Non-Vegetarians~How many meals per week do you eat meat?

[liamsaunt]

I would say I eat meat three-four times a week. I don't eat red meat, though I usually cook red meat once a week -10 days for my huband, who eats everything. I cook chicken often but for me a good serving size is 2 ounces. My husband eats a lot more than that! I was a vegetarian for over ten years and still have textural and flavor issues with meat (other than bacon--I LOVE bacon!). On the other hand I love fish, though again in small amounts, and it has to be super fresh. I could eat an entire head of broccoli though...or an entire loaf of bread!

 

[mrodgers]

I wouldn't even know what to eat if I didn't eat meat for every meal (except breakfast, I eat a bowl of cereal because I need the 5 minutes it takes for my eyes to "wake up" so I can put my contacts in.)

Every meal is meat. If it's spaghetti, there is meat in the sauce. If it's pizza, I would prefer mushrooms, but my daughter since having it in school likes pepperoni and the other daughter and mom eats it plain cheese, I eat pepperoni as well (ordered half pepperoni and half plain.)

I have 3/4 of a cow in my freezer, though it will last a looooong time because we try not to eat beef all the time (tough when it's your own raised cow though.)

Seriously, what could you eat as a meal without eating meat? How do vegetarians do it? Vegetables is a side dish to meat. Potatoes are a side dish to meat. Everything edible is a side dish to meat. BBQ chicken, marinated chicken, chicken fatitas, roast, hamburgers, pork chops, steak, steak, and more steak (OMG! Home raised steaks are out of this world with flavor! Even ordering a side of beef from the butcher can't compare.) We have pork roasts, hot sausage in spaghetti if we splurge and don't just grab one of the 200 lb. of ground meat in the freezer. Chili, has to have meat in it.

Salad and vegetables are not a meal. I'd be hungry and looking for something to eat 3 minutes after finishing dinner if I didn't eat meat.

Lunch is also meat, the leftovers of the above dinner meal ramblings.

So, the answer is 14. No more and no less. Meat for dinner every night and the leftover meat for lunch the next day.

Scrap all that. If I have a good crop of corn in the hot August days, I will make a meal of nothing but yanking half a dozen ears off the stalk and tossing them right on the grill.

 

[OK!]

Up until last month, I might eat meat for 7 meals a week or so. I'm trying to step it up a bit though, as training for the WDW Marathon has had me feeling pretty run down and tired most of the time. The extra protein does seem to be helping somewhat.

 

[RadioNate]

I'm going with 10-12 per week. That includes leftovers for lunch as a separate meal.

We do at least 1 fish a week. I do have meat with breakfast IF we go out, which is 1-2x a month tops.

I eat a lot of soups for lunch which have at least small amounts of meat. I'm actually not a huge meat eater. I have really small portions but I couldn't go meatless.

 

[BillSears]

99% of my meals have meat in them. Even my salads usually have meat. I rarely eat breakfast but when I do it almost always has meat or eggs. Snacks are usually meat free.

 

[disykat]

Most dinners have meat - I'd say 5 times a week. (We rarely do vegetarian, but we eat fish at least 2 times a week.) Then I have leftovers, lunchmeat, or a salad or frozen meal with chicken in it quite often for lunch, so I'd say at least 10 times a week.

I don't consider myself a big meat eater because I don't like big hunks of meat. However, most soups, salads, casseroles, etc. that I eat have meat in them.

 

[LuluLovesDisney]

I'm going with 10-12 per week. That includes leftovers for lunch as a separate meal.

We do at least 1 fish a week. I do have meat with breakfast IF we go out, which is 1-2x a month tops.

I eat a lot of soups for lunch which have at least small amounts of meat. I'm actually not a huge meat eater. I have really small portions but I couldn't go meatless.

I agree with this.

Breakfast is almost always meat free. Once in awhile, if we go out to breakfast or if I make omelets, we might have meat. So 0-1 there.

Lunch is usually soup or a salad or a Lean Cuisine or leftovers. I would say that 3-5 of those meals contain meat. It is hard to say, because two cubes of chicken in my soup isn't really a full meat serving.

Dinner is fish/seafood at least once or twice a week and pizza once a week, usually. So I would say 4-5 of those meals contain meat.

Total: Somewhere between 7 and 11 meals with meat a week.

 

[Tinker'n'Fun]

This last week for me was 5, but for DH 9. He takes dinner leftovers for lunch. Now that I think about it, we rarely have breakfast meats anymore. I think if you asked me this a few years ago, it would have been much much higher.

 

[Planogirl]

I would say that I eat some meat 10 or 12 times a week but very little in each meal. I often eat just a small amount of meat with vegetables.

 

[disfan07]

On a normal week, probably at least 7-10 times per week.

Every dinner normally, sometimes lunch (there are days I just dont have time for lunch) and never with breakfast.

I do eat fish, veggie pizza, veggie lasagna, etc. sometimes but meat is one of the few ways I get my protein.

I can't eat nuts or eggs and I dont particularly like beans.

I do meals that can last 3 days because I am a college student so I like to make someting Sunday night and be able to eat it mon, tues and wed because I dont have time to cook again until thursday night. I eat a lot of:

 

[aprilgail2]

We don't eat red meat but we eat chicken- probably have some type of chicken 5 times a week for dinner- never meat for lunch and never meat for breakfast! Sometimes dinner is just 3 or 4 veggies and a potato....sometimes if we don't feel like cooking its a PB&J sandwich last night we actually had waffles with nutella on them since we got in late and I didn't want to start cooking at 8pm
We don't go in for the whole meat, potatos, veggie thing at dinner--I remember my friend who I grew up with across the street would see what my mom was making for dinner and say "well we will be having the meat potato veggie dinner like I have every single night of my life, can I eat over"- LOL...I am still friends with her now and she makes sure she doesn't continue that tradition LOL.

 

[scrapquitler]

Lunch is usually soup or a salad or a Lean Cuisine or leftovers. I would say that 3-5 of those meals contain meat. It is hard to say, because two cubes of chicken in my soup isn't really a full meat serving.

We call them 'supermodel size portions' in my house

 

[si-am]

I eat meat when I eat out on weekends, but I don't usually cook it at home. The exception is our once-a-week grilling, and we buy organic/free-range/grassfed/local for that.

 

[Colleen27]

In a typical week 8 or 9, because I don't really cook for myself during the day when it is just me and the baby. So breakfasts and lunches are a lot of salads, cereal, baked potatoes, mac & cheese, etc. I do eat more meat in the winter and more veggies in the summer when I can pick my lunches from the garden.

We have one vegetarian dinner per week, but the other six nights involve meat or very occasionally (because it is expensive and hard to find fresh around here) seafood. Never fish because DH is deathly allergic; I get my fish fix when we're dining out so I don't have to worry about cross-contamination in my kitchen.

 

[lspst8]

I'd would say that I'm with the average poster here and eat meat about 10-14 times a week.

We hardly ever have meat at breakfast, unless we go out to eat. Lunch is usually leftovers or a veggie sub from Subway (that's what I'm getting today). Our dinners usually have some type of meat, although we do have nights where we have fish/seafood or pasta.

OP, why didn't you include fish in with meat? Lately, my DH and I have been trying to eat more fish. We had salmon for dinner on Sunday, and I had catfish last night. So if fish doesn't count as meat, I've been completely meat free this week so far!

 

[Golf4food]

Around 16 meals per week have meat. Lunch and dinner every day with rare exception, breakfast on the weekends usually includes bacon or ham.

 

[design_mom]

Most days for lunch and dinner. (So around 14.)

However, I'm not sure I always eat a full serving of meat at a meal. Sometimes it's 2 slices of deli ham on a sandwich, some ground beef in spaghetti sauce, or a few slices of pepperoni on pizza. Going by the "a serving of meat is the size of a deck of cards" rule, I don't think the amounts are always a full serving.

 

[shortbun]

We eat meat probably 7X a week. We have 3 or 4 non meat dinners-beans, tofu, pasta w/veggies, veggie burgers, eggs and so forth. I eat leftovers most lunches but occasionally I treat myself to a Wendy's double stack. We try to stay away from red meat and fatty pork most weeks other than the occasional Wendy's, a good steak or Easter Ham. We have bacon about three times a year- once on vacation, once w/BLT's when the tomatoes are fresh and once in the winter for a Sunday morning treat. I fight to get my good cholesterol up so I don't want to mess with the numbers of the bad cholesterol, kwim?

 

[DisneyBeagle]

Based on your responses, it looks like most of you eat meat more than 5 times a week. There are a few of you that are at 5 times or less.

Myself I probably fall into the 10-14 times a week category.

 

[Heidict]

I would say we eat meat on an average of 12 times a week. Hubby has to have meat for lunch and dinner. Even if he bring a salad for lunch, he will through lunch meat or leftover steak or something in it.

If I wasn't cooking for him and it was just myself again, then I would say that I would probably only eat it a few times a week or so.