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Welcome to the Carnivore Diet! This guide will help you transition to a low-carb, animal-based lifestyle with simple meal plans and easy, budget-friendly recipes. You'll learn what to eat, how to plan meals, and how this diet compares to other low-carb approaches.
  • What to Eat – Approved foods for the Carnivore Diet
  • Diet Comparisons – Differences between Low-Carb, Keto, Ketovore, and Carnivore
  • Recipes & Meals – Easy meal ideas for every day
  • Grocery List – Essentials for your carnivore kitchen
  • Meal Plan – Structured plan to help you stay on track
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What to Eat

What Can You Eat on the Carnivore Diet?

The Carnivore Diet is the third and last stage of the Primal Diet, which focuses on animal-based foods to improve your health by healing the root causes of illnesses, i.e., inflammation, hormonal imbalances, insulin resistance, and high blood sugar levels.

To reach these improvements, Carnivore meals should contain high-quality, grass-fed, pasture-raised, and wild-caught meat and seafood. But that’s not all.To provide necessary nutrients, vitamins, and minerals, we need the following food sources on the Carnivore Diet.

Download the high-quality Go Carnivore Diet Food Pyramid for free and learn about the details of this pyramid structure.
Primary Carnivore Foods

Meats

  • Beef: Ribeye, sirloin, brisket, ground beef, steak, roast, ribs
  • Pork: Bacon, pork chops, pork ribs, ham, tenderloin, pork belly
  • Lamb: Lamb chops, ground lamb, leg of lamb, lamb shoulder
  • Game Meats: Venison, bison, elk, wild boar
  • Organ Meats: Liver, heart, kidneys, brain, tongue, sweetbreads, bone marrow
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Secondary Carnivore Foods

Poultry

  • Chicken: Whole chicken, chicken thighs, drumsticks, wings, breasts (with skin)
  • Turkey: Ground turkey, turkey breast, thighs, wings
  • Duck and Goose: Duck breast, thighs, whole duck, goose
  • Other Birds: Quail, pheasant, squab
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Complementary Carnivore Foods

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Seafood

Fish: Salmon, mackerel, sardines, tuna, cod, trout, haddock, halibut. Shellfish: Shrimp, crab, lobster, clams, oysters, scallops, mussels. Other Seafood: Squid, octopus, roe (fish eggs)

Dairy Products (Optional)

Full-Fat Dairy: Cheese (cheddar, gouda, mozzarella, parmesan), cream cheese, heavy cream. Butter and Ghee. Fermented Dairy: Yogurt (unsweetened, full-fat), kefir (for those following less strict versions of Carnivore)

Eggs

Chicken eggs, duck eggs, quail eggs (including yolks and whites)

Fat Sources

Animal Fats: Tallow (beef fat), lard (pork fat), suet (raw fat from beef or lamb). Butter. Bone Marrow: Roasted or raw

Beverages

Allowed: Water, bone broth. Optional: Black coffee and tea

Foods to Avoid

Plant-based food sources, including all fruits, vegetables, grains, legumes, nuts, seeds, sugar, and plant-based oils
Checking these foods, you might have noticed that many of them are the sources we can include in similar diets like Low-Carb, Ketovore, and Keto. But how do these diets differ and which one suits your health status and goals?
Diet Comparisons

Differences Between Low-Carb, Keto, Ketovore, and Carnivore Diets

The main difference between a Low-Carb, Keto, Ketovore, and Carnivore Diet is the level of carbohydrates we consume and the macronutrient balance.

Low-Carb Diet

The Low-Carb Diet, which is the first level of the Primal Diet, is for beginners who aim to decrease their carbohydrate consumption and benefit from its health effects, like blood sugar control, more energy, better digestion, etc. As your body gets fat-adapted and you can actually decrease your carbohydrate intake, you can move to the second level of the Primal Diet.

Keto Diet

The second level of the Primal Diet is known as the Keto Diet. This diet eliminates starchy vegetables and focuses on meat and animal-based foods. As you progress into the low-carb lifestyle, you notice health improvements, in weight loss, insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, inflammation, brain functions, etc.

Ketovore Diet

The Ketovore Diet is the line between Keto and Carnivore. It helps you transition to an animal-based lifestyle and eliminate unnecessary food sources, especially plant-based products.

Carnivore Diet

To maximize the health effects of the low-carb lifestyle, you can gradually transition to the Carnivore Diet, which allows you to consume only animal-based products and eliminate anti-nutrients from plant foods.
Each of these stages requires special meal plans because they allow different food sources and require different macronutrient balances. No worries, though, because you can use this free Meal Planner Tool to create personalized meal plans based on your diet and carbohydrate intake.

After receiving the tailor-made meal plan, you need to start cooking! Let’s review some of the best Carnivore Diet meal ideas for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. You can also make Carnivore-friendly desserts and snacks. Let’s get cooking!
Recipes & Meals

Carnivore Diet Meal Ideas for Breakfast

You don’t need to have special cooking skills to use Carnivore recipes. You can easily make Carnivore meals using these Carnivore meal ideas. Here are the Carnivore Diet meal ideas for breakfast.
Here, you can access the free directory of Carnivore Diet Recipes, which helps you make simple and affordable ingredients with great taste!
Recipes & Meals

Carnivore Diet Meal Ideas for Lunch

The following Carnivore recipes include Carnivore meal ideas that give you yummy dishes. These free Carnivore Diet recipes include various fat and protein sources helping you manage your macronutrient balance.

You can find Carnivore Diet chicken recipes, Carnivore Diet ground beef recipes, and many other recipes for Carnivore Diet, which can be made easily and quickly with no special cooking skills.
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Carnivore Diet Meal Ideas for Dinner

Here are the best Carnivore recipes to make mouth-watering dinners and Carnivore meals. You can check the free directory of Carnivore Diet Recipes to access more Carnivore Diet meal ideas.
Recipes & Meals

Carnivore Diet Dessert Ideas

The Carnivore Diet meal ideas are not only about breakfast, lunch, and dinner. You can use these Carnivore recipes to make delicious Carnivore Diet desserts.
Grocery List

Carnivore Diet Grocery List

Here, you can download the complete Carnivore Diet food list to take with you when you go grocery shopping for your Carnivore Diet meals.
Here are also three Carnivore Diet meal plans, Easy, 7-day, and 30-day Carnivore Diet meal plan for those who want to get inspired or get started.
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Meal Plan

Carnivore Meal Plan for 7 Days

Here is a sample 7-day Carnivore Diet meal plan. To access variations of this animal-based diet meal plan, designed based on your carbohydrate intake, use this Meal Planner Tool.

Day 1

Breakfast: 4 scrambled eggs cooked in beef tallow or butter - 3 slices of crispy bacon.
Lunch: 300g pan-seared ribeye steak with salt - 1 boiled egg
Dinner: 200g grilled salmon - 1 cup bone broth
Snacks: Beef jerky - pork rinds

Day 2

Breakfast: 3 hard-boiled eggs -  2 sausages
Lunch: 250g roast chicken thighs - 50g chicken liver
Dinner: 350g grilled lamb chops - 1 small portion of fatty beef bone marrow
Snacks: 1 slice of cheddar cheese - canned sardines

Day 3

Breakfast: 2 sunny-side-up eggs cooked in duck fat - 1 slice of pork belly
Lunch: 300g grilled beef burger patties - 1 poached egg
Dinner: 200g pan-fried cod - 1 cup bone broth
Snacks: Pork cracklings - a handful of dried fish

Day 4

Breakfast: 3 scrambled eggs with shredded cheese - 2 strips of bacon
Lunch: 250g roasted duck breast - a serving of duck liver pâté
Dinner: 350g slow-cooked beef brisket -  1 small piece of ox tail
Snacks: A few slices of smoked salmon - cheese cube

Day 5

Breakfast: Omelet with 4 eggs and melted cheese - 1 sausage
Lunch: 300g grilled pork ribs - 1 cup of warm bone broth
Dinner: 250g pan-seared scallops in butter - 200g roasted chicken wings
Snacks: Hard-boiled eggs - a slice of cream cheese

Day 6

Breakfast: 3 fried eggs cooked in lard - 2 pieces of fatty lamb sausage
Lunch: 300g slow-roasted pork shoulder - a small portion of pork cracklings
Dinner: 300g grilled salmon - 1 serving of beef liver
Snacks: Gouda or Parmesan cheese - thin slices of prosciutto

Day 7

Breakfast: 4 scrambled eggs cooked with beef fat - 3 slices of crispy bacon
Lunch: 350g pan-fried steak (sirloin) - 1 cup of bone broth
Dinner: 250g roasted turkey drumstick - 200g beef short ribs
Snacks: Pork rinds - 1 slice of aged cheese

30-Day Carnivore Diet Meal Plan

Here is your 30-day Carnivore Diet meal plan PDF with a downloadable file. It also includes various meal plans based on the strictness of your Carnivore Diet, whether you are a beginner or advanced Carnivore, or an expert who follows the Lion Diet.

Tips for Better Results

  • Drink plenty of water during the day to avoid dehydration.
  • Buy meat sources in bulk and from local markets to save money.
  • Buy from grass-fed, pasture-raised, and wild-caught sources.
  • Keep your electrolytes balanced using salt or electrolyte drinks.
  • Consult a healthcare professional for personalized advice.