How many times a week do you have meat?

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Obviously not talking about vegetarians here.
Im trying to cut down on the amount of meat we eat and as a result I’m having to really learn how to cook! I’m enjoying it - but DH is practically carnivorous so he’s already asking when the next meat meal will be coming.

im thinking of keeping meat to Friday, Saturday and Sunday - veggie rest of the week. Am I being mean to DH?

how many times a week do you eat meat?

At least 14, sometimes more.

I have tried other diets and they just did not work for my body given my complex medical issues.

Most days, occasionally have fish . We're beef farmers and have a homebred heifer in the freezer so lots of beef available.

No red meat. Only poultry 5 days a week. Vegetarian the other two days

Can't your DH just do some meat to go with the vege dish you do for the rest of you if he wants it? I'm vegan, DP eats meat, so tonight he's done a veg curry for us both plus some tandoori chicken for himself.

Every day currently as on the keto diet. Bloody expensive but worth it! Watching the pounds fall off DH and I

Every day. I would be miserable only eating meat 3 days a week.

Hardly ever! We are not vegetarian (we'll maybe have a meat/fish dish if we eat out, and no problem eating meat/fish if we go to friends or family for dinner), but I very rarely buy meat for home consumption. We eat vegetarian meals mostly, sometimes fish. I'll cook a full meat roast dinner maybe 2 or 3 times per year.

It's not about health. It's partly about animal welfare, but mostly it's for ecological reasons. Eating meat on a regular basis is just not sustainable on a wide scale.

Every day. I count fish as meat. Had a lovely mackerel pasta salad this evening...was honestly yummy. We have either fish or chicken with occasional pork every day.

It really varies here. Yesterday no meat, today lunch was an avocado and bacon toasted sandwich, and dinner was lemon chicken. Tomorrow’s dinner is a halloumi and chickpea thing, no idea on lunch yet.

I could happily not bother with meat, DP is more of a fan - we tend not to have much red meat at home but he would eat a steak or burger out. I eat fish and he doesn’t, so again, I get that if we’re out. We eat mainly chicken if we’re having meat at home.

Most days really, meat or fish is always on offer.
Dh does the cooking so I very gratefully eat what I’m served!
If I do cook (rare cos I hate it and he loves it) it’s vegetarian for the main part but Dh and ds are big meat eaters so I’ll cook them something meat/fish to go alongside it. I wouldn’t make them go without just because I didn’t want it. Same as meat/fish is always served for anyone who wants it - I don’t always eat it.

I'm Veggie, DH and DS2 aren't but really don't care either way. I cook it for them if requested..maybe once every 3 months if that! We have a takeway every few weeks so they usually order dead animal then😆

Pretty much every meal. With the exception of having saying scrambled eggs on toast.

No intention to cut down over here!

I've been trying to eat more recently, for the protein. We now have two or three meat meals a week and one fish. I really don't like the taste or texture of meat.

I'm not a huge meat fan.. I'm trying to think of the meat I've had in the last week and all I can think of is a bacon sandwich! I'll occasionally have a a ham or tuna sandwich, very occasionally something made with mince or beef, or a mcdonalds burger every few months. DH eats loads!

Twice a day, although some are fish of course. I don’t often have a meal without meat or fish, and wouldn’t particularly want to regularly. I would be very upset being told I could only have meat three times a week. It’s certainly not necessary for health, why is it you’re cutting down so much?

Evening meals - meat 4 times, fish 2 times, one veggie meal.

I would be happy to cut meat down to maybe twice a week but I too have a carnivorous husband, and carnivorous children. This is the best I can manage. I never eat meat at breakfast, and only very rarely eat it at lunchtime though.

Most meals tbh, I'm dieting but upping my protein intake and low carbing which means a lot of meat. Sort of Keto lite.

Probably on average 3-5 meals (/15) per week. We have cereal for breakfast but maybe a bacon bap if we’re out. Lunches are pretty exclusively veggie. We incorporate a lot of veg into meat dishes - eg spaghetti bolognaise has 50:50 mushrooms or lentils alongside meat; and when we roast joint we will get a lot of meals from it over a few days including freezing portions (but would then skip the next week).

I have meat every day. Ham in my sandwich.

Once, probably. Twice if my son is here. Maybe an occasional slice of chorizo or some chicken for a picnic on a rare occasion.

Mostly fish and vegetarian stuff, including cheese, eggs, pulses, veggie pies and quiches, veg curries, etc.

I’m quite pleased about that - I hadn’t considered how much my diet had changed in recent years. I grew up very much in a meat and two veg household and my kids’ early childhood was a lot meatier than their later years.

Maybe twice a week and fish/seafood once. Depends on the week and who else we are feeding/if we are eating with friends - as we are not veggie friends often cook meat, when we would have done.

If you want to cut down on meat, maybe do it gradually? So start with one veggie meal a week, and once you’ve found meat free meals people genuinely enjoy you can work up from there.

I ended up going pescatarian because I was enjoying the veggie meals I cooked for vegetarian DD better than the meat based meals I made for me (at the time) and DS. DS still has meat or fish pretty much every night but he is very “fussy” (has ADHD, and sensory issues about certain foods).

When I say I’m pescatarian, I mainly eat a vegetarian diet. I mostly only eat fish if I’m out for dinner these days.

I will often eat meat if I go out though. Meat to me is largely an out of the house treat now.

that is how meat is generally consumed where my wider family lives (outside the UK). Home is all about really nutritious and tasty veg, fish and pulse-based dishes. Restaurants are for lamb, pork etc.

Never for breakfast or lunch.
Out of seven evening meals, perhaps 2-3 times; we'll make something like fish pie, chicken koftas or grilled chicken. We like plant based proteins so it feels quite frivolous to eat animals -it's not as if we really 'need' to nourish ourselves on their poor little bodies.

We've only got one meat evening meal planned this week, plus a couple of meals with fish. The odd packed lunch too.

On average we might have two or three meat meals, one fish, one beans/pulses, then other vegetarian dishes. We cut down a lot when my daughter went vegetarian and have stayed that way since she started eating meat again. I only really buy organic meat now, so it's easier on our pocket and better for us and the planet.