How much meat do you eat?

I eat at least one meat product every day, if not more.

I've dabbled in a few things like "meat-free Mondays" over the years, but they've never stuck. I just like meat!

Also, I'm from a family of beef and lamb farmers. They'd never forgive me if I went veggie!

For health reasons you'd want to go organic with chicken to avoid the nasties. That would be expensive twice a week.

Health I expect @Kalevala . OH asked for less red meat.

I don't get the chicken over red meat thing. Just basic free range chicken is expensive compared with beef.

Very little. Quorn mince about once a week perhaps.

Veggie for 35 year now.

Once or twice a week mostly red meat - we have been reducing but mostly because I find meat lacking and prefer veg dishes.

Awkward here as DS when home from uni likes meat as protein source. So chicken, fish and steak. No processed meat eg mince or sausages.

DD about to go to uni happy with mainly vege but won’t eat most fish.

I like us all to eat together and eat more or less the same thing so I’m not just a short order cook.

So when DS is home it’s more meat-heavy, we plan when DD has gone to eat fish and vege only when they are away.

probably two meals weekly - and more likely to be chicken than red meat.

35 years a of not eating meat and currently low carbing.

Do you eat fake meat, I think it’s a bit easier if you do, fake chicken stirfry, fake fish and salad etc.

35 years a of not eating meat and currently low carbing. It's possible, but I can't deny it's tedious. I'm eating a LOT of Greek yogurt and eggs. Also lots of tofu, Quorn and cheese. I think you'd have to have an iron will to do it as a vegan.

It was a lot easier when I was a pescatarian, but I gave up fish due to unsustainable fishing practices. I've always said that I would eat fish if I caught it myself/ somebody I knew caught it, but despite living by the coast I have not, in fact, gone fishing.

I admire vegans and have tried to go in that direction myself (have oat milk instead of cow, and actually prefer it), but stuck fast on cheese. And with low carbing I've actually gone backwards 😳

Probably about 2 or 3 times a year. I'll eat turkey at Christmas and then maybe once or twice if it's a special occasion and we're out for dinner or something. My 9 year old persuaded us to cut right back as a family a few years ago when he was about 5 I think. Honestly I could have ignored the environmental damage probably but he said something like "what will the world be like for me and my brother when we grow up mum" how could I argue with that?

I haven't eaten meat for almost 40 years.

Fish once a week, meat once a week. Sometimes one or other a third time a week. At least 50% of main meals, all breakfasts and most lunches are veggie.
I'd like to be veggie but I crave meat really strongly. Low iron issues all my life, which might account for it.

We need different levels of protein at different life stages. That’s not a fad.
If you’re going through perimenopause then you need more protein due to hormonally induced tissue breakdown. This can then help manage any weight gain that is common at this stage of life.

Active people need more protein for muscle recovery and tissue repair.

The issue is that the scientific community can’t agree on how much. The NHS recommendations haven’t changed in many years and tend to be one size fits all.

I’m sure many vegetarians and vegans do get enough protein. However as an active perimenopausal woman I find I just need the meat element to top up my protein levels. I don’t want to be supplementing with protein shakes all the time for example. Or eating loads of tofa. I eat some tofu. It’s easier for me to have tuna or chicken for lunch than trying to work out how to get a similar 30g of protein from vegetables and beans etc.

Rarely any meat at all. I have been eating lots of lentil recipes lately which has really slashed my food bill. Lentil Dahl, lentil spag bol, done in the slow cooker. Very low calorie, filling and cheap! Usually have lots to freeze too.

I think I would maybe eat more meat if there was more information about the upbringing of the animals and I could judge the conditions. I don't trust all the RSPCA assured labels and similar as I think the bar is probably set very low and I do care about animal welfare and think we do have a responsibility to not turn a blind eye.

Everyone is different.

I don't really understand this? I've been a vegetarian for more than 35 years, really active, very healthy. Think there is a current obsession with protein that is just a fad.

None for the past 55 years. Very little before then.

I love the taste of meat, a medium rare steak is wonderful, a lovely roast chicken, slow cooked pork, crispy duck etc. Do I think about how they are produced, nope, never. I’m not going to lie. I shop at a regular supermarket. For those saying at least use a Butcher, they are becoming a dying breed (pun intended), our nearest is 8 miles away. I can’t ever see me not eating meat, I love cooking it and eating it. It seems people are reluctant to admit it on this thread.

I can imagine! I’d hate to have to give up entire food groups.

Oh they are the cutest! He sent me some videos of them jumping about and wagging their tails like puppies. They are such happy little things and their mamas are so proud. I know that's a human interpretation of course but it's hard to see anything else when they're coming for scritches and bringing their babies over with them like hey look what I did.

You just keep going @Mothership4two you're doing all the work for me 😂