No Meat May

Chick pea curry with your favourite type of rice
Kidney bean casserole with jacket potatoes or crusty bread to soak up the juices
Cheese and lentil loaf with spicy tomato sauce
Tuna crumble made with rich white sauce (and cheese if you like it) or topped with individual herby scones if you don't like savoury crumble

Beef cattle have a much better life than most dairy cattle, albeit being short. When I’m at my partners the calves are in the fields at the end of his garden and they’re so happy and adorable. Their mums are happy, too, being able to keep their babies. When they are taken away it’s heartbreaking as they call to them for ages. I’m not a veggie but it does make me feel so guilty.

I am vegetarian eat nothing eith a face. You can make a nice chilli using lentils instead if mince. Paella is good, use artichokes. M& s have some good veggi recipes on their website, try aubergine & butter bean bake. All the best & enjoy

I was told never FISH,FOWL OR FLESH. I have been veggie since 14 and vegan the last few years (now 68) and I could not think of any recipe which contains something from the 3 above.
There are several websites if you get stuck but you can filter recipes on BBC Food and Good Food by picking vegan. You don't need pretend meat at all.

I’d like to say a word here for tofu.
Firstly it is not an ultraprocessed food. It is bean curd and yes, there is a lengthy process of making it but you could say the same of cheese.
Secondly, the secret is how you work with it. Always you should press it to get the excess moisture out - you can use weights but a gadget such as Tofuture works a treat.
It also helps to cut it into cubes marinade it, usually in some combination of soy sauce, garlic powder and olive oil etc.
Lastly if you coat your pressed, marinated tofu cubes in some cornflour you can fry them or just roast them in the oven. The result is tofu “bits” which you could just use as a snack or in stir frys.

I have found a bbc good food recipe called grilled vegetable wraps with salsa and guacamole. The salsa and guacamole are home made but easy to do and go in the wrap with the vegetables, which are courgette, red and yellow peppers and coriander. Its really tasty.

We're also carnivores but I often cook up a pot of rich lentils. I do them in my pressure cooker with good stock, onions, carrots, herbs, sometimes some spices, wine, tomatoes and/or tomato puree.
Even my husband, very much a meat and two veg man, enjoys a meal of red peppers stuffed with lentils, or sometimes vegetable sausage or haggis with lentils on the size. They can also supplement a small amount of meat, or even be served with rice and some sort of sauce.

Pizza; ricotta and Spinach ravioli.

I must admit that I really like Tesco Lentil and veg bolognese (tin), but I add it to pasta or rice. Any lentil curry is OK for ONE meal

Tuna, tomato and pasta bake (with or without cheese) - tinned or fresh tuna, tinned or fresh sliced tomatoes (but I prefer the plum tinned), and any pasta. Add any herb to change the taste.

If you are keeping fish then Kedgeree (eggs rice, fish (I used smoked basa) and curry powder (optional). Any fish and chips of course.
Not sure if you can get it at this time of year (I stock up in February) but vegetarian Haggis is every bit as good, if not better than the real thing. With tatties and neeps

Mushroom omelette with or without cheese, and a big salad makes a lunch. (add peppers for colour)
Another light lunch is peppers stuffed with rice, kidney beans and tomatoes

Add nuts to your diet for the missing protein, and good luck (I won't go into the debate about this)

I have never liked meat but am not a vegan. Do you eat fish? I hate the smell but I do eat it. And cheese. And eggs. Just no meat.

Why is eating fish more often than once a week unhealthy? I have never heard that before.

Maybe try googling bbc thrifty cooking in the doctor’s kitchen.

Lots of good veggie recipes eg halloumi tray bake, jambalaya, spicy chipotle bean stew and lots more.

Recipes and video demonstration are available free gratis.

We are having "No Meat May" simply because we are going to stay with my stepdaughter and her family. They are vegetarian. It's no problem as we eat much less meat now, anyway.

Estrellita

Why is eating fish more often than once a week unhealthy? I have never heard that before.

It's not.

Astitchintime

Grandmabatty

Why is eating fish more than once a week unhealthy? I've never heard that

Yes, I was wondering the same. We have fish at least twice a week so can you please enlighten us Macaydia?

So do we.

I was planning on making kedgeree tomorrow which we haven't eaten for years! I used to make it with undyed smoked haddock but all I could find this morning in the supermarket was the yellow dyed smoked haddock.
I'm hoping the dye is turmeric or similar.

Fish for the third time this week 😲

Norah

Estrellita

Why is eating fish more often than once a week unhealthy? I have never heard that before.

It's not.

X post.

My internet keeps going down, hence the delay.

No, I didn't think it was. Unless it's the plastic the fish might have ingested!

Jenthehen

I am vegetarian eat nothing eith a face. You can make a nice chilli using lentils instead if mince. Paella is good, use artichokes. M& s have some good veggi recipes on their website, try aubergine & butter bean bake. All the best & enjoy

Would you therefore kill rats - you do not eat them, cull wild animals where they ae suffering because their habitat is insufficient, remove invasive animals that threaten other species, like the recent ridding of Rathlin Island of ferrets, a recently introduced species that had been destroying the sea bird colonies.

No meat May?
We already eat mostly chicken, fish and eggs, but if I want steak or bacon, let’s just say I’m practising for early for Omnivore October.

Fish can be unhealthy because some fish contain quite a lot of mercury, these fish include tuna and swordfish. Health warnings in the US used to especially warn women away from eating tinned tuna while pregnant. Possibly the same here.

Granatlast007

Fish can be unhealthy because some fish contain quite a lot of mercury, these fish include tuna and swordfish. Health warnings in the US used to especially warn women away from eating tinned tuna while pregnant. Possibly the same here.

I'm not pregnant, as far as I know anyway.

From the Food Standards Agency -
Mercury  is found in all fish due to natural accumulation from the environment, so it can’t be eliminated entirely. Mercury is naturally higher in predatory fish (such as tuna) because the mercury builds up over time from the other fish that they eat. The amount of mercury is also influenced by the size and age of the fish. Therefore, an older, larger fish is likely to have higher levels of mercury than younger, smaller fish. Larger predatory fish (like swordfish or shark) have the highest mercury levels.

To accommodate this, in Great Britain we have a maximum level for mercury in tuna and other specified species of 1.0 mg/kg. For other fish (like cod), a lower maximum level for mercury applies. It’s important to note that the researchers have compared levels of mercury in tuna to the lower level for other fish species, rather than the maximum level for tuna. The report found that all 148 cans of tuna tested positive for mercury contamination, but in fact, the study shows a relatively small number of products were above the legal maximum level. Out of 30 products from the UK market, just one product was found which may have been over the legal level.
Guidance for vulnerable groups

The NHS guidance specifies recommended weekly portions of tinned or fresh tuna for those trying for a baby and those who are pregnant. These groups are advised to have no more than four cans of tuna a week or no more than two tuna steaks a week. This recommendation is based on a medium-sized can of tuna with a drained weight of around 140 g per can and a 140 g cooked steak.  The 2018 Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment (COT) review of the most toxic form of mercury in the diets of very young children did not identify any concerns.

Estrellita

Why is eating fish more often than once a week unhealthy? I have never heard that before.

Apologies, I made an incorrect statement.

Seems if one eats tuna (I don't), that must be rationed.

Norah

Estrellita

Why is eating fish more often than once a week unhealthy? I have never heard that before.

Apologies, I made an incorrect statement.

Seems if one eats tuna (I don't), that must be rationed.

The NHS guidance specifies recommended weekly portions of tinned or fresh tuna for those trying for a baby and those who are pregnant. These groups are advised to have no more than four cans of tuna a week or no more than two tuna steaks a week.

Four tins of tuna a week is quite a large amount.

We rarely eat tuna.

For some reason 15 year old DGS has a passion for tinned fish. A tin of fish, any fish, is his idea of the perfect snack - and he is a growing boy.

Allira

Astitchintime

Grandmabatty

Why is eating fish more than once a week unhealthy? I've never heard that

Yes, I was wondering the same. We have fish at least twice a week so can you please enlighten us Macaydia?

So do we.

I was planning on making kedgeree tomorrow which we haven't eaten for years! I used to make it with undyed smoked haddock but all I could find this morning in the supermarket was the yellow dyed smoked haddock.
I'm hoping the dye is turmeric or similar.

Fish for the third time this week 😲

I’ve been wanting to eat kedgeree ever since there was a question about it on Who Wants to be a Millionaire! It’s years since I made it.

Cannot stand these 'gimmick' months....Movembet,Veganuary, never heard of No Meat May but ifyou wantto cut down on redmeatjust do it...