How often do you eat meat?

[AbsentmindedWoman]

I significantly reduced my meat consumption a couple of years ago, now having it about once a month. Planning to increase it again though, to once or twice a week, to boost heme iron.

How often do you eat meat? Have you ever reduced/ increased, and did you feel any different?

Every meal, unless it's just the most brief of snacks.

We go to an all-you-can-eat meat restaurant once or twice a week.

Once or twice a week. I generally prefer to cook and eat vegetarian meals, but I’m not vegetarian.

Maybe twice a week but some weeks none at all.
I don’t like big lumps of meat but a ham sarnie or chicken salad is ok.
It started after DD went veggie and to make things easier we all cut down and then I found I didn’t really miss it.
If I fancy meat I will have it but we are probably 90% vegetarian

Most days.

I’m married to a beef farmer though so would be rather hypocritical not to eat red meat.

Once every two or three weeks. Only ever a chicken, properly free range and from a local farm. I don’t make a fuss if I’m served meat but my preference is very much vegetarian.

Most days. Perhaps one day a week or so without depending what we fancy.

Tbh I have increased my meat intake as I am trying to lose weight. My body reacts well to higher protein/less carb diet.

I tried to go vegan a few years ago but it made me feel very unwell. I love the idea of vegan and vegetarian and still happy to have those types of meals.

Maybe once I have got to where I want to be I will try it again. How did you feel op when you cut down on meat?

Once/twice a month maybe. I reduced my intake to zero for a long time, found my asthma pretty much disappeared.

I go through fits and starts though, some times I’ll eat it pretty regularly, other times I’ll go 3-4 months without it or cheese.

Chicken about twice a week

Red meat about every 10 days but sometimes I get a craving for it and eat it two days in a row.

I changed my diet a few years ago, to no factory processed foods 98% of the time (in other words what I cook, eat & drink at home).
As part of this is buying organic meat from a local farm shop. To make it affordable, for a family of 4, we only have 1-2 meat dishes/ week.

The rest is veggie or even vegan (just because I like the recipe)
Sometimes we have fish but very rarely.

Feeling great on this diet and highly recommend it it.

I had chicken about 3 months ago. Before that it had been over a year.

Usually in about 4 or 5 meals a week - breakfast and lunch are mostly meat-free, but DH enjoys meat more than I do, so I cook it for dinner most days - and always a roast 'something' on one of the weekend days.

Every day, I try to limit to once a day and not have meat at lunch and diner. I don't like my kids to have a big meal in the evening.

Every day, as much as I enjoy baked or roast veg I wouldn't want it as a main diet.

Vegetarian since aged 13, now mostly vegan as vegan choices have got so good and easy to find. I do take a daily multivitamin and iron tablet though.

Every day. I don’t enjoy cooking and I find it much easier to pan fry a steak to eat with a salad or throw a chicken and some root vegetables in the oven to roast than to faff about with recipes and different types of lentil / pulse / vegetables concoction.

I did try to cut down meat and eat more vegetarian meals a couple of years ago but it made me bloated and windy. I thought that would pass once my body was used to it after a couple of weeks, but when I was still feeling awful after over a month I packed it in.

Most days. I don’t eat lunch so it’s just dinner, but the only veggie meal I can think of that I eat is macaroni cheese. It’s not always a lot of meat, tonight is pepperoni pizza, but it is virtually every day. I’m fine with that. I like meat and have no intention of cutting it down or giving it up.

Never. Have never eaten it and don't have any deficiencies, my iron levels have always been good.

Most days, although I am trying to incorporate more vegetarian meals into our diets, more for cost reasons than anything else.

Usually twice per day, a sandwich for lunch (usually corned beef or ham) and then meat for dinner. Obviously sometimes I feel like something different for lunch or have macaroni cheese for dinner so no meat then. I guess on average about 12 times per week.

Most days.

Twice a day most days. Pretty much everyone I know is the same.

3-4 days a week

Went vegan a few so never now. Before that it was once or twice a week.