[rudra]

Sounds like a healthy idea not to have meat.  If I may ask, what do you have instead?  Are you a complete vegetarian now?  And what foods are you replacing the meat with?

aaah !!  and here I thought no one would ask

As my main protein source, I eat lots of legumes. Many varieties are cultivated locally and cheap. forward slash to provide various names of the same items.

mosoor daal or lentils
pigeon pea/arhar/toor
mung daal/green gram
chickpea/bengal gram/garbanzo/chana/chola
pea
peanuts/groundnuts
soybeans
various beans/ green beans

note: - pulses beans peas are all legumes. even peanut.

note2:- Me vs Jacky Chan.
 kidney bean is very healthy. but uncooked or undercooked ones are poisonous. i am just mentioning it here so you don't end up like me when i first tried it. I read that Jacky Chan was having a soup made from it every day. haha. so I had to go do something even bigger and I ate raw.  I sure as hell ran and squatted more times than Mr. Jacky that day.
        you soak it in water for 8-10 hours and then throw away the water and  boil it to make it soft. then have it any way you like. not before on in the middle.

One can have 3 cups or about 3 servings daily of legumes without any worry. higher amount of regular consumption is safe when you eat sufficient amount of other foods too. One should never eat the same combination day in day out. Many legumes contain anti-nutrients like Phytic acid and phytates which inhibit absorption of dietary minerals, Ca, Fe, Zn etc.

  Generally speaking, varying your food ingredients is a really great advice for this very reason. Many common food types contain such naturally occurring anti-nutrients that inhibit digestion/absorption of important nutrients. So by varying the foods you take, you just counter their bad effects by providing more.
       Another good idea is to germinate the seeds and then boil them. Eating raw is not a very good idea most of the time. I am not only talking about e coli contamination like what happened in germany. It is about bioavailability. After boiling, food breaks down into simpler and easily digestible components and hence more of it can get into your body. So what little get denatured during heating is nothing compared to how much more you get from food.
Also germinating, boiling reduces anti-nutrients a lot.

A totally plant based diet is harder to manage effectively. you might end up low in vitamin B or something. I have
> 2 - 4 eggs per week. one at a time. 4/5 b complex tablets per week with food. Those tabs are safe.
> stopped having rice everyday. Use it to change the routine sometimes. Wheat is more protein per weight and much cheaper.
> I always liked having fish. all kind of. But I hate cooking. So no fish, unless it is not cooked by me. I never buy and cook it. Also it is not very cost effective any more. Chicken is a much better bang per bucks if you consider complete protein profile.
> having pulse regularly means one must keep an eye out for iodines. iodised salt.
> I do my best to not subscribe to popular ideas. always check the counter arguments. So I know that it is not the fat from whole milk and milk products but the sugar/simple starch attack that is behind all the health troubles in urban people. So I would have a lot of milk if i could get it locally. But it is not possible right now. Hope to move nearer to a village when I can, later in life.

...I am mostly a boil it and eat it kinda guy. dont care about taste, spice, name of the dish blah blah...

I swear by HEALTH > TASTE

finally, it is not a new game I am in. I am doing it for the last 7 years. You may say that it  might be the reason why I am still single. But I would reply, "thank heavens, I am".

@sohamb03

I do love fish man !! I am a bengali after all and that too from a village down south. How can I not love fish and meat and milk. It is just I am experimenting with food and they are saying that a balanced protein profile plant based diet is better when you consider quality of life on average once people get older. So I am all about green now.

I have no wish to go to gym, ever, if I can help it. I do freehand and some running/swimming/rope jumping. proper gradual loading, intensity, consistency, good rest and healthy food. Thats all. You may say you live to enjoy. I say I enjoy how I live.