how many times a week does your evening meal contain meat? - Page 2

[Alyantavid]

Not to preach, JMO that ANY reduction in animal-based foods has a positive effect on individual health and the planet. JME thought I'd represent the veg side since you've gotten a lot of meaty comments, lol.

I do believe that even the USFDA has recommended that even omnis limit meat consumption to a few times a week---don't have a source, just remember reading it and being blown away that the USFDA actually said that about the Standard American Diet.

Not everyone does well on a meatless diet. And I second the recommenations for less meat if the only option is grocery store/restaurant meat. I'll keep my grass fed beef and game though.

[EdnaMarie]

We eat meat 3-4x / week, but it's not always for dinner. That's when DH is here. When it's just us ladies, 3x / week, but that's a whole fillet or steak. With DH we eat smaller portions more often because for him it's symbolic... like you need meat each day.

[emaye_to_2]

Our family only eats fish. We have fish about one time per week.

[Chinese Pistache]

Since we discovered that one of our children is allergic to legumes, we've been having meat every night. We also had seed, dairy and soy allergies, so there's really no other choice. But man, I miss my beans.

[craft_media_hero]

Originally Posted by Lillitu

frankly, i have read so many health issues in the vegan threads, that i wonder if it really is healthier (i know i know, many will not agree and be angry, but please- no flaming!).

ovo-lacto vegetarianism, sure. that seems to work for a human body. but all the thrush, B deficiencies, and the list of problems that seem to go hand-in-hand with veganism worry me. as a holistic person, i see these symptoms and maladies as the body crying out for better nutrition.

I never had any health issues as a vegan. Nope, fit as a fiddle! BUT I always drank a ton of soy milk (and I don't follow the soy is bad thing; I just don't believe it, I think it's a wonderful gift from the planet) which supplements the b12/protein.

I am lacto-ovo now for convenience and coz my family LOVES eggs and cheese. Left to my own devices, I definitely drift into the vegan/raw spectrum. I just feel like I thrive that way! L/O is so much easier when planning for a family with varying needs/tastes tho.

I understand that different people have different dietary needs, though, and so I don't flame meat-eaters (okay, that one time when DP ordered veal. I just could not NOT say something . . . .)

BUT, I don't think that there's anything inherently unhealthy with a well-planned vegan diet. That's the key, with veganism, you really have to be VERY mindful (it can be a PITA), and for some veg folk, that's just not possible---this is usually when symptoms of ill health start to show.

Not to hijack this into a meat vs. veg thread, that's not productive for anyone. There are plenty more healthy vegans than sad anemic ones, tho, IME

[mistymama]

Dh & Ds - almost every night.

Me? Around 3-4x a week. I plan most of our meals so that dh and ds can have meat added, and i can leave it off. I just prefer my meals without meat.

[craft_media_hero]

Originally Posted by Chinese Pistache

Since we discovered that one of our children is allergic to legumes, we've been having meat every night. We also had seed, dairy and soy allergies, so there's really no other choice. But man, I miss my beans.

Geez, that would be hard. My sympathies! You'll have to get yourself a nice fat black bean burrito as a treat when out and about sometime!

[Learning_Mum]

If fish and eggs count as meat then probably 2 - 3 times a week. In not, then never.

I don't really like meat (just doesn't agree with me) so we eat alot of beans, chickpeas, lentils etc.

ETA: I should probably add that we're having sausages tonight though! . DH loves them so I thought it would be a nice treat.

[cristeen]

Originally Posted by craft_media_hero

Not to preach, JMO that ANY reduction in animal-based foods has a positive effect on individual health and the planet.

No, it doesn't always. I was veg and vegan for years, and did a LOT of damage to my body - my body cannot function on high levels of grains and soy, period. And eating a grain free, soy free vegan diet provides it's own level of malnutrition.

Originally Posted by Alyantavid

Not everyone does well on a meatless diet. And I second the recommenations for less meat if the only option is grocery store/restaurant meat. I'll keep my grass fed beef and game though.

: This is one of the main reasons why I limit my meat consumption to locally raised, pastured meat. If I were stuck with grocery store meat - then sure, a veg diet is just as "healthy" for me, which is to say it's not.

Originally Posted by craft_media_hero

I never had any health issues as a vegan. Nope, fit as a fiddle! BUT I always drank a ton of soy milk (and I don't follow the soy is bad thing; I just don't believe it, I think it's a wonderful gift from the planet) which supplements the b12/protein.

Well, that's great for you. But like I said above, some of us can't function on soy at all. I did a LOT of damage to my body with the amount of soy I ingested in the years I was a veg*n, and I wasn't even eating it every day. It's taken me YEARS to even start repairing the damage, and some of it is going to take even more years.

[Neuromancer]

We have three to five meatless evening meals per week if we don't go out to eat. If we're eating in a restaurant, the meal usually includes some sort of meat for one or both of us. I've been trying to eat less meat than the average American since high school, though I've never been a vegetarian. We've been eating a lot less meat since our CSA vegetable delivery started 4 weeks ago, and my husband commented the other day that he's enjoying eating more meat-free meals.

[zinemama]

We eat meat (chicken is the only type we get) maybe once a week, more like once every couple of weeks. But we eat lots of other stuff (i.e. we're not vegans).

[Princess ConsuelaB]

2-4 times a week, poultry mainly, occasional fish, red meat maybe once a month or less and pork never. We don't eat meat at any other meal really(or if we do then dinner is meatless) and I'm not counting eggs.

I could do with way less and feel better, but Dh needs it more so it's a compromise.

[Magelet]

I'd say we have meat (beef, lamb, goat, chickenor fish rarely, but a flesh protein) 4 or 5 times a week for dinner. (leftovers occasionally for lunch, as a very rare treat for breakfast). We have some animal protein with every dinner though, little bits of meat/chicken, eggs, or at the very least stock (more often, meat/chicken or eggs). We also drink grassfed cream for dessert almost every day. Our beef is grassfed, pastured, and local, our chickens the best we can afford (usually rosies....), and the eggs pastured and local. We also eat a LOT of animal fat in our meals, butter, chicken fat, turkey fat, beef fat, fat from the meat itself, eggs, cream, whole milk....

I guess some folks might do well on vegetarian or vegan food. DP doesn't do well at all, and me? If I don't get enough protein and fairly frequent red meat, I start daydreaming about going vampiric on a deer or cow. literally. well, or maybe a bit more like a lion. a masai eating style lion? basically a vampire who likes the meat after it's finished its treat. highly disturbing. way easier to eat meat and prevent the protein/iron deficiency scary cravings.

[Chinese Pistache]

Originally Posted by craft_media_hero

Geez, that would be hard. My sympathies! You'll have to get yourself a nice fat black bean burrito as a treat when out and about sometime!

Well, I'm nursing so I won't be able to do that for a while. But you better believe I will when ds weans!

[neptunemama]

We have fish 3-4x's per week. My girls are veggies, and dh and I eat fish. I could easily be almost all veggie and eat fish 1-2x/mth but dh craves it so we have it more often.

[velochic]

Probably 5 - 6 dinners per week. Most lunches are leftovers, so even for lunch that many times. Even things like our bean dishes are flavored with at least a small amount of meat. Dh is diabetic, so we have pasta occasionally and it is often meatless. I make a lot of Indian dishes that are vegetarian, too. Some weeks it might be 2 or 3 times and some weeks all 7 nights, but we eat meat a lot.

I do get my meat locally and in bulk (by the side or animal).

[bekkie]

we have some meat with almost every dinner - normally chicken or turkey (anything requiring ground beef we replace with ground turkey) We used to eat a lot of fish but lately the smell makes me sick and we have the odd BBQ hamburger or small steak on the weekends

for breakfast I have yogurt and fruit and lunch for me has just been veggies and home-made dip the past few weeks- so by dinner time I neeeeed some meat!!

[tbone_kneegrabber]

none we're lacto-ovo (3 of us) and vegans (3 of us) and one meat eater, but not in the house. Dp can NOT eat meat, he gets IBS flare up's if he does.

[Storm Bride]

Every night. Some nights, it's fish, but only about once every 7-10 days. We eat a lot of chicken. We rarely eat meat at our other meals.

[Chicky2]

Almost every night, almost every lunch. Rarely breakfast, but that's because I'm just not up for cooking a bunch in the mornings. Unless we're eating leftover supper for breakfast, that is.

We obtain most all of our meats thru wild sources, or raise it ourselves, though. We raise rabbits, chickens, and guineas, and now goats. My mom raises goats, and her husband traps feral pigs. We fish, and get shrimp practically around the corner from our house. Most of our meats are free, minus a bit of gas to go to my mom's to butcher pigs and goats and fish, and minus the feed we feed our rabbits and chickens, although we mostly let our chickens free range. Can't keep the guineas from free ranging, lol.