Trying to stay on track

Now that I'm feeling better (with nausea) I'm trying to get my family back on track with our "semi-veg" (that's what I'm going to call our efforts to cut out meat from our diet-not entirely but cutting it back ideally by about 75%). It is pretty hard especially when we go out to eat because there are very few vegetarian options. And, to boot, John and I have gone out to eat quite a lot in the past few weeks for a variety of reasons. So it seems like every time we make some progress in this semi-veg, within a few days there's some meal to throw us off. I'd love it if out of 21 meals a week we had maybe 2 or 3 (and 3 sounds high to me) that had meat in it. So far we're probably averaging 5-7 meals with meat. At least double what I would prefer.

Today is a perfect example. I'm meeting a friend for lunch. I just looked up the place online and under the restaurant name on their menu it says "Ribs*Beef*Burgers*Beer". Yeah, not exactly a step forward in the semi-veg department. I read the menu and although there is a grilled veggie sandwich, and those are usually tasty, the Santa Fe salad looks better to me. But of course, it has grilled chicken on it and for $7 I'm not going to request they take it off. Yesterday I had soup with turkey in it. Wednesday I had a Lunchable (I know I'm not supposed to have lunch meat. Oh well.). Sigh, we aren't making much progress, are we? On the plus side, I haven't cooked meat in our dinners for a long, long time. In fact in the 6 weeks we've been trying to implement this, I've probably only used meat like 2 or 3 times in my cooking. So that's good that when I cook at least we are able to stay on track.