How often do you eat meat and fish?

[Lookingforwardtothesummer]

I really reduced my meat consumption a few years ago, was having fish maybe twice a week. Meat just once or twice a year.

Over the last year however, I've started eating more meat as part of plan to try to raise ferritin which is always low.

I feel like I notice more energy the day after I've had red meat. I'd say I have it once a week now, more when I am eating out a lot as DP and I have had to travel quite a bit recently and ate out a lot then.

This weekend I had salmon on Saturday and steak on Sunday and I honestly feel like it's boosted my energy! They are very expensive though and we will have veggie meals now for the next few nights, but will probably eat out again as away later this week.

In general, trying to reduce consumption of meat for environmental reasons is a good thing I know, so I do feel a little guilty that now I'm adding more meat to my diet, it's like I'm going backwards

How much meat do you eat regularly? Do you feel better including it in your diet?

Every day and twice a day when I can

Yes, I’ll have your share

Chicken piccata looks great 😃

@mackthepony it is and very quick and easy

People can eat what they want but I do not believe being veggie or vegan leads to nutrition depletion, if you know how to cook balanced meals. Admittedly most people do not.

@JaneFondue I agree and like you could be vegan or vegetarian if I wanted. I've eaten mostly fish this week but a few weeks ago I ate mostly vegetarian because I like cooking that those were the things I wanted to cook for us. Some days would have been vegan but I prefer dairy yoghurt to nut milks and have no objection to animal products.

I learned to cook at school in the mid-Seventies and had proper tuition in things like amino acids, complete and incomplete protein etc. Actually, my mum taught me to cook but she couldn't teach me those things.

For most of us Domestic Science was a practical and enjoyable class like art, needlework, woodwork and metalwork but at my school they were treated as serious subjects, like PE, you could take to O and A level if you wanted to make a career of them. I chose a more academic path but there was no suggestion at my school that the more practical side was an inferior option.

I don't understand people saying they feel more energised after eating meat and claiming humans need it and going on about their ferritin levels. It might make them feel better but it's not true. It's easier to fulfil most of your nutritional needs if you eat animal protein but you can do it on a vegetarian or vegan diet with no trouble if you just think about it a bit.

If you like eating meat and fish, that's fine. I do and ignore the few fanatics on this thread who goad about eating dead animal flesh. But I think the people who taunt about eating a big juicy steak are equally goady and those like the OP who go on about ferritin and their energy levels are deluded and don't know as much about nutrition as they think they do.

We did Pottery too. How many state schools these days have a pottery class you can take to A level with a view to going to art school or straight into industry?

The average life expectancy for women in the UK is nearly 90. I don't know what their ferritin levels were. Are you doing all right today @Lookingforwardtothesummer and are you looking forward to the summer?