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Eating a Carnivore Diet for $4 a Day – The Frugal Carnivore

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1 pound of ground beef for breakfast. Frugal Carnivore Diet.

A carnivore diet is one where you don’t eat plants.

Yes, you read that right. If this is your first time to my blog and you’re curious about how in the heck I eat a diet without plants, then you can read about my experience on a carnivore diet in my book, The Carnivore Diet Handbook. Today, I’m sharing how I eat a frugal carnivore diet to save a lot of money.

I’m loving my frugal carnivore diet.

So far, I feel great on it. My skin is gorgeous, PMS is consistently a breeze, my weight is easy to maintain. I‘m stronger, and my sleep is great. Apart from the great skin, my other favorite part of the carnivore diet is that I’m never bloated. I can go from eating a pound of meat to wearing a bikini. Digestion is much better without plants and fiber. Eating a carnivore diet is right for me. I’ve been doing this on and off, mostly on… since January 2018. The times I go off I experience differences like bloating and occasional pimples.

Sometimes eating meat can get expensive though!

That’s where a frugal carnivore diet comes in.

This post will share how I do it, and for more detail get my book, The Frugal Carnivore Diet

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My New Book: The Carnivore Diet Handbook

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The Carnivore Diet Handbook

I’m excited to announce that I wrote another new book, The Carnivore Diet Handbook.

This is the book I wish I had when I started my carnivore diet.

I wrote The Carnivore Diet Handbook because I’ve been loving my experiences on a carnivore diet so far, and I wanted to share everything I’d discovered to help you do it, too!

Tons of people are curious about this diet, and people have lots of questions. I took everything I learned about trying the carnivore diet and put it in an easy-to-read book. You’ll learn exactly how and why I started this diet.

I used to be a body-builder way back in the day!

I’ve been fascinated by health and fitness for over twenty years, beginning at age 19 when I was a competitive bodybuilder. I remember the days fondly when I would eat an entire rack of ribs (sometimes 2 racks), every day for a week, leading up to a competition.

Then things changed… I went vegan!

In my mid-twenties (no longer bodybuilding), I became a vegan, primarily for ethical reasons, but I dove deeply into the pro-vegan literature, and I believed veganism was the healthiest way to eat.

Then one day, I realized that my toddler daughter was not thriving (nor my husband or myself upon honest inspection). This was despite my serious commitment to providing her with what I believed was a nutritionally complete diet, and spending a small fortune in the highest quality supplements.

From vegan, to “reformed vegan,” to heart-eating carnivore…

The short version is that I’ve done a complete, 180-degree reversal from my plants-only diet days.

When I’m eating a carnivore diet, I eat zero plants. I’ve even recently (finally) given up coffee (a plant extract and insecticide). I’m on day 4 for that. (I love and hate that I’ve given up coffee.)

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Beef patties

The Carnivore Diet Handbook will show you why I’m eating this way and how you can get the benefits, too. Things like finally losing the weight you’ve always wanted to, only this time it’s EASY and delicious. You can experience what it’s like to not be addicted to sugar or carbs. If you have acne, this diet is amazing for giving you gorgeous clear skin. If you have aches and pains in joints or muscles, they are dramatically reduced of go away all together.

It’s an amazing diet and you should try it today. I love it!

The book is filled with all things carnivore diet:

  • My carnivore diet story and I how I came to try it including my skeptic’s tale(!)
  • The results I’ve experienced since being on it twice
  • FAQs about the carnivore diet (like, do I need veggies??? what about fiber???)
  • Tips for transitioning to a carnivore diet
  • Holidays on a carnivore diet
  • Traveling on a carnivore diet
  • Meal plans
  • Shopping list
  • Cooking tips
  • Plenty of mouth-watering meaty recipes

If you’re wondering about how you could feel better, get more energy, lessen inflammation in your body, and lose weight, then a carnivore diet is for you!

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Buy The Carnivore Diet Handbook TODAY ! Your body (and taste-buds!) will thank you.

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How to Eat Healthy While Traveling Anywhere

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Eat healthy while traveling… yes, this is easy… no matter where you travel in the world.

We’re a digital nomad family who, so far, has traveled and eaten healthy in 5 countries.

True, we’re newbies at the digital nomad lifestyle, but we’re not new at eating healthy while traveling in general. I took what I learned from eating healthy while traveling for vacations, and applied it to traveling the world eternally.

And? It works.

My family eats healthy while traveling anywhere with a few food staples and routines.

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Chocolate Peanut Butter Eggs

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Inspired by any recipe using minimal ingredients, I was massively intrigued by the 2-ingredient Nutella Brownies I saw online: Nutella + Eggs.

We don’t eat Nutella, so I figured I’d make my own version, requiring 3 ingredients instead.

  • Organic peanut butter
  • Organic chocolate bar
  • Eggs

I didn’t do much in the way of measuring other than an estimate of about a cup total between the peanut butter and chocolate (warmed on stove to make liquid-ish) plus 4 eggs.

The eggs get the crap beaten out of them to increase their volume and supposedly make less egg-tasting but… more on that in a bit.

Mix the warmed chocolate mixture with the eggs and bake in a greased baking dish for about 20 minutes (350 degrees or thereabouts).

It looks impressive.

It tastes less so.

In spite of beating my eggs a lot, I thought it tasted like chocolate peanut butter eggs instead of brownies.

That doesn’t mean it’s bad… just need to create expectations.

It needed to be sweeter so we drizzled maple syrup on one serving and tried another with strawberry jelly. (My chocolate bar was the organic dark chocolate from Trader Joe’s with pecans and raisins in the light blue wrapper – so not super dark chocolate.)

Sort of tasty (and interesting, to be sure). Just not brownies.

Kamea and Greg enjoyed them well enough that’d I’d probably make again. Maybe… now that I know what to expect.

A fun experiment to be sure. 🙌🏼

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Greg’s Favorite: Egg Salad Pizza (Gluten-free)

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Egg Salad Pizza – want some?

I wanted an egg salad sandwich, but I didn’t have any sourdough bread. I settled on a pizza crust and created an egg salad “pizza” – which I’m guessing isn’t truly pizza (no red sauce or cheese), but you get the point. Baked crust topped with egg salad looks like a pizza-type meal.

Greg LOVED it. (Me, too.)

I used my favorite gluten-free crust that I buy by the box. It’s not organic – boohoo – but it’s tasty as F.

Really tasty gluten-free pizza crust

I made egg salad with pasture-raised eggs (the only eggs I’ll eat because the hens are treated very well and they have a lovely diet), Straus greek yogurt (my mayo replacement), mustard, salt, pepper, and a dash of citrus (or apple cider vinegar). Oftentimes I add Dr. Cowan’s Garden Vegetable powders (my favorite kitchen hack), and ground turmeric powder, garlic powder, onion powder, etc. Oh, maybe fresh herbs if I have (or dried).

The TOTALLY best way to make hard-cooked eggs is in a pressure cooker. The shells beg to be taken off – so easy. I put them in a pressure cooker (sitting on a trivet) with a cup of water. Turn it on to high pressure for 4 minutes. When the beep goes off, transfer to ice bath and peel shortly after. It’s so so so much easier than using the stove.

Get the pizza crust cooked, slather on a bit of grass-fed butter, slop on some egg salad. Eat. Eat. Eat.

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Golden Egg Salad in Pictures

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Let’s dive in. Golden Egg Salad.
I love egg salad. It’s creamy, a bit tangy, nourishing and full of flavor and satisfaction. 

Here’s how I made Golden Egg Salad the other night. 

I started by pressure cooking organic broccoli in my beloved Instant Pot, which effortlessly takes only a handful of minutes. 

Instant Pot broccoli. Easy!
While the broccoli is cooking, I get a bowl together with the dressing mixture. 

Egg Salad dressing goodies
For starters, I don’t like conventional mayo because they all have some kind of vegetable oil in it (canola or sunflower or soybean oil) of which I currently eschew. I’m not crazy about the primal mayos out there either. 

Instead, I love and always use Straus whole-fat Greek yogurt which is a kiss from heaven. It’s thick, rich, and tastes like cream cheese(?) to me. I use it in place of all things mayo and my gut thanks me as a result (boost of gut-health probiotic love). I can’t speak for other Greek yogurts though, as far as heavenly taste. 

To the bowl, I add:

I stir it all and look for more stuff to add texture and pizzazz to my egg salad. 

Oh. Whoops. I should mention that I already had my hard-cooked eggs made in my Instant Pot earlier today. Reason alone to buy an Instant Pot to make the perfect-every-time hard-boiled eggs. 

Ok so I found some red bell pepper and chopped it. 

I added sauerkraut and chopped bread-n-butter pickles (my favorite in egg salad).

Bell pepper for texture, brightness, and nutrition
Then I chopped the freshly cooked broccoli, added more Greek yogurt cuz you should make it really creamy. 

I need a bigger bowl.
Added the chopped eggs. 

Stirred it up and tasted. 

Almost perfect. 

Diced up an apple and added it. 

Now, it’s perfect. 

Oh yeah. Bring it.
Mmmmmmmm. 

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