With these animal-based recipes for Thanksgiving, you can make a variation of the festive foods you know and love – dinner rolls, stuffing, pumpkin pie, cranberry sauce, an apple crisp – using whole, nutrient-dense foods without sacrificing taste or pleasure.
In this post, you will find 23 animal-based recipes to help you celebrate Thanksgiving – 13 sides and 10 desserts – but without all of the crap ingredients like seed oils and processed sugar. These recipes can be paired with any of your favorite meats whether you decided to do a turkey this year or stick with ruminant animals. And believe it or not, many of these recipes (even the pumpkin pie!) have meat and animal foods already in them.
The following recipes (and the rest of the recipes on this website) use animal-based ingredients, like beef, pork, chicken, uncured meats, organ meats, animal fats, some low toxicity fruits and vegetables, honey, and (optional) zero carb condiments, herbs, and spices.
I hope you enjoy these recipes as much as I enjoyed creating them!
Looking for carnivore recipes? Click here to see 14 of my most popular carnivore recipes, including bread, chips, pancakes, fried chicken, and pizza!
Click the graphic below to check out all of my animal-based recipes, or keep scrolling to see the ones that I recommend for an animal-based Thanksgiving.
Animal-Based Thanksgiving Recipes – Sides
Animal-Based Dinner Rolls (with Carnivore Option)
Animal-Based Thanksgiving Stuffing
Creamy Mashed Kabocha Squash
Carnivore Gravy
3-Ingredient Cranberry Sauce
Sweet Potato Casserole (without the Sweet Potato)
Carnivore Mac & Cheese
Butternut Squash Dip with Carnivore Crisps
Loaded Kabocha Squash Mash
Pork Belly Chips with Honey Mustard Dipping Sauce
Bacon-Wrapped Dates Stuffed with Raw Cheese
Cucumber Avocado Salad with Raw Parmesan
Cheesy Chicken Bacon Apple Salad
Animal-Based Thanksgiving Recipes – Desserts
Animal-Based Pumpkin Pie
Animal-Based Apple Crisp
Vanilla Pudding (made with Soft-Boiled Eggs!)
Animal-Based Beef Cookies
Raw Milke Ice Cream
Soft & Chewy Protein Cookies
Animal-Based Chocolate Chip Cookies
Animal-Based Blueberry Pancake Cookies
Flourless Lemon Blueberry Muffins
Spongey Cake Bars
Ashley Rothstein develops tasty, whole food, animal-based recipes that include a moderate amount of “minimally toxic” plant foods. To fix her own health issues, she bounced around between the carnivore, keto, and paleo diets for a few years. After experiencing and studying each diet philosophy, she learned she feels her best by merging the three and following an animal-based diet. As a glut at heart, she likes to channel her creativity and create meals that are healthy but also satisfy her inner gluttonous spirits.
