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• particularmolly

  1 March, 4:37PM

  particularmolly

  i love the idea of meat-free monday. going out to dinner at mildred's in london, a WONDERFUL vegetarian restaurant with no hint of goat's cheese on the menu at all!

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• lalybaba

  2 March, 10:23AM

  lalybaba

  Hadn't heard about MFMs at all, but really like the idea. I am going to try and build this into our week as I'm always looking for excuses to get my very meat and potatoes man to eat a few more vegetables. He does care about the environment so this could be just the thing!

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• Nicola

  2 March, 2:59PM

  Nicola

  I started trying to do a day a week with no meat, but in the end I forgot about it...! My fiance prefers to have meat every day, but if I make a substantial (and tasty) enough veggie meal he'll eat it without grumbling. Also we sometimes just have soup which is normally vegetarian. It saves a bit of money and is good for the environment!

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• Sarah Newson

  3 March, 8:15AM

  Sarah Newson

  I have been veggie for many many years and finally restaurants are paying attention. As much as I like goats cheese and portabello mushrooms, it does get very tiresome going to a restaurant and being offered the same dishes over and over again. Veggie food can be interesting, flavoursome and no more hassle than cooking any other meal. Take some dishes that normally contain meat and put something else in its place. If you don't make a fuss about it being veggie with avid meat eaters, then they won't notice at all. Good luck and enjoy all :o)

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• Caity

  3 March, 11:46AM

  Caity

  My dad became a veggie when I was about 5 so we're always eaten a lot of non-meat meals. Infact when I moved to New Zealand when I was 21 I found that the amount of meat they ate made me feel ill as I was totally unused to it. Doing this MFM is a good idea as we really don't need the amount of meat we eat.

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• icingonthefairycake

  3 March, 9:28PM

  icingonthefairycake

  we make up a menu for the week ahead before shopping and this includes 2 veggie dishes and 2 fish dishes for both lunch and dinner every week we also try to include a new dish or different recipe for an old favorite one example would be barney's golden veggie shepherds pie which we tried ages ago now we eat veggie shepherds pie all the time a firm family thumbs up.

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• miniminx

  5 March, 2:24PM

  miniminx

  MFM is a fab idea and it's good to see restaurants getting on board. there's too many jokes about veggies on tv by 'celebrity chefs' so hopefully this strikes a blow for less meat! in my mind, a chef that can create an imaginative veggie menu is far more creative than one who can rely on old saws like steak or belly pork.

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• Peter

  8 March, 5:34PM

  Peter

  miniminx - i think any Chef/Cook worth his or her salt should be able to produce meat and meat-free dishes that are imaginative. The truely creative/talented chefs are the ones who make you want everthing on the menu equally - veggie or not! In regards to MFM, yes great idea but i'm not one for these trendy causes. No doubt MFM will be forgotten in so many years unless there's a major shift in the consumer buying habits. To be honest this will only occur on the back of accurate pricing of quality, ethically reared produce (organic, free range - what ever the flavour of the month term is) once the deals such as "2 for £5 chicken" are gone and meat is priced as it should, i think we'll see a return to the days when vegetables were the main component of most meals. MFM maybe a great idea, but i think effort would be better spent getting rid of the battery farmed chicken and it's ilk. Apologies for the essay!!!

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• Gemma

  10 March, 7:15PM

  Gemma

  I plan my meals for the week and we always have a couple of non meat dishes - usually Italian pasta types to be fair but non meat all the same. Occasionally I get a "why are we going all Veggie this week?" but usually nobody minds or even notices. I don't think I'm going to specifically peg it to a Monday but we will carry on having a few meat free days per week.

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• Catty

  14 March, 10:45PM

  Catty

  I think it's a fabby idea! I'm not a veggie, but I don't really eat too much meat (2-3 portions a week) and at restaurants I often get frustrated when I don't want to eat meet, but I don't want to eat goat's cheese, avocados, or penne dressed in nothing but oil and herbs. Restaurants need to recognise that vegetarian does not equal bland and tasteless. In fact, I have been to so many restaurants that cook meat badly that I would venture to say that a restaurant should only cook meat dishes if they have a chef who can REALLY cook meat (The Dogs, in Edinburgh for example), 'mon Meat Free Mondays!

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• anamariavasconcellos

  12 July, 2:30PM

  anamariavasconcellos

  I am not vegetarian, but I eat little meat and so it seemed quite naturally support Paul McCartney's Meat Free Monday. I have so many Italian recipes ( www.all-about-italian-food.com ) that are meatless and tasty. For example,the eggplant parmesan is a complete dish and gives you the sense of plain satisfaction after eating it. It's just a matter of choosing the right recipes...people don't need to eat meat to eat tasty and well.

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