What I Eat: 7 Full Days of Eating on a Carnivore Diet

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

Channel: Laura Spath

Views: 372,790

Keywords: carnivore, keto, keto diet, carnivore diet, ketovore, what i eat, low carb, zero carb, meat based, animal based, Weight loss, weight loss journey

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Length: 19min 48sec (1188 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 22 2023