Absolutely spot on, Dr. Berry. My wife and I are dirt poor on a fixed income, both disabled and I STILL eat carnivore. I buy the best I can afford and I am as healthy as I can be at 65.
Freezing ground beef: place about a pound in a gallon size ziplock and roll it flat with a rolling pin before sealing. They stack better in the freezer and defrost fast when placed in a bowl of water. Reuse the bag: no need to wash and dry, put the used bag back in the freezer until you have more ground beef to store
Listen here, i was a 370 lb food addict, always was hungry, the variety thing is not a problem as you will think, the reasons you crave so much is sugar and carb addiction, im eating 18/6 now lost 75 lbs in 5 months and counting, your whole relationship with food is different, i put on meat and eggs, every time o feel hungry, my body says STOP, im fill you feel full and crave nothing, its true, our body just wanted animal based food, once you give it what it needed, the rest is easy , and you look feel,and perform better, if a fat sugar addict can do it, you can too
thank you for this!! i relate to this so much as a sugar addict. can’t go a day without eating large amounts of sugar. hopefully eating high fat will help me finally feel full and satiated for once!!
Thank you Dr. Berry! I have been on carnivore for a couple of weeks and I am on food stamps and hot dogs, eggs and cheaper cuts of meat ate making me feel pretty darn good already. I have a ton of weight to lose and I have a bunch of autoimmune diseases to overcome. My skin is getting softer and less bumpy and I am starting to walk with less pain. I felt bad about what I had to eat and you have made me feel so much more secure that I can achieve my goals and took away the shame. I am going to have a ribeye on my birthday on April 5th and I can't wait!❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😭😭😭 I have been carnivore for 7 days and my sleep and sinus issues have improved I went to Walmart and bought what I could afford. Thank you so much for this video!!! All the best to you and your Family ❤
I'm poor with a wife and three kids... I found all of these items already. But I'm glad that you're telling everyone else, so they don't run away because they think they need rib eye blessed by a priest.
@@MajorNyberg my notification sound is Jordan Peterson saying, "Don't forget, it's wrong to eat your children." It never fails to get attention when it goes off in public.
food waste is a challenge when you are buying in bulk for family... You can extend your hamburger by making them into meatballs and then freezing them for later use ..Meatballs can be made healthier if you dont use regular old bread or flour but use almond flour, steel cut oats, bran, and or ground flax seed as the filler... another way is to slow cook tougher cuts of meat, marinate and shred the cooked pork to extend its shelf life and make it easier to eat.. e.g. shredded pork tortillas.
Here's a real world example of carnivore on a poverty budget doing it's thing. If anyone is discouraged by the price tag of the diet, please read this entire thing. It's important. My mother had a tumor and was told it was inoperable when it was discovered. She wanted to do everything she could to fight for her health and she chose carnivore. Problem was she was living on a fixed SS income and living in housing for impoverished elders. Here's how she tackled the problem. Food bank. This was a fantastic resource. Occasionally she'd find free meat that had been freezer burned there or donated game meat. She's a competent cook, so that wasn't a problem for her. But her primary target was cheap canned salmon. It was farmed and definitely not the best quality at all, but it was free. She knew when her stores marked down their meats right before their weekly restock and she was at the doors when they opened to get the best deals. Sometimes she'd walk away with nothing, but other times she'd come out with some very affordable meat. She bought the cheapest eggs and LOTS of them. Daily, she'd whip half a dozen eggs in a blender with some cream for her breakfast. (People are always shocked that this tastes absolutely wonderful. No texture problems. This is now my daily breakfast.) She did build up to that to the point where she was eating a dozen eggs a day, but in the end the cream was too expensive, so she cut it down to once a day. Many times she'd separate the whites from the yolks, eat the yolks raw with cream, and use the whites to make meatloaf or salmon patties. She ate a LOT of meatloaf, sometimes frying it as patties like hamburger. She did have to buy cream and butter, but went for the store brand. (There turned out to be a twist on the cream thing that would make that a bigger problem now.) For her, bacon was a treat and she got store brand. She used it primarily as flavoring for main dishes, so it was used sparingly. She bought the cheapest canned tuna and any other potted meat she could get her hands on. Now I eat raw calves liver three times a week and I buy the best quality I can find. My mom couldn't afford that, so she bought the regular stuff and ate it cooked. Thankfully, she's a liver-lover. And she put the word out. She explained her plight and asked of anyone had some older frozen or canned meat that they were looking to get rid of. From that, a few hunters filled her small freezer with antelope and venison. None of it was great meat. Some had been sitting in the bottom of a chest freezer for years. She ended up with some weird animal parts and bones and that became broth. She gratefully took everything she was offered and made the best of it. Incredibly, it worked beyond our wildest dreams. The tumor stopped growing completely. This bought her the two years she needed to find a surgeon who was willing to take the risk and accept Medicare. The surgeon's office reached out to the hospital and told them the situation and they hooked my mom up with a charity that helped pay off what Medicare. In the end, the surgery cost her nothing. The ordeal did take a toll. The tumor was a hormone producing type and the damage will never totally be reversed, but she survived. I get very frustrated and a little angry at the people who insist that people must eat the highest quality foods for carnivore to work. I put it this way. While the biproducts of happy animals are *better*, this doesn't mean that the products of regular animals is BAD. It's still good and plenty good enough to do the job.
Wonderful so happy your momma was able to get the help she needed. I hope she is doing well!! And thank you for this testimony. Quite inspiring. I am working on my own health issues & this was very encouraging. Very kind of you to share.
Im in 147 days !! Still going strong. Down 65 pounds ! This eating plan for me is easy to maintain. I’m eating a late breakfast and a late dinner. I’m never hungry. After the first 10 days inflammation goes away and your energy goes thru the roof. All bloodtests in the green.
Hello. Can you tell me what you typically eat to keep you full eating twice a day. I’m about to try carnivore. Just wondering how much meat to consume 👍🇬🇧
@@johnphazey3051 update. In 209 days I’m down 82 pounds !! Breakfast: eggs any way you like to cook them. A couple slices of bacon or sausage. Salt and pepper. Or Hot Sauce. Coffee or flavored Coffee with or without Stevia-Monk Fruit. (Good Earth). Add Heavy Cream if you want. Eat until you are comfortably stuffed. Again: Eat until you are comfortably stuffed. Lunch: you aren’t hungry. Dinner: Fatty Steak, like Ribeye. After you cook it, put salted butter on top. Use lots of Salt. Steaks are a fortune now so buy them at big box stores, or buy the cheapest fattiest ground beef you can find. Put cheese on top. I add hot peppers to mine. You CAN eat chicken, or pork or fish. Oils: No seed oils like canola. Oils that are OK: Avocado Oil or Extra Virgin Olive oil. Do not cook olive oil above 310F/ 154C Drink water or tea or diet drinks if you need it. Bacon: keep cooked bacon in a ziplock bag in your fridge for the munchies. You will lose 10-16 pounds per month. I am down 12” on my waist. You will succeed !! You don’t need to exercise or count calories.
@@johnphazey3051the Dr. Says on carnivore just listen to your body; eat when u feel hungry. Make sure you're getting plenty of fat (beef, bacon, and butter ideal sources) and it will all fall into place. I just started and have only been on it for five days (with even a few cheat meals having gone out to eat with friends where there's pizza and French fries) and I already feel better! starting to lean up, and not so hungry all the time. Good luck 👍
@@jmanswat2457 lemme help. Buy Bacon. 400 degree oven. Parchment paper on a big cookie tray. Spread out the bacon. Cook at least 15-20 minutes like you prefer it. When done let the bacon cool on a plate of paper towels. Then load the cooled bacon into a 1 gallon ziplock bag. Keep in fridge. When you feel hungry like before bed have a couple pieces to quench the hunger so you can sleep.
I'm 71 years old and I must say that I haven't had canned sardines since I was around 12. I made the mistake of packing a sardine sandwich for a school trip. As we unpacked our lunches on the bus on the way back to school I was shamed because of my "fragrant" lunch. I loved sardines because they were so tasty. Never again did I eat canned sardines. I will go back to my roots and start enjoying them again. I come from Portuguese stock and I have continued to enjoy fresh sardines grilled over a fire whenever I can make it to an ethnic celebration.
You did not have sardines; you had minnows/baitfish from Canada. Sardines only come from Portugaul and Morocco ; Straits of Gibraltar. They do not stink nor taste like that Canadian Trash. Read the label and see where they come from; you will be pleasantly suprised. Even WalMart carries them.
Thank you! Can't afford all that NON-GMO, Grass Fed, Organic... Hearing from you that it's ok to eat frugally and get good results, it's a breath of fresh air.
J BaBa now with the recent rise in beef in America it is less expensive to buy grass fed beef. Regular ground beef in the grocery store is $5.99 and grass fed is $5.48.
@@k2c3po01 Wow wow and wow. Thank your lucky stars!! In Australia we pay we pay $18 a kilo for ground beef, around the same for one, yes one only, T-bone steak and for around 10 lamb cutlets it cost $30. Even with the exchange rate between AUD and USD it is still extremely expensive here. The cheapest Himilayan pink salt I can get is $22/kilo... etc. etc. I want to make a curry for a pot luck on Wednesday night and I have bought beef chuck steak for that (a stewing steak) which is $12/kilo
@@petermorris4386 glad I never moved to Australia even when I had the chance. People told me everything there is way more expensive than the US. I remember my friend ordering boxes and boxes of clothes and sneakers from outlets in the US to be shipped to Sydney. Nike sneakers that cost $60 USD were around $225 AUD. Pink Himalayan salt here at Costco is about $5.99 sometimes $6.99 for 5lbs which comes out to about 2.26kg.
I am 2 weeks in. I went through the worst part with sugar withdrawals, leg cramps, fatigue and the runs. I thought I was going to give up. 9 pounds down. I feel great. Have so much energy.
65 year old male 6' tall. I have been on the carni diet for 8 weeks I'm now only eating 1 meal a day but I do have my morning coffee. I didn't weigh myself before I started so I really don't know how much I have lost. However I'm moving around a lot easier now and my back pain is gone. Also when laying on my back in bed in the morning I can feel my entire rib cage and my hip bone is very pronounced. I ordered a pair of Levi's off of Amazon last week and I ordered them in my usual size 38" waist. When I got em they were huge! I ended up getting a pair in 34" and they fit perfect. So that's my scale!
I started eating just meat never hearing about the diet. A week later I had the flu and my stomach was sick, now I hear that’s part of the carnivore diet side effects. I’m also fasting doing 72/69/48/24 hour fasting, whatever works out. I have no scale as I’m out of country but there is no doubt I’m down at least 20 pounds, 2 notches on my belt, shirts fit better.
About 50 years ago, as a young man I did a complete carnivore diet, eating beef, eggs, chicken and fish with zero carbs for a period of 3 months. I have never felt better! My wife and I are going to implement this again!
I lost 157lbs thanks to Keto and Dr. Berry. I’ve been stuck there for about 3 months. I’m thinking carnivore May get me losing again. I now weigh 308. So I still have quiet a bit to lose.
Robert Ellis congratulations on your progress! Yes maybe carnivore would help. It certainly sounds easier than figuring out keto meals. Also it should cut down appetite and it should be easier to do IF-intermittent fasting
@@angiesrecipes rolling 72 hour fasts actually. I eat every 3 days, then fast immediately for another 3 days. I actually just hit 30 pounds in 30 days! I'm stocked!
i just ask my butcher to mix 60% ground beef(20% fat) with , 20% ground beef heart, 15% ground beef liver and 5% ground beef kidney. kid has no idea how healthy his burger and tastes great.
@@meeasky1460 I do this with kidney. I dont like offal so instead of cutting it into lumps I grind it up until it looks like a thick sauce and add it to my beef.
Thank you sooo much! Living on social security and after rent, utilities, insurance, etc., I have $100 per month for food. With rising prices this means bringing home less and less. I very much enjoy all your videos.
If you’re truly starving, yes but people that are insulin resistance and type two diabetes just can’t eat starches like rice, pasta, and beans. It’s too tough on their system and what they save in food that have to spend on medication’s. If I eat that type of food, I am in such pain that I want my feet amputated.
I just started carnivore after keto and I am surprised and pleased that I am no longer constantly hungry and saving money on food ❗😊 thanks Dr Berry for your help for us who were struggling.🌹💐💗
Ditto! Same here. Calculating macros and dealing with an annoying app…everything about keto drove me bonkers. Carnivore is so much easier and I always feel satisfied.
I am only buying 5 bags of groceries, the shopping cart is mostly empty. This allows me to buy better quality and try different meat and dairy products. We have our own chickens and ducks providing an abundance of fresh delicious eggs.
HUGE respect for making this video. Although I can and do pay $20-25 a pound for steak I'm NOT so far removed from reality to think everyone else should/ could when it's just me a 120 lbs female with a pretty good income. Now you have a family of four or more barley making ends meet with several males some teenagers, and they're supposed to only eat grass fed organic food, get real. Dr. Berg drives me nuts telling people to only eat organic and how toxic and dangerous eating this nonorganic meat or vegetables is when you have people struggling to buy a happy meal (not saying they should) He seems to not realize there's countless people getting by on minimum wage or less. I know because I used to be one of those people.
I typically buy grass fed grain finished. I like the flavor profile better. You don't have to buy grass fed grass finished it's just that the omega 3 to omega 6 ratio is slightly better the cleaner the cows diet is.
I have hurt for 35 years. I am hopeful this is my answer. I’ve only ate this way for a few days. I can’t get enough of listening and learning about this carnivore way.
How are you doing? You are 5 months in... I started 6 days ago. It has been very easy for me since I've been on strict keto for a few years. This is my last ditch effort to elevate my chronic pain.... Please tell me how you are now, and if you have continued on carnivore. Thanks
hey girl, I hope that you have continued the carnivore diet. I just wanted to encourage you. All my pain is gone. I've gone through it for 14 years with fibromyalgia and many other medical situation's and I just had total knee replacement and I got healed quicker. I'm still working on it but I'm going forward. Want to tell you it just keep going forward OK you can do this and it's amazing after three days to a week, you're not gonna have any pain and you're gonna feel so much better if carnivores to hard start off with a Keto and Wean yourself off of the different items. But don't get into all the junk of keto because it really will disrupt you wanting to eat properly.
Growing up in north Alabama, the local folks said “Vi-enners” and when was able to read I wondered what “Vienna” was doing on that label. My father took them to his job site and had them with saltine crackers, hot sauce, and a cola. When I went to college I was so happy to make precious friends with a girl more country fried than me. She innocently said “Vi-enners,” and I quietly smiled.
Thank you so much for your down to earth, realistic advice. I really appreciate it. I saw a video yesterday from another doctor that was giving advice on which olive oils to use. He listed his recommendations and his favorite was $80. for 16 ounces!! The other four he listed as second favorites were all above $30. for a small bottle...plus shipping costs from Italy! My budget for an entire week of groceries is $80. which I am so grateful I have. I'm really happy for the folks that can afford the more expensive items, but most of us live in the real world and need affordable options and advice. Thank you for remembering the not-so-affluent people in the world. God bless you.
You do *not* have to spend that much (plus shipping cost from Italy? Are you serious?) for pure virgin olive oil if only you do a little online searching.
@@kenhoward3512 The original poster was referring to the specific recommendations of an online doctor to point out that they were 'out of touch' with what the majority of people may be able to afford. They were not talking about what is possible out there. Regards.
So much olive oil is blended and outright fake that I just stop trying to find any I could afford. There is more money in Counterfeit olive oil than there is in cocaine.
The one thing Dr. Berry didn’t mention was shopping your local circulars. Meat is always on sale and you just need to shop around. Meal plan weekly based on what is on sale. I’m getting ready to do this and can’t wait to see all the amazing health benefits. The one thing I must say is this, he’s more concerned about promoting heath than he is sponsorships. That speaks volumes to the kind of man he is.
I started this as an elimination diet because I have IBS. I'm over 3 months in and I've lost 25 lbs! I am actually surprised that I don't have cravings for other foods and have not gotten board with my meal options. I'm not a meat person so I tend to stick with my favorites, which is burgers with bacon and fried eggs, but I definitely experiment a lot. I've also brought my family along on this journey by making my children and husband sugar free. They follow a heavy meat keto type diet and have done so for three weeks. So far my 10 year old has gone off his adhd meds and my husband is down 30lbs! (compared to too me he ate horribly so he's losing weight faster.) As for affordability, we have 5 children 1-11 years old and we are at the point where we have our meals figured out so we spend about $130 a week on food. We bought Maria Emmerich's book called Sugar Free Kids and use a lot of her recipes, and that's helped to make it more fun for the kids. Definitely recommend!
I'm from the Smoky Mountains and it made me happy that you said people in the South call it Vi-eeny weenies/sausage. My family didn't know any other way to say it😂 I can't thank you enough for all your helpful advice and information on the proper human diet and that you include everyone.❤
This has been very helpful for me, I just began my C diet yesterday, and honestly, I’ve had more energy today than in the last couple of months. Since I’m considered elderly, I hope I can extend my days without arthritis and GURD. Many thanks!
@@tains4501 going better then I expected, I actually wondered how long I could go on mostly meat, but I’ve learn a lot since starting, about the meal, the expense ( cost less monthly than a diet plan I was purchasing a couple years ago) and I’m down 39 pounds. My GI issues were non existent after a couple of days. I watch a few of my local groceries for sales and stock up.
When I was a kid we were fed all the products you mentioned,,,At my parents house we had 2 choices eat it or go Hungry,,,We took some version of the afore mentioned foods In our School lunches ( yes we took our School lunches from home) ..Mom made Grits for breakfast and she made Supper for the family,,My Mom will be 90 yrs old in 2019 and still lives at home cooking her own meals ..So must have been ok for her..Best Regards
I'm 63 and we didn't have a choice. You ate it or you sat there until breakfast and then you had to eat breakfast too. LOL Raised my kids in a similar fashion. No one was allowed to say yuck I don't like it if they did they got seconds.
I’ve been keeping my bacon grease in a coffee can for as long as I can remember. So did my mom and my grandma. I love cooking with bacon grease. It adds a lot of flavor to whatever I’m cooking. Thank you for this video. I always learn something from your videos.
That's what I saw my grandmother do, and bacon grease was the secret to her rye bread! Now I save bacon grease, but I strain it first, and keep it in a mason cup jar for hubs to cook his eggs in. I cook my egg yolks in tallow. 😊
Yeah, that's something a lot of us down south do, too. One our favorite things is to cook our chicken and beef liver in the bacon grease for a really good flavor!
be careful about buying sardines with sunflower oil. most of the benfits of the omega 3 are gone with the omega 6 overload. Either buy with tomato sauce or olive oil. . . .better than sunflowerseed oil ! great video as always! love those videos... watching some of them every week... liking every video... what happens? new videos show up from other carnivore eaters too. always something new to learn!
Really so thankful to have found your channel. I’m totally shocked as to how much less hungry I am after greatly reducing my carbs. Some days even completely carb free.
Exactly, I have some carb free days here n there getting used to it and using up what's in the house, eventually I am going full KETO , by next summer , now I may change my mind but i'll still be eating much lower carbs than before if nothing else.
If you think you hate liver, then try this: Raw liver at room temp. Heat a stainless steel skillet over medium-low (that’s right) heat, with a big glob of salted butter until the butter starts to bubble. Add your liver, salt and pepper the top, and cook for just three to four minutes until it doesn’t stick and has started to brown on the other side. Flip your liver over with a fork and repeat. Don’t worry about any myoglobin that escapes from the pockets. The trouble most people have with liver is that they overcook it at too high a heat which makes it taste strong and ruins the texture. Liver should be served soft enough to not need a knife to cut.
I know how to cook liver I cook real fast for my husband with bacon and sauted onions. Still can't eat it. I am not a picky eater but for some reason can't tolerate it or any canned fish
Lisa Jorgenson I can understand the fish, but I’ve fed liver to many people who claimed to hate it or not tolerate it over the years without them even knowing, and they always love it and eat it all. Fast frying may be part of the problem.
You brought up a point I was actually talking to my wife about last week: eggs. Eggs have to have everything necessary for life because the egg itself has to turn into a whole animal without any outside input.
@@lisabrooks1208 yes, but that doesn't change the fact that the yolk is there to do the job of feeding the fertilized egg to completion. It's there regardless of fertilization.
Just about two weeks in and so far I feel this will be an easily sustainable diet. I’ve already been eating a lot of these in my keto diet, so I basically just cut out vegetables. Sardines have been my secret weapon and I carry them everywhere I go.
David's Salmon Patties --- 1 can of Salmon, 1/2 cup of pork rind crumbs(can made by crunching up pork rinds, some places you can find in a contianer same place as bread crumbs), 2 TBS of home made butter, pack into burgers.. you should get 4 for a can worth..... a great option for omegas, oils etc..
It was you and Dr. Baker that drew me into carnivore. Dr. Berg, Dr. Fung and also you are who drew me into keto and fasting. After great results with that, I feel ready to tackle carnivore. I’m on my 9th day and so far, so good! Thank you.
Let' us know more of ur experience, poop, or did u have any other particular experience like headaches or what not during the first wk or are u super hungry ....tnx
This helps so much. I realize that the potted meats shouldn’t be a go to, but it’s good that you give the option for people on a budget or even to add the occasional variety. I start back on carnivore tomorrow has this video helps me feel more confident about budgeting bc last time I was buying the best steaks I could find and I couldn’t afford it.
Great list, if I may I would like to add my own suggestion. In the UK we call it Belly Pork, I don't know if you have it in the US but it is delicious and so nutritious. It's basically like very thick-cut unsmoked Bacon. I eat it at least 2-3 times a week and it's ideal for anyone on a low fixed budget👍👍
Some more tips: Brisket can be purchased at Gorden's Food Service for around $3 lb. It's cheap because there's a lot of fat and they are HUGE. Expect to spend $50 + for them. Aldi's has great meats, low cost. Aldi's Ribeyes are excellent and are currently $12 lb. Mexican grocery stores at least in my area of NW Indiana, have meat that is cheaper than even Aldi's and will usually carry real lard. Plus if they have a hot food deli, they might have Chicharrons which is deep fried pig skin with some fat and meat attached.
Chuck steak (called Braising steak in the UK) is the cheaper alternative to ribeye. Contains ample fat just like ribeye but cost less than half the price.
I voraciously eat canned tuna in oil, and love mackerel and salmon. I'm fairly new to keto and carnivore, so enjoying learning. Down 40 lbs and 180 to go.
@angieabella8856 Big mac without the bun, and other veg is probably more carnivore than canned tuna. The problem is not even JUST in the oil... there are serious mercury issues in the meat itself AS WELL. People go carnivore mostly because they have auto-immune issues related to toxins in plant material. Beef is healthy!!! Tuna is very lean, low in fat, and VERY high in mercury. Tuna is not recommended for people that can avoid it. Most salmon is farm raised which has a host of issues you can look into... but much canned salmon is wild caught. Wild caught Salmon is better except for mercury. Most wild caught salmon is Sockeye which is pretty lean... so I recommend cooking and garnishing it in butter or bacon fat. I recommend eating smaller fish with much less mercury like (SARDINES). Eating sardines for omegas, bacon for fat, grass fed meat for omega 3 balance is what you want to get to. I am pointing out where you are going wrong, so you can stop. Canned Tuna is NOT better than plain McD patties [at least no study has shown it]. PEACE Health Warrior!
On day 4 of carnivore diet. Think I'm past the worst of the sugar cravings. Love Dr. Berry. Very helpful with real life suggestions (like for poorer people).
I found a great deal with ends and pieces 3 pounds for $9.47. I fry it up and keep it in a glass container in my fridge and munch on it throughout the day. The best part is that I strain the bacon grease and use it along with butter to make deviled eggs with bacon bits in them. Thank you Dr. Berry!!!
Hello Dr Berry, I'm in my late 40s and over Weight, I'm at a point in life where I want to make a change to feel better and be healthier. I will be starting carnivore diet tomorrow and I have found all your videos has been very helpful and easy to understand. Thank you so much for sharing.
Love the practicality of this video. Many would like to change their diet, but often feel it’s out of reach because of budget and expensive ingredients. Homemade bacon chips topped with chicken liver pate, yum! Thank you Dr.Berry and family
Finally, a person who realizes that we're not all millionaires. Good job. I'll try the sardines -- I usually use them to bait live traps to catch critters who eat chickens. But I have to draw the line at liver. I got into too much trouble as a kid because I refused to eat the stuff to start eating it now.
@@stevenhull5025 UK, Australia, or New Zealand? Occasionally, I see some lamb chops or a leg of lamb in the grocery store here in the US. But even that isn’t an everyday occurrence. I’ve never seen lambs liver. Still, if I ever see any, I’ll give it a try. Thanks for the advice.
Good Stuff Doc! I wanted to share a recipe of something I have been makin'. I'm on an OMAD and STRICTLY carnivore with Monday all day fasting! It's a 3 day - "fish casserole" kind of creation. Consists of a can of Albacore tuna in spring water, a can of sardines - wild caught in water and a vacuum packed large piece of wild caught alaskan salmon (coho or sockeye) from Trader Joes, all cooked on my outside covered grille. I put the salmon on a foil boat out on the covered grille and while its cookin', I make a foil boat platter with about 20" of foil, folded long way in1/2 and then cup up the outer edge (about an inch) to make a boat. Then scoup in the tuna (after draining water) and the anchovies -drained- and break up it all and stir it up. After the salmon cooks (about 15 minutes) I scoup it into the mixture and break it all up and stir it in. Then I scoup it all into the foil boat and flatten it out and put a couple scoups of beef tallow (fat) on top for oil.Then back in to the grille for about 10 -15 more minutes. But I also make about 6 local free range raw eggs whipped in a bowl and pour it on top and kind of stir it in. In 10 minutes I have a 3 day casserole that I divide in three and last me for 3 meals (days)! It only comes to about $5 per day to eat! It's awesome!!
Dr. Berry, You are downright awesome! You’re down to earth and tell it like it is. Your humor is so welcome, you give great advice and I for one appreciate you like crazy. Thank you for being you!
Loved the Video, it is great to see all the 'cheaper' options, would have never thought of canned meat. Thank you so much. A good alternative for pure Liver is Liverwurst! I am in Germany, and Liverwurst is practically everywhere and we can get it in jars and cans for long shelflive too. It can be affordable, has liver in it and is pretty tasty. Just keep an eye on ingredients, some producers like to hide some carbohydrates in there too.
Just started watching your videos a few weeks ago and started keto about 9 days ago. No starch, no sugar, just meats and low carb veggies and staying around 1600 to 1800 calories per day. According to the scale, weight loss is minimal so far but I have dropped nearly 2 inches in the waist already and and am starting to notice a better “well being “ feeling and some relief from joint pain. A suggestion for cheap keto foods to break up the monotony a little. Scramble a can of potted meat in what 3-4 eggs. Honestly it smells awful cooking and gives the eggs a horrible pink color but it’s incredibly tasty. Been eating eggs that way occasionally for years now
I hope you get to the videos where they tell you that calorie counting is faulty information and should be ignored. That's old school that should be disregarded by carnivores. If you are eating primarily meat and fat, the fat will tell you when you are "comfortably full", as Dr Berry likes to say. Let your body learn to tell you...some days you will need more--or less--than other days. I like to think that most people in a coma require 1200-1300 calories just to keep body processes going so even a moderately active person needs more than you are allotting calorie-wise to keep up metabolically.
I'd avoid vegetables as they contain fiber and oxalates (oxalates no good for the body). Any amount of fibre as been shown to cause digestion problems. The higher the fibre the increased digestion problems.
One of the best tips someone ever gave me. You can freeze cooked ground meat. I watch for the good bulk sale, break into 1 lb chunks, brown it up, let it cool and then vacuum seal it (
Oh, Dr Berry, please tell your wife to give you a hug for me. I feel like you're saving my life! I was about to give up on this. I just cannot afford the organic, grass fed, grass finished, unprocessed meat that a different health guru on here was telling us to buy. I can no longer afford both a home payment and a healthy diet. This, however, i can - well, except i can't get used to sardines yet. I'm making sure to stay away from sugar, but i can't get my sugar under control without medication. Everybody keeps saying that that don't need meds anymore. Well, maybe if i can get my weight back to 125, then i won't need it, but until then, I'm fighting for my life! THANK YOU FOR HELPING ME SAVE MY LIFE.
This item wasn't mentioned here, but it's something I'd never had before, and I found it on Walmart's site while assembling a delivery order: pork butt steak, which was cut something like a pork chop, and they also have chuck roasts up to 4.4# each, which you could carve yourself and make into several meals, and it's pretty fatty.
I buy chuck roast from a local butcher shop because it is cheap and has a decent amount of fat. I also brush it with bacon grease to add more fat and I can get 3 meals out of it.
When you slice a chuck roast it becomes chuck eye steaks it's the cut next to the ribeyes it is marbled well I had it for supper tonight very delicious
I love the fact that you included hot dogs, bologna, Vienna sausages, and other more processed and refined meats because more often than not people throw shade at these options, but they're still really great and cost effective.
I bought ribeye for $11.98 lb and also bought BarS thick sliced bologna for $1.98 a 12 oz pack. Just had a slice smothered in mustard sliced into thin strip to snack on.. very good
What exactly makes you think they are great? It is exactly the bad side of meat - highly processed meat. That's what the vegans on purpose throw in a can together with "meat". All the studies showing that "meat" seems bad are actually about processed meat.
Brilliant info. Thank you! Glad you put viennas and non-pastured meat into perspective. I've been worried and saying an extra prayer over my meat if it's not pasture-raised. :D
I’m deep into low carb and your videos are great as refresher/reminders/inspiration...I talk them up to any carnivore newbie I meet in person or online...congrats!
Many thanks for this great well presented video and instruction. I am going to start a carnivore diet on my 55th birthday next month and stick at it and I will watch and learn from your videos and hope they keep my momentum going. Love and respect from England UK ❤
Except higher up on the food chain so you have to worry about mercury, and also most of it is farmed/GMO. Sardines you don't have to worry about either.
@@rherteux well, it's a good point, however for those who like fish, but don't like sardines, it's a trade off. I'm 64 years old and have realized life is one big trade off. I always check the label for "wild caught". Thanks for your concern and may the LORD bless you.
I grew up on braunschweiger (liverwurst) and have ALWAYS loved it!!! Didnt even know it was liver till I was older. I have always thought of making it myself, but never ventured into it. I may give this a go!!
Love it so much, but the big rolls are too much for me to finish before they go bad, so I slice them up, put them into zipper bags and take them out and eat them individually.
One thing I'd add to this list. Tallow/lard. You can usually get a lot of hardfat for it from a butcher for free or next to nothing. It's usually tossed out. What you do then is cut it into roughly even chunks no bigger than 1.5 inches. If you have a sausage grinder use that. Then put it in a pot pour about a cup of water in to get things going and bring it to a low simmer. And let it sit stirring occasionally for 6-8 hours. Then pour it through a strainer into jars or a pan. Tallow can be stored at room temp in a closed container for 1 year. Lard 6 months. Longer if canned or refrigerated. Hope this helps.
Sardines are fantastic. I love the Porthos brand (from Portugal) packed in either brine or Tomato Sauce. The sardines with skin and bones are even better for you! Dr. Trying to get more into liver. It's still somewhat of an acquired taste.
In my nursery school when I was a young child, my favourite meal they made was liver cooked with bacon grease and bacon strips on top of the liver. It was the only way I would eat liver after that. I am not a fan of sardines, but since I am starting the carnivore diet, I will find a way to make a recipe that I can enjoy. I do love liver pate so I will try your recipe. Thank you for these tips. Before I start, I am trying to figure out what I will eat with my budget as it is... during corona virus, I am a supply teacher and don't get paid unless I work. Teachers got paid during the shutdown here in Ontario, Canada, but I did not. I qualified for some govt support pay they were giving out, but it is running out and I don't have any work yet for the new school year! Wish me luck.
Also try tinned mackerel. I have made home made mayonnaise using both olive oil in one batch and avocado oil in another and a combo of olive and avo oil in another batch. All are delicious slathered on the little fishes!! …. I used to eat sardines on sourdough bread with lettuce, tomato and mayonnaise but now I just empty the entire tin onto a plate and add a big dollop of my home made mayo and voilà…delicious. Fatty fish with real, home made, mayo and no carbs!! Lots of easy to make authentic real mayonnaise recipes online. I use a stick blender to whip the ingredients together. It emulsifies quickly. However one batch required two eggs before it would emulsify. I think it was because the egg I had used was just a little smaller than normal….as soon as I added the second egg to that batch, it emulsified immediately.
Was thinking about this today and you uploaded. Very grateful. It's quite expensive to buy only grassfed meat. That is IF I'm able to find some... Thank you!
Halloween this year my doctor told me the ultrasound revealed some fatty liver, gallstones and one kidney stone. I gave up alcohol 3 years ago thank goodness but I knew it was the sugar in my diet and my occasional indulgence in fast food. I watched your utube on how to reverse and heal from fatty liver and I started right away. I’m feeling so much better and I’m sleeping better. Really grateful to you. I have a ct scan on the 24 . I feel empowered that I’m eating a proper human diet. Thanks, Maja
God bless you Doc, for sharing the truth about healthy living. I’m down a total of 90lbs combining carnivore with OMAD. I feel like I can wrestle a rhino and kick its ass.
It was so nice to turn the corner like that. I am only at 2 weeks strict Carnivore i was vegan last June for 5 years i added animals first and went semi keto till 2 weeks ago.
Ground beef, Cooking Bacon Scraps and Beef Liver mixed up in equal amounts makes a great burger mix. I use 3lbs of each and make 9lb’s of burger mix for great cheeseburgers with cheddar cheese toppings. Thanks Ken D Berry MD. 👍
I eat braunschweiger at least once a week. It isn't very carb loaded but I love the the liver based loaf. It is usually less than $4 a pound. Half a pound of it can make me a complete meal.
In Hawaii I learned to eat Spam a hundred different ways lol. They love their Spam so much that per capita Hawaii eats more Spam than any other state in America lol. “Hey do you want some peanut butter cups with your Spam and eggs?” Lol. That’s from 50 first dates the movie with Adam Sandler. Its a great movie and Sean Aston is hilarious in it lol Anyway you can google Spam recipes from Hawaii and you will get a tonne of recipes
Hawaii loves Spam because in WWII they depended on it and the fish they could catch, gardens they raised, eggs if they had chickens. Especially on the outer islands, meats were hard to come by. islanders are preppers, lesson learned!
Started a carnivore diet some three weeks ago, figured I'd look for some options to add variety to my diet. I've been living on cow and chicken organ meats, ground beef, bacon, eggs and sardines. Actually bought some potted beef for snacking a couple days ago too. I gotta be honest, I'm not so much bored with meat, I moreso miss certain vegetable flavors - garlic, onion and tomatoes were on basically every meal I ate on large quantities before. If it helps anyone, also, low sodium salt usually is mostly potassium chloride, it helped me pull out of my keto flu and might do the same for you.
There are deserts too not that I've got to that state yet but looking forward to it. Cheese cake and ice-cream etc. Raw A2 milk kefir can be used to dip meats etc.
Let's go directly to the source: EAT THOSE PANDAS!! Thanks Doc, right on point as usual. A friend recently asked how I lost so much weight and went off meds. Now he remarked: "Guess I chose a bad time to try keto/carnivore.' .I'll send him the link to this video.
I am so with you on the pandas - anything that takes that much effort to survive and breed needs to be eaten out of the food chain - pass the grill pan and the salt.
@@joannekerr8839 Wow! Sorry pandas can't survive living in strip malls. They don't sell bamboo at 7-11. We robbed them of their bamboo forests. The earth needs to heal for us to be here. I wish we all respected our planet like the Native Americans did/do.
@@staceykersting705 It's not about the deprivation of their habitat at all. Do some googling on the pathetic reproductive lives of pandas BECAUSE of their bamboo shoot diet. The natural history of the panda is fascinating, in that they are orchestrating their OWN destruction and we're just getting in the way.
Value of various foods can be determined by cost of protein per gram. A dozen jumbo eggs yields 96 grams of protein with proportional fat. Tick above .03 cents per gram, consider that as a baseline. Dozen large yields 72 grams of protein. Shop all levels of supermarkets, even the most exclusive will offer specials. Grass fed ground beef, 20% fat can be had for 4.50 per pound, packaged in individual sealed wrap. Approximately 80 grams of protein, .065 cents per gram. When a special is available buy in quantity. A high end market in my area offers ground pork in the packaged meat cooler for 3.99. That is appropriately. 05 cents per gram. Best of luck , shop, shop, shop. Sign up for any preferred customer programs.
Thanks for the tips. I'm currently on keto and down 20 lbs in two months. However next week I want to do carnivore for a few months and see how I do on it. I'm not worried about the diarrhea everyone talks about as I have IBS and get it time to time anyway. Ok enough personal history. You guys have a blessed day.
Good progress!! Please don't be concerned about what people say could happen regarding diarrhea. It probably won't. Now as far as improving your health and dropping excess weight? That WILL HAPPEN 😊
ZeroCarbLife and SteakandButterGal have vids on preventing diarrhea Eat your fat cold, maybe even eat your fatty meat cold or at least room temp. This seems to be crucial step. Of course, slowly titrating your fat intake is also important. You can take Swedish Bitters just before eating and take oxbile just after also. They will give u ability to digest fats while ur waiting for ur body to remember how. Highfat is so important for most women and even some men. Having IBS seems you qualify, surely. It’s soooo healing.
Been following Dr. B now for at least 5 years. On Mondays for lunch I have 3 fried eggs with chicken livers fried in bacon grease. Wednesday is a sardine salad (sardines mixed with avocado mayo) and I eat it as a dip with pork rinds. Friday lunch is fried eggs with chicken hearts cut in half and fried in bacon fat. I actually like the taste of beef liver better than chicken liver but I just can't deal with that tough inedible vessel (or whatever it is) anymore.
I’ve been eating the same thing everyday for the last 7 months and for some crazy reason I don’t get tired of it, I actually look forward to my lunch which is 2 hamburger patties 73/27 fat. Dinner ribeye steak , porterhouses or t-bone , ribeye being my favorite. If I end up having something different like pork or fish, Im thinking I’d rather be eating steak 🥩 😀.
Yeah, 73/27 ground beef never gets old (grass fed blows in my opinion). I like it with Montreal steak seasoning and lots of sliced sweet onion. It is literally the only food that when I think of it makes my mouth water.
I use all your suggestions. A liver option that tastes great is liver wurst. Cheap or expensive it has tons of nutrients and much easier than cooking liver.
You might try chicken liver. Also there's some technique of soaking beef liver in lemon juice or milk first. It's supposed to make it less bitter I think. Finally much better to undercook it than overcook it. Liver has a very dry and mealy texture when cooked too long.
Thank you for all the tips and hints. I've done intermittent fasting and keto before, now I'm coupling IF & carnivore. Liver still gives me the willies, but I LOVE braunschweiger. I ate it as a kid, and after a 4 decade break, still love it. I'll count that as my organ meat, lol.
If you like fish and don't mind 'fishy fish' then you will like sardines. I use a can to add to soups to make it really hardy. Especially good when it's cold out.
I always get the sardines packed in olive oil for the additional fat. Same thing with tinned mackerel. I’ll have an entire tin as an “appetizer” before main course. I just dump it all onto a plate and add a bunch of my home made mayonnaise. I also find they’re much tastier than when packed in water.
If you eat tuna salad, try mixing the sardines in that, the seasoning helps. Also, Ketogenic Woman has a recipe for Sardine bites (kinda like a crab cake or fish cake) that looks delicious. HTH
@@JazzyMamaInAK I also mixed them in egg salad and I incorporate them in egg white thin omelettes. Since the egg whites are so bland it helps to make it easier to eat the sardines or mackerel
We grew up eating potted meat on saltines. We call it (adoringly) “hurricane food” here in New Orleans! Don’t think I could eat potted meat with a spoon/without a cracker. I appreciate the mention of low budget alternatives!
You can make an unsalted egg omelet and use the potted meat as a topping (you can vary he thickness of the omelette to give it more texture. I do some very thin ones and crisp them up and they feel more like a flat bread. I also cook sardines with eggs because sardines by themselves have a very strong flavor. I chop up the sardines and then mixed them with boils eggs and you can have an egg salad. You can add mayo too (you can make your own butter mayo if you want to be more strict carnivore). I buy a carton of liquid egg whites and do very thin egg white omelettes. Since their flavor is so plain, they mix well with salty and greasy meat products like potted meats, hot dogs, sardines or liver paté
It’s hard to eat sardines w/o saltines, doused with vinegar! My daddy taught me to love them n he’s southern also (NC). I’ll try the chopped into eggsalad idea. I love them with radish slices too or minced celery but that’s not carni!
My grandma always included liver in her hamburger dressing. It adds a unique texture that elevates the dish. I've been avoiding liver because of gout, but I haven't had an attack since I stopped eating carbs in late 2019, so I'll give it a shot.
Thanks so much for this information. I want to start the BBBE challenge but wanted more guidance & ideas. I didn't want to get bored & fail. I love beef liver & haven't eaten it in a while as no one else in my home doesn't like it but I'm going to get liver back in my repertoire. The hardest part will be carbs (rice, pasta & bread), whew. But I'm going to give it my best. One day at a time. Be well.
Great list. I already eat all of that, including saving bacon fat, but it's good to know I'm on the right track - and that's after flirting with vegetarianism for years and finally realizing that it's just not the way to go.
I have been using ground breakfast sausage that's only around 2.50 a pound or less. Also, ground pork that's sometimes around 2 a pound. Been mixing that with a pound of hamburger or 2. Then adding lots of bell peppers for the vitamin C and additional flavor. I will then put some colby jack chedder on top on one of the meals to make it taste different. I also serve spinach or other greens with it to help with digestion and potassium.
They say veggies are not good for us especially spinach. I have been eating raw spinach leaves for years and truly thinking I'm doing the most healthiest thing for myself. I am adjusting my diet now, just do a lot of research and be open for change on somethings that may not make sense to us because we are stuck in our ways. Oats and seeds are bad also. Most all veggies are seeds, just a thought I don't really know what to believe but I'm trying.
Spinach is extremely high in oxalates. It is associated with kidney stones and it also binds with minerals like calcium and magnesium, blocking the body from using them. Veggies low in oxalates are regular lettuce and cabbage. Fermented cabbage (sauerkraut) is one of the best vegetables to eat in a mainly carnivore diet. It has healthy bacteria that help your gut. You don't have to eat a lot, but it helps to break the monotony of only meat and I have an easier time digesting food when I use it
@@markmcmahen9442 I was trying to acquire a taste for Kale. Baby kale is doable .... Then I hear that kale And Spinach, are both Not good for us! You're right, this is a lot of opposite thinking for us - High fats!!
So good to hear the Vianney sausage. That’s the way I grew up pronouncing it and people made fun of me because no one else said that. Since I no longer have saltines, I have it with hot sauce and pork rinds. Thanks getting me on keto.
Thank you Ken, very helpful as thankfully in the UK even a cheap can of corned beef is simply beef, salt and nitrites and I love the stuff! So that will stretch things out nicely along with eggs and tinned fish
Absolutely spot on, Dr. Berry. My wife and I are dirt poor on a fixed income, both disabled and I STILL eat carnivore. I buy the best I can afford and I am as healthy as I can be at 65.
Good for you Ken. God bless you two.
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@ken halloran You are never poor when you are healthy.
@@rayr8530 is fat boy a Vegan ?
How long have you been eating carnivore?
@1:33 bacon
@2:22 ground beef
@3:00 eggs
@3:40 sardines
@4:30 hot dogs/spam/potted meat
@5:55 liver
TheMkkr Thanks!!
Thx
You eat spam. Hahaha!
Add: Vienna sausages.
Thank you sweetheart!!!
Freezing ground beef: place about a pound in a gallon size ziplock and roll it flat with a rolling pin before sealing. They stack better in the freezer and defrost fast when placed in a bowl of water.
Reuse the bag: no need to wash and dry, put the used bag back in the freezer until you have more ground beef to store
could also sous vide
That is so smart to put the bag back in the freezer! What a great idea and plus it saves from washing or just discarding. Thanks for the tip
What brilliant idea!!! Thank you for that as I have a small under counter freezer. I'm in UK.
This is basically what I’ve been doing, minus the flattening! I defrost the balls of meat with my pressure cooker (takes 20 min) 😊
Thanks
Listen here, i was a 370 lb food addict, always was hungry, the variety thing is not a problem as you will think, the reasons you crave so much is sugar and carb addiction, im eating 18/6 now lost 75 lbs in 5 months and counting, your whole relationship with food is different, i put on meat and eggs, every time o feel hungry, my body says STOP, im fill you feel full and crave nothing, its true, our body just wanted animal based food, once you give it what it needed, the rest is easy , and you look feel,and perform better, if a fat sugar addict can do it, you can too
thank you for this!! i relate to this so much as a sugar addict. can’t go a day without eating large amounts of sugar. hopefully eating high fat will help me finally feel full and satiated for once!!
Thank you Dr. Berry! I have been on carnivore for a couple of weeks and I am on food stamps and hot dogs, eggs and cheaper cuts of meat ate making me feel pretty darn good already. I have a ton of weight to lose and I have a bunch of autoimmune diseases to overcome. My skin is getting softer and less bumpy and I am starting to walk with less pain. I felt bad about what I had to eat and you have made me feel so much more secure that I can achieve my goals and took away the shame. I am going to have a ribeye on my birthday on April 5th and I can't wait!❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Happy belated birthday 🥳 God bless you. Hang in there 👍🏼
You're doing great, all the best from Denmark ❤🎉🎉
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😭😭😭 I have been carnivore for 7 days and my sleep and sinus issues have improved I went to Walmart and bought what I could afford. Thank you so much for this video!!! All the best to you and your Family ❤
I'm poor with a wife and three kids... I found all of these items already. But I'm glad that you're telling everyone else, so they don't run away because they think they need rib eye blessed by a priest.
You can always eat the kids!
Lolll! Hamsters do it , it's natural
"blessed by a priest" - hahahaha - I really like that.
@@MajorNyberg my notification sound is Jordan Peterson saying, "Don't forget, it's wrong to eat your children." It never fails to get attention when it goes off in public.
food waste is a challenge when you are buying in bulk for family... You can extend your hamburger by making them into meatballs and then freezing them for later use ..Meatballs can be made healthier if you dont use regular old bread or flour but use almond flour, steel cut oats, bran, and or ground flax seed as the filler... another way is to slow cook tougher cuts of meat, marinate and shred the cooked pork to extend its shelf life and make it easier to eat.. e.g. shredded pork tortillas.
Here's a real world example of carnivore on a poverty budget doing it's thing. If anyone is discouraged by the price tag of the diet, please read this entire thing. It's important.
My mother had a tumor and was told it was inoperable when it was discovered. She wanted to do everything she could to fight for her health and she chose carnivore. Problem was she was living on a fixed SS income and living in housing for impoverished elders. Here's how she tackled the problem.
Food bank. This was a fantastic resource. Occasionally she'd find free meat that had been freezer burned there or donated game meat. She's a competent cook, so that wasn't a problem for her. But her primary target was cheap canned salmon. It was farmed and definitely not the best quality at all, but it was free.
She knew when her stores marked down their meats right before their weekly restock and she was at the doors when they opened to get the best deals. Sometimes she'd walk away with nothing, but other times she'd come out with some very affordable meat.
She bought the cheapest eggs and LOTS of them. Daily, she'd whip half a dozen eggs in a blender with some cream for her breakfast. (People are always shocked that this tastes absolutely wonderful. No texture problems. This is now my daily breakfast.) She did build up to that to the point where she was eating a dozen eggs a day, but in the end the cream was too expensive, so she cut it down to once a day. Many times she'd separate the whites from the yolks, eat the yolks raw with cream, and use the whites to make meatloaf or salmon patties. She ate a LOT of meatloaf, sometimes frying it as patties like hamburger.
She did have to buy cream and butter, but went for the store brand. (There turned out to be a twist on the cream thing that would make that a bigger problem now.) For her, bacon was a treat and she got store brand. She used it primarily as flavoring for main dishes, so it was used sparingly. She bought the cheapest canned tuna and any other potted meat she could get her hands on.
Now I eat raw calves liver three times a week and I buy the best quality I can find. My mom couldn't afford that, so she bought the regular stuff and ate it cooked. Thankfully, she's a liver-lover.
And she put the word out. She explained her plight and asked of anyone had some older frozen or canned meat that they were looking to get rid of. From that, a few hunters filled her small freezer with antelope and venison. None of it was great meat. Some had been sitting in the bottom of a chest freezer for years. She ended up with some weird animal parts and bones and that became broth. She gratefully took everything she was offered and made the best of it.
Incredibly, it worked beyond our wildest dreams. The tumor stopped growing completely. This bought her the two years she needed to find a surgeon who was willing to take the risk and accept Medicare. The surgeon's office reached out to the hospital and told them the situation and they hooked my mom up with a charity that helped pay off what Medicare. In the end, the surgery cost her nothing.
The ordeal did take a toll. The tumor was a hormone producing type and the damage will never totally be reversed, but she survived.
I get very frustrated and a little angry at the people who insist that people must eat the highest quality foods for carnivore to work. I put it this way. While the biproducts of happy animals are *better*, this doesn't mean that the products of regular animals is BAD. It's still good and plenty good enough to do the job.
Thank you for sharing 🤗 hugs for your sweet mama 💖
Compelling story. I’m glad your mom is on the mend❤️
Wonderful so happy your momma was able to get the help she needed. I hope she is doing well!!
And thank you for this testimony. Quite inspiring. I am working on my own health issues & this was very encouraging.
Very kind of you to share.
Brought tears to my eyes..what. an. INSPIRATION!!!
That's a beautiful story. X
Im in 147 days !! Still going strong. Down 65 pounds ! This eating plan for me is easy to maintain. I’m eating a late breakfast and a late dinner. I’m never hungry. After the first 10 days inflammation goes away and your energy goes thru the roof. All bloodtests in the green.
Hello. Can you tell me what you typically eat to keep you full eating twice a day. I’m about to try carnivore. Just wondering how much meat to consume 👍🇬🇧
@@johnphazey3051 update. In 209 days I’m down 82 pounds !!
Breakfast: eggs any way you like to cook them. A couple slices of bacon or sausage. Salt and pepper. Or Hot Sauce.
Coffee or flavored Coffee with or without Stevia-Monk Fruit. (Good Earth). Add Heavy Cream if you want.
Eat until you are comfortably stuffed.
Again:
Eat until you are comfortably stuffed.
Lunch: you aren’t hungry.
Dinner:
Fatty Steak, like Ribeye. After you cook it, put salted butter on top. Use lots of Salt.
Steaks are a fortune now so buy them at big box stores, or buy the cheapest fattiest ground beef you can find. Put cheese on top. I add hot peppers to mine.
You CAN eat chicken, or pork or fish.
Oils: No seed oils like canola.
Oils that are OK: Avocado Oil or Extra Virgin Olive oil. Do not cook olive oil above 310F/ 154C
Drink water or tea or diet drinks if you need it.
Bacon: keep cooked bacon in a ziplock bag in your fridge for the munchies.
You will lose 10-16 pounds per month.
I am down 12” on my waist.
You will succeed !!
You don’t need to exercise or count calories.
@@johnphazey3051the Dr. Says on carnivore just listen to your body; eat when u feel hungry. Make sure you're getting plenty of fat (beef, bacon, and butter ideal sources) and it will all fall into place. I just started and have only been on it for five days (with even a few cheat meals having gone out to eat with friends where there's pizza and French fries) and I already feel better! starting to lean up, and not so hungry all the time. Good luck 👍
update: It's been 223 days. I'm down 90 pounds. Yay !!
@@jmanswat2457 lemme help.
Buy Bacon. 400 degree oven. Parchment paper on a big cookie tray. Spread out the bacon. Cook at least 15-20 minutes like you prefer it. When done let the bacon cool on a plate of paper towels. Then load the cooled bacon into a 1 gallon ziplock bag. Keep in fridge. When you feel hungry like before bed have a couple pieces to quench the hunger so you can sleep.
I'm 71 years old and I must say that I haven't had canned sardines since I was around 12. I made the mistake of packing a sardine sandwich for a school trip. As we unpacked our lunches on the bus on the way back to school I was shamed because of my "fragrant" lunch. I loved sardines because they were so tasty. Never again did I eat canned sardines. I will go back to my roots and start enjoying them again. I come from Portuguese stock and I have continued to enjoy fresh sardines grilled over a fire whenever I can make it to an ethnic celebration.
72 and still love sardines.. Sardine and onion sandwiches😊
You did not have sardines; you had minnows/baitfish from Canada. Sardines only come from Portugaul and Morocco ; Straits of Gibraltar. They do not stink nor taste like that Canadian Trash. Read the label and see where they come from; you will be pleasantly suprised. Even WalMart carries them.
I’m so sorry you were teased about that. I’m sure that hurt your heart. You didn’t deserve that. There’s nothing wrong with yummy sardines❤️
I eat a can a day but only the one's in spring water or brine. The others have "oil" which I avoid.
Thank you! Can't afford all that NON-GMO, Grass Fed, Organic... Hearing from you that it's ok to eat frugally and get good results, it's a breath of fresh air.
J BaBa now with the recent rise in beef in America it is less expensive to buy grass fed beef. Regular ground beef in the grocery store is $5.99 and grass fed is $5.48.
@@k2c3po01 Wow wow and wow. Thank your lucky stars!! In Australia we pay we pay $18 a kilo for ground beef, around the same for one, yes one only, T-bone steak and for around 10 lamb cutlets it cost $30. Even with the exchange rate between AUD and USD it is still extremely expensive here. The cheapest Himilayan pink salt I can get is $22/kilo... etc. etc. I want to make a curry for a pot luck on Wednesday night and I have bought beef chuck steak for that (a stewing steak) which is $12/kilo
@@petermorris4386 What's up with that? I thought Stralia had beef out the wazoo! Now they make more money by exporting it.
@@petermorris4386 glad I never moved to Australia even when I had the chance. People told me everything there is way more expensive than the US. I remember my friend ordering boxes and boxes of clothes and sneakers from outlets in the US to be shipped to Sydney. Nike sneakers that cost $60 USD were around $225 AUD. Pink Himalayan salt here at Costco is about $5.99 sometimes $6.99 for 5lbs which comes out to about 2.26kg.
@@k2c3po01 Definitely not the case anymore in 2023...
I am 2 weeks in. I went through the worst part with sugar withdrawals, leg cramps, fatigue and the runs. I thought I was going to give up. 9 pounds down. I feel great. Have so much energy.
Get magnesium for cramps
@@beardedirishman670 Also helps with the sleep too
65 year old male 6' tall. I have been on the carni diet for 8 weeks I'm
now only eating 1 meal a day but I do have my morning coffee. I didn't
weigh myself before I started so I really don't know how much I have
lost. However I'm moving around a lot easier now and my back pain is
gone. Also when laying on my back in bed in the morning I can feel my
entire rib cage and my hip bone is very pronounced. I ordered a pair of
Levi's off of Amazon last week and I ordered them in my usual size 38"
waist. When I got em they were huge! I ended up getting a pair in 34"
and they fit perfect. So that's my scale!
That's amazing, how have you done in the year since!
I started eating just meat never hearing about the diet. A week later I had the flu and my stomach was sick, now I hear that’s part of the carnivore diet side effects. I’m also fasting doing 72/69/48/24 hour fasting, whatever works out. I have no scale as I’m out of country but there is no doubt I’m down at least 20 pounds, 2 notches on my belt, shirts fit better.
Same here.
Sardines cant be eaten frequently… your teeth will not thank you
Me too. I go by how my clothes fit now. I just have a little bit more to go.
I'm closing on 70 this year and I love the carnivore diet with cruciferous support. My health is great.
thats not carnivore
Not carnivore.
Thomas Moores, you do you on carnivore . Glad it’s working for you, just as you are doing it . 😊
@@scorpionz44 not pure carnivore, but carnivore with fiber and support nutrients. My system loves it.
@@spaceghost8995 not pure, but still good
About 50 years ago, as a young man I did a complete carnivore diet, eating beef, eggs, chicken and fish with zero carbs for a period of 3 months. I have never felt better! My wife and I are going to implement this again!
Wht did u stop
I lost 157lbs thanks to Keto and Dr. Berry. I’ve been stuck there for about 3 months. I’m thinking carnivore May get me losing again. I now weigh 308. So I still have quiet a bit to lose.
Robert Ellis congratulations on your progress! Yes maybe carnivore would help. It certainly sounds easier than figuring out keto meals. Also it should cut down appetite and it should be easier to do IF-intermittent fasting
Snake diet, with low carb refeeds have let me drop about a pound a day! 26 pounds in 25 days!
@@HeronMarkedBlade-ef7zz is it that you fast with snake juice for two days, then refeed and repeat?
@@angiesrecipes rolling 72 hour fasts actually. I eat every 3 days, then fast immediately for another 3 days. I actually just hit 30 pounds in 30 days! I'm stocked!
@@HeronMarkedBlade-ef7zz Thanks and well done on the weight lost! That's really impressive.
Beef liver is amazing. I grinned a pound up (in my blender) with a pound of ground beef and made meat balls. OMG they were amazing
Omg...i hate liver since baby ... Mom told me so... I think i ll try your idea...looks yum 😆..thanks 💃
I love beef liver but I have been thinking of doing exactly what you did - to recommend to people who don't like liver. Do you do 1 lb to 1 lb?
i just ask my butcher to mix 60% ground beef(20% fat) with , 20% ground beef heart, 15% ground beef liver and 5% ground beef kidney. kid has no idea how healthy his burger and tastes great.
@@meeasky1460 I do this with kidney. I dont like offal so instead of cutting it into lumps I grind it up until it looks like a thick sauce and add it to my beef.
That's a great idea because I hate liver yuck
Thank you sooo much! Living on social security and after rent, utilities, insurance, etc., I have $100 per month for food. With rising prices this means bringing home less and less. I very much enjoy all your videos.
I don’t know where you live but in Green Bay several churches gather food from different sources to help those in need
If you’re truly starving, yes but people that are insulin resistance and type two diabetes just can’t eat starches like rice, pasta, and beans. It’s too tough on their system and what they save in food that have to spend on medication’s. If I eat that type of food, I am in such pain that I want my feet amputated.
I've heard some grocery store butchers will just give away chunks of fat trimmings. Might be worth a shot.
I just started carnivore after keto and I am surprised and pleased that I am no longer constantly hungry and saving money on food ❗😊 thanks Dr Berry for your help for us who were struggling.🌹💐💗
Ditto! Same here. Calculating macros and dealing with an annoying app…everything about keto drove me bonkers. Carnivore is so much easier and I always feel satisfied.
💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖 to Dr. Berry.
I am only buying 5 bags of groceries, the shopping cart is mostly empty. This allows me to buy better quality and try different meat and dairy products. We have our own chickens and ducks providing an abundance of fresh delicious eggs.
Wait... are you no longer saving money on food?
I'm surprised he didn't mention chicken.
HUGE respect for making this video. Although I can and do pay $20-25 a pound for steak I'm NOT so far removed from reality to think everyone else should/ could when it's just me a 120 lbs female with a pretty good income. Now you have a family of four or more barley making ends meet with several males some teenagers, and they're supposed to only eat grass fed organic food, get real. Dr. Berg drives me nuts telling people to only eat organic and how toxic and dangerous eating this nonorganic meat or vegetables is when you have people struggling to buy a happy meal (not saying they should) He seems to not realize there's countless people getting by on minimum wage or less. I know because I used to be one of those people.
I typically buy grass fed grain finished. I like the flavor profile better. You don't have to buy grass fed grass finished it's just that the omega 3 to omega 6 ratio is slightly better the cleaner the cows diet is.
I have hurt for 35 years. I am hopeful this is my answer. I’ve only ate this way for a few days. I can’t get enough of listening and learning about this carnivore way.
Hope you are being monitored by a doctor , lab tests etc .
@Patricia Herrington it's been a little while, how are you doing?
How are you doing? You are 5 months in... I started 6 days ago. It has been very easy for me since I've been on strict keto for a few years. This is my last ditch effort to elevate my chronic pain.... Please tell me how you are now, and if you have continued on carnivore. Thanks
Please update us (9 months later)
hey girl, I hope that you have continued the carnivore diet. I just wanted to encourage you. All my pain is gone. I've gone through it for 14 years with fibromyalgia and many other medical situation's and I just had total knee replacement and I got healed quicker. I'm still working on it but I'm going forward. Want to tell you it just keep going forward OK you can do this and it's amazing after three days to a week, you're not gonna have any pain and you're gonna feel so much better if carnivores to hard start off with a Keto and Wean yourself off of the different items. But don't get into all the junk of keto because it really will disrupt you wanting to eat properly.
Growing up in north Alabama, the local folks said “Vi-enners” and when was able to read I wondered what “Vienna” was doing on that label. My father took them to his job site and had them with saltine crackers, hot sauce, and a cola. When I went to college I was so happy to make precious friends with a girl more country fried than me. She innocently said “Vi-enners,” and I quietly smiled.
I've eater a lot Vi-enner sausage in Mississippi, too. For carnivore, I now cut the saltine crackers out (and, I do miss them!).
@@ralphholiman7401 I miss crackers too!
@@ralphholiman7401 I miss crackers too!
Them on Bacon Chips 😊.. He has a recipe for those I believe
Thank you so much for your down to earth, realistic advice. I really appreciate it. I saw a video yesterday from another doctor that was giving advice on which olive oils to use. He listed his recommendations and his favorite was $80. for 16 ounces!! The other four he listed as second favorites were all above $30. for a small bottle...plus shipping costs from Italy! My budget for an entire week of groceries is $80. which I am so grateful I have.
I'm really happy for the folks that can afford the more expensive items, but most of us live in the real world and need affordable options and advice. Thank you for remembering the not-so-affluent people in the world. God bless you.
Thank you! Retired and on Social Securty..This will help me..God Bless!!!
You do *not* have to spend that much (plus shipping cost from Italy? Are you serious?) for pure virgin olive oil if only you do a little online searching.
@@kenhoward3512 The original poster was referring to the specific recommendations of an online doctor to point out that they were 'out of touch' with what the majority of people may be able to afford. They were not talking about what is possible out there. Regards.
@@kenhoward3512
I researched olive oil and
"California" olive oil is listed at the top of the list
as being 100% pure.
So much olive oil is blended and outright fake that I just stop trying to find any I could afford.
There is more money in Counterfeit olive oil than there is in cocaine.
The one thing Dr. Berry didn’t mention was shopping your local circulars. Meat is always on sale and you just need to shop around. Meal plan weekly based on what is on sale. I’m getting ready to do this and can’t wait to see all the amazing health benefits. The one thing I must say is this, he’s more concerned about promoting heath than he is sponsorships. That speaks volumes to the kind of man he is.
What do you have on your shopping list?
I started this as an elimination diet because I have IBS. I'm over 3 months in and I've lost 25 lbs! I am actually surprised that I don't have cravings for other foods and have not gotten board with my meal options. I'm not a meat person so I tend to stick with my favorites, which is burgers with bacon and fried eggs, but I definitely experiment a lot.
I've also brought my family along on this journey by making my children and husband sugar free. They follow a heavy meat keto type diet and have done so for three weeks. So far my 10 year old has gone off his adhd meds and my husband is down 30lbs! (compared to too me he ate horribly so he's losing weight faster.)
As for affordability, we have 5 children 1-11 years old and we are at the point where we have our meals figured out so we spend about $130 a week on food. We bought Maria Emmerich's book called Sugar Free Kids and use a lot of her recipes, and that's helped to make it more fun for the kids. Definitely recommend!
I'm from the Smoky Mountains and it made me happy that you said people in the South call it Vi-eeny weenies/sausage. My family didn't know any other way to say it😂 I can't thank you enough for all your helpful advice and information on the proper human diet and that you include everyone.❤
We call ‘em Vi-eeena sausages
I remember that
"Panda massaged." 😂
This has been very helpful for me, I just began my C diet yesterday, and honestly, I’ve had more energy today than in the last couple of months. Since I’m considered elderly, I hope I can extend my days without arthritis and GURD. Many thanks!
My husband’s gut healed on carnivore and arthritic thumbs no longer wake him up at night! Keep up the carnivore!!
How is it going on carnivore ?
@@tains4501 going better then I expected, I actually wondered how long I could go on mostly meat, but I’ve learn a lot since starting, about the meal, the expense ( cost less monthly than a diet plan I was purchasing a couple years ago) and I’m down 39 pounds. My GI issues were non existent after a couple of days. I watch a few of my local groceries for sales and stock up.
When I was a kid we were fed all the products you mentioned,,,At my parents house we had 2 choices eat it or go Hungry,,,We took some version of the afore mentioned foods In our School lunches ( yes we took our School lunches from home) ..Mom made Grits for breakfast and she made Supper for the family,,My Mom will be 90 yrs old in 2019 and still lives at home cooking her own meals ..So must have been ok for her..Best Regards
Old Guy You’re so lucky to still have your mom! I loved your story. thanks for sharing! ❤️
@Old Guy, my mom is the similar. 88 years old and still makes all of the meals at home for her and my dad. They eat better than I do!
*LOL!...I'm 60, (same school), except my Dad would say; "Oh, you don't like it?....Great!...That means there's more for the rest of us.*
@@tropocal2343 yup, same school. I just turned 59 on Saturday :)
I'm 63 and we didn't have a choice. You ate it or you sat there until breakfast and then you had to eat breakfast too. LOL Raised my kids in a similar fashion. No one was allowed to say yuck I don't like it if they did they got seconds.
I’ve been keeping my bacon grease in a coffee can for as long as I can remember. So did my mom and my grandma. I love cooking with bacon grease. It adds a lot of flavor to whatever I’m cooking. Thank you for this video. I always learn something from your videos.
I keep mine in a Ball canning jar
That's what I saw my grandmother do, and bacon grease was the secret to her rye bread! Now I save bacon grease, but I strain it first, and keep it in a mason cup jar for hubs to cook his eggs in.
I cook my egg yolks in tallow. 😊
Keeping bacon grease for as long as you can remember is a very long time to store any food, possibly unsafe by now.
@@RobbeyT1 lol not if your an old timer like me, and as long as u can remember is 30 minutes
Yeah, that's something a lot of us down south do, too. One our favorite things is to cook our chicken and beef liver in the bacon grease for a really good flavor!
be careful about buying sardines with sunflower oil. most of the benfits of the omega 3 are gone with the omega 6 overload. Either buy with tomato sauce or olive oil. . . .better than sunflowerseed oil !
great video as always! love those videos... watching some of them every week... liking every video... what happens? new videos show up from other carnivore eaters too. always something new to learn!
Bacon used to be a guilty pleasure for me but, not feeling any guilt right about now. Thank u Dr. B
Canned Mackerel in water is extremely nutritious and super cheap. A 15 oz can is less than $2.
Had them last night sauteed in salsa with a side of asparagus, yummy.
I eat kipper snacks every day at work for lunch, cheap and good for you
I like the 4 ounce tins of mackerel in olive oil. Pretty much the highest or 2nd highest omega 3 fish available.
Found out from a friend canned mackerel at Dollar stores 15oz !
Hey watch out for where that stuff comes from...
Really so thankful to have found your channel. I’m totally shocked as to how much less hungry I am after greatly reducing my carbs. Some days even completely carb free.
Exactly, I have some carb free days here n there getting used to it and using up what's in the house, eventually I am going full KETO , by next summer , now I may change my mind but i'll still be eating much lower carbs than before if nothing else.
If you think you hate liver, then try this:
Raw liver at room temp. Heat a stainless steel skillet over medium-low (that’s right) heat, with a big glob of salted butter until the butter starts to bubble. Add your liver, salt and pepper the top, and cook for just three to four minutes until it doesn’t stick and has started to brown on the other side. Flip your liver over with a fork and repeat. Don’t worry about any myoglobin that escapes from the pockets.
The trouble most people have with liver is that they overcook it at too high a heat which makes it taste strong and ruins the texture. Liver should be served soft enough to not need a knife to cut.
Try a soak in milk for several hours, drain off and slow cook 6 hts in onion..water, ketchup, marmite. Served with colli mash
Incredible
I know how to cook liver I cook real fast for my husband with bacon and sauted onions. Still can't eat it. I am not a picky eater but for some reason can't tolerate it or any canned fish
jack thomas LOL....That sounds like a mess, but to each his own.
Lisa Jorgenson I can understand the fish, but I’ve fed liver to many people who claimed to hate it or not tolerate it over the years without them even knowing, and they always love it and eat it all.
Fast frying may be part of the problem.
Resting Bitchface I will have to it this way :)
You brought up a point I was actually talking to my wife about last week: eggs. Eggs have to have everything necessary for life because the egg itself has to turn into a whole animal without any outside input.
Eggsactly!!
Technically only fertilized eggs can turn into a chicken. The eggs you buy at the grocery store are unfertilized.
@@lisabrooks1208 yes, but that doesn't change the fact that the yolk is there to do the job of feeding the fertilized egg to completion. It's there regardless of fertilization.
remember when Eggs, and real butter were called poison by the "experts"
Good point!
Just about two weeks in and so far I feel this will be an easily sustainable diet. I’ve already been eating a lot of these in my keto diet, so I basically just cut out vegetables. Sardines have been my secret weapon and I carry them everywhere I go.
Hope you carry some peppermint mouth spray as well.
David's Salmon Patties --- 1 can of Salmon, 1/2 cup of pork rind crumbs(can made by crunching up pork rinds, some places you can find in a contianer same place as bread crumbs), 2 TBS of home made butter, pack into burgers.. you should get 4 for a can worth..... a great option for omegas, oils etc..
Love salmon patties! Glad I'm not the only one. Ground pork rinds are amazing as a bread crumb substitute!
It was you and Dr. Baker that drew me into carnivore. Dr. Berg, Dr. Fung and also you are who drew me into keto and fasting. After great results with that, I feel ready to tackle carnivore. I’m on my 9th day and so far, so good! Thank you.
Let' us know more of ur experience, poop, or did u have any other particular experience like headaches or what not during the first wk or are u super hungry ....tnx
This helps so much. I realize that the potted meats shouldn’t be a go to, but it’s good that you give the option for people on a budget or even to add the occasional variety. I start back on carnivore tomorrow has this video helps me feel more confident about budgeting bc last time I was buying the best steaks I could find and I couldn’t afford it.
I fry pork chops in bacon grease and then use some of that to make a cream based gravy. Yep, it's good
I also like to use my pan to make sauces and gravies by using garlic, fresh herbs, spices, sometimes some sliced mushrooms, and cream. So yum.
Do you thicken it with anything? If so, what?
@@LindaHopson I allow the cream to thicken it. Basically reduce it in the pan until the desired thickness. It can take a while but so worth it!
Great list, if I may I would like to add my own suggestion.
In the UK we call it Belly Pork, I don't know if you have it in the US but it is delicious and so nutritious. It's basically like very thick-cut unsmoked Bacon. I eat it at least 2-3 times a week and it's ideal for anyone on a low fixed budget👍👍
Yesss I'm obsessed with pork belly! I cut it into bite size cubes and fry it up really crispy 😋
@@heathersmith4919I'm glad that I'm not the only Pork belly fan and cutting it up before frying is a great idea👍👍
I ❤️. Porkbelly. If you have an air fryer you cook it till crisp add salt. Meat candy 😂. I found the recipe on FB. Yum!!
@@holycow92883 Yes, it's delicious when cooked in an Airfryer. Basically, if I can't make it in the Airfryer I don't make it
Pork belly not good for carnivore pork dirty parsditic
Some more tips: Brisket can be purchased at Gorden's Food Service for around $3 lb. It's cheap because there's a lot of fat and they are HUGE. Expect to spend $50 + for them. Aldi's has great meats, low cost. Aldi's Ribeyes are excellent and are currently $12 lb. Mexican grocery stores at least in my area of NW Indiana, have meat that is cheaper than even Aldi's and will usually carry real lard. Plus if they have a hot food deli, they might have Chicharrons which is deep fried pig skin with some fat and meat attached.
$12 a lb is cheap?
Chuck steak (called Braising steak in the UK) is the cheaper alternative to ribeye. Contains ample fat just like ribeye but cost less than half the price.
I am very pregnant and almost peed laughing at panda massaged beef. Thanks Dr. Berry lmao
I know right? I laughed at that too!
🤣🤣🤣panda massaged beef would be nice
It's getting very expensive now though as the number of pandas trained to massage beef correctly is dwindling.
Chopped hotdogs scrambled with eggs! My kids and I love ❤️ it!! Quick and easy to make
My favorite, I love hot dogs in my scrambled eggs
I voraciously eat canned tuna in oil, and love mackerel and salmon. I'm fairly new to keto and carnivore, so enjoying learning. Down 40 lbs and 180 to go.
Watch out for the high mercury content in tuna.
Oil isn't carnivore
Couldn't care less if oil is or isnt carnivore. The fact I'm choosing tuna over a big mac is a big thing.
@angieabella8856 Big mac without the bun, and other veg is probably more carnivore than canned tuna. The problem is not even JUST in the oil... there are serious mercury issues in the meat itself AS WELL. People go carnivore mostly because they have auto-immune issues related to toxins in plant material. Beef is healthy!!! Tuna is very lean, low in fat, and VERY high in mercury. Tuna is not recommended for people that can avoid it. Most salmon is farm raised which has a host of issues you can look into... but much canned salmon is wild caught. Wild caught Salmon is better except for mercury. Most wild caught salmon is Sockeye which is pretty lean... so I recommend cooking and garnishing it in butter or bacon fat. I recommend eating smaller fish with much less mercury like (SARDINES). Eating sardines for omegas, bacon for fat, grass fed meat for omega 3 balance is what you want to get to. I am pointing out where you are going wrong, so you can stop. Canned Tuna is NOT better than plain McD patties [at least no study has shown it]. PEACE Health Warrior!
Canned tuna?? not a good idea. High mercury content in Tuna meat and avoid "farmed" salmon due to the food the fisheries feed them with.
On day 4 of carnivore diet. Think I'm past the worst of the sugar cravings. Love Dr. Berry. Very helpful with real life suggestions (like for poorer people).
I found a great deal with ends and pieces 3 pounds for $9.47. I fry it up and keep it in a glass container in my fridge and munch on it throughout the day. The best part is that I strain the bacon grease and use it along with butter to make deviled eggs with bacon bits in them. Thank you Dr. Berry!!!
Have a video on making those eggs ? Sounds amazing
Hello Dr Berry, I'm in my late 40s and over Weight, I'm at a point in life where I want to make a change to feel better and be healthier. I will be starting carnivore diet tomorrow and I have found all your videos has been very helpful and easy to understand. Thank you so much for sharing.
You can do it!!!
How did it go? 🥸
Love the practicality of this video. Many would like to change their diet, but often feel it’s out of reach because of budget and expensive ingredients. Homemade bacon chips topped with chicken liver pate, yum! Thank you Dr.Berry and family
Finally, a person who realizes that we're not all millionaires. Good job. I'll try the sardines -- I usually use them to bait live traps to catch critters who eat chickens. But I have to draw the line at liver. I got into too much trouble as a kid because I refused to eat the stuff to start eating it now.
Lol
Try LAMBS liver fried with smoked bacon, onion and a spoon of curry paste. Add a tin of chopped tomatoes and simmer for 15 minutes. You will thank me.
@@stevenhull5025 UK, Australia, or New Zealand?
Occasionally, I see some lamb chops or a leg of lamb in the grocery store here in the US. But even that isn’t an everyday occurrence. I’ve never seen lambs liver. Still, if I ever see any, I’ll give it a try. Thanks for the advice.
@@stevenhull5025 So it’s carnivore if you pick out the livers and eat them, and throw out the tomatoes and other stuff?
Good Stuff Doc! I wanted to share a recipe of something I have been makin'. I'm on an OMAD and STRICTLY carnivore with Monday all day fasting! It's a 3 day - "fish casserole" kind of creation. Consists of a can of Albacore tuna in spring water, a can of sardines - wild caught in water and a vacuum packed large piece of wild caught alaskan salmon (coho or sockeye) from Trader Joes, all cooked on my outside covered grille. I put the salmon on a foil boat out on the covered grille and while its cookin', I make a foil boat platter with about 20" of foil, folded long way in1/2 and then cup up the outer edge (about an inch) to make a boat. Then scoup in the tuna (after draining water) and the anchovies -drained- and break up it all and stir it up. After the salmon cooks (about 15 minutes) I scoup it into the mixture and break it all up and stir it in. Then I scoup it all into the foil boat and flatten it out and put a couple scoups of beef tallow (fat) on top for oil.Then back in to the grille for about 10 -15 more minutes. But I also make about 6 local free range raw eggs whipped in a bowl and pour it on top and kind of stir it in. In 10 minutes I have a 3 day casserole that I divide in three and last me for 3 meals (days)! It only comes to about $5 per day to eat! It's awesome!!
Sounds so good!
Sockeye is VERY expensive here in the UK. Ribeye is cheaper.
Just shallow fried some chicken wings in bacon grease. Really best wings I've ever had!
Dr. Berry, You are downright awesome! You’re down to earth and tell it like it is. Your humor is so welcome, you give great advice and I for one appreciate you like crazy. Thank you for being you!
Loved the Video, it is great to see all the 'cheaper' options, would have never thought of canned meat. Thank you so much.
A good alternative for pure Liver is Liverwurst! I am in Germany, and Liverwurst is practically everywhere and we can get it in jars and cans for long shelflive too. It can be affordable, has liver in it and is pretty tasty. Just keep an eye on ingredients, some producers like to hide some carbohydrates in there too.
In the US, you’re likely to find added high fructose corn syrup, and or sugar
Just started watching your videos a few weeks ago and started keto about 9 days ago. No starch, no sugar, just meats and low carb veggies and staying around 1600 to 1800 calories per day. According to the scale, weight loss is minimal so far but I have dropped nearly 2 inches in the waist already and and am starting to notice a better “well being “ feeling and some relief from joint pain.
A suggestion for cheap keto foods to break up the monotony a little.
Scramble a can of potted meat in what 3-4 eggs.
Honestly it smells awful cooking and gives the eggs a horrible pink color but it’s incredibly tasty. Been eating eggs that way occasionally for years now
Try mixing
the potted meat with cream cheese. . Could use a little sour cream * full fat) to thin it a bit, but it aje a ggod dip for pork rhine
Thanks to both of you for the suggestions!!
I hope you get to the videos where they tell you that calorie counting is faulty information and should be ignored. That's old school that should be disregarded by carnivores. If you are eating primarily meat and fat, the fat will tell you when you are "comfortably full", as Dr Berry likes to say. Let your body learn to tell you...some days you will need more--or less--than other days. I like to think that most people in a coma require 1200-1300 calories just to keep body processes going so even a moderately active person needs more than you are allotting calorie-wise to keep up metabolically.
I'd avoid vegetables as they contain fiber and oxalates (oxalates no good for the body). Any amount of fibre as been shown to cause digestion problems. The higher the fibre the increased digestion problems.
One of the best tips someone ever gave me. You can freeze cooked ground meat. I watch for the good bulk sale, break into 1 lb chunks, brown it up, let it cool and then vacuum seal it (
Oh, Dr Berry, please tell your wife to give you a hug for me. I feel like you're saving my life! I was about to give up on this. I just cannot afford the organic, grass fed, grass finished, unprocessed meat that a different health guru on here was telling us to buy. I can no longer afford both a home payment and a healthy diet. This, however, i can - well, except i can't get used to sardines yet.
I'm making sure to stay away from sugar, but i can't get my sugar under control without medication. Everybody keeps saying that that don't need meds anymore. Well, maybe if i can get my weight back to 125, then i won't need it, but until then, I'm fighting for my life!
THANK YOU FOR HELPING ME SAVE MY LIFE.
Dr ken I love you man . Fixing my health one video at a time . Thank you
This item wasn't mentioned here, but it's something I'd never had before, and I found it on Walmart's site while assembling a delivery order: pork butt steak, which was cut something like a pork chop, and they also have chuck roasts up to 4.4# each, which you could carve yourself and make into several meals, and it's pretty fatty.
I buy chuck roast from a local butcher shop because it is cheap and has a decent amount of fat. I also brush it with bacon grease to add more fat and I can get 3 meals out of it.
A pork roast can be sliced by butcher. Its called a pork steak. Delicious ❤
When you slice a chuck roast it becomes chuck eye steaks it's the cut next to the ribeyes it is marbled well I had it for supper tonight very delicious
Ask for pork arm steak. Siced about three fourths of an inch. Fry in bacon grease. Its delicious.
I love the fact that you included hot dogs, bologna, Vienna sausages, and other more processed and refined meats because more often than not people throw shade at these options, but they're still really great and cost effective.
I bought ribeye for $11.98 lb and also bought BarS thick sliced bologna for $1.98 a 12 oz pack. Just had a slice smothered in mustard sliced into thin strip to snack on.. very good
beef hot dogs and sausages are a great deal. many of them don't even have crazy fillers or anything
Thank you for including humble affordable meats Yum I want to try liver mousse ❤
The cheaper meats often add msg to the ingredients. I am allergic to msg.😮
What exactly makes you think they are great? It is exactly the bad side of meat - highly processed meat. That's what the vegans on purpose throw in a can together with "meat". All the studies showing that "meat" seems bad are actually about processed meat.
Brilliant info. Thank you! Glad you put viennas and non-pastured meat into perspective. I've been worried and saying an extra prayer over my meat if it's not pasture-raised. :D
I’m deep into low carb and your videos are great as refresher/reminders/inspiration...I talk them up to any carnivore newbie I meet in person or online...congrats!
Many thanks for this great well presented video and instruction. I am going to start a carnivore diet on my 55th birthday next month and stick at it and I will watch and learn from your videos and hope they keep my momentum going. Love and respect from England UK ❤
Happy Birthday@ynot
Dr Berry.. Don't forget about canned salmon. To me, same as sardines but more tolerable to most folks.
Except higher up on the food chain so you have to worry about mercury, and also most of it is farmed/GMO. Sardines you don't have to worry about either.
@@rherteux well, it's a good point, however for those who like fish, but don't like sardines, it's a trade off. I'm 64 years old and have realized life is one big trade off. I always check the label for "wild caught". Thanks for your concern and may the LORD bless you.
@@rherteux TBT and TBH 👍
I love smoked salmon with paprika
Diabolus_Musica 14.75oz of canned salmon is $3.00 - $4.75 per can. Canned sardines 3.75oz is $.90 - $2.25. Not much difference.
One my favorites is liverwurst. Sometimes I mix it with cream cheese. It does have a trace amount of sugar. So its a treat more than a staple.
I grew up on braunschweiger (liverwurst) and have ALWAYS loved it!!! Didnt even know it was liver till I was older. I have always thought of making it myself, but never ventured into it. I may give this a go!!
You n me!
Love it so much, but the big rolls are too much for me to finish before they go bad, so I slice them up, put them into zipper bags and take them out and eat them individually.
What brand do you use? I'm having a hard time finding lowest carb liverwurst
@@amylucas7136 Dietz Watson has 1 gram and Usinger has 0 grams
One thing I'd add to this list. Tallow/lard. You can usually get a lot of hardfat for it from a butcher for free or next to nothing. It's usually tossed out. What you do then is cut it into roughly even chunks no bigger than 1.5 inches. If you have a sausage grinder use that. Then put it in a pot pour about a cup of water in to get things going and bring it to a low simmer. And let it sit stirring occasionally for 6-8 hours. Then pour it through a strainer into jars or a pan. Tallow can be stored at room temp in a closed container for 1 year. Lard 6 months. Longer if canned or refrigerated. Hope this helps.
Does it have an effect on the stomach, eat meat, please reply?
@nevenphilip Not certain what you are asking. Tallow is just rendered beef fat. I use it for cooking. I wouldn't eat it by itself.
Sollte ich nach jeder Mahlzeit, die ich esse, Apfelessig trinken, um die Verdauung zu unterstützen?
I think cutting out fiber and starches and relying on meat causes bad breath due to the lack of fiber
@@inertproductionsalternate9114 Is 'dripping" the same thing??
Sardines are fantastic. I love the Porthos brand (from Portugal) packed in either brine or Tomato Sauce. The sardines with skin and bones are even better for you! Dr. Trying to get more into liver. It's still somewhat of an acquired taste.
Really appreciate this info and the hard work you put into these videos, Ken
I love everything you mentioned. Fried liver sausage and eggs has always been a favorite of mine.
In my nursery school when I was a young child, my favourite meal they made was liver cooked with bacon grease and bacon strips on top of the liver. It was the only way I would eat liver after that. I am not a fan of sardines, but since I am starting the carnivore diet, I will find a way to make a recipe that I can enjoy. I do love liver pate so I will try your recipe.
Thank you for these tips. Before I start, I am trying to figure out what I will eat with my budget as it is... during corona virus, I am a supply teacher and don't get paid unless I work. Teachers got paid during the shutdown here in Ontario, Canada, but I did not. I qualified for some govt support pay they were giving out, but it is running out and I don't have any work yet for the new school year! Wish me luck.
I will keep you in prayer...God bless you🙏🏿
Also try tinned mackerel. I have made home made mayonnaise using both olive oil in one batch and avocado oil in another and a combo of olive and avo oil in another batch. All are delicious slathered on the little fishes!! …. I used to eat sardines on sourdough bread with lettuce, tomato and mayonnaise but now I just empty the entire tin onto a plate and add a big dollop of my home made mayo and voilà…delicious. Fatty fish with real, home made, mayo and no carbs!! Lots of easy to make authentic real mayonnaise recipes online. I use a stick blender to whip the ingredients together. It emulsifies quickly. However one batch required two eggs before it would emulsify. I think it was because the egg I had used was just a little smaller than normal….as soon as I added the second egg to that batch, it emulsified immediately.
@@zeldalazino463 Any problems using raw eggs for your mayo? Also, how long can it last refrigerated? Any feedback would be appreciated!
Was thinking about this today and you uploaded. Very grateful. It's quite expensive to buy only grassfed meat. That is IF I'm able to find some... Thank you!
Halloween this year my doctor told me the ultrasound revealed some fatty liver, gallstones and one kidney stone. I gave up alcohol 3 years ago thank goodness but I knew it was the sugar in my diet and my occasional indulgence in fast food. I watched your utube on how to reverse and heal from fatty liver and I started right away. I’m feeling so much better and I’m sleeping better. Really grateful to you. I have a ct scan on the 24 . I feel empowered that I’m eating a proper human diet. Thanks, Maja
God bless you Doc, for sharing the truth about healthy living. I’m down a total of 90lbs combining carnivore with OMAD. I feel like I can wrestle a rhino and kick its ass.
awesome!
Amen!
It was so nice to turn the corner like that. I am only at 2 weeks strict Carnivore i was vegan last June for 5 years i added animals first and went semi keto till 2 weeks ago.
Ground beef, Cooking Bacon Scraps and Beef Liver mixed up in equal amounts makes a great burger mix. I use 3lbs of each and make 9lb’s of burger mix for great cheeseburgers with cheddar cheese toppings. Thanks Ken D Berry MD. 👍
I eat braunschweiger at least once a week. It isn't very carb loaded but I love the the liver based loaf. It is usually less than $4 a pound. Half a pound of it can make me a complete meal.
Thank you for your reassuring suggestions. So much snobbery amongst the nutrition "experts".
Diced Spam scrambled with eggs is one of my favorites.
That sounds amazing!
In Hawaii I learned to eat Spam a hundred different ways lol. They love their Spam so much that per capita Hawaii eats more Spam than any other state in America lol.
“Hey do you want some peanut butter cups with your Spam and eggs?” Lol. That’s from 50 first dates the movie with Adam Sandler. Its a great movie and Sean Aston is hilarious in it lol Anyway you can google Spam recipes from Hawaii and you will get a tonne of recipes
Hawaii loves Spam because in WWII they depended on it and the fish they could catch, gardens they raised, eggs if they had chickens. Especially on the outer islands, meats were hard to come by. islanders are preppers, lesson learned!
Spam is highly processed. Contains preservatives like sodium nitrate and is low in vitamins and minerals.
Started a carnivore diet some three weeks ago, figured I'd look for some options to add variety to my diet. I've been living on cow and chicken organ meats, ground beef, bacon, eggs and sardines. Actually bought some potted beef for snacking a couple days ago too.
I gotta be honest, I'm not so much bored with meat, I moreso miss certain vegetable flavors - garlic, onion and tomatoes were on basically every meal I ate on large quantities before.
If it helps anyone, also, low sodium salt usually is mostly potassium chloride, it helped me pull out of my keto flu and might do the same for you.
There are deserts too not that I've got to that state yet but looking forward to it. Cheese cake and ice-cream etc.
Raw A2 milk kefir can be used to dip meats etc.
Man I wish you was my doctor. Atleast we have you here. Thanks so much for all your videos!
Let's go directly to the source: EAT THOSE PANDAS!!
Thanks Doc, right on point as usual. A friend recently asked how I lost so much weight and went off meds. Now he remarked: "Guess I chose a bad time to try keto/carnivore.' .I'll send him the link to this video.
Perfect! Carnivore can be very affordable, and sustainable.
I am so with you on the pandas - anything that takes that much effort to survive and breed needs to be eaten out of the food chain - pass the grill pan and the salt.
@@joannekerr8839 Wow! Sorry pandas can't survive living in strip malls. They don't sell bamboo at 7-11. We robbed them of their bamboo forests. The earth needs to heal for us to be here. I wish we all respected our planet like the Native Americans did/do.
@@staceykersting705 It's not about the deprivation of their habitat at all. Do some googling on the pathetic reproductive lives of pandas BECAUSE of their bamboo shoot diet. The natural history of the panda is fascinating, in that they are orchestrating their OWN destruction and we're just getting in the way.
Value of various foods can be determined by cost of protein per gram. A dozen jumbo eggs yields 96 grams of protein with proportional fat. Tick above .03 cents per gram, consider that as a baseline.
Dozen large yields 72 grams of protein.
Shop all levels of supermarkets, even the most exclusive will offer specials. Grass fed ground beef, 20% fat can be had for 4.50 per pound, packaged in individual sealed wrap. Approximately 80 grams of protein, .065 cents per gram. When a special is available buy in quantity.
A high end market in my area offers ground pork in the packaged meat cooler for 3.99. That is appropriately. 05 cents per gram. Best of luck , shop, shop, shop. Sign up for any preferred customer programs.
Thank you! Keto has been amazing for me, but I had some left over issues like the last 10% of my fibromyalgia. Carnivore has been helping.
Thanks for the tips. I'm currently on keto and down 20 lbs in two months. However next week I want to do carnivore for a few months and see how I do on it. I'm not worried about the diarrhea everyone talks about as I have IBS and get it time to time anyway. Ok enough personal history. You guys have a blessed day.
Good progress!! Please don't be concerned about what people say could happen regarding diarrhea. It probably won't. Now as far as improving your health and dropping excess weight? That WILL HAPPEN 😊
ZeroCarbLife and SteakandButterGal have vids on preventing diarrhea
Eat your fat cold, maybe even eat your fatty meat cold or at least room temp. This seems to be crucial step.
Of course, slowly titrating your fat intake is also important. You can take Swedish Bitters just before eating and take oxbile just after also. They will give u ability to digest fats while ur waiting for ur body to remember how.
Highfat is so important for most women and even some men. Having IBS seems you qualify, surely. It’s soooo healing.
Been following Dr. B now for at least 5 years. On Mondays for lunch I have 3 fried eggs with chicken livers fried in bacon grease. Wednesday is a sardine salad (sardines mixed with avocado mayo) and I eat it as a dip with pork rinds. Friday lunch is fried eggs with chicken hearts cut in half and fried in bacon fat. I actually like the taste of beef liver better than chicken liver but I just can't deal with that tough inedible vessel (or whatever it is) anymore.
I’ve been eating the same thing everyday for the last 7 months and for some crazy reason I don’t get tired of it, I actually look forward to my lunch which is 2 hamburger patties 73/27 fat. Dinner ribeye steak , porterhouses or t-bone , ribeye being my favorite. If I end up having something different like pork or fish, Im thinking I’d rather be eating steak 🥩 😀.
ultimatevend me too! 👍🏻
Yeah, 73/27 ground beef never gets old (grass fed blows in my opinion). I like it with Montreal steak seasoning and lots of sliced sweet onion. It is literally the only food that when I think of it makes my mouth water.
Me too! 7 weeks in 🥩
That sounds expensive, wish I could do that
Me too exactly.
I use all your suggestions. A liver option that tastes great is liver wurst. Cheap or expensive it has tons of nutrients and much easier than cooking liver.
@Shady Lady At times called braunschweiger( difference is the way they are cooked) it is in the lunchmeat section, in a roll.
Aldi has really good liver wurst !
Liver sautéed with onions smells so good when cooking but I can’t tolerate the taste and I’ve tried several times to eat…
@@christinamiller1323 if you look at the above comments someone mentioned having it ground with their beef and it makes a good burger.
You might try chicken liver. Also there's some technique of soaking beef liver in lemon juice or milk first. It's supposed to make it less bitter I think.
Finally much better to undercook it than overcook it. Liver has a very dry and mealy texture when cooked too long.
Thank you for all the tips and hints. I've done intermittent fasting and keto before, now I'm coupling IF & carnivore.
Liver still gives me the willies, but I LOVE braunschweiger. I ate it as a kid, and after a 4 decade break, still love it. I'll count that as my organ meat, lol.
Dr Berry is arguably the best family doctor ever!
I have never had Sardines. I’m going to add it to my grocery list. I’m on day 10 of doing Carnivore. I love the ease of meal prep! 😃
If you like fish and don't mind 'fishy fish' then you will like sardines. I use a can to add to soups to make it really hardy. Especially good when it's cold out.
I always get the sardines packed in olive oil for the additional fat. Same thing with tinned mackerel. I’ll have an entire tin as an “appetizer” before main course. I just dump it all onto a plate and add a bunch of my home made mayonnaise. I also find they’re much tastier than when packed in water.
If you eat tuna salad, try mixing the sardines in that, the seasoning helps. Also, Ketogenic Woman has a recipe for Sardine bites (kinda like a crab cake or fish cake) that looks delicious. HTH
Cheryl Fink: How are you doing a year later on carnivore?
@@JazzyMamaInAK I also mixed them in egg salad and I incorporate them in egg white thin omelettes. Since the egg whites are so bland it helps to make it easier to eat the sardines or mackerel
We grew up eating potted meat on saltines. We call it (adoringly) “hurricane food” here in New Orleans! Don’t think I could eat potted meat with a spoon/without a cracker. I appreciate the mention of low budget alternatives!
Tried pork rinds?
You can make an unsalted egg omelet and use the potted meat as a topping (you can vary he thickness of the omelette to give it more texture. I do some very thin ones and crisp them up and they feel more like a flat bread. I also cook sardines with eggs because sardines by themselves have a very strong flavor. I chop up the sardines and then mixed them with boils eggs and you can have an egg salad. You can add mayo too (you can make your own butter mayo if you want to be more strict carnivore). I buy a carton of liquid egg whites and do very thin egg white omelettes. Since their flavor is so plain, they mix well with salty and greasy meat products like potted meats, hot dogs, sardines or liver paté
It’s hard to eat sardines w/o saltines, doused with vinegar! My daddy taught me to love them n he’s southern also (NC). I’ll try the chopped into eggsalad idea. I love them with radish slices too or minced celery but that’s not carni!
My grandma always included liver in her hamburger dressing. It adds a unique texture that elevates the dish. I've been avoiding liver because of gout, but I haven't had an attack since I stopped eating carbs in late 2019, so I'll give it a shot.
No!
Yes!
"panda massaged" 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Thanks so much for this information. I want to start the BBBE challenge but wanted more guidance & ideas. I didn't want to get bored & fail. I love beef liver & haven't eaten it in a while as no one else in my home doesn't like it but I'm going to get liver back in my repertoire. The hardest part will be carbs (rice, pasta & bread), whew. But I'm going to give it my best. One day at a time. Be well.
Great list. I already eat all of that, including saving bacon fat, but it's good to know I'm on the right track - and that's after flirting with vegetarianism for years and finally realizing that it's just not the way to go.
I assume we shouldn't get sardines in vegetable oil... I'd be interested to find out what type of sardines people are eating.
I have been using ground breakfast sausage that's only around 2.50 a pound or less. Also, ground pork that's sometimes around 2 a pound. Been mixing that with a pound of hamburger or 2. Then adding lots of bell peppers for the vitamin C and additional flavor. I will then put some colby jack chedder on top on one of the meals to make it taste different. I also serve spinach or other greens with it to help with digestion and potassium.
They say veggies are not good for us especially spinach. I have been eating raw spinach leaves for years and truly thinking I'm doing the most healthiest thing for myself. I am adjusting my diet now, just do a lot of research and be open for change on somethings that may not make sense to us because we are stuck in our ways. Oats and seeds are bad also. Most all veggies are seeds, just a thought I don't really know what to believe but I'm trying.
Spinach is extremely high in oxalates. It is associated with kidney stones and it also binds with minerals like calcium and magnesium, blocking the body from using them. Veggies low in oxalates are regular lettuce and cabbage. Fermented cabbage (sauerkraut) is one of the best vegetables to eat in a mainly carnivore diet. It has healthy bacteria that help your gut. You don't have to eat a lot, but it helps to break the monotony of only meat and I have an easier time digesting food when I use it
@@markmcmahen9442 I was trying to acquire a taste for Kale. Baby kale is doable .... Then I hear that kale And Spinach, are both Not good for us!
You're right, this is a lot of opposite thinking for us - High fats!!
So good to hear the Vianney sausage.
That’s the way I grew up pronouncing it and people made fun of me because no one else said that. Since I no longer have saltines, I have it with hot sauce and pork rinds.
Thanks getting me on keto.
Dr. Berry, thank you for all the great content you are putting out. Would this apply to things like summer sausage and hard salami as well?
Thank you, Dr Berry! My Dad says it that way, too!
Thx Doc.....appreciate the good options given here.....
Thank you Ken, very helpful as thankfully in the UK even a cheap can of corned beef is simply beef, salt and nitrites and I love the stuff! So that will stretch things out nicely along with eggs and tinned fish
ain't cheap anymore
Yes, I snatched a tin going past the tinned meats yesterday. Yet another goodie in the carnivore arsenal!