🥩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, so 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.