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Step 1
Consider sticking to your vegetarian diet at home but eating meat served to you at the homes of friends and relatives. Think of it as being polite and considerate. When they come to your home, expect them to be considerate and eat your vegetarian meals without complaint.
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Step 2
Become a pollotarian and only eat poultry or a pescetarian and only eat fish. Both choices are healthier than eating red meat.
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Step 3
Allow yourself to give in to occasional cravings. Make eating meat, like eating anything unhealthy, something you rarely do but will allow yourself as a splurge every once in awhile.
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Step 4
Think of your diet in terms of proportions. Let most of your food consist of fruits, grains and vegetables and a small percentage consist of meat. Recognize that humans are omnivores, but that eating less meat is healthier.
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Step 5
Eat only free range, organic meats. Avoid meats from animals kept in unnatural or cruel conditions before being slaughtered. For instance, beef can come from grain-fed cattle kept penned in small lots and given hormones and antibiotics or from grass-fed cattle that roamed large pastures. Do not eat veal at all if you wish to be considered a flexitarian.
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Step 6
Count yourself as half a vegetarian. If you and your spouse are both flexitarians, you are doing the environment as much good as one vegetarian.
