Carnivore Diet Food Options While Hunting

[That7MagDude]

Started the carnivore diet a few months ago. Lost 35 pounds so far and feel great. I've tried introducing non-carnivore food lightly over the last 2 weeks and that has caused nothing but flushed skin and gut aches. As of this moment I'm staying carnivore for good. That being said, normally this time of year is when I start stocking up on mountain house, stinger waffles, trail mix, snickers bars, and all the other normal hunting goodies. Since none of that is an option for the foreseeable future I'm looking for some opinions on what to pack this year. Any of you that have experience hunting while on carnivore are you just munching on jerky all day and bringing a cooler into camp packed with meat to cook at camp? If you backpack in are you just hoping to come across a grouse or a stream to catch fish? Or are all of you A+ hunters who get your elk or deer day one so it doesn't matter?

 

[Ridgerunner338]

I follow more Keto than Carnivore but I carry olive oil tuna packs, cheese crisps, pecans roasted in butter and salt, packs of MCT oil and butter powder for Keto coffee.

 

[TheWhitetailNut]

Ridge had some good ideas here. I just got an ad for a brand called adventure well. There is a small amount of veg. for me I know I'll be ok on a hunt compared to the bowel destruction of Peak or mountain house. Meals are about 75g Protein, -10 Carbs, 16-40g fat. I'm trying a couple.

 

[COJoe]

I have been eating the animal based diet which includes fruits, sweet potatoes, butternut squash and rice for carbs. I am planning on dehydrating them for my backpack hunt but I haven't had the time to try it yet. I eat grass fed/finished ground beef from a rancher so I will attempt to dehydrate the ground beef into strips that I can eat easily and do jerky. I'll make butter patties and tallow to put in all my meals for fat. Somehow, I need to take my raw honey with me too so it should be interesting this year. I'll do the tuna packs also and probably the smoked salmon ones too. My favorite snack is Kerry Gold Irish butter stuffed dates, so good and they will be in my meal packs everyday.

I'm glad the carnivore diet has been helpful to you and for your weight loss. I struggled eating the Peak dinners last year. The taste seemed poor and there were way too many calories for me. If I can't dehydrate my own dinners I will need to find a better and much healthier freeze dried option also. Let us know what you find that we can use too.

 

[Zsyacsure]

Congrats I started in September lost 45 total. While I was in Montana last November I ate lots of beef sticks baby bells and at camp I ate taco meat and or eggs and bacon. I thought I would be a lot more hungry during the day but I was not.

 

[Duh]

I did strict carnivore last year and still am mostly carnivore still (sometime I have to cheat due to circumstances).

What I did last September; cooked a bunch of fatty burger, a couple packages of bacon, and a bunch of eggs. Combined and weighed out everything into vacuum seal bags and finished it off with some cheese and butter. Finished them all off with a bunch of Himalayan salt. Basically had 1.5-2 lb bags that I sealed up and froze in cylinder shaped bags.

I’d pull one out of the cooler in the morning and let it thaw a little before coming back to eat in the afternoon. Just threw the bag in the little pot of boiling water on the pocket rocket. Took about 5 minutes to get everything heated up good.

I was doing OMAD then so I thought it would suffice while hunting. I also supplemented a bit of beef jerky for a snack. About day 3, OMAD wasn’t cutting it for me. I had previously read about possibly needing to supplement some fast acting energy so I had brought some blueberry’s and skittles (I know it’s not carnivore). They really helped when I was dragging. Not entirely sure why I had a bit of a rough time with OMAD because I had trained pretty hard on it all summer. Made sure to supplement plenty of fat too but that fast sugar was basically my mountain cocaine for a couple more days. Drank lots of LMNT packets too.

 

[Seeknelk]

If you have a stove with you , bone broth packets are handy. That and various meat sticks and lots of grass fed butter and cheddar cheese if your doing dairy. I mix some of each into hot bone broth and it makes a great soup with all that butter and sausage sticks and cheese added. And my energy is so much better than I thought it'd be. My food total weight is usually less than eating the SAD. (Standard American Diet). I don't backpack hunt too much tho, there would be more challenges for sure. Butter is good. I like butter.

 

[That7MagDude]

Butter is good. I like butter.

Put it on a billboard

 

[That7MagDude]

I did strict carnivore last year and still am mostly carnivore still (sometime I have to cheat due to circumstances).

What I did last September; cooked a bunch of fatty burger, a couple packages of bacon, and a bunch of eggs. Combined and weighed out everything into vacuum seal bags and finished it off with some cheese and butter. Finished them all off with a bunch of Himalayan salt. Basically had 1.5-2 lb bags that I sealed up and froze in cylinder shaped bags.

I’d pull one out of the cooler in the morning and let it thaw a little before coming back to eat in the afternoon. Just threw the bag in the little pot of boiling water on the pocket rocket. Took about 5 minutes to get everything heated up good.

I was doing OMAD then so I thought it would suffice while hunting. I also supplemented a bit of beef jerky for a snack. About day 3, OMAD wasn’t cutting it for me. I had previously read about possibly needing to supplement some fast acting energy so I had brought some blueberry’s and skittles (I know it’s not carnivore). They really helped when I was dragging. Not entirely sure why I had a bit of a rough time with OMAD because I had trained pretty hard on it all summer. Made sure to supplement plenty of fat too but that fast sugar was basically my mountain cocaine for a couple more days. Drank lots of LMNT packets too.

I don't think i could do one meal a day. My body naturally went into an every other day type rhythm. Say Monday I do omad at lunch. Tuesday I'll have to have a brunch and a lupper. Then Wednesday I'll be back to only needing lunch. And so on and so forth. I'm sure I could train it in but like I said my body kind just found a rhythm

 

[Duh]

I don't think i could do one meal a day. My body naturally went into an every other day type rhythm. Say Monday I do omad at lunch. Tuesday I'll have to have a brunch and a lupper. Then Wednesday I'll be back to only needing lunch. And so on and so forth. I'm sure I could train it in but like I said my body kind just found a rhythm

Yeah it takes a little getting used to. I don’t think I’ll do OMAD while hunting again.

 

[Jtb.kfd]

I am almost 50 and been on the carnivore diet for about two years. I spend over 30 days in the backcountry every year hunting, hiking and scouting. In the off season I run 40-60 miles a week, do strength training and hit trails with my bike on 50+ mile rides. Never felt better in my life, but it did take some figuring out.

For backcountry trips I plan out each days food to include protein and fat but I pay no attention to calories or macro numbers. For context I am 5’10” and 210lbs. I have found that I eat very little when I am on these trips. Last September my son and I spent 16 days out on a grueling back country mule deer hunt. We packed enough food for the whole trip along with our gear in EXO 5000 packs.

What we bring is as follows.

For fluids - LMNT electrolyte packs, MTN Ops collagen packs, Lono Life bone broth, Paleovalley unflavored bone broth and Black Rifle instant coffee packs.

For fat - butter powder, freeze dried cheese

For protein - Freeze dried sausage, burger, beef chunks and eggs.

For snacks - Chomps beef sticks, homemade salted jerky (our Costco sells thin sliced New York steak we salt and dehydrate) and the freeze dried cheese.

For the hike in we make sure we hydrate well and eat a good meal before heading in. Depending on exertion we snack every hour even if we aren’t hungry. You have to stay ahead of the curve when your body is only processing fat. Every couple hours we dump a collagen pack and or unflavored beef broth in a water bottle along with an electrolyte pack. The collagen and broth adds protein and is tasteless. Once we are in we make our dinners and breakfast out of the freeze dried meats and eggs. We will dump a packet of bone broth and a packet of collagen in each meal along with a butter packet. This regimen has worked amazing for us, we feel great and have tons of energy. I drink coffee and when I make my morning cup I also add the collagen and broth to that.

For the freeze dried cheese, meats, unflavored bone broth and butter we order bulk cans and then vacuum seal single serving size portions. Doesn’t take a lot to keep you full and it weighs very little. Also takes very little space in your pack. I will add some pics of the stuff we use.

 

[taskswap]

Will you have coolers/refrigeration? I've traded several carb loaded snacks for hard boiled eggs lately, which are carnivore-compatible.1 is just right for a snack and for a meal addition, and they work for any time of day. Their only down side (unless you don't like them) is you do have to keep them cool.

 

[That7MagDude]

I am almost 50 and been on the carnivore diet for about two years. I spend over 30 days in the backcountry every year hunting, hiking and scouting. In the off season I run 40-60 miles a week, do strength training and hit trails with my bike on 50+ mile rides. Never felt better in my life, but it did take some figuring out.

For backcountry trips I plan out each days food to include protein and fat but I pay no attention to calories or macro numbers. For context I am 5’10” and 210lbs. I have found that I eat very little when I am on these trips. Last September my son and I spent 16 days out on a grueling back country mule deer hunt. We packed enough food for the whole trip along with our gear in EXO 5000 packs.

What we bring is as follows.

For fluids - LMNT electrolyte packs, MTN Ops collagen packs, Lono Life bone broth, Paleovalley unflavored bone broth and Black Rifle instant coffee packs.

For fat - butter powder, freeze dried cheese

For protein - Freeze dried sausage, burger, beef chunks and eggs.

For snacks - Chomps beef sticks, homemade salted jerky (our Costco sells thin sliced New York steak we salt and dehydrate) and the freeze dried cheese.

For the hike in we make sure we hydrate well and eat a good meal before heading in. Depending on exertion we snack every hour even if we aren’t hungry. You have to stay ahead of the curve when your body is only processing fat. Every couple hours we dump a collagen pack and or unflavored beef broth in a water bottle along with an electrolyte pack. The collagen and broth adds protein and is tasteless. Once we are in we make our dinners and breakfast out of the freeze dried meats and eggs. We will dump a packet of bone broth and a packet of collagen in each meal along with a butter packet. This regimen has worked amazing for us, we feel great and have tons of energy. I drink coffee and when I make my morning cup I also add the collagen and broth to that.

For the freeze dried cheese, meats, unflavored bone broth and butter we order bulk cans and then vacuum seal single serving size portions. Doesn’t take a lot to keep you full and it weighs very little. Also takes very little space in your pack. I will add some pics of the stuff we use.

Now this is what I came here for

 

[Jtb.kfd]

Now this is what I came here for

For meals, I seal 2oz (my son does 3oz) of protein and then account for one pack of broth, one pack of collagen and a butter packet for each meal.

Each breakfast/dinner (I pack two per day) weighs in at 4oz each plus additional snacks and drink mixes for a total daily food weight of 12oz. For a 5-7 day trip I would pack approximately 5lbs of food/nutrition.

 

[Speaks]

Keto is easy, carnivore is hard. Next mile meals are ok for keto. If true carnivore I might invest in a freeze dryer.