My Trick To Eating Less Meat At Home

If you're new to eating less meat, I accidentally found a trick to help resist temptation especially if your partner eats meat.

It happened when our old freezer started to ice within days after defrosting. I was tired of defrosting it every two weeks since our landlord was supposed to fix it.

One day I turned it off because ice formed over the switch inside and it would be difficult to turn it off for the next defrosting.

And I forgot about it for three weeks.

Grant rang me while I was out, asking if I defrosted the freezer while he was away on holidays. That's when I realized our frozen food had been rotting in our freezer for weeks! We had'nt opened it sooner because we hardly needed frozen food. The poor guy discovered a very stinky soggy mess. So much food was wasted :(

So we had to clean it out. There was no point of turning it back on. From then we could only buy food that would last in our refrigerator so no more stockpiling like we used to. We were forced to buy meat that was to be eaten within a few days. That means some meat for Grant and my seafood but only small quantities for our weekly grocery shop.

Since our freezer was turned off, I've not had any meals containing meat because we can't keep excess meat in the flat. Our fridge is well stocked with veggies and we save on electricity bills too.

And as for the freezer, it's now used to store our candy. Every time we open it there's a lingering pong of what had been inside and so we're conditioned now to eat less junk food!