Do you have meat with all your dinners?

[Razp_Sorbet]

Obviously if you're vegetarian or vegan you don't but for those of you who aren't.

My partner and I have been having vegetarian (sort of) meals a few times a week because meat has just gotten so expensive. Usually we just do something with tofu like BAO buns or wraps or a vegetable curry. Tonight it was tofu wraps with horseradish mayo

[Kaneki05]

It's 85p for 20 chicken nuggets or 8 chicken burgers it's by far the cheapest food to get that isn't beans in a tin.
So I don't see how meat is got expensive and I really doubt it will be highly different where you live. The only way I can see meat been expensive if you are going to a butchers to get premium service but that's obviously expensive that would be like saying Pizza is getting to expensive when you only order takeaway pizza's.

[Razp_Sorbet]

Chicken nuggets and Burgers are not very healthy. Also the cheapest chicken nuggets are about $10 for a kg.

[Kaneki05]

Chicken is literally one of the most health meats there is. Chicken and fish are way more healthy than pig and beef. What store are you shopping from that measures it in Kgs lol.

[Razp_Sorbet]

Every store here sells by kg... Chicken coated in tempura batter isn't healthy lol. You buy a pack of frozen chicken nuggets they come in 750g or 1kg bags.

[Kaneki05]

It's more healthy than beef still and pig though but this ain't a bebate on health anyway otherwise then you should just never eat meat for health reasons rather than cost if bothered by it.

Hmm weird here you just get number of how many are in it. Sure there Grams on the back but that's not really what anyone looks at. And we only get 20-60 depending what bag you buy if you buy the more expensive branded stuff that's about £3 for 40 nuggets. But cheap store brand tastes good enough and is only 85p for 20.

Maybe your country has a problem with selling food in too large amounts while also stacking up the price. Because that that $10 about £8 here could get you about 9 bags and you don't have to buy them all at once.
If I eat 5 nuggets with some chips and some veg I can last 4 days on that so only 2 bags would last me all week if that's just all the meat I want.

Myself I know I only spend about £15 on food per week with another £5 on drinks. So what your saying could only get one bag of chicken nuggets there is almost the half the money I spend on food per week. Which is pretty nuts.

[Razp_Sorbet]

My weekly shop is about $90 on a cheap week and $120 on a week where we need the extra things like tp, cat litter, cleaning supplies.

But yeah the price differences are actually quite significant. I was in the UK in 2018/19 and almost stocked up on travel sick pills because they're so cheap there. Here you're looking at about $25 for a 12 pack which is about £13 and I got a 12 pack for like £3 at the store there.

[Kaneki05]

Jeez 25 would be around £20 or £20.40 according to my web bowser it has a neat thing of showing me the conversion if I highlight it though if you search it up it say's 20.70 so that's way expensive!
I hope you get better pay there because if not... I don't see how this makes sense. Just makes me a bit more grateful I live here I suppose.

[Razp_Sorbet]

That's USD conversion. I'm in New Zealand...

[Kaneki05]

Interesting, thought only america used dollars but that's just my lack of knowledge guess.

[Razp_Sorbet]

Many countries use the dollar symbol for their currency. Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Singapore and about 15 others

[Kaneki05]

I see good to know. Personally I would say if they had their own symbol it would help to differentiate it better also odd that Australia copied dollars to say they were British ran if anything I 100% would of thought they would use notes like us.

[Razp_Sorbet]

Notes? We all have notes? Dollar is just a currency symbol. They are all different and all have different values. When talking about different currency you would just say AUD, NZD, USD, CAD, SGD as you would with GBP.

[Kaneki05]

Nah it's different notes are never called dollars nor use a dollar sign ever. In fact ours notes don't even have a symbol because we just have symbol for pounds here aka £ so when referring to GBP we always just use our pound sign which is unique to us.
¥ Yen use this as their symbol because they also don't have dollars.

Many countries us their own unique symbols and names tbh I thought every country did before you mentioned this. Just weird to me that those countries don't also want to be individualistic with their currency naming and symbol.

[Razp_Sorbet]

Notes are just the name for "paper" money. Notes and coins are standard among most countries.

[Kaneki05]

No there is clear difference between American dollars and British notes I have seen both they are very differently made and have clear distinctions then pounds and pennies are also very clearly different. To call them the same thing is just flat out wrong.

[Razp_Sorbet]

I'm not saying they look the same... I'm just saying they are all still called notes/banknotes. upload.wikimedia.org/.../...n_White_Background.jpg

If you Google banknotes you will see notes from various countries

[Kaneki05]

American's do not call them notes though lmao. Just like how we don't call them dollars. I don't get what your not understanding here.

[Razp_Sorbet]

Dollar is just the currency which the note represents. They do call them notes... Just like we do in NZ too. Example I would say "oh I think I have a ten dollar note" or "I think I have five dollars in coins"

"Note" isn't specific to the UK

[Kaneki05]

No one would say that in America smh they would just say 10 dollars. Would be like a British person saying Soda that's just wrong in every way. And Soda is a different thing entirely to our country. Because different countries have different meaning for their words. Things are just not the same.
And I thought every country was like that but if your just saying NZ dollars have no individuality to separate themselves like different name or sign then that's just odd to me.

[Kaneki05]

Note isn't. But pound is.

[Kaneki05]

People here say have you got a fiver actually so we don't even say Pound or note tbh lol

[Kaneki05]

Honestly I'm just confused now. But here's my point in more simpler way I'm gonna guess NZ has a native lango and isn't just English so why is their currency not Representative of that lango? Much like Yen or Pound?

[Razp_Sorbet]

Then what do you think about the almost entirety of Europe? 💀 They all use Euros.

There's only about 28 different currency symbols and 180 different currencies so many are going to use the same symbol.

The GBP isn't only used in the UK either it is also used in Jersey, Guernsey, Gibraltar, the Isle of Man, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, the British Antarctic Territory, and Tristan da Cunha.

[Razp_Sorbet]

Because you can't just create an entire new currency. We use to use pound sterling then switched to our own currency in 1967.

[Razp_Sorbet]

Currency symbol*

[Kaneki05]

Oh I know but Euro has a reason to that question called the EU they wanted it to create a currency that would show them to be part of it. Not that us British ever cared about that denying to change it.
Aye and I'm gonna guess those places using our currency were heavily influenced by us in someway, which is why I find it odd Australia isn't also one of them and other places they've seemed to follow American influence for no reason?

[Kaneki05]

Ah so did use ours then decided to follow the American route for some reason. Rather than just use your own culture for it which in my mind makes 0 sense.

[Razp_Sorbet]

Not influenced... controlled by... do you not read into history?

Has nothing to do with American influence. There was suggestions of calling it kiwi or zeal but they just chose dollar. Probably more for convenience. Who knows it was the 60s.

Just because they use the same symbol doesn't mean they are the same though. They're all different currencies with different values and exchange rates.

But at least now you know when someone says dollar or uses $ not to assume it's USD

[Kaneki05]

Influenced can mean multiple things including been controlled by. And yes it does 100% have to do with it otherwise you wouldn't call it that, you would've called zeal or kiwi like you just said. But for some reason they decided to moniker it like america for some reason.
You can't say it's not influenced by them in anyway when it's a thing they created in the first place.

[Kaneki05]

All I know is if I was living in NZ I would want the name to represent the country. And I'm one of the least patriotic people out there and don't care much about culture but would still say that.

[Kaneki05]

Just glad the pound won't ever change. One can hope lol.

[Razp_Sorbet]

It may change in the future. Though all the old white folks don't even want to change our name to it's Maori name.

[nawtee_me]

I do have meat of some sort at every meal. However it is not always to eat so much as it is for seasoning. Like I will use meat as a base for stock for soups. A little can go a long ways. A few pieces of ham in a bean dish for example. Or a few cubes of beef in a vegetable soup. Or even a strip of cooked bacon chopped up in a potato soup or twice baked potatoes...

[purplepoppy]

I'm not a vegetarian but I still eat meat free meals. I don't try and substitute other things it's more the recipe doesn't include meat anyway

[Dieudonné842]

Cool.

[melanieeeB]

Nope I try to cook mostly vegetarian, I do cook fish very often tho but yeah I try to not eat meat everyday

[SnowedIn]

Most of the time yes. But not because we're specifically deciding to only have meat or be anti vegan/vegetarian, but because that's just what we want for that meal.

[xColinx]

Lotta basic stuff to eat that doesn't involve meat.

Tons of great pizza options without meat, same with pasta. Somewhat the same with mexican dishes.

Also, ice cream.

[NathanDavis]

nope... no

I do have a more balanced diet

also, I prefer to have protein during the day, rather than late at nights

[petitedollbabee]

Yep. Usually beef mince or steak, peppered ham or chicken. On the rare occasion I’ll have lamb or pork.

[MementoMori777]

I wouldn't say all but most of my meals have proteins

[Razp_Sorbet]

Protein comes in many forms not just meat

[MementoMori777]

I know, but I'm not talking about the other proteins because your question wasn't about the other types of proteins

[Mansearching]

Yes we do. But I've started to mix turkey and beef. Actually cuts the amount i spend and fat and cholesterol goes down.

[Razp_Sorbet]

Turkey isn't a thing here really. What we do have is very expensive

[Mansearching]

Our inflation is so bad here. I understand.

[PBandJ_Nerd]

Usually I'll have some chicken with my dinner. If not, then fish or some other protein.

[Gummy_Cluster]

I can't really afford it, unless my cousin shoots a deer.

[TrueConfection]

I'm not a vegetarian, but I don't eat meat very often. Maybe once or twice a week?

[Potteplante]

Yes I do. I usually have at least one meat free day a week and have for a long time.

[jshm2]

More or less, yes. Though I mean "meat" as in fish, prawn etc.

[AviatorTom]

Not always. Last night, we had pasta and vodka sauce, no meat.

[Smartman5]

We are not vegetarian or vegan but we still don't eat a lot of meat. It's not because it's expensive. We have enough money to buy meat. we usually eat meat 2-3 days a week.

[Jamie05rhs]

I'm not vegetarian or vegan, but I can have meals without meat if I want to. (Although I usually like to have cheese, at least.)

[loveslongnails]

No, there are lots of meals where I have a different protein source than meat.

[Dantezam]

I try to avoid meat on dinner, I rather to have it on lunch

[dolemite89]

ya i try to only eat meat for 1 meal a day though

[Agape93]

Usually yeap. It's a diet staple for me.

[PrettyPriya]

I just eat cupcakes...

[Agape93]

Now THAT is a dessert staple for me. I love eating me some warm, soft @blackcupcake

[Blackcupcake]

lmao

[exitseven]

yes , beef, chicken, turkey or fish.

[Dieudonné842]

Pescatarian. Only seafood and vegetables.

[Likes2drive]

Usually but not always

[LiamSawyer]

Most of the time.

[LiamSawyer]

@Razp_Sorbet to clarify tes meat has gotten more expensive here but I got in the habit of buying meat in bulk when at a good sale price and I cut it to portion sizes and vacuum seal it and flash freeze it so I have a large chest freezer full of a variety of meats and fish and another freezer full of a variety of veggies from my large veggie garden. We can still get good on special prices if you look out for them. So yes I usually have some kind of meat with my dinner. Even if it's in the form of a homemade soup or stew.

[Razp_Sorbet]

Yeah unfortunately I don't have the space to do anything like that.

[LiamSawyer]

That's too bad but I know where you're coming from as you have described your flat before. Is it still without any form of air conditioning.

[Razp_Sorbet]

Yep. Been very hot lately too. Luckily today isn't as bad. Just a nice 26c inside rather than 32c

[LiamSawyer]

Lol... itcwas a nice warm 5°C here today instead of the -22°C we had the day before, that's the coldest we've had it this winter all in all it hasn't been a very cold winter and almost no snow more rain this winter. It gets plenty hot come summer thou.

[eagle1951]

99% of the time yes

[20yearsolder]

Most of the time yes

[LazerBean]

Pretty much

[Anonymous]

not always sometimes though

[gorydetails]

Most all, yes