Degrowth

Just want to mention to anyone reading that plant-based meats have come such a long way, and if you haven't tried them, please do!

Impossible meat is astonishingly good. All of it. I haven't tried something from them I haven't liked. The meatballs, chicken nuggets, burger, steak bites, it's all almost indistinguishable from the real thing, even though it's soy based.

Quorn is an older vegetarian alternative made from a mushroom/fungus, and is usually quite a bit cheaper than Impossible meat, sometimes half the price. If you cook the ground beef or chicken cubes with a Beef or Chicken flavored stock (Marmite is a great vegan alternative for beef stock), is also tastes extremely good (basically no flavor of their own, they'll just absorb what you put in it).

Seitan is a really good affordable option, even cheaper than Quorn if you make it yourself from wheat gluten flour (lots of good recipes on youtube, even for a ham-like style!)

Using these alternatives makes it so much easier to switch away from real meat while still being able to use all of your existing meat based recipes. I've been able to make chili, lasagna, goulash, beef lo mein, beef stroganoff, burgers, and more with these alternatives, and I genuinely couldn't tell they weren't real meat. My family were heavy meat eaters their entire life, but after finding those 3 alternatives, I've been able to switch them entirely off real meat, which I never would've thought possible, that's how good these things are.