How many processed meat meals do you have a week?

ubamother

Interesting that the definition of 'processed' is quite individual, and open to discussion. I count meat that has been cured, and/or had preservatives/flavourings added as processed meat. I would also count sliced ham as processed as it has been cured and had water and flavourings added. Some of the cheaper stuff is 'reformed' which adds further to the processing. I don't count minced meat as processed, as nothing has been added.

I do count sausages as 'processed' meat, and we have them once a fortnight. We had what I like to think of as 'good' sausages once a fortnight - from Donald Russell. We do have bacon once a week, but (in my head at least!) two slices of bacon are so much smaller than two sausages they count as less processed!

I'm uncomfortable using processed meats more than my sausage and bacon allowance above - but love good salami, and home-cooked ham, which I try to pretend aren't processed - but of course they are. They are sliced fairly finer so I like to think that's OK!

anniemf2508

i wouldn't class mince as processed meat either as generally nothing is added to it.
We have 1 pack of sausages, 1 pack of bacon and 1 pack of ham a week.

Aslong as what you are eating is part of a balanced diet then i don't see the problem

HariboJunkie

ubamother wrote: »

I'm uncomfortable using processed meats more than my sausage and bacon allowance above - but love good salami, and home-cooked ham, which I try to pretend aren't processed - but of course they are. They are sliced fairly finer so I like to think that's OK!

Oh god I forgot about italian meats. They are a rare enough treat for us I suppose but they are definitely processed.

Fruball

"If eating one less sausage a day reduced the risks by 19 per cent, as the paper suggests, the risk of dying of pancreatic cancer would be reduced to one in 84. The deaths saved per year would be 1,357. If we take the population of the UK as 60 million, and assume 50 million eat sausages (subtracting infants and vegetarians) then more than 36,000 people would have to make this dietary change to save one death per year.”

Taken from http://www.senseaboutscience.org/pages/get-scientific-advice.html

They have a FB page which will keep you up to date with the scaremongering

Hope that helps

meritaten

to say that eating 'one less sausage a day' just goes to show that its just scaremongering! who on earth eats sausages EVERY day? and more than one at that! in a healthy balanced diet the occasional sausage or salami isnt going to harm you!
Where on earth did they find people who ate two sausages every day and then died of cancer and then did they search for people who only ate one every day? then calculated how much longer they lived?
I would bet this so called research was done by feeding rats sausages every day then another group only fed one!
sounds like flawed research and scaremongering to me!

BitterAndTwisted

Me? None. Ever.


I'm a bit fed up of those newspaper reports: it seems that many journalists don't understand the scientific reports on the research they are being presented with. That is my charitable interpretation. A cynic would say that they could be willfully twisting or slanting things purely for the sake of a snappy headline. Most of us should just stop worrying and get on with our lives and eat what we please in moderation if necessary, just like we have always done.

Linda32

OH has two rashers of bacon twice a week. In a sandwich on Saturday morning and the other at tea time.

We usually have sausage and mash once a week. Chicken possibly twice a week in some form or another. Pasta the other days.

Rebob

We have bacon once a fourtnight if that and sausages about the same but I try to by sausage from the butchers as not keen on eating something that I dont know what is in it. I rarely by sliced meat as I cook full chickens and make from these or from eggs etc. We used to eat quite a bit of processed meats such as chicken kievs, chicken in white sauce etc but I turned this around when I decided to lose weight. Now lost over 10 stone and find proper foods keep me fuller much longer than anything processed. Its the eating real foods that helps me now maintain my weight.

YORKSHIRELASS

I suppose on this board you are going to get a lot of people who are going to answer that question with "not very often". By definition being old style means mainly cooking from scratch, at least thats how I see it anyway.

I bet there are plenty of people out there who do eat processed meat every day, personally I think ready meals are the cause of a lot of health problems and I find a lot of processed foods are expensive, unhealthy and dont fill you up.

Its all about balance. We have bacon most Saturday mornings ( a rasher or two each) and sausages maybe once a fortnight if that. We like a bit of pepperoni on our home made pizzas which we have once in a while and sometimes we have ham from the deli if I have run out of home cooked gammon.

Kittenkirst

This week we only had breadcrumbed prawns which were ready-made (cook from frozen) but usually have processed maybe once a fortnight (if that) We are trying to reduce our meat intake as I worry we consume too much. I thought mince was generally Fairly ok; I usually class things like chicken kievs, grillsteaks & sausages as processed?