to not want to eat crap meat anymore?

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DH seems to think eating any type of meat is better than not eating meat.

I'm fed up of buying shit meat, because that's all we can afford, knowing how the animals have suffered.

I know we are on a budget but it would be managable to eat good meat if we just ate meat no more than three times a week.

He can't seem to understand good quality meat would taste better and says veg wouldn't fill him up

He says that Tesco meat is farm assured, think he just made that up.

AIBU to think we shouldn't eat meat every night?

We eat meat every night.

My OH has always done it, never been one for junk food - unlike me :)

Since I started, about 6 months ago, I've not had a cold, or felt run down.
We live quite close to a farmers shop and believe it or not, pay less then when we shop at Tesco. And its fresh!

I live in Reading and have yet to find a farm shop which is the same price as Tesco, let alone cheaper

How about cooking him some interesting veggie meals, using things like Quorn, or with lots of pulses in them, while not mentioning exactly what they are. Then after a week or two, point out that he's managed to enjoy several meals without any meat in them and can have a really tasty roast with the money you've saved, or chops or steak, or whatever you think would show him how tasty meat can be. He probably has no dea what nice filling meals are available without meat.

Yanbu, but unfortunately the figures rarely add up. I have yet to find a farm shop/box scheme here in oxfordshire where you can get quality meat for the same or less than the supermarket. We have two local butchers where I live, one is posh and pricey, the other does pretty good meat, but I have no idea about where it's from (am new to it and haven't plucked up courage to ask yet! ) I have found though, that when they have offers on, M&S meat - which is largely grass fed/outdoor bred/slower growing - compares favourably with Sainsburys/tesco's normal range of meat.

I only spend approx £30 per month on meat/poultry for our family of 2 adults, 2 children and 1 baby (not yet weaned). We therefore have approx 2-3 non-meat days per week. Usually I cook a roast of some sort on a sunday, and use the leftovers for another couple of meals during the week.

I'm with AMumInScotland, ditch the meat. If you know how much the animal has suffered, why eat it?

You'll have easily enough protein and iron in veggie meals. Much better for your heart too.

If he thinks veg won't fill him up, he's never had a Linda McCartney Country Pie!

Sorry, when I said "he", I meant your DH. I didn't mean to be rude!

get some quorn mince, and add an oxo cube to it, make it into shepherd pie/bolognese/chill con carne and serve it three times a week. i guarantee you he will not notice.

He would notice - he cooks the easy things like spag bols, chillis etc

You dont need meat every night to eat well. We have fish a couple of nights a week. A cheese and onion pie is so easy to make, and with beans and potatoes makes a filling substantial meal.

What the recipe for your cheese and onion pie squeaky?

I might be wrong, but I though that iron in veg is not so easily absorbable as in meat? So unless you eat lots and lots of veg it'll be rather hard to get all the iron you need.

We eat meat about 5 times a week. When I can afford it it's organic, when I can't it's not.

The problem with the cheap meat is all the antibiotics, hormones and other crap they feed them, so it's not necessarily that healthy for you.

Oh I agree, dh is a brilliant shopper but sometimes gets vile things - a while ago he bought a job lot of 'chicken fillets' which are horrible horrible horrible - I've managed to chuck some away but there's still some left

We buy one chicken which does a roast then leftovers for a curry or risotto. One packet of mince does a spag. and then a lasagna or a chilli and then enchiladas.

So I do stretch it.

It's the in between days that I struggle with. We have frozen wild salmon fillets once a week. So it leaves two days a week would be cheaper if we could be meat free.

To absorb iron you need vitamin C - all veg is full of vitamin C so that works pretty well.

If you're worried, take an iron tablet. I think many omnivorous women are actually iron-deficient anyway (because it's mostly in red meat which should be avoided for health). Keep on top of your folic acid, B-12 and D as well (btw, pretty much everyone is deficient in vitamin D - there's not enough sun for even the fairest-skinned to make it in winter, dark-skinned people can't make it here even in summer and most people don't eat enough. It's important for your bones, along with calcium, and for your mood.)

Veg is filling as long as there's fat. That's why most people don't consider salads filling, but a big plate of oily roasted veg fills anyone up. :)

I don't eat animal products at all, but I'm addicted to the OS board on moneysavingexpert - lots of people there eat in the old-fashioned way of buying a chicken for a sunday roast, using the spare meat for stews and the carcass for soup. That can't cost a lot per meal, even if you buy the very best chicken you can! :)

Oh, crossposted, seems you know how to stretch a chicken already! I have no more meat tips as I don't eat it.

No, wait, I do! Add stuff to your mince - either veggie mince, lentils or oats. And add things you don't mind showing up like more onions. That way you can get even more meals from it, and it's healthier, too :)

We eat meat about 3 times a week too. The other days we eat pasta, spinach lasagne, pulses.

If veg wouldn't fill your dh, a curry with potatoes, cauliflower, chickpeas i'm sure it would.

Whats the OS board, I feel like I may fit right in there

Here's the link! It is my spiritual home (apart from AIBU but I try to repress that side of me, lol)

I have recently persuaded DH to eat less meat of higher welfare - two recipes on the BBC Good Food site did it. Their lentil shepards pie and black bean chilli.
www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/4382/veggie-shepherds-pie-with-sweet-potato-mash

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/236609/black-bean-chilli

I don't like to buy cheap meat either. And personally I think he will notice if you dish him up quorn and lentils instead of meat!!!

We do the big joint once a week and then leftovers thing.

I can understand the woe at not having meat in an evening meal but personally I find a little can go a long way (it's probably psychological!). So things like omelette with mainly cheese and mushroom and a little bit of ham make me feel like I've eaten "properly". Or a stir fry with just a little left-over meat in it. A stew which is mainly big chunky veg but with a little bit of meat. So sort of cutting right back rather than each meal having to have a chunk of flesh as the main component - steak, chops, roast, you know that stuff.

Before everyone jumps on me I am being very honest here as I thought it might help the OP - I know it's silly and childish to feel like you have to have meat with your evening meal but I can't help it. I feel like I've been done out of something if there isn't a little bit somewhere. Ridiculous I know but there you have it.

my cheese and onion pie is my mums old recipe.

chop an onion quite finely, gently soften it in a bit of butter, roll shortcrust pastry out as a base onto a large dish/pie plate, put the onion in, add a lot of grated cheese, pastry on the top, and cook in the oven for about half an hour at a medium heat.. lovely with chips and beans and nice cold too...

rinabean I have only glanced at that link but I already love you for introducing me to it