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?

About 2-3 times on an average week - trying to reduce but fussy kids make it a bit of a challenge.

@AbsentmindedWoman

Interesting, thank you. Quite a wide range of responses.

I really enjoy meat, but also really keen on veggie and vegan dishes - there's not much I don't like when it comes to eating

My iron has dipped even lower in the last year and I'm more tired, and suspect adding more portions of heme iron might help.

It may help, I'm not a nutritionist so I don't know.

However it's worth still keeping an eye on it as both my MIL and SIL were/are meat eaters and had awful problems with iron levels whilst I never have even with heavy periods etc.

I just mean there could be more to it, everyone is different though.

Two meals a day

Lunch tends to be chicken then red meat at weekends and sometimes in the week

Live beside a farm rearing cattle and as a rest have eliminated all meat from my diet. Feel fine - not problem with iron levels either.

4-5 times a week.

Used to be 7. Have cut down as I get older. Not sure why really.

2-3 nights a week, probably?
This weeks menu plan has three fish dishes, two veggie, two meat. I try to eat better welfare meat less often. I was veggie for a few years, but too hard with my fussy DC. The kids will also have meat in their packed lunches, but mine are always fish or veggie.

6/7 days. The other day is salmon or another oily fish.

Not for several decades. When tested iron levels have never been a problem for me.

Most days.

Although about a year ago I made a point to limit my beef and pork consumption for animal welfare reasons.

Not since 1987

Once or twice a week usually. I'm not a massive fan of meat and never have been.

Roughly 4-5 days a week. We eat less meat than before. Change in tastes and affordability.

I don’t, well I eat fish twice a month. Can’t understand people eating meat everyday.

I have been vegetarian since I was a teenager. My iron is usually normal but on the low side of normal. I often feel tired. I have been feeling better since taking a multi vitamin with iron.

Like a few others never, I’ve been vegetarian since birth

Veggie here, so never. Feel miles better for it. I gave it up years ago for morel reasons but as a bonus it seemed to completely cure my IBS.

For dinners, usually five times out of seven. One fish dinner per week and one vegetarian.

We went vegetarian when my eldest reacted with absolute horror and revulsion to the idea that we eat baby lambs.

Now we're all basically vegan but generally don't interrogate anyone who offers us a biscuit about the ingredients in it.

We eat eggs when our friends who keep rescue chickens need to offload some.

Never, last ate it in 1989.

Once a week. We mostly have vegetarian meals.
I have never been iron deficient, not even after 3 full term pregnancies in which I only started taking a multivitamin after 20 weeks.
Iron deficiency can be caused by a lack of vitamin A which is essential for the absorption of iron, I would get that checked out. Increasing your iron intake if your body cannot efficiently absorb it is not going to help.

More than I'd like but recently had to take some stuff out of my diet (to help with condition I'm under investigation for). My life is stressful enough to worry about getting enough vitamins etc, and too much veggie alternatives, legumes, etc make my symptoms worse.
For years though, we've only had stuff from local farm shop. I don't eat a lot of meat so for eg, 200g of mince does enough for us when it's added with carrots, celery, onion in Bolognese.

Right now , I'm probably averaging meat 3-4 times a week.

Virtually every day and frequently something which I have harvested myself - eg rabbit, venison, woodpigeon - sustainable, about as free range and organic as you can get, healthy and delicious. No apologies for doing so either. My ethics, my morals, my choice.

5 times a week. I try to do 2 veggie meals a day, and usually a veggie breakfast and lunch, unless we have leftovers for lunch and they have meat in. Probably 70% chicken, 20% pork / pig in various forms and 10% beef. Other meats are rare.

Me, never.
Husband has it once or twice a week.
Kids every day, lunch and dinner.

Usually every day