 Lenten meals: breakfast, lunch and dinner for 28 days

And why it's different from the rest

  • A meal plan already worked out. Breakfast, lunch and dinner for every day of the fast. No deciding what to cook — you just follow the days.
  • A whole week cooked with water. The same three meals a day, but without a drop of oil, for the days when the fast is strictest. That's the part you usually can't find anywhere.
  • And sweet things too. Fasting cakes, pancakes and mekici, so the fast is not all going without.
  • The fast itself, explained. How long it lasts, what is allowed, when fish and olive oil are permitted, and who may adapt it: children, the elderly, the unwell, pregnant and nursing mothers.
  • Ingredients from an ordinary supermarket. Lentils, chickpeas, beans, rice, vegetables. All of it in any ordinary shop.
  • On any device. A PDF for phone, tablet and computer, or printed on paper.

This book is for you if…

  • …you're fasting for the first time and know neither what's allowed nor what to cook.
  • …by Wednesday you're already repeating the same two or three Lenten meals.
  • …you want Lent to pass calmly, without planning and last-minute shopping.
  • …you also need water-only recipes, for the days without oil.
  • …you want the whole family to fast, eating the same food, every day of it.

From "beans again?" to 28 planned days, starting tonight.

Marina Mickovska Arsovska in her kitchen

From Mama's kitchen

Marina Mickovska Arsovska has cooked traditional Macedonian food her whole life. She learned the recipes from her mother and grandmother and has kept them in the family kitchen for years. Today she shares them with people around the world who want to hold on to the taste of home, however far away they are. She cooked every recipe herself before writing it down, and explained it step by step. In her house Lent has always been a time of calm, good cooking rather than going without, and that is what this menu holds.

Reviews

What people who cook with Mama say

★★★★★ 23.02.2026

Prekrasni recepti, so detalno objasnuvanje za sekoja postapka. Recepti koi potsetuvaat na detstvoto, doneseni vo ova brzo vreme. Toplo ja preporacuvam knigata

Elena

★★★★★ 27.01.2026

Preubavi i vkusni recepti imate, sega nemam potreba da misam sto da zgotvam za dorucek ili vecera, samo ja otvaram vasata kniga i jadenjeto e smisleno. Ovaa utro podgotviv Proja mafini so praz brzi, lesni i vkusni ke pravime i ke prakame sliki ipak so dve mali deca sum ama so vasite recepti kako da imam poveke vreme za podgotovka fala vi mnogu

Ivana

★★★★★ 24.01.2026

Simply a perfect book. Every recipe explained precisely and concisely, with ingredients from our own region. Warmly recommended, this book belongs in every home 💯

Blagica

★★★★★ 24.01.2026

A perfect book for everyone outside Macedonia who misses traditional Macedonian food ❤️

Martina

★★★★★ 23.01.2026

A wonderful book of authentic Macedonian recipes: simple, tasty and genuinely home-made. I recommend it warmly.

Nikolina

1 / 5

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  • A ready menu for 28 days (84 meals) 29 €
  • Exact measurements and methods 15 €
  • Free updates forever 9 €
  • Total value 53 €

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  • A ready Lenten menu for the whole of Great Lent: breakfast, lunch and dinner for each of the 28 days, spread across four weeks.

  • Yes, the whole menu is made up of Lenten meals, with no meat, milk or eggs. Every recipe is tested and written with exact measurements rather than done by eye.

  • Yes. The menu uses ingredients found in ordinary supermarkets almost everywhere, which is exactly why the book is loved most by our people abroad.

  • Certainly. The meals are ordinary home cooking without meat or dairy, so they work for any Lenten Wednesday and Friday, or whenever you want a lighter week in the kitchen.

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