Sharing more about why I started to eat red meat again, how I’m feeling, and a friendly reminder that the best eating strategy is the one that works for you. No shade or judgement here.
Hi friends! How are you? I hope that your week is going well! We had dinner with friends, family dinner at madre’s, Mass, NCL, the usual fun stuff. This is our first full week of school + homeschool so we’re officially back into it. Good luck to all of my mama friends out there as we head back into the chaos!
For today’s post, I wanted to talk a little bit about MEAT. I realized a couple of weeks ago this this summer was my 10 year beefiversary after not eating red meat, or much meat, for most of my life.
I stopped eating meat when I was eight years old because I read in Tiger Beat that Jonathan Taylor Thomas was a vegetarian. Since I was DEFINITELY going to marry him – he just needed to meet me – of course, I had to be a vegetarian, too. (And yes, my parents totally tried to talk me out of it but I was a stubborn little thing and they supported me.)
I didn’t eat meat much at all until I was in high school and even then, it was a little iffy for me. I eventually added it back in during college (eating low carb will kind of force you to), met the Pilot, saw a bunch of documentaries and read a particularly frightening book, and then found myself again as a pescatarian, then a vegetarian, and for a couple of years, a vegan.
I loved eating plant-based and still love vegan food. (A random fact about me is that I went to raw vegan culinary school. This chocolate tart is the best vegan tart you’ll have in your liiiife.) I had added fish back in, and right before I got pregnant with Liv, I started eating chicken again. The internet went wild. Also that was back in the day when a trash post that took me 30 minutes to write would get 100+ comments. Those were the days haha.
When I was pregnant with P, I was craving a steak, so I came home and asked the Pilot if he’d grill one for me.
You should have seen the joy on his face. He went to Whole Foods, grabbed a beautiful grass-fed steak, grilled it to perfection, and I ate the entire thing.
When I told my acupuncturist about it, he said, “You need to eat flesh and blood to make flesh and blood.” Primal lol.
Since then, I haven’t really looked back, and now I eat meat multiple times a week. While I don’t think we need insane amounts of protein, I definitely think it’s important. (I still believe that fiber and micronutrients are the most important!)
Eating beef again after being a vegetarian
Anyway, now that I’ve been all over the place as far as meat consumption goes, here are some things I’ve learned along the way:
– Quality makes all the difference in the world. It’s important to me that the products we use are responsibly and sustai