Our family has always been high-protein, though while growing up at least I ate tons of stir-fried veges to go with all that chicken, beef, lamb, pork and fish.
With the boy doing most of the evening meals these tend to be of the meat-and-two-or-three veg variety (but they are usually really tasty).
I am trying to move to a more plant-based diet but this would require me to do a whole lot more of the cooking and do a whole lot more careful meal planning so that the family gets all the nutrients we need.
I have done a few vegan meals here and there, for my lunches during the working week - and some of them have even turned out well, to my taste buds anyways.
But, you know that thing where you learn to cook new stuff and end up with tons of excess herbs, spices, sauces etc? yeah that's me.
Plus, when you buy little packets of stuff to avoid food waste you also end up buying lots of little bits of un-recyclable packaging.
So I'm moving away from that. During the week I'm eating out at one of the vegan eateries once a week, and having banana and peanut butter sandwiches the rest of the week!
On the "plus" side, because the boy was recently diagnosed with gout he is occasionally cooking vegetarian.
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Gout! :-( At least it IS controllable.
Well yes in theory ie by taking medication or restricting your diet (and he's only restricting it a bit)
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