Veganism & vegetarianism

[Aroura]

I keep trying to cut all meat out of my diet and failing.  We've reduced it a LOT.  I no longer buy fresh meat for dinner...like ever.  We used to have chicken or fish about 4 times a week, and beef or pork about once a week.  Now I only buy veggies and beans and fruits fresh.  But I can't seem to stay away from occasional processed meats (lunch meat, hot dogs, all the very worst things).  Also, fast food gets us about once a week, and although I try and get something somewhat healthy, I often get chicken.

As the resident health student, let me say - replace the processed meats, where possible, with fresh fatty fish, and lean meat. It is much healthier to have fish 2-3 times a week and lean meat 2-4 times a week than it is to have neither.

Processed meat doesn't count as meat in the diet, it counts as a discretionary food.

Oh hey, I know.  But what went was the expensive meat first.  My family simply will not eat fish, and the vast majority of fish I find for sale is not what it was even 10 years ago.

I think I'll just have to phase out the processed meats as well, but we aren't adding lean meats back in.  None of us wants to eat them anymore.

Since the processed meat is very occasional for now (like maybe once a month, sometimes not at all, even.) I don't think I'm going to worry about it too much.