flexitarianism
flexitarian diet

Flexitarianism suggests freedom of choice, the chance to have it all your own way.

My approach is like 'flexitarianism', where you base most of your meals on plant-based protein like nuts and pulses, then eat good-quality fish or meat once or twice a week.

In the recent presidential campaign, Ralph Nader revealed his food flexitarianism - no meat, but fish is O.K. - while Representative Dennis Kucinich firmly asserted his status as a vegan.

In case flexitarianism doesn't suit you, links on Macmillan's "flexitarian" Web page offer any number of other possibilities: vegan, fruitarian, pescetarian, rawist and even freegan (someone who eats food that has been thrown away).

Sir Paul's passion for the sea goes back to Yellow Submarine and encompasses his stout vegetarianism- no fish-eating "flexitarianism" for him since a Damascene conversion during an angling trip to Tennessee in the Seventies.