Cheesefare Week starts for Orthodox Christians, the last week before Great Lent. 

Believers will exclude meat products and opt for eggs, milk, cheese, fish. 

Moreover, only fruits and vegetable consumption is suggested on Wednesday and Friday. 

Priests say it is a period of repentance and refraining from the bodily lusts.

Great Lent is the seventh week before Pascha (Easter). 

The last day of Cheesefare Week is called "Forgiveness Sunday", indicating the desire for God's forgiveness that lies at the heart of Great Lent. The day following Cheesefare Sunday is called Clean Monday, because everyone has confessed their sins, asked forgiveness, and begun Great Lent with a clean slate.