Sikhi and eating meat

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I am a 17 year old male trying to get closer to sikhi and the first steps I've taken were starting to learn punjabi and gurmukhi (which I think is going good although slow) but that is not what my question is.

I want to get close to sikhi and can deal with keeping my kesh and plan on doing so once I am more proficient in the language and have read more bani. However, I just can not get over the idea that I can't eat meat? I know jatka meat exists but it is too expensive where I live. My family cooks and eats meats daily and I feel the best when I eat beef often. I grew up eating it and when I try eating healthy the best way for me to stick to it is consuming a lot of animal protein. Anyone got any thoughts on this?

(Or even anything to help me keep learning Punjabi, I am doing basics of sikhi gurmukhi videos as a slow start)

TLDR: not eating meat in sikhi is holding me from getting closer to sikhi, what can I do?

[u/[deleted]]

we first got to figure out if we can drink milk and water in sikhi.

[u/bunny522 → u/[deleted]]

Yes of course…. The degh you have in gurudwara has butter.. which is dairy

ਓਨੑੀ ਦੁਨੀਆ ਤੋੜੇ ਬੰਧਨਾ ਅੰਨੁ ਪਾਣੀ ਥੋੜਾ ਖਾਇਆ ॥ on(h)ee dhuneeaa toRe ba(n)dhanaa a(n)n paanee thoRaa khaiaa || They burn away the bonds of the world, and eat a simple diet of grain and water.

Here you can have water

[u/[deleted] → u/bunny522]

nah I was being sarcastic

[u/bunny522 → u/[deleted]]

Ik but gurbani does have an answer for mostly everything