Pescartarians, tell me what you eat in a day?

[Eggybreadwithnuts]

Am thinking of going this route. Do you litetally eat fish for lunch and dinner every day?

Please give your meal ideas?

No - I eat a variety of vegetables, pulses, fruit, pasta, etc but I also eat certain fish and prawns at some meals. I don’t eat any meat and at some point I may stop eating fish too.

Have been pescatarian for about 35 years now. I eat vegetarian quite a lot tbh - I have fish more a few meals a week especially salmon. I have a lot of salmon rice and veg ‘bowl’ type meals. I just had rice, smashed cucumber salad and a supermarket salmon with some chilli and coriander on the top.

tbh these days I only eat fish for protein purposes as I can’t eat many pulses and there is only so much tofu and diary I can manage. Otherwise I’d be veggie (not a helpful comment I grant you.

Do you feel healthier eating this diet?

What is a typical breakfast, lunch and dinner like for you?

I only really eat chicken the rest of yhe time love cod, haddock, salmon, prawns, mussels etc.

Just going to stop chicken and go fish snd veg based

The salmon bowl type fish sounds lush right up my street

What about Sunday roast, my family love a chicken roast, thinking what I can replace with

Still do a chicken for your family and then a mushroom wellington, nut roast or many other veg substitutes that are out there?

I'm veggie so usually just have the veg, but do a wider variety of veg so I'm suitably full too.

I dont want to be eating substitutes, plus love to cook from scratch.

I think I misunderstood about this way of eating, I assumed it was fish, seafood every single meal every single day. Bit reading up and listening to you guys, Im sensing itsmore vegetarian with fish just 2-3 times a week

I eat a sturdy amount of wholefoods, cheese, eggs, yoghurt, rye bread, fish bone broth, as well as fish in all its iterations. And I have a weekly veg box.

Some of my main food sources are:

Hodmedods

Riverfords

The Tinned Fish Company

Substitutes doesn't mean from the freezer aisle, it means making your own meat replacement if you want one. When cooking for the family I tend to go more family style and separate parts so we can all eat together. Other times I create a suitable substitute, other times I just eat what's veggie in the meal. I rarely eat anything like Quorn or highly processed veggie crap. Usually only when eating out for ease and that's once in a blue moon.

We're quite basic at the moment - we do a veg box so a lot of our meals are based around that.

Some frequent meals in our house are the BBC good food simple mushroom curry (honestly - try it), pasta puttanesca with anchovy, baked salmon with rice, cauliflower cheese, frittata, butternut squash and coconut curry, a baked orzo dish with cod loin also from BBC good food, pasta with roasted veg sauce, chana dahl, egg and lentil salad, egg fried rice, stir fry with cashews.

We have a huge spice rack.

I would be pescatarian if I could afford it !! As it is I only eat chicken and fish - I love fish, be it tinned sardines, tuna, prawns, breaded, battered, fish fingers, taramasalata, anchovies, whitebait etc !!

I'm not pescetarian myself, but DS has been for about 12 years. He's also fussy!

Breakfast- cereal, toast or crumpets.

Lunch- sandwich or wrap with tuna mayo, egg mayo or quorn ham/chicken.

Dinner- could be anything from veggie sausages and mash, veggie pie, kedgeree, fish pie, tofu korma.
If we have a roast he'd have quorn roast or Linda McCartney pulled pork burgers (not in a bun) or salmon parcels/salmon en croute.

Basically whatever the meat eaters have but with fish or meat substitute instead. Today he had tuna pasta. There is also salad and fruit and veg involved in his meals!

I wouldvconsider myself pescatarian as I don't eat meat ever but do eat fish. I only have fish around twice a week and the rest of the time I eat vegetarian meals some of which would be unintentionally vegan.

I see it as a mainly vegetarian diet. I just sometimes eat fish for extra protein or vitamins, or if options are really limited.

I'll cook salmon stir fry, or with pasta, for example. Maybe a tuna sandwich in a cafe, if there's not much else.

@Eggybreadwithnuts do you eat meat for every meal of the day? Probably not, so carry on pretty much as you are.

I was vegetarian for many years and enjoy my Sunday roast with the usual, plus extra Yorkshire and cauli cheese.

It depends on your reasoning for wanting to be pescetarian I guess. Unless it's purely for health reasons then just cut down / cut out your meat intake. Enjoy a well reared bird on a Sunday. Unless you are going to only eat fish with a conscience regarding them, their welfare and avoiding those over fished then I don't think a pescetarian has any upper hand over a conscientious cow eater tbh.

I like beans and chips.

I am pescatarian and definitely not eating fish every day, as pp’s have said it’s a mainly veggie diet

breakfasts are toast/porridge/pancakes/pastries

lunch is sandwiches (cheese usually) small pizza, noodles, veggie soup with bread, salad (maybe with tuna/salmon but often avocado/eggs/cheese)

Dinners are things like Macaroni Cheese, Lentil bolognese, fish cakes, tuna pasta, halloumi pasta bake, jacket potato, salmon steaks

I'm a pescatarian and became one when I realised I was intolerant of casein and soya and really needed a good source of protein in my diet. I can manage to get away with eating a small amount of milk products, but no cheese.

So today's menu was greek yoghurt for breakfast with some apricots, lunch was a tuna mayo sandwich on sourdough and a packet of crisps followed by half a punnet of strawberries and dinner was a baked potato with a vegetable slaw and salad, if I get snackish later I'll polish off those strawberries.

I love smoked salmon, but I don't love the price right now so I tend to buy frozen fillets of salmon and haddock from the supermarket which are cheaper and make do. I also eat other tinned fish which is still not too expensive. I don't eat fish every day as there are still many vegetarian options I can eat. I don't eat pretend meat products, I'm not quite sure why anyone would and besides, most of them have soya in them.

I'm not pescatarian, though I could be quite happily if it wasn't for DH and his love of meat. As it is, I have avocado with prawns for breakfast most days - and a small dash of Heinz Saucy Sauce (like Marie Rose, really). Lunch could be tinned sardines on toast, or a tinned tuna or salmon mayo sandwich, with salad veg.

Now and then I make Delia's Shallow-fried Fish, using whatever white fish I have to hand. Salmon and broccoli pasta is another favourite, then there's smoked salmon and scrambled eggs on toast, or baked salmon with a mustard and honey glaze. Homemade fish fingers are easy; just dip white fish gougons into flour, then egg, and finally breadcrumbs, and bake in the oven until done. Kedgereee using smoked haddock, cod or coley is good, too.

Salade Niçoise is a favourite, if I ever get my hands on fresh tuna, though I also like fresh tuna steaks, just seared until done on the outside and still pink in the middle.

Depending on the fish I have (I buy in bulk from an online fishmonger), I might have pan-fried lemon or black sole, or sea bass, or (if on a budget) whiting, just cooked in a little butter with lemon squeezed over. Also plaice the same way!

Fish pie is another option, or fish poached in milk with Parmesan. Don't forget the various fish patés available - nice for a snack on crackers or toast. Then there's fish cakes, or Thai-style crab cakes. Fish is so versatile. Hope that helps a bit :)

Tinned fish is great. I'm not a pescatarian but I eat either half a can of sardines or mackerel every day with the rest of my veggie breakfast.

I only eat fish for protein, I was vegan but suffering with blood sugar crashes. I only really eat tuna for lunch and dont eat other fish. I dont want to eat it at all but it helps me, the rest of the time I eat tofu, vegan sausages, potatoes, veg and salad. I can't eat beans or lentils as I have IBS. Occasionally I have PB. I have soya yoghurt sometimes and almond milk in tea/with oats etc. I also use almond milk in cooking. I don't really eat whole nuts or nut based things Beyond PB. I take vitamin b12, a multi vitamin, calcium, vitamin D and iron daily.

I'm pescetarian but I eat a mostly vegetarian diet with maybe fish a couple of times a week. So fish meals could be:

Tinned tuna for tuna sandwhich.
Smoked salmon with cream cheese
Steamed or air fried salmon with either pasta or rice.
Spaghetti puttanesca

I don't have a huge repertoire of fish recipes, and other times I will eat:
Eggs - boiled, fried or scrambled with bread/toast
Cheese on toast
Pesto and pasta
Jacket potato with cottage cheese for lunch.

This week's evening meals have been:
Tofu Thai green curry
Homemade pizzas- Mediterranean vegetables on one and florentine for the other
A "massive mumsnet salad" dh did yesterday
Tapas style meal today - aubergine and bean stew, fried halloumi, patatas bravas and other salad bits.