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I actually enjoy eating salad as a starter, something that is rare in Britain but I came across in travelling in the USA and Europe. Salad makes a good starter, a good garnish and a great side dish, but don't forget the meat! I could never face the idea of a salad as a meal. Meals need to be based around something substantial: bread, rice, potatoes, meat, or fish. Not leaves!
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Most women believe that the fat content of meat is in excess of 100% of the weight of the food. That is the only way to rationalize their behaviour. Assuming anything else makes women's behaviour seem bizarre and irrational. As a general rule you can never understand anything unless you find the rationality behind it. Only by assuming that women have this peculiar belief about meat is their behaviour anything approaching rational and capable of being understood. Only by assuming that there is more than 100% fat in meat would a woman's preference for cottage cheese over pork make sense. Pork has less fat, and the fat is visible and easily avoided. In cottage cheese the fat is hidden and unavoidable.
Perhaps that analysis is wrong because it assumes food to be subject to rational decision making. Fat is not the issue, it is the excuse. Women hate meat, women act as if meat was evil, women act as if food is a battle of morality; good against evil.
Food, to women, is either good or evil. Meat is evil because it is man-food. It feeds men, men like it, men provide it, men enjoy it. It is obviously bad for them. It stands to reason. Men need to be protected against meat. But all meat is not equal. The evil meat is red meat. Is this some kind of ancient echo of the battle of the sexes from primordial times? Red meat was the meat from the large kills. Mammoth meat. Bison meat. Horse or antelope meat. The meat that the men brought into the camp. The meat that the men valued so highly in their trading with the women. The women worked for hours each day digging tubers, gathering seeds, picking the juicy (white) grubs. The flesh that the women brought to the feast was white flesh; snared birds, the ancestors of our chickens, fish and shellfish. Women gathered much of the food the tribes ate but the men claimed the glory. The red meat was the centre of the feast. The food that was most shared, the food that required the most co-operation between men, the food that was most highly prized. It was also the food that men used to buy illicit sex.
Women have a natural tendency to distrust meat and to shy away from it. This makes perfect sense. To a woman meat is the currency of betrayal. You become the wife of the best man who can provide you with meat but you find that the man uses his meat to buy sex and other favours from other women. In every hunting tribe ever studied the men who are the best hunters have the most affairs. Meat, red meat in particular, is associated with male status. It makes sense for women to react against meat in asserting their independence from men. Rejecting meat empowers women. Rejecting meat all together is not such a good strategy, both nutritionally and in the balance of power with men. It makes more sense to belittle meat, especially red meat, and to eat less of it and value it less. This strengthens their hand against men. Also by still eating meat, but by down-playing its value, men have to prove themselves to women in other ways. The days when you can just walk into the cave with a mammoth steak and get a blow job for your efforts are long gone. Shame.