• Eating Less Meat

  Filed under simple living
  Mar 1

  As I mentioned in this post, one of the things I would like to do to make my lifestyle more sustainable is to eat less meat. As I work full time, I take my own lunches to work, so I have mostly been alternating between cheese sandwiches and marmite rice cakes (sooo yum!). I did have chicken and stuffing sandwiches for a couple of days when we had leftovers from a roast dinner but I don’t really count that. I think I need to work a few more alternatives into the mix so I don’t get bored.

  Here are some of the meat-less main meals I have enjoyed over the past few weeks:

  • Cheese Risotto
  • Jacket Potato with Baked Beans and Cheese
  • Baked Camembert with French Bread
  • Spinach and Ricotta Tortellini with Napoletana Sauce (ready made)

  Is anyone else noticing a theme here? Hmm…

  At the same time, I have also been making better use of leftover meat.  For example, we had a small roast chicken for dinner, one Sunday, from which I also made sandwiches (as I mentioned above) and a chicken risotto, and there was still enough left to give to the cats as a treat!  Then last week, we had a leg of lamb (yes, we do love our roast dinners!) which then became a lamb stew the next day.  It didn’t really take any extra effort, just a small amount of thought, and it made me feel like some kind of extraordinary food magician!

  I am also very happy to see that my favourite veggie burgers are back on the shop shelves – I probably just missed them last time. Hurrah!

  Related posts:

  1. National Vegetarian Week
  2. Leftover Love: Bananas
  3. The Thrift Book: Live well and spend less, by India Knight
  4. Recycle Week 2009
  5. Green Shopping: Buy Less Stuff
  Tagged as: vegetarianism
  
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One Response to “Eating Less Meat”

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   Jenny said on March 1st, 2009 at 10:19 pm

   He he, your list of non-meat treats looks a lot like mine – cheese, cheese and more cheese!

   I make a mean spinach and cottage cheese canneloni (bit less cheese than using ricotta, plus a bit more healthy). Plus spaghetti bolognese made meat free either with quorn or just veggies. I use an organic beef stock cube to give it the beefy taste.

   Final alternative is good old poached eggs and spinach on toast. Mmmmm….

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