🥩Carnivore

What it is

The carnivore diet is exactly what it sounds like: meat, fish, eggs, and often dairy — and nothing else. No vegetables, fruit, grains, or added sugar. It's the strictest elimination diet in mainstream use, usually adopted either for simplicity or to rule out plant-food sensitivities one variable at a time.

Common foods

Beef, pork, poultry, fish, organ meats, eggs, butter, and hard cheeses. Salt is generally fine; most other seasonings (which come from plants) are a matter of personal interpretation — some carnivore eaters allow pepper and herbs, some don't.

Tips & hacks

• Fattier cuts make it sustainable. Very lean meat alone, without added fat, is a fast route to feeling depleted — cuts like ribeye, chuck, or pork shoulder carry their own fat instead of needing it added back.
• Organ meats are the nutritional safety net. Liver in particular carries vitamins that a plant-free diet otherwise skips almost entirely — even a small amount worked in regularly covers a lot of ground.
• Salt is doing real work, not just flavor — with zero plant foods, most sources of potassium and other electrolytes are gone too, so seasoning generously matters more here than in almost any other diet.
• This is the strictest filter on this page — recipes are only included if every ingredient reads as animal-product-or-salt. A recipe with even one vegetable, grain, or plant oil won't show up here, by design.