What I Eat: 7 Full Days of Eating on a Carnivore Diet
Summary
TLDRLaura shares a detailed week of meals on her carnivore diet, highlighting a variety of meat dishes, recipes, and cooking techniques. She emphasizes the practicality and flexibility of the diet, suitable for her family's lifestyle. Laura also discusses her meal planning strategies, incorporating workouts, and how she adapts her meals for different family members. The video provides insights into making carnivore eating enjoyable, affordable, and manageable, while also touching on fasting for weight maintenance. Throughout, she offers tips, product recommendations, and links to additional resources.
Takeaways
- 🥩 Laura follows a carnivore diet and has been doing so for five and a half years.
- 🍽️ She typically eats two meals a day, often lunch and dinner, and sometimes only one meal.
- 🥓 Her meals usually consist of multiple types of meat for variety, such as rib eyes, pork belly, and burger patties.
- 👨👩👧👦 Laura's family, including her stay-at-home husband Chris and homeschooled children, all eat together for lunch.
- 🍖 Sundays are special with larger, fancier meals, often including smoked meats.
- 🍗 Her go-to meals include grilled meats, loaded chicken salad, and carnivore fajitas.
- 🏋️♀️ On gym days, Laura incorporates breakfast to avoid fatigue, typically eating eggs, bacon, and cheese.
- 🥑 She often uses simple seasonings and cooking methods, preferring grilling and air frying.
- 🍔 Eating out is usually burger patties with cheese and bacon for affordability and convenience.
- 📦 Laura organizes her freezer meticulously to keep a variety of meats ready for meal prep.
Q & A
What is the main focus of Laura's video?
-The main focus of Laura's video is to show what she eats in a week while following a carnivore diet.
How long has Laura been following the carnivore diet?
-Laura has been following the carnivore diet for five and a half years.
What does Laura's typical Sunday lunch look like?
-Laura's typical Sunday lunch often includes rib eyes and crispy pork belly, seasoned with coarse flaky salt and smoked salt.
What are some of Laura's breakfast choices on gym days?
-On gym days, Laura typically eats four eggs, a quarter cup of bacon crumbles, and a quarter cup of shredded cheese for breakfast.
How does Laura incorporate variety into her carnivore diet?
-Laura incorporates variety by including different types of meat in her meals, such as rib eyes, pork belly, pork ribs, burger patties, chicken salad, and different cuts of beef and pork.
What is Laura's strategy for ensuring she gets enough protein and fat in her diet?
-Laura's strategy involves eating two meals a day, usually breakfast and lunch or lunch and dinner, and ensuring that one of her meals is substantial enough to meet her protein and fat requirements.
How does Laura handle meal preparation for her family?
-Laura and her family often prepare and eat their meals together, with Chris grilling or smoking meats for family lunches. They also enjoy simple dinners, with Laura sometimes preparing separate meals for herself and her kids.
What are some examples of Laura's favorite carnivore meals?
-Some of Laura's favorite carnivore meals include flanking cut beef ribs, chicken thighs, pork Souvlaki, loaded chicken salad, and tri-tip beef.
What does Laura typically eat when dining out?
-When dining out, Laura typically orders plain burger patties with bacon and cheese, as she finds it to be a good value and suitable for her carnivore diet.
How does Laura manage her diet when she is in weight loss mode?
-In weight loss mode, Laura incorporates more fasting into her routine while keeping her meals the same. She does not track her food but leverages fasting to manage her weight.
What appliances does Laura use for cooking her carnivore meals?
-Laura uses a variety of appliances including the grill, smoker, air fryer, and sometimes the oven or stovetop. She also mentions using a meat slicer occasionally.
How does Laura ensure her meals are varied and interesting?
-Laura ensures her meals are varied and interesting by including different types of meats, using various cooking methods, and occasionally incorporating flavored items like seasoned pork rinds.
What is Laura's approach to maintaining her carnivore diet while traveling or dining out?
-Laura's approach involves choosing simple carnivore-friendly options like burger patties and maintaining flexibility in her meal choices to accommodate her dietary needs.
What is the purpose of Laura's use of electrolytes?
-Laura uses electrolytes to replenish essential minerals like magnesium, sodium, and potassium, especially to prevent leg cramps and to support hydration, considering that modern water is often stripped of these minerals.
How does Laura incorporate exercise into her routine?
-Laura incorporates exercise by attending early morning workout classes twice a week, followed by a high-protein breakfast to aid recovery and prevent fatigue.
What are Laura's strategies for ensuring her family's meals are balanced and satisfying?
-Laura's strategies include planning family meals that include a variety of meats, ensuring they are cooked deliciously, and sometimes incorporating extras like pickles or sauces to enhance flavor.
How does Laura handle meal prepping and storing food?
-Laura handles meal prepping by cooking in bulk and freezing individual portions of meals like meatballs. She uses a well-organized freezer with drawers to store different types of meat efficiently.
What are some of Laura's favorite snacks on the carnivore diet?
-Some of Laura's favorite snacks include loaded chicken salad with pork rinds and chili lime pork rinds.
How does Laura address cravings for non-carnivore foods?
-Laura addresses cravings for non-carnivore foods by making carnivore-friendly versions of those dishes, such as carnivore fajitas seasoned with taco seasoning to satisfy her craving for Mexican food.
What advice does Laura offer for those new to the carnivore diet?
-Laura advises new carnivore dieters to experiment with different types of meats, use a variety of cooking methods, and incorporate fasting as needed to manage weight without the need to track food intake meticulously.
Outlines
🍽️ Weekly Carnivore Diet Introduction
Laura introduces her channel and the video format, explaining her approach to a carnivore diet over five and a half years. She aims to show as many meals as possible throughout the week, highlighting her family's eating habits and meal preparations, starting with a detailed description of a fancy Sunday lunch featuring ribeye steaks and crispy pork belly.
🥓 Snake Feeding and Simple Meals
Laura describes her daily routine, including feeding her pet snake and preparing meals for her family. She mentions the convenience of bacon crumbles from Costco, her early morning workout sessions, and her preference for incorporating electrolytes into her diet. She highlights the benefits of red light therapy and shares her breakfast routine post-workout.
🍗 Delicious Meals and Carnivore Fajitas
Laura talks about her favorite meals, including flanking cut beef ribs, chicken thighs, and shrimp. She describes the cooking process, from grilling to seasoning, and emphasizes her preference for variety in her meals. She also mentions her family's meal preferences and how she balances different types of meat throughout the week.
🍖 Tri-Tip and Chicken Breast Dinner
Laura details her dinner preparations, featuring a beef tri-tip and marinated chicken breasts. She shares her tips on avoiding overcooking and enhancing flavors with butter and flaky salt. She also discusses her organized freezer setup, her strategy for preparing meatballs, and her approach to fasting for weight management.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Carnivore Diet
💡Ribeye Steak
💡Pork Belly
💡Flaky Salt
💡Airfryer
💡Pork Ribs
💡Loaded Chicken Salad
💡Electrolytes
💡Beef Ribs
💡Fajitas
💡Freezer Organization
Highlights
Introduction to the channel and overview of a carnivore diet week.
Personalization of the carnivore diet based on individual and family needs.
Sunday lunch includes rib eyes and crispy pork belly, emphasizing variety in meals.
Utilizing different salts and seasonings to enhance flavors.
Explanation of meal frequency, typically eating two meals a day.
Family lunch routine with smoked pork ribs and burger patties for variety.
Simplifying dinner with easy and quick meals, like loaded chicken salad.
Incorporating fitness routines with electrolytes to support workouts.
Post-workout breakfast with eggs, bacon crumbles, and cheese for protein recovery.
Highlighting the best meal of the week: flanking cut beef ribs and chicken thighs.
Lunch featuring pork Souvlaki with feta cheese and meeting a friend for dinner.
Practical eating out options like burger patties with bacon and cheese for a good value.
Breakfast with ham and eggs, balancing carb intake with specific dietary needs.
Favorite meal preparation: carnivore fajitas with chicken thighs, shrimp, and flap meat.
Dinner with beef tri-tip and chicken breast, emphasizing meal variety to avoid boredom.
Freezer organization tips for meal planning and prepping meatballs for quick dinners.
Saturday meal plans and the role of fasting in weight maintenance.
Encouragement that carnivore diet can be varied, easy, affordable, and adaptable.
Additional content and community interaction available through weekly live streams and Locals.
Transcripts
welcome back to my channel my name is
Laura this is going to be a good
old-fashioned like what I eat in a week
I'm gonna try to show you as many meals
that I eat on a carnivore diet as
possible the way that I eat carnivore
may not be stripped enough for you and
it's too strange for other people but
it's really just what works for me and
for our family I have been eating this
way for five and a half years and things
have slightly evolved over the years but
I would say it's probably been three
years now that like I'm just in a really
good groove of eating what works for me
and I'm just gonna show you what that is
this week
sometimes I go down a rabbit hole of
like showing you recipes and techniques
and I will try to link everything down
below that I have filmed previously but
the goal of this video is just to show
you as many meals as possible very
realistic outlook on what I eat in a
week so that's what we're gonna do
Sunday lunch is always like a lot
fancier it's usually a little bigger
deal we'll usually smoke something or go
nuts but today we are doing rib eyes and
some crispy pork belly you will notice a
theme I always have two different Meats
on my plate it just gives me variety and
makes it interesting so I'm gonna add
some melted butter to the top it's gonna
melt and make this delicious sauce on
top of my ribeye and then we have a
pinch pot of some really coarse flaky
salt we season the steaks when we eat
them but on the table I use like a flaky
regular salt and Chris is always using
this one that has a smoked uh salt we
gotta refill it it has a smoked salt in
it just as a finishing salt and I'll
link everything down below but some
fatty tender ribeye and some super
crispy airfryer pork belly
Chris brought me an apron to eat because
he knows I haven't changed since church
yet
I'm gonna probably spill steak cheese
all over myself thanks man
he's the one target laundry
so this is really stuff
self-preservation saving him work later
of getting out stains when I spill
something
most days I'm eating two meals a day
whether that's breakfast and lunch or
lunch and dinner really just depends on
my schedule and you'll see that
throughout the week some days like today
I'm able to strategically get enough fat
and protein in one meal and so this will
be my only meal for the day personally
though I can't eat one meal a day every
day or I end up under eating over time
usually Sundays is the only day where I
plan ahead and make sure that I get
enough at once for it to be my only meal
since I work from home and the kids are
homeschooled and Chris is a stay-at-home
dad like everybody's home all the time
but the benefit of that is we get to
have a family sit down lunch every day
where Chris usually grills something
today he actually smoked a couple of
racks of pork ribs we've been trying to
replicate the ones that we had in
Memphis a couple of weeks ago we even
bought the rub that we've been using
that doesn't have any sugar in it so
today we are doing some pork ribs which
I'm super excited to have these look
really good and juicy and then we just
grilled some burger patties to go along
with it just to give us a little bit of
variety
I also grabbed some pickles to eat with
my burger patty
dinner is one of those meals at our
house that we try to make as easy simple
as possible for you this might be lunch
and most people do like a big sit down
dinner Chris never eats lunch I mean
never eats dinner I eat dinner about
half the time and the kids usually eat
something small that's like mainly
protein because they're getting home
after jiu jitsu and then they go to bed
shortly so lunch is our big family meal
every day and dinner it's just whatever
we could find I'm gonna make you some
marinara sauce and ground beef and make
the kids spaghetti bowls I'm not in the
mood for something hot or like a bunch
of ground beef right now so I had made
some loaded chicken salad I will link
the recipe down below I love this I use
I eat this like I made one can this is
one can worth and it's a huge amount and
I will eat this in like two or three
different small meals this week I eat it
with a spoon you know what I thought of
today I just got back from the grocery
store I should have bought some deli
meat like some ham or some roast beef or
something or turkey even and then put
this
in the wrap
and rolled it up and had like a wrap
with it but I didn't think of that I'm
gonna use pork rinds I bought some chili
lime pork rinds I like the 4505 tahin
ones also but
yeah these are the rib rack ones I get
these at Sprouts and they are super
clean especially for being flavored
um but other than that yeah I'm really
sweaty I did our
my tanning salon that's nearby has a new
red light therapy bed so I went and did
10 minutes in the red light bed which
I've never done if you guys do red light
regularly and find Value in it let me
know because I've never really done it
before
um and I'm excited just to try to do it
whenever I'm not traveling to try to do
it every once in a while and then I went
to the sauna for 30 minutes got a little
sweat in and yeah now I'm prepping
dinner for the kids I'm gonna eat this
myself really quick and then we have a
pet snake and today is feeding day so
I'm thawing a mouse don't worry I'm not
going to show you and I'm thawing a
mouse for the snake for here so protein
all around for everybody in this bath
house this evening
okay look at that
I put a lot of bacon in today ever since
I discovered those bacon crumbles from
Costco or Sam's Club like just the big
bag of bacon bits I'm throwing those
things in everything so so good
I am up bright and early today
uh twice a week when I'm not traveling
I've been meeting some friends at the
gym for a 5 30
workout class which comes bright and
early but it seems to be the only time
that I can actually like make it happen
and I love that like class environment
so I am
having some electrolytes
uh and that's it and then we're gonna go
hit the gym if you want to try the
electrolytes that I use they are the
sponsor of this video and they actually
have a deal for all my subscribers where
you can go to drinkelement.com
lauraspath uh they are magnesium sodium
and potassium I use the unflavored
version which just has literally those
three ingredients and then also when
he's fasting Chris uses the flavored
versions which have Stevia like the kids
love the chocolate version so does Chris
they'll Crystal put his in his coffee I
personally can tell the difference when
I'm not drinking element because I'll
wake up in the middle of the night with
some kind of leg cramps we think about
it ancestrally like we used to drink
water from a stream and it was like
natural and had all these minerals in it
and now everything is just like overly
filtered in any water that we're
drinking is kind of stripped of all of
that good stuff so adding some
electrolytes and these minerals that we
were missing back into our water can be
really beneficial
yeah
I just took the one hour weightlifting
Body Pump class my arms and legs are
Jello I missed them last week because I
was trawling so I could tell my body did
not work out last week and then I sat in
the sauna afterwards on the days that
I've been working out I had tried to
wait until lunch but number one I just
get too hungry after taking this class
that I was just like ravishing in the
mornings and then also I noticed I was a
lot more fatigued from not getting like
protein I've been up since you know 4 30
it's
almost 7 30 right now and then waiting
all the way until lunch is a really long
time for my body to not have protein to
recover from what I just
um this intense exercise so I have been
incorporating breakfast on the two
mornings a week that I go
um to the gym so I have four eggs I did
a quarter cup of bacon crumbles and then
about a quarter cup of shredded cheese
and that is gonna be my breakfast this
morning
so
lunch today was seriously the best meal
I have had in so long we did flanking
cut beef ribs which are also sometimes
called like cross-cut beef ribs they are
so fatty and have so much delicious
chewy collagen on them we grill them hot
and fast like some people do them in the
oven or the air fryer like long and slow
but we love to do them like super high
heat on the grill blast them with a
blowtorch give them a nice Char but keep
a medium rare on the inside they were so
good I have not had those in a long time
and I don't remember why so we're
bringing those back into the rotation
and then we paired with it some chicken
knowing that these beef ribs were going
to be like really really fatty we
whipped out some chicken thighs and just
put those on the smoker ideally they
would have been done in the oven or the
air fryer but the AC went out in our
house today it's Arizona we've been
working really hard to try to keep the
house cool and so until that's fixed
hopefully tomorrow
and so we didn't want to use the oven or
the air fryer to heat those up again but
chicken thighs flanking cut ribs and
then I knocked it out that was breakfast
lunch no dinner for me today so I
finished my lunch uh around noon and
then I will do 24 hours fasting until
lunch tomorrow it is lunch time Chris is
outside grilling for all of us and I
just got off of a work call he is making
pork Souvlaki which is we took some pork
chops and Cubed them up into skewers and
put on some lemon juice a little greek
seasoning and then I will sprinkle feta
cheese on top of it which I feel like
just makes it feel like light and fresh
for the summer and that's all I'm gonna
have and this Nathaniel will eat that
with me and then Chris and Penelope are
going to have some pecanha steaks
normally I might have had like a steak
to go with my pork but I'm meeting a
friend for dinner later and figured I
would just keep it a little bit smaller
for lunch plus I'm going to be having
beef later so I figured I'd stick with
pork I am giving myself a little
appetizer of that loaded chicken salad
that I made the other day and just
having like a few bites before we sit
down for lunch
my go-to when eating out for a decent
value is any place that serves burger
patties I love habit because they'll do
bacon and cheese and their burger
patties are char-broiled um can I please
have a just four plain burger patties
just the patties and then
um the American cheese and bacon on top
of those as well please
same you want four
yes
and do you um do you have pickles
yeah perfect
that's it there we go
we each ate four burger patties which is
a pound of beef two pieces of cheese and
two pieces of bacon and the total price
even after tip was 22 dollars
today
whooped me I went to the gym and now I'm
gonna eat some breakfast and try to
shower nor I can't like walk in from the
gym and shower because I'm already too
hot and sweaty so I have to like cool
down and eat something first
um and I'll eat breakfast with the kids
I'm gonna have this ham for breakfast
today hand may not be clean enough for
you and your goals and whatever it is
that you're working towards I love it
occasionally it's like a fun change in
the morning I picked up this ham from
Costco it had I looked for one that had
this really big nice fat cap on it
um and then four hams I just try to
watch the grams of carbs and make sure
it's not like honey glazed this one is
clean enough for me but obviously do you
I have a meat slicer but it's such a
to get it out and
clean it even though Chris cleans it but
like it's just a pain so I'm just gonna
like cut myself off a chunk and fry it
in the skillet and then make some
scrambled eggs sometimes I mix cheese in
with my eggs so today I'm not going to
because for lunch I know I'm gonna have
a bunch of sour cream so just
I don't cut out Dairy I just try to pick
and choose when I have it so we're gonna
do some ham and eggs for breakfast
okay super simple five minute breakfast
um I did three eggs today only because
that's a really hunk of ham
um and yeah I'll be set to lunch today
for lunch we are going to have what is
referred to in this house as mom's
favorite meal which is basically just
like carnivore fajitas
a little bit of everything uh we do some
chicken thighs which are just boneless
skinless chicken thighs that I cut up
and then I seasoned them today with the
Redmond Real Salt taco seasoning give a
little Mexican food because I love
Mexican food so this is my way of like
getting that craving in throw a little
shrimp on just enough to like have as an
appetizer or like to put on as a side
I'm just seasoning this with some garlic
salt from Redmond's and then I have a
little bit of butter here that I will
throw on like right at the end I don't
want to cook it in butter the whole time
because that'll burn but I'm gonna throw
it on right at the end just to give it
that like good butter flavor and then
this big piece of beef in the middle is
called flap meat which we get it from
Costco it's really similar to a skirt
steak it's just probably I would say a
little more tender but look how good and
marbled that is normally we would do
about double that amount of chicken but
think we're I didn't realize we had not
enough left in the freezer this time so
Chris is going to throw on a couple of
steaks as well just to give a little
more food and then the four of us
um Nathaniel and I probably will crush
that amount of chicken together and
normally Chris would have had a pile of
chicken that we would split with the
beef so
beef fajitas uh Chicken shrimp and then
the beef we pretty much all beef ever
seasoned with adobo and smoked paprika
you could do this in a cast iron skillet
or even on a regular Grill but this is
that meal that I love on our outdoor
flat top griddle and so I will cook
everything in ghee and then like I said
I'll throw on that butter like right at
the end just for the shrimp
okay this is why it's my absolute
favorite meal I have some fatty
delicious beef shrimp chicken a little
salt
and I'm going to dip everything in some
sour cream so good
there you go there
the perfect bite
I had breakfast and lunch and I'll skip
dinner so that gives me after this meal
a 24 hour fast until lunch the next day
this kitchen is chaos
oh we are doing a beef tri-tip today
that is on the smoker and then Chris is
going to finish it on the grill and then
we're actually having chicken breast
which I don't even know when was the
last time we had chicken breast it's
been a while yeah I think these were
left in the freezer from when Chris does
like every once in a while he'll do like
a couple really lean days and then
that's it
um we had no chicken thighs or chicken
wings so we took some chicken breasts
and marinated it in Italian seasoning a
little avocado oil
uh minced garlic is that it
and salt and then we will put them on
skewers and
put some Parmesan cheese on top so we're
almost doing like our pork nuggets
recipe but we're gonna do chicken breast
it would probably be juicier and tastier
with thighs but we got what we got
good right yeah
first of all look at that that's gonna
be so good
cool that's gonna be so good
okay look at this incredible meal we
have this beautiful tri-tip and then
some actually I'm kind of excited to eat
this chicken breast we haven't had
either one of these things in so long if
you're ever feeling bored on Carnivore
just think about
what kind of meats haven't you had in a
while mix it up a little bit
oh look at that don't overcook your
chicken
I'm gonna put some flaky salt on top
and some butter if you eat your
chimichurri would be really good on it
or some kind of I usually throw feta on
it but
it's about perfect for today
perfection
this might be my favorite meal all week
look at that that chicken is so juicy
and this is so good
that's a bunch of butter on top
I think my most asked question Lately
from my videos has been about my freezer
with all the drawers in it and it makes
me so happy that you guys nerd out on
like freezer organization like I do it
is the Hamilton Beach brand and I got it
at the Costco business center but I have
seen it recently at regular Costco's my
brother found one in his Costco so I've
seen them sporadically at various
Costco's around the country so you got
to keep it out it was like 349
unbelievable deal and then I can
organize it by like chickens ground beef
you know steaks and pork and like it
goes seven drawers I'm obsessed
um
but the point of this for dinner tonight
I am doing meatballs the bacon
cheeseburger meatballs I freeze them
individually and then once they're
frozen I'll vacuum seal them together in
about this portion like usually there's
like nine or ten of them in here which
is the perfect size for me to eat a
whole pack or the kids to split a pack
for dinner so that's what's for dinner
tonight
these went into the airfryer straight
from Frozen they take like 10 or 12
minutes like we eat these on repeat
around here
tomorrow is Saturday and we don't have
any food prepped for then my guess is
because Penelope has a jiu jitsu
tournament we really don't know when
we're going to get out of there we might
actually go out to eat as a family we'll
end up at Buffalo Wild Wings or in and
out or some place where we all can eat
and it's not going to be crazy expensive
if I was in like a more serious weight
loss mode right now everything I ate
this week would have been exactly the
same the only difference for me what I
like to lever is fascinating I would
have just skipped a day at some point or
tomorrow because we're going to be busy
and now and about and not home till late
like that's a perfect day for me just to
like Skip and fast and so when I'm in
like weight loss mode or maintenance
mode the only difference for me is how
often I incorporate those fasts mainly
because I don't want to track my food
and I don't I just I have to enjoy what
I'm eating otherwise I'm not going to
stick to it and so my meals always look
the same no matter my weight loss goals
I just try to leverage fasting I also
know in this video we did tons of
grilling and that may not be an option
for you but I linked down below all my
other what I eat videos there's the last
several that I did were all done indoors
and air fryer stove oven crock pot all
that good stuff so hopefully that gives
you some good ideas in general that's
all I hope for this video is that you
got some meal ideas and you realize that
carnivore doesn't have to be quite so
limiting you have tons of variety it can
be easy affordable and it really can
work into your life however busy and
crazy that life is
if you are looking for more content for
me and you want to see weekly live
streams ask me questions come hang out
with a community of people who are all
kind of going through the same things
you are you can come find me at locals
uh other than that don't forget to
subscribe and I'll see you next time
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