How often do you eat fish?

[waltzingparrot]

We only eat it once a week, if that. Salmon, mackrel or cod. No-one really loves it but as it's so good for you, I try and serve it up weekly.

Just wondering if a marketing campaign to eat more fish might be coming, to make use of all the extra fish we can catch. Most coastal countries seem to eat loads of fish - I get the impression, UK not so much.

As an island nation, we should be eating more than we do, shouldn't we? I'm wondering if I could make 2 fishy meals a week - probably have to heavily disguise one

Could you eat more fish?

Rarely, I don't really like fish but my DH and DS love it so when they cook they usually choose fish - my Uni DS is a very adventurous cook and frequently sends us pictures of his sea bass recipes etc!

inextremis we should swap DHs -my DH would love your sort of cooking

Rarely. Cod fishcake in a sauce (Sainsburys), used to have tuna but don't do that as can't buy Reel Fish Co tuna any more.

I do love scallops and have them with pancetta or whatever you serve with them but wouldn't buy them on a regular basis, strictly treat so Christmas, Easter etc.

We have fish or seafood once a week. I don’t really enjoy preparing fish though so I tend to buy it filleted so I can just add a marinade and cook it.

I thought the North Sea was overfished (especially for cod)? I’m not sure everyone suddenly eating more fish is an environmentally friendly thing to do. I do feel for those involved in the industry, but it needs to be made sustainable, not supported at all costs.

While I don’t think we’ll ever be vegetarian, my partner and I have cut down the amount of meat we eat over the last few years, but we’re replacing it with veg-based meals rather than fish.

Never nowadays. I love fish and seafood, but the oceans are being completely overfished and I don't want to contribute to that. We can't see whats going on down there but still keep pulling millions of tonnes of increasingly smaller and rarer fish out. The North Atlantic cod stocks collapsed, and now boats are trawling the furthest reaches of the ocean for ever more fish. It's unsustainable.

I do eat meat and try to always buy free range organic. This is sustainable to me because cows and chickens aren't going to be hunted to extinction like bluefin tuna, causing the collapse of an important ecosystem.

I hate the smell of seafood especially prawns, so never. It makes me feel so queasy and my stomach churn. I bought noodles from my favourite noodle place last week and they were making prawn noodles for the next order, I just couldn’t eat my take away noodles, all I could smell was the prawns!

at least twice a week - we have salmon usually with stir fried veg and some noodles, tuna fish usually in a pasta bake, fish fingers, smoked mackerel with a salad and new potatoes, kedgeree. I like a good fish supper from the chippie too.

Not as often as I'd like. DH and I both really like fish, but DS13 is quite unadventurous food-wise, and DD15 recently decided she doesn't really like fish (although eats tinned tuna most days).

In normal times, I'd normally make fish for DH and I on an evening when the kids need to eat at a different time to us for clubs or whatever, and then they'd just have pesto and pasta. But at the moment, we're eating all dinners together, so...

'Normal' favourite meals would be salmon, either with a pesto and parmesan crust, or poached and then stirred into couscous and roasted med veg (super quick); fish pie (Jamie's recipe is me go to), maybe cod fillets with some harissa smeared across it. Prawns in a stirfry. Garlic prawns. Salmon en croute.

The one thing I'm not very confident about cooking is shellfish like mussels. Tend to leave them to the restaurant, even though they're actually quite easy. I'm just afraid I'll miss a bad one at some stage in the prep and cooking.