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The Daniel Fast: Food List and the Two Fasts in Daniel 1 and 10

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Summary

  • A Daniel fast is a time of prayer, usually 21 days long, when we eat only what grows from seed, such as fruit, vegetables, whole grains, beans, nuts and seeds, and drink only water.
  • Keep taking any medicine you are on, and if you are pregnant or nursing, have diabetes, are under 18 or have ever had an eating disorder, see your doctor before you begin.
  • The list is modern: Susan Gregory put it together after answering hundreds of readers’ questions, and when she is asked how she knows what Daniel really ate, she answers, “I don’t!”
  • The name comes from two different fasts in Daniel, a young captive’s ten days of “pulse to eat, and water to drink” in chapter 1 and, many years later, three weeks of mourning without “pleasant bread,” meat or wine in chapter 10.
  • The 21 days are Daniel’s three weeks, and the angel tells him that his words were heard “from the first day” and that he himself was held back “one and twenty days.”
  • Some time after 212, Tertullian in Carthage was already defending dry meals without meat or wine, and he turned to Daniel to explain them.
  • We keep the fast as prayer, as Daniel prayed “three times a day,” and quietly, as Jesus asks, before the Father “which seeth in secret.”

A Daniel fast is a time of prayer, usually 21 days long, when we eat only what grows from seed and drink only water. Fruit, vegetables, whole grains, beans, nuts and seeds are all allowed, and meat, dairy, eggs, sugar, leavened bread, coffee and alcohol are not. The list itself is modern, because Scripture gives none, and the woman who wrote the one below will tell you plainly that she does not know what Daniel ate. What the Bible does…

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