Healthily eating more protein without eating tons of meat

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Any tips? I'm not veggie, but I don't want to end up eating a lot of meat for all the combined cost/health/environmental reasons. Wondering about buying some protein powder, but what do I put it in?

Typical food at present:
Breakfast: berries with a little low sugar granola and full fat Greek yogurt, or no added sugar muesli with soya milk
Lunch: might be a grain salad if I'm at work, or scrambled egg with fruit and wholemeal toast
Dinner: fishcakes, spag bol, spicy salmon stir fry, pasta, aubergine curry, etc.

Lots of eggs. Cottage cheese. I saw this pancake recipe involving cottage cheese recently. Haven't tried it yet but it got a lot of positive comments.

Protein shakes are a really useful way to increase your uptake. Mine has 24g protein per scoop which I mix with oat milk. I tend to have this for breakfast or post workout, a couple of eggs for lunch then a meal with chicken or fish in the evening.
I wouldn’t be able to eat enough protein without the powder.

Watching with interest as I’d like to know too.

I add wilted spinach to lots of things like scrambled eggs for a bit of extra protein

Babybels are good for the calories - although very bland. Nuts are good.
I mix protein powder into Yogurt or make a smoothie with it.
Quorn and tofu are good protein sources too.

Longley Farm cottage cheese is amazing stuff. I hate the usual watery cottage cheese from the supermarkets but this one is truly delicious.

Oh and red Lentil Pasta - tesco sell it. Its higher protein than normal pasta

Quinoa is a good complete source of protein

Eggs, cheese and nuts. Be careful with protein shakes. Most are loaded with sugar or fake sugar, which is even worse than regular sugar imo.

Good advice. I wouldn’t personally but prepacked ones, I’d recommend making your own but it’s worth checking the ingredients for hidden sugar and how much protein there is in each scoop.
I use a Bulk Powders one, for every 30g there 24g of protein and no sugar

I get Wholefoods hemp protein powder, add to smoothies or anything really.

Lots of lentils, quinoa, cous cous, nuts.

Aldi do a really good high protein natural yogurt. I have that with fruit or on smoothies.

You could add protein powder to your Greek yogurt at breakfast. It’s already high in protein but it’s a quick boost.

I do snack on cheese and nuts when I can. I was inspecting the protein powder rack at Decathlon today but didn't come away inspired.

DH actually does our evening cooking 95% of the time, and I don't know how he'd feel about red lentil pasta, but he's just starting to try and regain fitness and muscle mass after some joint problems, so we'll see 😀

Oh and I make the basic egg and banana pancakes on a Sunday, although I do stabilise them with flour and then pour sugar on them. I'll try the cottage cheese ones.

I'm not veggie, but eat very little meat and no fish.

My advice would be to research how much protein you need at your age/stage of life, and exercise requirements. You might be suprised quite how high the protein requirements are for perimenopausal and menopausal women. There have been recent studies published on the protective effects of protein in relation to Osteoporosis. Thenwhen you have a figure in mind input what you are consuming into myfitnesspal as this gives good breakdown of macros. Then you can see what you need to increase by. It may be a lot!!

After doing this I realised the only realistic way of reaching my requirements was to supplement with protein powder. I use a combination of Whey isolate and Collagen powder, I also try to eat 2 or 3 eggs a day, plus greek yogart, cheese, seeds, grains etc.

I'm currently working on building up my muscles on a vegan diet (I'm lucky enough to have a PT to assist me with Macros etc).

I'm getting a lot of protein in my breakfast, I add in one scoop of vegan protein powder into my peanut butter and banana overnight oats along with 3tbsp of flaxseeds. Sometimes I mix it up by doing chocolate peanut butter overnights oats instead.

I'm also eat vegan meat alternatives, like that from meatlessfarm. I prefer the wheat protein based stuff.

Lentils and beans are a go too as well (18g a cup)

Nutritional yeast gets put into a lot of my savoury dishes too.

Currently I aim for 1.4g of protein per kg of body weight a day

It’s much derided as a slimming world staple, but quark is an excellent source of protein.

I have a portion most evenings with a spoonful of peanut butter stirred in (and sometimes Nutella too!) as a protein packed pudding.

Right, for now I will definitely look into some decent protein powder for shakes and also the cottage cheese pancakes. I have been thinking about meat substitute type foods as well, but they tend to be quite processed. I have some nice flavoured tofu in the fridge, although I suck at making it taste good if I buy it plain. I also like Quorn cocktail sausages a lot and my spag bol is usually made with Quorn mince.

Added protein yoghurts, I also add a scoop of protein powder to my smoothies. Eggs are pretty good too.

I've been trying this and failing quite miserably! It doesn't help that I'm quite dairy intolerant so the high protein yogurts and too much cottage cheese isn't an option for me. My goal is 127g of protein a day and I never hit it unless I eat chicken and tuna in the same day!
Morrisons do a high protein pasta which isn't as expensive as some of the pea/ lentil ones (although it's gone up in price the last couple of weeks!) groceries.morrisons.com/products/morrisons-high-protein-fusilli-pasta-477801011
Pulsin pea or soya protein is ok in the flavourless version to add to porridge or even soups for a bit of a boost.

Lidl do protein yogurts in a range of flavours - they have 25g of protein in them.

I use Elle McPherson’s Welleco brand of protein powder. It tastes delicious and not fake and powdery like other brands. Put a scoop of that into a smoothie for breakfast and that keeps me going til lunch.

Where do you buy this from? Thanks

My protein clear whey (I have rainbow candy) it's more like juice than milky
Aldi protein puddings, chocolate is my choice
Longley farm cottage cheese
Greek yoghurt
Eggs

You know I never heard of Quark! It's just cheese, right? It sounded processed to me from the name but looking at it, it's not. What else can you do with it?

I'm going to sound stupid here now, but do you just make up a protein shake from protein powder? I just got back from holiday where I worked out every day and made a real effort to eat plenty of protein - fish, chicken, eggs for breakfast every day - and I really did put on muscle in that time frame. It's harder when you don't have a comprehensive buffet open to you three times a day...

What do you do with all the egg yolks? Do you think it would work with whole eggs instead of egg whites?