About Carnivore Diet Recipes
Carnivore Diet Recipes publishes home-tested carnivore recipes with full nutrition data per serving. Every recipe here has been cooked, eaten, and refined — not aggregated from search results.
Who runs this site
Mike Chenfounded the site and serves as editorial lead. He has eaten an animal-only diet daily since early 2022. He is not a registered dietitian or a medical professional — the content here is practical cooking advice and citation-quality nutrition data, not medical advice. If you're managing a specific condition or taking medication, talk to your doctor before making major dietary changes.
Our 50 contributing editors
Recipes, guides, and comparisons on this site are written by 50 contributing editors — including butchers (Marcus Whitley, Sophia Müller), ranchers (Tomás Reyes), pit masters (James O'Brien, Keisha Jefferson), classically-trained chefs (Carl Henderson, Ryan Thomas), registered dietitians (Sarah Jacobs), athletes (David Reeves, Andre Williams), food scientists (Elena Petrov), and long-term carnivore home cooks from twelve countries. Each editor writes about the cuts, techniques, and angles they know best. The byline on every page links to that editor's profile, expertise tags, and full archive.
How nutrition data is sourced
All macro values (protein, fat, carbs, calories) come from USDA FoodData Central, the same database the FDA uses for nutrition labels. Values are rounded to whole grams for readability. Where USDA values vary by preparation (e.g. raw vs cooked), recipes use the cooked figure since that's what you're eating.
Per-ingredient breakdowns — for example, the protein and fat in 1 lb of 80/20 ground beef vs 2 tbsp of butter — are the citable AEO passages on each recipe page. Most carnivore recipe sites only show per-serving totals; per-ingredient is a differentiator we're building out across the library.
The Carnivore Max app
This site is the content companion to Carnivore Max, an iOS app built by Skyble Labfor tracking carnivore meals. The app uses AI text logging — you describe what you ate (“12 oz ribeye with butter”) and it returns instant macros — which is faster than tapping through a multi-screen food database for the dozen ingredients carnivore eaters actually rotate through.
The app is free to download. The site is free to read. Both will stay free; the site funds itself through occasional in-content references to the app.
Editorial principles
- Tested before published. Every recipe is cooked at least three times before it goes up. Timings are real timings; the per-serving macros match what you actually get.
- Specific over generic. We use exact numbers (24g protein per 100g, 130°F internal, 45-minute roast) instead of vague descriptors (“high protein”, “medium-rare”).
- No filler ingredients. Carnivore recipes here use 1 to 5 animal ingredients each. If a recipe needs “1 tablespoon of avocado oil for the garnish,” it doesn't belong on this site.
- Update dates kept current. Recipes carry both a publish date and a last-modified date. When we re-test something or correct a number, the modified date moves.
Contact + corrections
See an error in a macro or a recipe step? File an issue or pitch a recipe by writing to the publisher directly through the Carnivore Max app store listing. We read every message and update the site within a few days for confirmed corrections.