Caeleb Dressel shares go-to spot for Olympic workout meals: his own home

The seven-time Olympic gold medalist loves to eat eggs from his own chickens and beef from his own cows.

Caeleb Dressel swims Friday, June 21, 2024, in the U.S. Olympic Team Swimming Trials menís 100 meter butterfly prelims at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. Mandatory Credit: Mykal McEldowney-USA TODAY Sports / IndyStar-USA TODAY NETWORK

Ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, which kicks off this week, Caeleb Dressel has been putting in the work necessary as he’ll be representing Team USA in swimming. 

Back in 2022, Dressel took an eight-month hiatus from swimming after failing to qualify for the 2023 world championships. As he missed being in the water, he’s since made a return, and is ready to go harder than ever.

Ahead of the Olympics, Dressel has been on a strict diet, with food sourced from the best place in town — his home. In an interview with GQ, Dressel shared his go-to meals, much of which comes from the farm of him and his wife, Meghan’s Gainesville, Florida home.

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Dressel estimates that “90% percent” of his food intake is “super clean.”

“Me and my wife have our own chickens that we get our eggs from,” said Dressel. “We have a cow that we butchered last year. So, not only trying to eat as clean as we can but raising the food that we're eating, which is a really special feeling.”

Dressel says he eats “five to six eggs” from their coop for breakfast every morning, with a side of blueberries, bananas, raspberries and strawberries. He typically keeps it light for lunch, as he doesn’t like to swim on a full stomach. At the time of the interview, he revealed that he and Meghan had been eating a lot of beef from a cow they had raised. Other nights, they might eat seafood, because apparently, Meghan makes a good salmon.

They usually have their meals with “some kind of green,” likely from their garden boxes.

“Our first year doing the garden boxes was last year,” said Dressel. “It was really trial-and-error to start with. We’ve got squash, zucchini, cucumber.”

While this may sound like a lot of work to put toward meals for two, it’s always nice to reap the (literal) fruits of your labor. Besides, it’s nowhere near as extra as eating expensive wagyu beef for dinner every night.

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