Eighty-five percent of the population in Amhara is Orthodox Christian. The Ethiopian Orthodox Church (EOC) requires followers above the age of 7 to fast for over 180 days a year, which includes abstaining from all animal source foods and consuming their first meal of the day after noon.2 In 2014, Alive & Thrive (A&T) explored whether religious cultural norms and traditions were preventing children from consuming animal source foods.