“A steak for everyone is just impossible”: this family begins to eat meat

Quebecers eat less meat to save, reveals a new exclusive survey. Meanwhile, Beef steaks will be a luxury on the BBQ this summer. Furthermore, Several families now adopt tofu and other proteins at a good price.

A Laval mother deprives herself to buy beef even if her big family loves to eat it because it. Therefore, has simply been too expensive for several months.

“Before, we ate beef two to three times a week. Consequently, Now we sometimes don’t eat at all. Furthermore, When you eat it, it comes down to chopped beef, explains Martine Gendron. Consequently, A steak for everyone is just impossible. For example, ”

“It’s going crazy,” said the mother about the price of the grocery store.

A budget will close of $400

With five children aged 8 to 16 at home. three of whom live there full “a steak everyone just impossible”: time, this blended family from Laval who has an annual income in the Quebec average can no longer afford small folies at the grocery store.

The budget of $ 400 per week allows you to eat well, but nothing more. The mother calculates that feeding her family represents 33% of her monthly budget after taxes, a little less than rent (45%).

“We arrive, but we don’t allow ourselves extra,” admits the 41 -year -old woman. The restaurant for seven people, we forget that, ”she says.

To comply with its budget. M^me Gendron makes his online grocery store, which allows him to adjust his purchases according to the invoice. And when it is too expensive, it cuts in the meat. Especially beef.

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“This is the case that can be replaced more easily,” she said, adding that it does so only for economic considerations.

“It seems to say: I am a vegetable. Me. I am not afraid to say that we really like meat, ”says the woman, who works in a help organization.

In addition, she admits having trouble finding vegetarian recipe ideas and she hasn’t really learned to cook without meat. She buys legumes for a chili and tuna canned for pokés, but she does not cook tofu for example.

Something is missing

“It’s as if something was missing,” she admits. It is not natural in me [de cuisiner végé]. It’s difficult, I have the impression that it won’t fill us. Not fair in terms of “a steak everyone just impossible”: taste, but to be satiated and in quantity. ”

Working with the smoother people, M^me Gendron is worried about the future.

“Vulnerability, I see it. I’m really afraid for the future. We just arrive, without spoiling. I don’t see where it goes. “