Eating less meat or maybe none
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Anonymous
| Has anyone made e transition from being a meat eater to not being a meat eater. I love meat, But would like to try a healthier more plant based approach. Has anyone BTDT? |
Anonymous
| Yes. What is your specific question? For me, I wanted to do whole foods, so I stayed away from the processed "fake meats". I didn't do a complete cold turkey but gradually lessen my consumption of meat 1 meal at a time. I'm not 100% yet because I haven't been able to get my DD off meat and sometimes I do nibble on the food that I cook for her. |
Anonymous
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Yes, I cook meat only one or two times per week. The rest of the time we eat vegetarian. I don't know exactly "how" I've done it....this is just what I enjoy and since I'm the cook for my family, it's what they get. We eat a lot of vegetarian pasta dishes, and dishes with legumes such as lentil curry, black bean tacos, falafel patties, chickpeas topped with an egg, etc.
I get a lot of great vegetarian cooking ideas on Pinterest. You can search the ingredients you have or want to incorporate, or you can just search for vegetarian dinner ideas. Also, any dish you enjoy that has meat can usually be made vegetarian with some small switches. I made a crockpot chicken curry vegetarian by using a head of chopped cauliflower instead of the chicken. It tasted the same. Good luck! |
Anonymous
| If you are eating high quality meat as part of an overall whole foods diet, that is healthier than just eating plant-based. |
Anonymous
Source? |
Anonymous
| Start with meatless mondays. Make lots of soups. There are tons of recipes for great, healthy meatless soups. When you do use meat, never use a whole cut. No chicken breasts. Cut it into lots of little pieces and throw it in a stir fry. No steaks; cut into pieces and make a stroghanoff with lots of extra vegetables. Just some thoughts. |
Anonymous
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The problem with going meatless is that it is difficult to maintain when one eats out - especially when one travels. Salads get tedious after a while.
So I am substantially meatless but not fastidious about it. When we eat out I fallback on seafood - usually fish. |
Anonymous
Lots of places have a veggie burger option. We started by doing vegan before 6, but we are fairly flexible. Sometime we eat more meat, sometimes less. It hasn't been hard, home or away |
Anonymous
| Veggie "burgers" and other highly-processed foods containing tons of GMO soy and additives are REALLY bad for you. Much worse than meat. |
Anonymous
Not if they are made in house. I make them at home and I know several restaurants that make them too. No soy |
Anonymous
Which additives in veggie burgers should I be avoiding? |
Anonymous
| I was just reading in national geographic (the issue about how people don't believe science anymore...) that GMO foods are not unsafe. |
Anonymous
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Cook traditional foods. Most cultures couldn't afford lots of meat and so traditional meals don't feature meat heavily (unless it's a festive food for special occasions).
Think Asian food, which often only uses a little meat or none at all (ma po tofu, kenchinjiru, cahn chua, etc), Italian food (most sauces only have a little meat for flavoring, caponata, eggplant parm, panzanella), Greek food (spinach pie, bean soups, orzo salads), Indian food, etc. And soups -- agree with PP that there are so many meatless or low-meat soups/stews. |
Anonymous
| I am Christian orthodox, and I think this diet can be a good transition for you. Generally, we don't eat meat or dairy on Wednesdays and Fridays, and we eat fish on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. That will leave you with only 3 days a week to eat meat. The, we follow lent (no meat, dairy or animal products) 4 times a year (40 days Easter lent, two short Lents during the summer and another long lent before Christmas). It is very balanced. |
Anonymous
| GMO soy is not bad for you at all. Where do people get this? |