Meat replacement

Nerfherder said:
Have you looked at the Banting diet ?

I don't get this meat reduction thing.... rather add to your diet then remove things.
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That is the high fat diet right?

The actual fat is the reason I think meat is bad us at the moment with all the meat. Probably the reason my veins look like small hose pipes :D
 
Pitbull said:
That is the high fat diet right?

The actual fat is the reason I think meat is bad us at the moment with all the meat. Probably the reason my veins look like small hose pipes :D
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At least you are open to the idea.;I'm not :)

If my wife were to suggest us not eating meat, me and my two daughters will go on a hunger strike and toyi-toyi up and down the passage in that house until our grievances are met! :D
 
Shaun108 said:
oh really wiseguy? I have been eating raw soya chunks and bits for over 30 years now and I look like a cross between pitbull and marine1. I klap gym so hard my arms look like your thighs, charna. Do you want to fight me for your house? DO YOU EH? DO YOU?!!!

:D
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/shrug

/tickles with a feather...

:rolleyes:
 
So general consensus would be to rather scale down on the meat instead of replacing it?

Maybe only consume meat once a day? Or maybe only every second day or so?
 
How about trying a "Meat Free Monday" or something like that.. take a break from meat once or twice a week. There are lots of vegetarian dishes that the kids would love e.g. a vegetarian pasta, pizza, beans enchilada, mushroom burgers etc

I must admit I really love soya , and i suppose if you limit it to once a week, it's not all that bad for you.
 
Yes, scale down.

It is, of course, perfectly possible to be healthy without meat, but it's a far more complex situation to deal with, in my opinion. Outside of specific health concerns or ethical reasons, I think having meat as a regular part of the diet is the easiest course of action. However, you need to make sure you are taking in healthy fats, and plenty of good vegetables (avoiding the starchy stuff).

No need to see fat as a bad thing, just educate yourself what's healthy and what's not, in that regard.

A good book I can highly recommend:

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22604894-the-big-fat-surprise-by-nina-teicholz---a-30-minute-instaread-summary

In The Big Fat Surprise, investigative journalist Nina Teicholz reveals the unthinkable: that everything we thought we knew about dietary fat is wrong. She documents how the low-fat nutrition advice of the past sixty years has amounted to a vast uncontrolled experiment on the entire population, with disastrous consequences for our health.

For decades, we have been told that the best possible diet involves cutting back on fat, especially saturated fat, and that if we are not getting healthier or thinner it must be because we are not trying hard enough. But what if the low-fat diet is itself the problem? What if the very foods we’ve been denying ourselves—the creamy cheeses, the sizzling steaks—are themselves the key to reversing the epidemics of obesity, diabetes, and heart disease?

In this captivating, vibrant, and convincing narrative, based on a nine-year-long investigation, Teicholz shows how the misinformation about saturated fats took hold in the scientific community and the public imagination, and how recent findings have overturned these beliefs. She explains why the Mediterranean Diet is not the healthiest, and how we might be replacing trans fats with something even worse. This startling history demonstrates how nutrition science has gotten it so wrong: how overzealous researchers, through a combination of ego, bias, and premature institutional consensus, have allowed dangerous misrepresentations to become dietary dogma.

With eye-opening scientific rigor, The Big Fat Surprise upends the conventional wisdom about all fats with the groundbreaking claim that more, not less, dietary fat—including saturated fat—is what leads to better health and wellness. Science shows that we have been needlessly avoiding meat, cheese, whole milk, and eggs for decades and that we can now, guilt-free, welcome these delicious foods back into our lives.
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Well I don't think any of us need to tell you that that is too much meat.
Limit it to a single helping a day or every 2nd day.
 
HendrieV said:
Let them eat all the meat they want and see them grow up strong and healthy.
Limit processed meat though.
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True, They eat processed meat on their sandwiches during the day, they hardly ever eat meat for breakfast. They want cereal, the laaitie and I eat bacon, eggs and so on. Wife on the odd occasion has a meaty breakfast too, however mostly just eggs and toast.

Guess a meaty breakfast is cool still and then a cooked meal in the evening to start with. Cut out the processed meat on the sandwiches and replace lunch with something fruity maybe? Fruit salad or something?

edit: wait, maybe cereal in the mornings and only meaty breakfast on the weekends?

Think that can work :)

Cereal in the morning Monday - Friday. Fruity lunch and cooked food at night. Meaty breakfast over weekends. Damn, sounds delicious actually :p
 
You should just try doing a few soya meals, they are quite delicious if you cook it properly.
The only thing to watch out for is the sodium content. It varies quite a lot between brands.
 
Naks said:
replace beef with game - ostrich, springbok, kudu, etc.
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Fresh out of Kudu from the winter :o
We do bring game from the farm from time to time. I just don't like it being cooked. It becomes all stringy... Brilliant for pies though

konfab said:
You should just try doing a few soya meals, they are quite delicious if you cook it properly.
The only thing to watch out for is the sodium content. It varies quite a lot between brands.
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Never actually had soya that I know of. But sure I had it somewhere. Will check out this option, would like to try a meat free day in the week.
 
Pitbull said:
Never actually had soya that I know of. But sure I had it somewhere. Will check out this option, would like to try a meat free day in the week.
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If you're going soya then try Fries soya because all the cheap soy is ****ing awful.
 
Pitbull said:
Fresh out of Kudu from the winter :o
We do bring game from the farm from time to time. I just don't like it being cooked. It becomes all stringy... Brilliant for pies though



Never actually had soya that I know of. But sure I had it somewhere. Will check out this option, would like to try a meat free day in the week.
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http://www.imana.co.za/imana/pdf%20files/Imana%20Recipe%20Soya%20Mince.pdf

For the sodium content, go for Knorrox. It has quite a bit less than Imana.
 
KingBel said:
How about trying a "Meat Free Monday" or something like that.. take a break from meat once or twice a week.
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Good suggestion.

We Catholics have been abstaining from slaughtered red meat for centuries and centuries (and that includes your ancestors). Fridays are meatless. Not because we think meat is bad - it's not - but because it's good. We voluntarily give up something good (meat) on Fridays in solidarity and with and gratitude to Our Lord, who in a Friday afternoon in a dusty backwater dumpsite was slaughtered for our redemption.

That's why Fridays are fish days, in many places still.
 
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