Can You Do Carnivore on an Extremely Low Budget?
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- Опубліковано 17 лют 2024
- Can you do Carnivore on an extremely low budget? Today we will find out! I have to feed 1 person at least 1500 calories and 100g of protein per day, its a 30 day month, and they will eat two meals a day. And we have to do all of that with a budget of $100! Can it be done?
I also include some of my best practices for finding deals on meat and some sample meals you can make with our $100 cart.
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Carnivore is actually cheaper compared to all the other junk/empty calories in boxes or bags. Thanks for the tips and recipes!
Agreed! We are saving a ton of money on carnivore, plus the added health benefits :)
Can not see how people can afford to buy junk food either. People are so busy but packagrd foid gets worse every year.
Not to mention pop and fancy coffee drinks.
Too bad so many people refuse to believe it. Sigh.
I agree ,carnivore has become cheaper when it come downs to it .....good life 😊
Most ppl say that it’s expensive to do the carnivore diet. Thanks for taking the time to show that you can do this diet inexpensively. I would not have thought it was possible.
Hello and I thought the same! I was surprised I was able to get so much food for $100 :)
Yes but the food quality is definitely questionable. Most of the big names touching for it will insist you need to eat high quality meat, like grass fed beef and pasture raised chicken eggs. Stuff gets crazy expensive. Hopefully food quality won't negate the benefits of a carnivore diet
@@phoenix7289 oh, for sure! Here’s the thing. Of course, if you have the money, spring for the highest quality that you can afford. But I don’t want people that are surviving on very low food budgets to think they can’t do carnivore just because they can’t get grass fed everything. You can get most of the benefits of carnivore eating grain fed meat👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Most ppl think og that cause they see almost evey youtuber who is carnivore eats mostly steakes like princess
I'm a dumpster diver. Y'all would hate me if you knew how little I spend on food....
At age of 89. I lost my wife, of 40+ years, now doing my own 'cooking'. THIS is going to be a huge help!!
Hello and I'm sorry to hear about your wife. But great work taking the initiative to learn!
Genesis 1:29 is the original diet, eating flesh is pagan read the original gospel of the holy 12 1 st century bible not 17th century king james you will also learn they curupted mosses law
@@georgekataftos hmmm, sounds interesting!
get a new wife
We were spending as a couple 600 a month for groceries. We are spending about the same but are eating steak 3 to 4 times a week. We also enjoy shrimp 2 times a week. Both we would have considered way too expensive on our regular food diet. We are very satisfied with our carnivore way of eating and have lost between us over 40 pounds in 116 days.
Nice! That's about what me and my husband spend too, we used to spend a lot more than that. Great work!
I have been living on $50 a month for 2 of us, but I'm not carnivore though. I live on different versions of reduced price sausages, eggs, chicken gizzard, and liver, beef liver, squash, cabbage, and potatoes.
Oml that really a lot 💀
This is the conversation to be having. People always complain that eating healthy is for rich people when it’s not! I used to work in a grocery store and would watch fit older couples spend less than $200 on groceries, usually only being stuff from the meat dairy and produce aisles. Meanwhile I’d see other couples a bit younger than them, very obese, spending upwards of $400 and their cart is mostly full of the snack foods and various boxes. Honestly if we cut out majority of the junk the middle aisles have to offer, we can cut our grocery bills by at least a third
Great point!
good luck finding most of your meat half or better off.
@@KarmicSalt I find almost all of my meat for half off, it’s really not that hard to do👍🏻😀
I prefer to shop Aldi's over Walmart because their prices are cheaper however look at the packages of shredded cheese you're buying it has other stuff in it like potato starch and cellulose which is a type of wood pulp I believe buy a brick of cheese and shred it yourself
Hello! 100% agree with you. That's what I do with my cheese, but for this super low budget I was only looking for how much food I could get, not necessarily the highest quality.
It's Aldi. There's no S
@@JennyMitich Dirty carnivore!
Potato starch and stuff in the shredded cheese is to keep it from sticking back together.
@@Chillin24Sevensure but we’re still ingesting all that stuff, that’s really the point. Like how pesticides are used to keep insects from destroying food…still don’t wanna eat pesticides tho
Here's low cost thing I do. The meat market sells chicken leg quarters seventy nine cent to eighty nine cent per lb. In effect this is cheaper that regular grocery stores because they sell them in bulk and the packaged ones at the grocery stores have a lot of fluid added to raise the price, the ones I but are relatively dry. With a small sharp knife I bone out the entire quarter and have a boneless . piece of chicken to cook in the air fryer or smoker.
The bones go into the Instant pot to make bone broth, I cut the long bones in two to get to the marrow. My favorite way to use the bone broth is to make egg drop soup. I mix up four eggs into a cup and heat the broth, when it is steaming I drizzle the eggs into the broth while stirring constantly. The eggs will cook into threads and it is delicious.
Nice!
Poultry is the least nutritious meat
@@YeshuaKingMessiahPointless reply, so what?
@@YeshuaKingMessiah yes, it’s pretty low on the totem pole. But you can get a lot of it for cheap!
@@KittyMama61Yeah currently this meat market is selling whole NY strips for $4.99/lb and whole rib eyes for $6.99/lb. My freezers are full and the NY strip is cheap enough that I have been canning it.
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Wow, thank you! I appreciate it :)
I've discovered chopping up pork into bite size pieces and air frying for about 8 minutes, shaking the basket midway. Oh my word! I'm going to be doing that with my pork shoulder from now on! So tender and juicy!
Yummm!
Holy! 1.68 for a dozen eggs. You dont want to live in Canada folks. Cheapest eggs are 6.00/doz For a 100.00 I could get 1 weeks worth of groceries and would have to travel out of town to do so. Nearest walmart is 2 hours away. Costco is best bet for Canadians for budget. Buy in bulk and freeze in portion sizes.
Yes it is crazy here north of the border. Anxiety everytime I hit the grocery store now, gas, electric, yada yada.
I used to buy those 60 eggs at Walmart the big box of five dozen and I went there the other day and it is now up to almost 14 a box whereas once upon a Time that was less than five dollars. The prices are getting crazy
Hello! I have seen prices declining. But yes, they could definitely be cheaper.
It's even worse in Canada, all the grocery stores now only reduce meat by 30 % when before it use to be 50%
We pretty much shop at Costco. One big buy at the beginning of the month and then pick up a few things when needed 💜
Today is Feb 19… I go to Sam’s club and they have 60 count eggs for $9.99 a box….been that price for quite a while.
@@carolblair2845it's regional
Prices on eggs were way down but they've risen back to where they were at their highest. Just in the last few days it feels like. But Sam's always has pasture raised for 5 bucks and that's a very decent price!
Always also read the labels on the heavy whipping cream and the shredded cheeses. The heavy whipping cream is likely to have several additives as are the pre-shredded cheeses. Buy block or sliced cheeses on sale, then shred it if necessary, and if you can, go organic on the cream.
Great tips!
That breakfast casserole looks amazing! Definitely need to try it soon 😊
Oh man, its delicious and so easy!
It looks delicious, and a great way to use up those odds & ends of meat and cheese that aren't quite enough for a meal on their own.
Thanks for doing this. I do carnivore but I live alone so people do not believe me if I said it can be done (since we buy only meat and nothing else). So I am excited to see that meal budget for 4 people in a family. ❤❤❤
Hello and thank you so much!
I eat one meal a day and spend way less than I did before going carnivore...I spent 50 dollars on meat and it lasted me 2 weeks and there are some months I do fasting..it really helps...this diet changed my life....4 years in and sustaining my 120 pound weight loss from 264...off my high blood pressure medications and reversed my insulin resistance. It's been life changing....I do supplement with IV hydration therapy to make sure I'm getting all the vitamins I need!
Jenny-I think you add so much quality information onnall things Carnivore! So good that I have created your own separate “save” category for your UA-cam vids. Thanks I am an RN but a newbie so I am battling the old dogma of “science” that my MDs and nutritionist friends still believe-- it’s hard to challenge.
Thank you so much!
Great list. One thing you may have missed is that Walmart and sometimes Aldi has the 10lb bags of chicken quarters for 59 cents a pound.
Great tip!
Once in a blue🌚 moon… Walmart 🇨🇦Will have a chicken sale IN SOME CITIES, NOT ALL…For $1.97/lb. Prices at Walmart are the highest in Canada…not a great place to shop.
I live in east Tennessee and we have a store named Sav a lot. They have super cheap meat. T bone steak for 3.99 a pound sometimes
Nice! Thats a great price :)
$25/person/week = crazy pants. Way to gooo🎉
Thank you!
This is very helpful. I’m excited to keep seeing and definitely excited for the $250/month budget for a family of 4. Even if it’s $300-$350 I still think that’s awesome. Let’s see what the realistic cheapest you can go is
Hello! Yes, that one was fun. It ended up being $300 and it will be out on Sunday :)
Something to consider if you primarily want beef and don't eat pork, brisket is usually between $2.50 and $3.25 per pound. Also cheek meat is close to $3 per pound. A chuck roll is about $4.20 to $5 per pound. Lots of good options for the carnivore diet! There's also options like Good Chop where you can build your own box for a little over $200. I'm definitely looking into that myself.
Great meat buying tips! My husband is a meat cutter and sometimes will get first dibs on sell by date meat markdowns. This has really helped with our carnivore budget. I love your channel Jenny! Thanks for your helpful & meaty advice!
That is awesome! I'm super jealous!
Thank You!@@JennyMitich Keep up the great work you do!
I always shop deals. I eat a lot of steak because I haunt the kroger that’s near my house. 😂
I have two freezers and buy a lot of red meat when it’s sell-by marked down about once a week. Then I have stock to get me by between catching the sales. 👍
Same! I almost only buy the 50% off steaks now :)
Loved this video! Thanks so much for taking on the challenge and showing others it is possible ❤
Thank you!
Nicely done! Last months grocery bill was outrageous! I’ll have to try some of your ideas!
Hello! it takes a bit of practice but you can totally get that bill down :)
Wow! Thanks so much for sharing this!
Very helpful! Thanks for doing ALL the legwork! Cah-ching!😉
Thank you :)
That was very impressive. I watch a lot of these videos and this might be the best yet. This video was packed with info and ideas. Very well done Jenny, thank you.
Hello and thank you so much!
Great job. You always break it down for us so we can see. Excellent example. Thanks.
Hello and thank you!
Another helpful video Jenny! I also spend way less eating this way even without trying - not buying so many veggies that just get thrown out bc I couldn’t eat them in time, no overpriced junk food that I needed to eat a ton of to feel full on or that I used to keep coming back for more of bc of sugar cravings.
Same! We have basically zero food waste now :)
I agree with you, there's no waste now.
Great video, and thanks for including the cooking tips at the end.
Hello and thank you so much!
This was wonderful. Thank you for the meal prep ideas as well.
Thank you!
❤This was awesome! I have been working on this in the last month. We are a ketovore family of 7! So trying to keep things cheaper and the cost down. Bone on, skin on chicken thighs are definitely the cheapest at 1.39 a pound and drum sticks go on sale for 99 cents a pound. Pork is usually under 2 a pound as well. I'm working on finding ground beef for a good price and will likely do half a cow this year. Can't wait for the next one!
That is awesome! Great idea with the half a cow, with a family your size thats the best option :)
My issue is not having a big freezer 🤪 to buy bulk for 1 month! This is a great video to show how it can be done. I am learning to buy the large cuts on sale. Amazing savings. Also get to know your butchers. They are absolute treasures for many reasons. How to cook something, real shelf life, sales coming so you can plan, special cutting of bulk meats, etc. They save me $$. I spent $400 a month on food. No junk. Meat, vegetables, berries, beans...no seafood. Looking forward to this now! Thanks for your hard work❤!
Hello and thank you so much!
@@JennyMitich You're very welcome. Recently found your channel. Wealth of info & guidance on how to manuver this lifestyle change.🙏🏼❤
@@jannewlove725 I’m glad you are finding them helpful. Let me know if you have any questions 😀😀
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Great video! Thank you for all the work you put into it!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you! ❤❤❤ GREAT information and a big help!
Glad it was helpful!
So, I love your concept and it definitely looks like it works! I go to Sam's and get a whole chuck roll for about $120 which I am able to cut into 17 steaks (chuck eye, Denver, and sierra) and 3 decent size roasts. I usually get farm fresh eggs while I'm there. Might look into getting them from Aldi which has the best price on grass fed butter $3.09 per 8oz.
This is so helpful! I just discovered your channel after deciding to try carnivore and this is what I need..practical tips to get started.
Awesome! I'm glad it was helpful :)
This was super helpful! I’ve been on carnivore for 9 weeks and have been shopping with local butcher, but this helped me a bunch! Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Excellent, Jenny. Thank you.
Thank you so much!
Awesome video, thank you for the great content and tips!!
Thank you so much!
Really helpful! Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Very informative and helpful.
Hello and thank you so much!
Really good video! Packed with great info, all in one guide. Love it! Great job :)
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for your research and hard work. Tomorrow is day 4 of my diet. It's been delicious so far. Have a great week.
Thank you so much!
Looks Amazing. Love these recipes 😋
Thank you so much!
Thank you Jenny for the excellently crafted video. On top of the quality content, I very much appreciated your eloquent, and classy yet warm speech. You have a new sub here, God bless
Thank you so much and welcome!
Absolute legendary video!!
Thank you :)
You said assuming you already have salt and butter. BTW, Walmart carries Plochmans himalayan pink salt. 1.2kg unrefined, no other ingredients for about $5.00 CAD.
New to the channel, and new to the carnivore diet. This video was really helpful. Ty
Glad it was helpful!
Fantastic ideas. Been Carnivore going on 6 years now. I am always scouting out deals in my area. RN ground beef 5lbs roll is $9.85 ($1.97/lb). Local Mexican market has Chicken Breasts for $1.79/lbs. I brine the chicken breasts with liquid Smoke and then air fry to make lunch meat for my family.
Good stuff!
This is amazing thank you!
Youre very welcome :)
Love these kind of videos ❤
Thank you :)
Thank you this was awesome !
Glad it was helpful!
I appreciate this!🙏🏻
Thank you so much!
Thank you for this ❤
You're welcome 😊
At Walmart I get the 10 lb bags of chicken leg quarters for 77 cents per lb and large rolls of ground chuck in 5 or 10 lb versions.
Nice!
This is great! Thank you!!!
Thank you :)
Great vid Jenny 🙌🏼
Thank you :)
Thanks, very informative!
Glad it was helpful!
Great video! I LOVE the tips on buying marked down meats.
I really like that you get straight to the point in all your videos and that you don't have lots of "chatter".
BTW, I used to live in Chicagoland before moving to Wisconsin 7 years ago. I sure don't miss paying tax on food!!
Hello and welcome!
Great video. I'll have to remember some of the tips.
Thank you!
This was an AWESOME video! Exactly what I, and many others, have been needing to see. I *know* carnivore can be done affordably, but I was still struggling to make the budget work. So seeing this laid out put my mind at ease and encouraged me. Sometimes seeing actually IS believing! Haha! I have a family of six with some preteens in there to budget for; we're a mix of Keto & carnivore. It's taking a lot of work to wean the kids over to kid friendly keto & carnivore snacks. They're so sick of cheese sticks and hard boiled eggs....But I will find more stuff to make, no worries! Thanks again for a great video, I'm going to go find that next one you mentioned and hit the subscribe button now!
Hello and I'm glad you enjoyed it! I have another video for a family of 4 with a budget of $300, be sure to check that one out too :)
We are in our 70's. Before we went carnivore we spent on average $250 to $300 a week for groceries. We now spend half of that and we are eating much better. Eggs, bacon, beef, butter, hamburger, smoked salmon, salt, pork, and cream - no cheese. We usually go shopping twice a week. The only spurge item is bacon because my wife likes to cook extra for snacks. Three strips of bacon will almost always satiates hunger between meals for us.
Same! We are saving so much money on carnivore :)
THANK YOU SO MUCH! This is exactly what I needed, because my budget is actually exactly limited to 100€/month/person at the moment. This was extremely helpful! One thing I wanted to point out is that it was very difficult for me personally to watch the video with the quick edits and all those stylistic elements popping up and disappearing. It was hard to process what you were saying, while the images just flashed from one thing to the next. This might just be me and maybe because I'm not a native speaker, so I can't process stuff so easily, but just wanted to point out my experience in case it helps you :) Still, the information you gave was invaluable!
There is a little gear button in the upper right side of the video that you can change the speed of the video...helps a lot 👍
Youre very welcome :)
My husband and I have been carnivore over five months. It's definitely cheaper than stupid diets I've been on in the past. Even just eating omnivore is more expensive.
The only thing about your grocery list is I'm not fond of chicken anymore and the only part of the pig I like is bacon. We eat mostly ribeye and hamburger and of course eggs. But our grocery bill is still easy to handle. I appreciate you listing this out for families and newbie carnivore showing how easy it can be done
Hello and thank you so much!
My family of 2.25 are eating mostly carnivore and are on a very low budget. Would love to see more of what your twins are eating! My 9 month old is loving food and feeding him is so much fun. Thanks for this video!
Hello! You can see some of their meals over on my Insta (MamaMitich), I post a lot over there. I am also putting together a video about what the boys eat :)
As a guy living on disability, this really helps. Thanks!
Hello! I'm glad it was helpful :)
Thank you !
Great ideas !
Thank you! 😊
Hey, big thanks! 😊
No problem 😊
This is the second video I've viewed on your channel. I'm now a subscriber❤
Welcome aboard!
These are very good ideas. Ive been eating terrible and its catching up to me. Will be starting the carnivore beginning with my next grocery haul
You got this!
Thanks!
Thank you!
Excellent video!
Thank you very much!
I like to remove the skin off chicken thighs, bake it up with a sprinkle of salt when done. I get a snack and some schmaltz out of the deal!
Yum, sound tasty!!
Thanks
OMG! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS I AM A STUDENT ON A LOW BUDGET. THIS HELPS A LOT. 😢❤
You're so welcome!
Awesome job thank you. I haven't tried a lot of meats like pork sholder didn't know how to cook it to make tender. Thanks ❤
Thank you!
Wow, you are lucky to find someone to tell you when their sell by dates are. At Winco in Idaho, they said they don't have a particular day for their sales and I needed to just check every single day. I don't think they want people to know when the sales are because then the rest of the week will be lean on customers. I check twice a week and sometimes I'll find one and sometimes not.
Hello! It is printed on the label where I'm at :)
Great video! I gotta try that meat, egg, and cheese bake! And that pork roast in the crock pot! Go on girl! You bad!
It's so good!
Your channel is the best.
Thank you so much :)
At Aldi's i found the frozen beef patties were actually more than the fresh ground beef but i bought both for the convenience of the frozen in case i run out of the fresh. I always get my eggs, hwc, butter, bacon, steak and chicken there
I live in Canada and I am always shocked to see food prices is the USA our heavy whipping cream is 7.99 cheapest butter is at Costco 5.49 bacon is 7.99 lb pasture raised eggs 8.99 😥
Winn Dixie put out a weekend special a few weeks ago for ribeyes $4.99/lb I bought 25 or 30 lbs. It can be done cheaper than any other "diet" if you look for the sales and be a little creative. I always try to set some money aside in case I run across a deal to stock the freezer.
Nice! I completely agree :)
Good work!
Thank you!
Check your local smaller meat market. Here, SE Mi, there is one that carries irregularly cut bacon, nineteen ninety five for ten lbs. I grind it half and half with whatever pork is cheap for a very good breakfast sausage. For deli and other types of preserved meat, find a salvage type grocery store. There is a small local chain that often has these types of meat for five for five or two for three.
Oh nice! That's a great tip :)
FYI: Canning salt will ALWAYS be just salt. It's a great alternative.
Redmond real salt is the best.
Thank you ❤
You're welcome 😊
Big thanks
You're welcome!
Yep I've been doing carnivore 5 years on basically $25/week.
Heck yea! Great work :)
I'm going back to the diet. I shop at BJs and found an online deal of 1.99 a pound on boneless/skinless chicken breasts. (I supplement with butter or some other fats for the skin.) Now they aren't as good on eggs and some other things as Walmart is, but I get them there and save on fuel.
Thanks for showing this and explaining how to do it. I'll be doing more shopping as you suggest now. Take Care and Stay Safe.
Hello and you're very welcome!
This is an amazing video. In Canada, it will be close to double the cost...
More than double, easily‼
Gladys🇨🇦Toronto🇨🇦
First never buy shredded cheese, just like table salt has non caking agents, shredded cheese has melting n non caking agents added to them and they’re more expensive shred it yourself
Hello! Yes, I agree. I shred my own, but for this video we were just going for volume of food as opposed to quality :)
Man im so mad. I was doing pretty well somewhere between day 35-40 when i went off it for a valentines day date and now im back in the sugar cravings and struggling! I bloated up like 5lbs too and that is hanging around
That sucks! Just get back on it and the inflammation will be gone in a few days :)
Damn, this is so much cheaper than high protein omnivore diet. Veggie prices here in Europe this year are absolutely ridiculous. I think I've paid like 1.5 euro for a single big Raspberry tomato last week. Maybe I should in fact switch to carnivore ;) while I love fatty fishes and the fattiest cheeses I absolutely despise fatty meats. There's something about those white stripes of fat on uncooked,meat that makes me sick. Same with skin on meats. I can eat ground meat though, the cheapest ground meat is a big no no.
I'm not really clean eating obsessed but the lowest quality ground meat, sausages, hot dogs etc is I belive what led to the popular opinion that high meat consumption increases the risk of cancer. Its not the meat itself, its all the garbage that is grinded along with it. So the premium ground beef I buy would be around 2.2 dollar per.... 150g. Yeah, so almost 6 dollars per pound. Salmon is about 20 dollars per kilogram.
I would have to eat 3200kcal of that ground beef, salmon, maybe some veal hot dogs, cheddar, Gruyere, eggs... yeah that would still be expensive ;)
Always cleck your shredded cheese for added ingredients. Most have an anti-clumping agent. If you're able, it's much better to shred your own cheese from the block.
Yep! Good tip :)
I LOVE the Safeway/Albertsons markdown section in the meat dept. However, I have not seen the 50% off in a long time as the most now is 30%
That's great!
Bless YOU for cheap/ lb meats!!! On my gotta sell days I'm LUCKY to see 70 cents off!!!
I always look for the yellow mark downs on meat when I go to Walmart. Generally ya have to go first thing in the morning to get much though.
True!