Anyone else giving up meat for Lent?

[whataboutbob]

I've never done that one before and it will be the toughest. Previously I've given up chocolate and women's mags, so not too onerous! I am the main indeed just about sole cook at home. I will not impose it on the kids (I'd have revolution on my hands!). I'll still eat fish and if I'm honest chicken too (I know I know). Any tips on making it work?

No tips, but I'm doing this too, though DH cooks more often than I do and is an inveterate carnivore and an atheist, so I have said that I will not turn my nose up at a meal he has lovingly prepared even if it does have meat in, whilst he has agreed to doing less meat for a few weeks too. We differ on whether fish counts (he says it doesn't, I say it does - it's alive, after all!). So in practice I guess I'll just be reducing the amount of meat I eat quite substantially, rather than cutting it out altogether. I'm away for work reasons on my own for one week, though, so will cut it out completely then, and whenever I cook for myself.

I eat quite a lot of pasta anyway, and it's easy to make pasta sauces without meat. Had shepherd's pie (perhaps that should be 'gardener's pie'?) with lentils instead of meat last night and it was lovely.

Good luck WAB...