To all the meat eaters , how do you afford to eat it than a couple of times a week?

[hunter]

97. My wife is entirely vegetarian now, I'm mostly vegetarian.

We don't ask that of our three dogs, however. We probably spend as much on their food as we do on our own because we don't buy any dog food that has corn meal or meat by-products as the first few ingredients. If I get a good deal on ground turkey or something I'll sometimes make the dogs food out of that.

In my culture dogs are "family."

I'm not going to do the cost accounting on dog food, however. It makes me sad, especially when I think about hungry people.

My niece is very interested in goats as meat and dairy animals, which would probably make her cattle ranching and dairy cow ancestors cringe a bit.

As a kid our primary source of animal protein was fish my dad caught, and later fish we ourselves caught. Occasionally there were parts of pigs, deer, and sheep in the freezer too.

In my own cooking I typically use meat as a flavoring, not as a primary source of fat or protein.