Possible Clues:

• Beef, for example (2 words)
• Beef or lamb (2 words)
• Minor thing rolled out for royalty stuffed with English beef, say?
• Iron source
• Much of a paleo diet
• Lamb, say, understood encounter as stated
• 1-Down, e.g
• Ground beef, for example (2 words)
• Beef or pork, e.g.
• Pork or venison