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I have been cutting back on how much meat I eat some, but it's really hard for a few reasons.

First because I can't really eat the grains/carbs like I used to. I could have lived on pizza in the old days and been happy, but now I can only have it very rarely, same with pasta, bread etc.

Second, other than pizza and pasta my primary intake for food throughout my entire life was meat, mostly beef, to the point of literally only occasionally having brocolli as a veggie (From broccoli beef) before I got married (at 27).

I didn't have parents that had me eat veggies as a kid and I started working buying my own food at 11....what I bought was meat, what I ate was meat with a side of occasional (often) pizza lol.

Giving that up all together seems pretty impossible. I have actually tried multiple times in the past, after seeing Harris Ranch in CA and all those poor cows, I felt horrible and really tried to stop eating beef. I didn't last a month. I literally felt sick, low energy, depressed and it didn't go away after a few weeks. I eventually did what someone above kinda said, and just convinced myself that just one person doesn't really matter and the meat is going to be sold or thrown away anyway, and just went back to eating like normal.

Back then, when I tried, I had a few advantages. I had a family that I cooked for, and so would expend a ton more energy to make very yummy and healthy meals, I had goals and things in my life I enjoyed, I wasn't diabetic and you could actually go out and eat lots of places. Even back then it was too much for me to go full vegetarian, or even just eat chicken.

Since then I have tried to cut back on how much beef I eat, and eat more chicken. I buy frozen chicken and cook it in my air fryer (which isn't too bad, but still have not really found a good spicy (like popeyes spicey chicken) one that I really enjoy. I don't buy steak every week anymore, and have made one pot roast in the last six months. I do buy hamburger meat sometimes still, but I would say I average less than 1 hamburger meal per month at this point.

Maybe it is not making a difference, but I'm trying at least. I have always tried to make the world a better place and to not harm the people around me. I believe eating beef (especially as much as I did most of my life) is harming the world, so I'm trying to at least reduce how much I do that. Maybe it won't matter at all, but if more people do what I am, I am pretty sure it will matter eventually.

I just wish there was an easier option, a good "impossible" meat I could buy, at the store, that would taste SOMETHING like a real burger...you know....yummy.

I don't like tofu, never have, don't like most veggies though over the decades I have grown to like asparagus, broccoli, brussel sprouts and mushrooms (corn I always liked). That is literally the only veggies I don't strongly dislike. I hate squash of all kinds (used to cook it all the time for my wife/family couldn't/didn't eat it myself at all). Oh I of course love potatoes lol.

But yeah, if you cut out all or most carbs and all meat, I would um......have almost nothing left. My solution is chicken, but....it gets freaking old fast eating chicken day in and day out. I spend money to have different ways to make it, instant pot, air fryer, BBQ grill, electric griddle etc, but yeah, it's still just chicken, and the sad truth is I just don't spend as much time/effort making good food for myself as when I cooked for 4 people.

I really need some good, healthy, non-meat choices that I really like, and impossible meat that tastes like beef would be perfect.

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