What you can eat on carnivore
Meat, fish, eggs, butter, and salt. Milk, cheese, and honey only if you mean animal-based.
At a glance
- Strict carnivore is muscle meat, fish, eggs, organs, butter, tallow or lard, and salt.
- Animal-based eating keeps that base and adds honey, fruit, or dairy if you tolerate them.
- Vegetables, bread, pasta, nuts, sugar, and plant oils stay off the plate.
- A shopping run is eggs, fat, mince or a roast, and fish or liver now and then.
Strict carnivore
The plate is muscle meat from beef, lamb, pork, poultry, or game, plus fish and shellfish, eggs, and fat that came from an animal: butter, tallow, lard. Salt stays on it. Liver and other organs show up in small amounts, not as a large portion every day. Most people keep water, coffee, and tea. A very strict reading drops those too. You make bone broth when you have bones. It is not a separate item you have to buy before you start.
Buy mince with visible fat, and eat the fat on the steak. Skinless lean chicken breast does not keep you full if there is no fat beside it. Sausage and deli meat only if the ingredient list is not mostly sugar and plant fat.
Animal-based
The meat base stays the same. Honey, fruit, berries, milk, cream, hard cheese, or yogurt can come with it if you tolerate them. Those are additions. They are not required, and they do not sit on the strict plate.
Steak at night, and juice, granola, and a smoothie during the day, is neither variant. Keep the addition small, and you should be able to see it on the plate.
What stays off
Vegetables, bread, pasta, legumes, nuts, sugar, plant oils. Frying meat in sunflower oil does not turn the oil into animal fat. Use butter, tallow, or lard for that.
For the shop
Eggs, butter or tallow, mince or a roast, a piece to fry, fish now and then, liver now and then. Where to get that without a premium basket is on the shopping page.
Pregnancy, thyroid disease, kidney disease, gout, and a known metabolic disorder belong with a clinician before you start.
Further reading
Sources
- Carnivore vs animal-based working definitions on this site
This content is general information. It is not medical, dietetic, or diagnostic advice.
