How many times a week do you have meat?

Except for breakfast (eggs) a meat free meal would be the exception for us. Sometimes have a cheese sandwich for lunch.

Why are you reducing meat: taste, expense, ethics?

I can see your husband's point if you have unilaterally changed the composition of meals, maybe you can give him a pork pie to chew on

If we're counting fish, seven days a week. Usually one meat meal but sometimes two.

If I don't eat any dead creatures for several days, I start feeling all weak and wimpy. It definitely affects me, even though I have plenty of soya products & eggs instead. (Can't eat cheese, but it was the same when I did.)

I sometimes wonder if we have different genetic predispositions to be more/less carnivorous, just as some groups of people are more or less tolerant of alcohol, dairy or wheat.

I live alone and these past couple of years I don't generally buy meat and I don't even cook - I live on salads.

When my son visits I'll cook a meal involving meat. So that's probably one meal every three weeks or so.

Resurrected a summer meal this evening ( oo yesterday now) we used to have all the time. If you’re in need of ideas. Large pitta with salad greens onions toms usual salad stuff etc. plus either / or / or all ( in the case of my kids ) boiled egg, avocado, dry fried halloumi. Dressing etc as you like. Easy and amazing. I can’t answer your actual question as I’m veggie

Every day for dinner. Most lunches

Daily for dinner

I try to have fish or veggie for lunch though

Almost never for breakfast.

About five days a week for lunch.

Every evening.

Sometimes we'll have fish instead of land-based meat.

My ds is a committed carnivore and has meat 6 days a week. Fish one night.

He has pizza on Friday nights when I make another fish or perhaps veggie dish for me.

We're in Greece at the moment and eating a lot more veggie food. Here we eat meat or fish only half the time.

Most nights really, meat or fish any way. Occasionally we have jackets with cheese and beans, or a nursery tea, but that can involve fish fingers at least! Or tuna on a jacket.
not very often fully meat free to be fair, we are all rather carnivorous and love our protein here.

I think we are slightly unusual as we eat more fish (not seafood) than meat. Normally we have 2 fish meals and 1 meat meal a week.

We've only got one meat evening meal planned this week, plus a couple of meals with fish. The odd packed lunch too.

On average we might have two or three meat meals, one fish, one beans/pulses, then other vegetarian dishes. We cut down a lot when my daughter went vegetarian and have stayed that way since she started eating meat again. I only really buy organic meat now, so it's easier on our pocket and better for us and the planet.

Never for breakfast or lunch.
Out of seven evening meals, perhaps 2-3 times; we'll make something like fish pie, chicken koftas or grilled chicken. We like plant based proteins so it feels quite frivolous to eat animals -it's not as if we really 'need' to nourish ourselves on their poor little bodies.

I will often eat meat if I go out though. Meat to me is largely an out of the house treat now.

that is how meat is generally consumed where my wider family lives (outside the UK). Home is all about really nutritious and tasty veg, fish and pulse-based dishes. Restaurants are for lamb, pork etc.

If you want to cut down on meat, maybe do it gradually? So start with one veggie meal a week, and once you’ve found meat free meals people genuinely enjoy you can work up from there.

I ended up going pescatarian because I was enjoying the veggie meals I cooked for vegetarian DD better than the meat based meals I made for me (at the time) and DS. DS still has meat or fish pretty much every night but he is very “fussy” (has ADHD, and sensory issues about certain foods).

When I say I’m pescatarian, I mainly eat a vegetarian diet. I mostly only eat fish if I’m out for dinner these days.

Maybe twice a week and fish/seafood once. Depends on the week and who else we are feeding/if we are eating with friends - as we are not veggie friends often cook meat, when we would have done.

Once, probably. Twice if my son is here. Maybe an occasional slice of chorizo or some chicken for a picnic on a rare occasion.

Mostly fish and vegetarian stuff, including cheese, eggs, pulses, veggie pies and quiches, veg curries, etc.

I’m quite pleased about that - I hadn’t considered how much my diet had changed in recent years. I grew up very much in a meat and two veg household and my kids’ early childhood was a lot meatier than their later years.

I have meat every day. Ham in my sandwich.

Probably on average 3-5 meals (/15) per week. We have cereal for breakfast but maybe a bacon bap if we’re out. Lunches are pretty exclusively veggie. We incorporate a lot of veg into meat dishes - eg spaghetti bolognaise has 50:50 mushrooms or lentils alongside meat; and when we roast joint we will get a lot of meals from it over a few days including freezing portions (but would then skip the next week).

Most meals tbh, I'm dieting but upping my protein intake and low carbing which means a lot of meat. Sort of Keto lite.

Evening meals - meat 4 times, fish 2 times, one veggie meal.

I would be happy to cut meat down to maybe twice a week but I too have a carnivorous husband, and carnivorous children. This is the best I can manage. I never eat meat at breakfast, and only very rarely eat it at lunchtime though.

Twice a day, although some are fish of course. I don’t often have a meal without meat or fish, and wouldn’t particularly want to regularly. I would be very upset being told I could only have meat three times a week. It’s certainly not necessary for health, why is it you’re cutting down so much?

I'm not a huge meat fan.. I'm trying to think of the meat I've had in the last week and all I can think of is a bacon sandwich! I'll occasionally have a a ham or tuna sandwich, very occasionally something made with mince or beef, or a mcdonalds burger every few months. DH eats loads!

I've been trying to eat more recently, for the protein. We now have two or three meat meals a week and one fish. I really don't like the taste or texture of meat.

Pretty much every meal. With the exception of having saying scrambled eggs on toast.

No intention to cut down over here!

I'm Veggie, DH and DS2 aren't but really don't care either way. I cook it for them if requested..maybe once every 3 months if that! We have a takeway every few weeks so they usually order dead animal then😆