Lent

Are you fasting for lent?
Do you choose to fast for religious reasons? for health?

Have you considered what foods
would be available in late winter, if modern food practices didn't exist.

Not much.

The larder would be empty, the chickens wouldn't be laying, you couldn't slaughter the cow because they would be ready to give birth and start giving milk again.
So you made do, you ate pickeled foods, a few seeds or bark you could find, some fish if you could get to the lake, and some early sprouts that were showing in the ground. You learn to do without and make do and feel blessed with what you have.
Fasting in late winter early spring make sense.