This Week’s Chef Chris Crafted Menu
The Stag plan is designed for 1 person.
The Lion and Bear sizes can be split between 2 people or more people.
Swaps for Protein + Allergies can be made at Checkout
This Week’s Chef Chris Crafted Menu
The Stag plan is designed for 1 person.
The Lion and Bear sizes can be split between 2 people or more people.
Swaps for Protein + Allergies can be made at Checkout
Choose your plan. Not the menu. We cook based on our global palette and your protein preferences. Your week gets easier. You get healthier.
Enjoy a new menu of globally inspired dishes every week, made with the best ingredients on earth.
Skip the weekly meal prep and teh grocery store. Enjoy convenient delivery that makes it easier to eat great food on your schedule.
Choose a 3-day or 5-day plan, find your ideal meal size, and request available protein swaps or allergy accommodations at checkout.
Keep your weekly meals simple with a subscription designed to make planning and enjoying great food easy breezy.
Discover why hundreds of LA customers trust The Gourmet Animal for convenient, healthy, and delicious weekly nutrition. With 200+ five-star reviews across platforms, our customers love the quality, freshness, and consistency we bring to every meal, every week.
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Grass-Fed , Wild Caught
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No Seed Oils or Gluten
No Shopping or cooking all week
Dinner for 3 Days for 2 people, or lunch & dinner for 1 adult for 3 days.
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No Dinner Decisions
Global, Weekly Menu
Exceptional sourcing. Generous portions. Restaurant-caliber cooking. Delivered across Los Angeles, without the shopping, cooking, or compromise.
Convenience without a consistent meal plan
Chef-crafted meals with quality at the core
You're not going to find this quality for this price anywhere.
Chef Chris brings a lifetime of cooking experience, a passion for culinary innovation, and a personal interest in metabolic health to The Gourmet Animal. His thoughtful approach combines exceptional flavor, carefully selected ingredients, and expert cooking techniques to make everyday meals more satisfying, convenient, and enjoyable.
Healthy food only works if you crave it.
If you have a question, it's more than likely answered by looking below. For more specific questions, click on our chat bubble bottom right to speak with our support.
Tuesday 6pm for Subscribers.
Wednesday 6pm for New Subscribers on their Trial Week.
Yes. We want to make your life easier. We don't hide the fact that you are subscribing to a weekly service. You can Skip weeks, Pause, and Cancel in the Customer Portal by logging into your account on our website. This must be done before our Order Cut off On Tuesday at 6pm.
We have 3 Plan Sizes and 2 Plan Lengths.
Each dish is designed for 2 Servings each.
3-Day Plans- Core weekly meals, handled. No cooking, shopping, or prepping for at least half the week. A great way to try us before committing to the 5-Day Plan
5-Day Plans- Your nutrition, handled. For the entire week. No grocery store, no online ordering. Just beautiful food, ready when you are.
The Stag- Perfect for one person, core meals handled. Not to be shared.
The Lion- Feeds 1 to 2 people depending on appetite or if you are eating it for lunch and dinner.
The Bear- Family fridge, handled. No cobbling whatsoever. Feeds 2 Adults comfortably for lunch + dinner.
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Our mission is to source the best in class meats and organic produce you can find in Los Angeles. From grass fed beef, forest raised pork, sumptuous lamb, and organic poultry, we’re here to find the farms that ethically raise their crops and animals. For our seafood offerings, we use wild caught fish and the best aqua culture seafood in the world.
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Our menu changes every week — no choosing from a list. If you have an allergy or want to skip a specific protein, simply use the Swap option and we'll replace it with more of what you love.
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We are not interested in narrowly defining this style of cuisine, but it is in line with the ketogenic and low carb high protein diets with medium fat. This style of eating also includes healthy portions of organic vegetables and low FODMAP foods. We do not use any seed oils, simple carbohydrates, added sugars, gluten or GMO produce in our food. We do cook with gluten free soy based products such as Tamari and premium fish sauce made without shellfish.
View the Science of Eating this way here
We provide you with high quality food variety and availability - you'll have an assortment of prepared, highly nutritious meals ready to eat, which can help you transform your health.
- Our service saves you time, effort, and stress of trying to come up with a varied diet that prioritizes high quality proteins and delicious vegetable sides, all delivered.
- Ease - our meals are easy to reheat in the microwave, oven, or stove top. And we provide specific reheating instructions for eat dish.
We cook real food—not factory food.
Each week features different cuts, proteins, and cooking methods. A braised beef dish loses moisture differently than a grilled steak. Bone-in chicken yields differently than boneless. Wild fish, meatballs, lamb, and slow braises all cook differently.
We portion every meal to match your plan's protein target, but because we use premium, minimally processed ingredients, individual dishes may occasionally be slightly above or below their target weight.
For example, meatballs or chicken tinga may contain a bit more protein, while premium cuts like hanger steak, flat iron, or ahi tuna may contain slightly less. Across the week, we aim to deliver the protein level you've selected.
We'd rather serve exceptional ingredients than engineer every meal to hit an exact decimal on a scale. It's one of the tradeoffs of cooking like a restaurant instead of a factory.
Please email us at support@thegourmentanimal.com or hit our chat support on the website for weekly alterations.
If you have food allergies, you can still order and enjoy our food. We provide a comment section in the product section to tell us about your food allergies.
Unfortunately, we do not offer dairy free options, but we do use only A2 organic dairy sources. We can always omit sauces with dairy, so don't let this stop you from our amazing food.
We will try our best to accommodate your requests, but since we are preparing food for many people, we like to keep our process streamlined. You can email us at support @thegourmetanimal.com if you have any questions. It also may be that if your diet is too restrictive, our service may not be the right fit.
Each dish is packaged ala carte(separately), giving you freedom to choose how to pair your meals. Our meals are sealed and last up to 6 days in the refrigerator.
All of the food we deliver to your door is prepared in an inspected and "A" graded commercial kitchen in Los Angeles. We adhere to the highest food handling, preparing, cooking temperatures, and cooling guidelines set by the county.
We use a state-of-the-art blast chiller in our commercial facility, which can quickly cool a 145-degree roast down to 38 degrees in 35 minutes.
If prepared food is properly cooked and cooled, and kept unopened in its original container, it will stay fresh for up to 6 days in the refrigerator. You also have the option to freeze our food for up to 3 months if you are unable to consume it in the appropriate amount of time. We recommend consuming any seafood dishes as soon as possible.
No. We offer meals based on protein needs by weight per day. Our average serving is between 350-400 calories per meal.
Our ordering process is all online and easy to navigate on the checkout page. We need to receive your order on Wednesday by 6pm for delivery on Sunday.
You can pause your subscription at any time in the customer portal. We offer a WEEKLY subscription that auto-renews. The Weekly subscription can be adjusted after the first week by logging onto your customer portal and making necessary SKIP, PAUSE or CANCEL functions.
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