How much meat do you eat?

We like meat...but we eat alot of stews, soups, sauces so the meat is smaller than a typical meat and potato meal. I use about 1# venison and 1/2 # sausage for spaghetti sauce that lasts for 2 suppers and 2 lunch for husband (about 3-4quarts volume for 5 people) so its not alot of meat daily. We do have a meat and potato meal on the weekend and generally Sunday breakfast w/ sausage or bacon. Now when I roast a chicken (homegrown) the kids devour it...a 7# bird is a supper, lunch sandwich and soup.
I've also noticed greater focus and better behavior in my kids when fed extra protien --animal or otherwise. Eggs for breakfast and beans for lunch alot!

I often wonder when I hear about people raising animals for their consumtion just how much meat they must eat. Years ago Sunday dinner was chicken because it was a quick and easy animal to process. Beef was usually never eaten on a homestead because of the size of it and no way to preserve it. Pork was the meat of choice and curing and canning was the preservation method. I know old timers ate pork at every meal but their lifestyles were greatly different than ours.
I became much more aware at how my body uses and processes different foods in the last few years after paying attention to a friend with internal disorders.

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I have raised my own steer for years now Every 2 to 3 years I get one butchered and FILL my freezer up. I put in about 400 to 450 pounds of home grown beef in the freezer every time. I live alone SO I eat most of it myself. I do give some away to my friends and parents also. I will have one ready in just a few months to go, although this maybe the last one I do raise as it is getting harder and harder because of my on going health problems (RA) so that will mean in a few years I myself maybe cutting back on some beef consumption, some but I will not cut it out completely.

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If your a strick vegetiarian, you need a suppliment for B12. Unlike most mamimals, Humans have lost the ability to manufacture this vitamin. B12 is contained in red meats, although processed foods (cereals are fortifide with B12).

http://thyroid.about.com/cs/newsinfo/l/blb12anemia.htm

I suspect that why some people have issues with eating meat, especially with red meat is the way cattle and other livestock are raised today. Livestock are often raised in factories and are feed nearly a pure grain diet and are pumped with antibiotics and hormones in order to maximumize profit.

If you like meat, but it does like you, see if you can locate a supplier of grass feed cattle or cattle that are raised outside of the cattle factor system. Usually its a lot more expensive, but it may be worth the extra cost for you.

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Meat in general? - 4-5 days a week have some sort of meat, but it's mostly chicken, sometimes fish or turkey.

Red Meat? - Maybe 1-2 times a month? Never ate much of it growing up and still don't. When I have cravings for meat I do, perhaps 50% of the time, but like others have said, red meat seems to get stalled out in the digestive system... we are in our 30's and find this to be true.

We do eat a lot of vegetarin meals as well as soy product a few times a week and eggs 3-4 times a week in one form or the other.

We rarely eat red meat. Mostly chicken and pork once a week or so. Every once in a while I'll make something with ground beef. Tonight the kids wanted fried potatoes and eggs to order. 1 had over easy and 3 had scrambled. We have 29 layers, so we eat quite a lot of eggs as an alternative to red meat. I do enjoy a nice steak perhaps once a month.

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Twice a day. Doesn't matter what flavor.

I eat too much for my desk job's caloric needs. If I did honest work, my diet would be just about right.

I eat the usual nutritionally recommended amount of meat, dairy or fish protein. Of that, I'd say at least half is from white (chicken or pork) meat and maybe only 10% from red (beef) meat. Lately I've increase intake to include more venison for health reasons as it's leaner. Fatty meat isn't my thing.

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We eat meat almost everyday.

As someone else said, if red meat bothers you, it is probably how the meat is raised and what it contains more than being red meat. I can't tolerate a heavy meal of store bought red meat - but I can eat a big chunk of our home raised beef.

The way is raised and what chickens are fed, they may feel better in your stomach, but I don't think they are any better for your health in the long run.

There is however, no better meal on the planet than pinto beans with cornbread - sliced onions and tomatoes.

Meat or eggs or dairy with every meal or I don't have any energy. Meat at least once a day and a nice hefty serving too! Mostly poultry, some homegrown goat and pig, venison when I can get it. Love beef, rare, but won't buy it in the store. When my place is fenced I would like a steer to raise tho.

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Well now that you mention it, i guess i eat it with every meal.
Just got done eating more than a pound of nothing but steak for supper tonight. :baby04:
How ever i try not to eat to much red meat ( per week ). I have a bad temper and it sure seems to make it worse when i eat it to often.

We eat a bit of meat at lunch, a slice of lean lunchmeat with cheese usually in a sandwich. My husband has a short lunch break, so he needs something quick to eat. At dinner about 3-4 ounces of protein, usually beef, pork or chicken, does the job.

I do find that I have more energy all day if I have an egg with home made bread for breakfast, rather than a high fiber cereal. I also find that meat and eggs from animals that are farm raised are easier to digest and I like it that they are not fed a lot of hormones, antibiotics and nasty junk. From what I have read, that is likely to be much healthier for our family than commercial beef, pork and chicken. I can't always get the "real" food, but that is my desire.

We do bake most of our bread and that with home ground flour. It is so good.

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Every Day.....my entire life! HOWEVER......
Since I got "false-teeth" a couple of years ago.......
I've slacked off the steak, etc., but still eat a lot of ground beef.
(I haven't gotten "used to" these "new choppers"! They fell like I've got a "mouth-full" of marbles roaming around in my mouth while eating.....and I don't 'taste' the food as well as before!) So, when alone, I eat without those d_____d fake teeth!
Even though I've always been a HEAVY "red-meat" eater, my Cholesterol is in GREAT SHAPE! (I stay very active physically. No exercise at a "gym"....I just keep on doing what needs done....and I eat a lot of GARLIC!)

SALMON is my FAVORITE STEAK !!! (Anyone wanna go fishin'?)

my 2 pesos worth,
-Bruce-

Every Day.....my entire life! HOWEVER......
Since I got "false-teeth" a couple of years ago.......
I've slacked off the steak, etc., but still eat a lot of ground beef.
(I haven't gotten "used to" these "new choppers"! They feel like I've got a "mouth-full" of marbles roaming around in my mouth while eating.....and I don't 'taste' the food as well as before!) So, when alone, I eat without those d_____d fake teeth!
Even though I've always been a HEAVY "red-meat" eater, my Cholesterol is in GREAT SHAPE! (I stay very active physically. No exercise at a "gym"....I just keep on doing what needs done....and I eat a lot of GARLIC!)

SALMON is my FAVORITE STEAK !!! (Anyone wanna go fishin'?)

my 2 pesos worth,
-Bruce-

I haven't bought any commercial meat to eat since last fall. Just don't think that the grain fed, chemical filled stuff is healthy. Also way too expensive. I will be a vegetarian, except for what I catch fishing (and I will be real careful about where I fish) or kill hunting.

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We eat a lot of meat, because my dad has food sensitivities to nearly everything. No corn, no wheat, no dairy, no oats etc. And mind you corn is in everything, can't have pop, corn syrup, can't have powdered sugar, corn starch, etc. Dad can have meat, we eat a lot of beef and deer. When dad switched his diet (he didn't know why he was sick for a while, he eats according to the blood type diet, we are O's, which are "hunter gatherers" and are supposed to eat a lot of meat) he lost a lot of weight, and feels good on this diet. He also eats a lot of sweet potatoes.

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The only red meat we eat is venison, steaks, roasts, burger, wieners, sausage in 3 different varieties.

Feedlot animals that never make it to a green pasture is animal abuse in my opinion.

Pasture raised animals are a different thing and much more healthy to eat.

We have meat every day with dinner. For dh it's mostly meat and nothing else For one son, he picks at his meat except for chicken. Lunch time it's hit or miss if there's meat, just depends what's available. Breakfast we rarely have meat. It seems breakfast is the easiest meal of the day to push healthy foods at my house.

I do notice that once in a while I will strongly crave red meat for several days in a row. I always assume my iron levels are down (?) Mostly we eat chicken/turkey/pork.

Interesting correlation of "healthy foods" and no meat. Meat seems to have a bad rap in our country, I think largely because the usual meat is the supermarket garbage. Anything raised on junk, hormones and antibiotics is not going to be healthy, I'd have to agree with that. However, there are many things in naturally raised meat that are very good for us and we ought to consider carefully WHAT meat we are talking about before we say "healthy" and "unhealthy".

We did the research and discovered that eggs from the supermarket are not a healthy food - a lot of the bad cholesterol, etc. Yet eggs from chickens or ducks that are free ranged are much better tasting AND much better for us! They are an entirely different food, full of the healthy cholesterol and Omega 3 fatty acids. I'm sure that this holds for other foods too.

I know there are many ways to a "healthy" diet and each person has many needs that are individual, but I'm thinking we need to research and check into things and not just assume that one food is unhealthy. (Well, ok, some things are poisonous, etc., but you know what I mean!!)

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