Italian Tortellini Soup is the quick, easy, and oh-so-cheesy answer to your Lenten dinner dilemmas. Just toss everything in the pot and you've got a simple meatless meal for those no-meat Fridays.

No one is disputing the health benefits of working meatless meals into the weekly rotation. A diet full of fruits, vegetables ...

So the more meat you ate and the more spices you used, the higher you were up the food chain, as it were. The first pages of Postny obiad albo zabaweczka or Lenten Lunch or a Trifle, published in 1653 ...