Are you willing to consider giving up meat to reduce greenhouse gases causing climate change?

[Hortensis]

61. We cut back big on portion size, which was amazingly easy actually.

I remember the first time I read, long ago, that a recommended meat portion was about the volume of a pack of cards. What?! Like that's going to happen! Turned out that's a very enjoyable amount, with every bite enjoyed and leaving us feeling satisfied, and a typical supermarket steak will produce 4 nice, thick portions, 2 meals for us.

The biggest shift, though, was to deliberately building dinner menus around, and shifting culinary attention to what were once "side" dishes. I first got this idea from a foodie forum poster who put an end to throwing away unused vegetables this way. When planning dinner, out come the veggies, (in my case planning something as a main and often a second something), then into the freezer for a meat to go with.

Let's face it, we are all living through what has become inevitable and unavoidable societal change to more sustainable levels of meat consumption. And my thanks to those who help by not eating it at all and pushing supermarkets to better produce sections.

Our DIL no longer eats beef or pork, though still eats chicken and fish, and with her and what with someone at every sizable potluck now not eating meat, I've deliberately grown a little repertoire of vegan mains for the latter. I've even served a couple for dinner, though I've never used that word around my husband and won't be.

And so it goes.