Want to get healthy

[Quae]

Hi I'm thinking about stop eating meat but I have to take it one meat at a time just as one day at a time but do anyone have any easy meal ideas ???

[SillySally]

My advice is instead of eliminating one meat at a time, is to get more clever about your meat choices and eat smaller serves, making veggies a more important part. Put more though into making special ways with vegetables. With meat, I like to buy buffalo, as it's natural, always grass feeding and has a great fatty acid profile. And they are humanely treated. Choose beef from cows that graze on grass all their lives, and chicken that is pasture raised, not just free range. And select seafood from clean oceans, or sustainable farms with no antibiotics used.

You'll find you'll soon be getting more excited about the tastier and more colorful part of the meal ie the accompaniments. You'll be helping the environment and keeping animals in natural state, and it will soon become easy to not stress when you don't have meat to add to a meal. Keep a back up of Italian Prosciutto or Smoked Salmon to add a few slivers if you feel a need emotionally.

I think you can get most of the recipes from my books on line with google, a bit cheeky of them, but I'm not worried. Look for Simply Healthy or Fresh and Health by Sally James. You can get seconds on Amazon for around 2 dollars too. The recipes are not radical, have meat and fish, but way more focus on the veggies, grains and fruit. Easy and fun and hopefully tasty too. Good luck!

[Bazza1234 in reply to SillySally]

The size of a piece of meat ( which should not be eaten every day) should not be larger than the size of the palm of your hand ( minus fingers) - in other words, quite small, maybe 100-125 grams. The rest of the plate should be covered in all kinds of colored vegetables - dark greens, yellow, red , purple, etc - and some starchy carbohydrate like low GI rice, or barley.

[BadHare]

Take a look at The Vegetarian, or Vegan, Society's website. They have lots of information on recipes & nutrition.

I'm also keen on Chris Kresser's advice, also free, but don't eat meat.

M*

[ZoeRhian]

I've been a veggie for a few years now and I've found that it's super easy to stay eating the same meals but just using a quorn alternative! For example if you're just making up a simple sandwich you could use quorn ham and add in anything else you'd normally have on it like tomatoes. There is quorn mince etc too that you can use which is a healthy alternative to normal mince Making your own bean burgers or buying them from the supermarket even makes a nice change to a beef burger!