What is the best way to ween yourself off of meat?

Cold turkey never works. (is that a vegan joke, cold turkey?) Anyway, my friend said she just ate beef jerky, one strip a day for two weeks til she could move on to know meat period. That didn't work for me.

Most people cut out red meat then cut out white meat.You can try going vegetarian 1 day out of the week,then two days the next,then three days the next,so on and so on until you cut out all meat.You don't have to do it all at once,you have to do it at your own pace.

It is a very individual thing. I started cold turkey about 20 years ago, then got an intense craving about a week later and finished up some ground beef that was in the freezer and slept all day that day..then after about 20 years of being a vegetarian, I faced cancer and chemo and decided to go back to eating meat during the chemo to keep my blood levels up so the chemo would end quickly and on time. Now it is hard to break habits again (from childhood) and go back to being a vegetarian. Esp. since meat eating people are offering you (meat) food everywhere you go and fast food places are mostly non vegetarian.And because meat eating is linked to childhood memories of your mother cooking oftentimes.So some people go cold turkey, others work on it a little at a time in a more gradual way. In the more gradual way, you would have to discover new recipes and new ways of cooking and eating and with that create NEW COMFORTING MEMORIES of vegetarian foods.

Don't eat it.

In order to wean yourself off of meat, it's important not to buy it in the first place. When you're at the supermarket, instead of going for that meat, trying taking the opportunity to try something new, like soy products, a vegetable you've never cooked with...etc. It can be fun to try new things! I discovered so many delicious recipes through buying something new a vowing to cooking with it.

Make sure you diet is inclusive of alternate forms of protein (such as cottage cheese, a whopping 32% of your daily need), carbohydrates, and vitamins.

You can do it! :]

I used substitutes instead. I sopped meat cold turkey and used recipe crumbles in place of ground meat and Quorn products to replace chicken.

If you educate yourself about how unsanitary meat is, as well as looking at health issues, environmental issues, and animal cruelty, meat just doesn't make sense any more. When I learned all about whats REALLY in meat, I was immediately and thouroughly repulsed by it. Poke around this website and you will see what I mean. This goes beyond just the cruelty issues-and discusses what ends up in the meat

http://www.factoryfarming.com/health.htm

The key is not to over-think it. Is it your cravings keeping you from succeeding? If so, maybe allow yourself only to eat your very favorite meat dish, but otherwise stay vegetarian. Then once you get used to eating a veg diet except for that one food, you can cross the hurdle and give up your guilty pleasure and it won't be such a big, dramatic change.

I just stopped- i was going to cut down, but in the end, i knew i wouldnt. I would just keep eating it and forgetting, so i made a difference and stopped.
If it works for you, and you are strict with yourself, reduce your daily intake of meat, and replace it (if you are a meat lover) with quorn. It doesnt taste quite the same, but it is suitable.
eg if you usually eat meat twice a day, just cut to once a day.
I eat fish but not meat-i have been like this for a few months, so you could try that instead.

I couldn't do it. I like chicken too much. They're stupid and tasty. Call it a weakness. :(

But I have backed off of red meat a lot and added fish. I need the protein.

either way I always support healthy choices and if you don't like meat it's your personal preference. :)

just think of it for what it really is each time you take a bite....muscles and tendons of a slaughtered creature that was probably fed a diet of chemicals and other rotting carcass.

I think it is like changing any other behavior. You have to want to change! Then quit going to places that give you a meat option. Go to stores that cater to vegetarians and restaurants that don't serve meat. Get a support group or person that will encourage you to stick to you changes.

It isn't easy in our American fast food society. You can do it though. Just think of all the positives that come from the lifestyle change.

i went cold turkey.
ahahah yeah, no pun intended.

just dont eat it. the first week or two were hard..but its gotten to the point where i rarely if ever want meat. and if i am craving meat i just eat some veges to remind myself that i dont really want to eat meat.

meat is good
--we have canines, after all

sorry it's saturated w/steroids & antibiotics


just do the best you can

buffalo jerky
is cool
http://www.native-languages.org/composit...

just stop eating meat why i don't know as we are carnivores and have eaten meat since the beginning of time but do what ever you like