 I think just about everyone has those points throughout the week where they really don't feel like cooking. And when you're on a strict diet, that can lead to deviating from the diet, aka cheating. On the carnivore diet where you have to prepare every meal and there's not too many options, it is nice to think of snacks and have some stuff on reserve. Depending on how strict your carnivore diet is though, that can mean a lot of different things. A raw ribeye steak or a bunch of raw cracked eggs, some raw dairy products if you have access to them, are very approachable, nutritious things that technically don't require food prep and can be considered a snack. But not everyone is going to chow down raw into that ribeye steak, not everyone is going to have access to raw kefir, raw yogurt, raw cheese, which are all amazing nutrient dense foods that are very approachable that are great snacks. This is more of a conventional, what everyone would have access to, what you can walk into your supermarket and get. So let's get started and go over what I've kind of summarized as those options. And all I really did was go to Whole Foods and even most local supermarkets will have this. I walked through every single aisle and picked out things that required zero prep were considered carnivore and fairly nutritious. But again, I want to emphasize if you're not that strict and you eat a raw diet, you can just have some raw meat, you can go to the local farm and get some raw dairy products. I think raw milk, raw yogurt and kefir especially are some of the best, most nutritious and affordable snacks you can get. And they honestly beat most of this stuff I'm going to show you guys today. That being said, there's definitely some tasty options, although a bit expensive. So of course we had to pick up some salmon roe, aka caviar and surprisingly this is only about 12 bucks. Although it is 1.75 ounces of roe. We do have this a lot more affordably on Frankie's here range meat. It was just something I decided to pick up. You can find this at an Asian market for a reasonable price and for anyone unfamiliar with caviar or fish roe, it's the eggs of the fish, the reproductive organs of the fish. And if you were going to get this from a land animal, we would be talking about the ovaries. And fish roe in general is one of the most nutrient dense foods from a balanced perspective. It has all of the fast soluble vitamins, A, E, D, K. It has the water soluble B vitamins, even some vitamin C, incredibly high in omega 3 fatty acids. It's unusual for a food to have such a balanced and complete nutrient profile and it's also highly satiating. You have a tablespoon or two of this, you won't really want to eat anything else. That being said, the cheaper, more reasonable option to roe is our next thing, which is canned fish, but the roe is raw. It is salted. If you do want to find unsalted roe, it's going to be difficult. You might be able to get it frozen without salt added. You might be able to cut open some fish yourself and find some eggs in them. But generally speaking, salmon roe is the most affordable, best tasting option you have here. And even 1.75 ounce jar, you don't need that much omega 3 every single week. You only have to have it once or twice a month. So just a jar this size every month is enough for your maintenance amount of omega fatty acids. And that being said, now everyone wants to spend 12 bucks on this. So you can get some canned fish. And this is actually kind of expensive too. I think this was 4.70 and I've seen these canned mussels go for like 6-7 dollars a tin. And it was funny because I was at Whole Foods yesterday and I had 15 of these in my cart and I convinced myself not to buy all of them. I love how these taste so much but I couldn't justify spending $70 on some canned mussels. And it doesn't necessarily have to be mussels but canned shellfish tend to be the most nutrient dense. Oysters, mussels, clams, very high in omega 3, very high in B vitamins. You can go for the fish whether it's tuna, mackerel, anchovies but those tend to be slightly lower quality. They don't have as many B vitamins, possibly more pollution concerns but these taste really, really, really good. Like I could eat 10s of these. So this brand specifically, Bria de Arosa, again as I said I had 15 of these in my cart I've really fallen in love with the taste of these. If you do see these in your local supermarket definitely try them out as with the salmon arrow. It is a nice treat to have once a week, a couple of times a month. It's not completely carnivore. This is olive oil, vinegar, sweet paprika. So depending on how strict you are I just usually pick out the mussels and have them. I don't necessarily consume a lot of the oil but I definitely give these a try. Very nutrient dense, very high quality, reasonably affordable option in any market. And just to be specific it doesn't have to be this brand. There's plenty of canned mussels, all different types of seafood and fish but you generally get what you pay for so expect to spend $4, $5, $6 a can for something good. Still on the topic of fish that brings us to smoked salmon and out of everything we've shown here so far this is probably the freshest, highest quality version of fish you can get that's non-perishable, that's a snack that doesn't require any preparation. This is just salmon with salt, canned sugar and spices and they smoke it. I don't think this is cold smoked but you can also find cold smoked salmon which is still considered raw. The main thing you're getting in the canned mussels and the salmon raw is a higher omega 3 content. This is more protein focused and although you're still getting omega 3's it is lighter on the fat percentage so still a very nutrient dense option, still very good but this is I think like $11 or $12 or $13 so all of these options are pretty expensive. Nothing here is going to be cheap. If you were to buy the raw material and make this yourself obviously we'd be having a different discussion. If you bought just fresh wild mussels and made some marinade yourself we might do a video on that. If you were to even make your own caviar by caviar and bulk it's definitely cheaper but face value, buying this stuff in the supermarket it does tend to add up. Next up is whey protein and this is something I haven't really talked about a lot on my channel or mentioned a lot until recently because I never really analyzed the nutrient profile of whey but since it is the like skimmed off part of milk it's incredibly high in the protein component which is the vitamins and if you guys are wondering hey Frank if you're recommending powdered whey protein why don't you recommend something like powdered collagen protein it's because collagen is agrochemical like bovine hide waste and it's usually never organic so that's a very low quality processed form of protein. I think whey is a lot better the technique they use to make whey powder is this like spray drying thing that doesn't really degrade the nutrients too much and it's not heavily processed. This is grass fed it's not organic although I would definitely go for organic I got the vanilla flavor because you know this one thing was like 20 bucks which is completely ridiculous I just bought it for an example here you know you can probably find something that just has whey protein as the ingredient and the only real downside I can think of to this food you know outside of its expense is the calcium content if you're really sensitive to calcium hypercalcemia symptoms you might get some insomnia after consuming this so just bear that in mind but I really can't emphasize how much I like whey protein from a nutrient density approachability you know B vitamin perspective it's really something that's flown under the radar that is outside of the context of conventionally raised way you know you want grass fed you want organic you want some high quality stuff and staying on the topic of dairy we have cheese so you can get raw cheese in your local supermarket it's just those other raw dairy products like milk, kefir, yogurt, cream, butter you have to get from a local farm so this is Parmigiano Reggiano one of the most well-known cheeses we do have this on fracky syringe meat it's about $20 a pound I think we have it way cheaper on our website I can't speak positively enough about raw cheese just like I can't speak positively enough about whey protein cheese though is a more complete food as with the salmon row this has a complete nutrient profile it does lack the preformed omega-3s but cheese does have an excellent amount of vitamin K2 it's very calorie dense like the protein it's incredibly high in calcium this has fats this has some carbohydrates this has some protein so it's really balanced and cheese is an underrated snack as something that you can eat on its own and not get hungry with some of the prior things we mentioned the whey protein smoked fish the canned fish they tend to be heavily protein based so something like cheese where it has a balance of fats carbs and protein satiate your appetite better has a more balanced nutrient profile it's arguably something you should eat on its own above the other things the salmon row does have a decent fat content so it is more balanced in that regard and something more approachable for your kids this is organic string cheese and I mean it's decent you know it's a fat and protein option it's not the most nutrient dense it's not the highest quality you know it doesn't have the best probiotics beneficial bacteria like the high quality raw cheeses do and it certainly doesn't have as good of a vitamin k2 content but I guess it's something you can enjoy here and there the cheese isn't really too expensive per calorie I definitely cringed when buying the whey protein and the smoked fish the canned fish I didn't really care that much although I should probably cringe and of course caviar is caviar and I mean really guys everything here is pretty expensive per calorie with the exception of the raw cheese so you know beef jerky is you know $7 per three ounces I don't really think I have to talk about jerky too much any muscle meat is mostly B vitamins but what you want to keep in mind here is even though you're paying you know $7-8 for three ounces of jerky you're not paying for all meat there's actually like 20 ingredients in here and actually 24 grams of carbohydrates per bag so a lot of the time you know 25 30% of the jerky is not going to be composed of beef it's going to be composed of those flavors those sugars that they add to it that being said you know something nice to grab once in a while and and even though we're talking about no prep snacks here you know you can make this yourself ahead of time and and it's definitely way cheaper the one thing I really didn't want to buy and that I cringe at the most was this five ounces of organic roast beef was $8 I was like what I'm gonna I was about to like open up my own roast beef company and just start slicing it in my kitchen and vacuum sealing it and selling it to you guys if you go to the deli counter there's no organic deli meats it it's very hard to find organic deli meats in most cases and this was in like the hanging section but again like cringey expensive I mean would it be nice to have organic roast beef for lunch yeah but but not for you know you'd have to pay 16 $20 to get a few bites of roast beef so it's absolutely crazy it's way too expensive I mean I think this is way more expensive than prosciutto you know I would definitely get you know prosciutto department over this so so we're discussing here is you know organic high quality deli meats great amazing snacks good for lunch cheese kind of counts here too if you can get you know a high quality cheese sliced up and it would be nice to live in a world where you can just kind of like go to a deli counter get some charcuterie some cheese some ham and not have to worry about the quality or without paying out your ass but that's not the case here I guess you could kind of consider this cheese these are parm crisps and it's really just aged parmesan cheese very very expensive I think this bag is like four bucks and it would actually be cheaper to buy the raw parmesan yourself and make your own crisps but you know not something bad to pick up in a in a hurry 300 calories for bag it's not too crazy and they're really tasty minimal ingredients you know one of my favorite carnivore snacks to be honest and something you guys might not have thought of is ghee or any type of fat source and you could really just consume it by the tablespoon so what we're trying to do here is satiate our bodies cravings for fat protein carbohydrates as well as get some nutrients in and honestly you know most people have plenty of vitamin A in their diets that's not really a concern we definitely want to focus on vitamin K2 as well as the B vitamins and one thing I also forgot to mention was honey which I really like as a snack as well honey is good for feeding your gut bacteria and your gut bacteria also produce various nutrients so you want to find a balance and you know can you make a diet just out of all of these snacks here today I mean yeah you can but it would be pretty expensive and I think a lot of people are missing the proper macronutrient ratios on their carnivore diet and also you know even when they are consuming 80% fat some people might feel a little bit better you know incorporating some more carbohydrate-based stuff like you know like the cheese like the weight protein powder you know and certainly some more omega-3s and more available B vitamins are are things certain people are missing so thank you guys for joining me today let me know how you like this I should probably throw this stuff in a bag and grab my receipt and then return some stuff and hold foods but I'm sure my sister will enjoy this stuff you know I don't really think it's too crazy and too out of budget to be buying some of this stuff on occasion you know especially considering most people aren't eating out anymore and you know the average amount of money people usually do spend on eating out but you know the foods enjoyable the foods high quality it's good for you and you know there's definitely times for indulging and enjoying and splurging a little bit and you know eating more conservatively and and restricting your budget so I hope you guys enjoy the rest of your day we're going to do a video tomorrow as well as a live stream vegan critiques so I'll see you guys then