Just wondering who has been checking the cost of a carnivore diet? I have, and here is what I have found.

This is data for 2 adults, both eating a carnivore diet and cooking at home. We rarely "go out to eat". Data is taken from Credit Card spending reports and is NOT adjusted for yearly inflation. It is just dollars spent at that time.

Grocery costs

2019 $5300 this is for a full "3 meal a day SAD diet" including alcohol. We were still drinking back then.

2020 data not available from CC - So Sorry

2021 $5700. I started Ketovore in August of '21. My wife joined in a few months later. We were still drinking a little N.A. beer at that time

2022 $6500. COVID food costs hitting hard back then. Stopped all alcohol consumption including N.A. beer.

2023 $5600. We are both 99% carny at this point. OMAD is our usual eating pattern at this time.

2024 $5500. We are both fully in the Carny groove at this time. OMAD continues as out way of getting nutrition.

2025 ????

And these figures are NOT adjusted for inflation, Which makes it even better for $ savings! so the moral of this story is when someones tells me that they can't afford to eat a carnivore diet because of "the coast of all that meat", I now just laugh and say "NO!, would you like to see the numbers?"

So true, I wish I could get my family involved!

Eating just meats actually sounds more expensive. Without doing the math per item or per year the easiest way to show it is to map the route in the grocery store.

All in all, a carnivore is eating no more meat than the non-carnivore if we were to map it out. Most carnivores are down to 2 meals a day and large chunk is closer to one meal a day. I am guessing the total volumes are about the same.

My trip to the grocery store is basically in down thru the produce section, not picking up anything, and straight to the meat counter. I by-pass the sauces and such as well. I skip the vegetable aisle and leave the meat counter make a turn up the laundry soap and toilet paper aisle, a quick trip down the aisle for toothpaste etc, then on to the dairy aisle. Just milk, butter and eggs there. Then out the door.

When you minus the produce, the canned vegetables, the fruits, the sauces, the sugars and flours, the desserts and processed stuff at the deli, and of course the infamous ice cream aisle, things are much cheaper.

Although I don't think there is a minutes difference between the amount of meat eaten between a carnivore person and a non-carnivore person, maybe there is, and if there is a difference, it is more than accounted for in what you are not buying.

Now if you are eating prime ribeye 2-3 times per day, 7 days a week at $16-18-20-22 per pound then we would have to probably re-do the math. I haven't met anyone that is eating the expensive cuts every meal/every day.

However, (and with chickens it didn't really affect me) the way eggs were going up I could almost make the argument the way. LOL

Great topic.

Scott

Just one chic fillet meal was costing me $17 and making me fat. I can buy meat at 8 dollars or less per pound.