How To Make Healthy Dog Food
How to make healthy dog food is no more difficult than fixing yourself a dinner. In fact, in many cases, it is easier. Take the recipe you will later later in this article of liver cookies. It’s about as hard to fix as chocolate chip cookies. You can make these in just a few minutes, give your dog a few, put the rest in the refrigerator an viola! You have dog treats for a whole week.
Easy to fix
Most recipes for healthy, homemade dog foods are very easy to fix. And when you fix these yourself, you are guaranteed that your dog will receive the correct nutritional variety for good health.
Before your start preparing your own dog food recipes, make sure you know the dangerous foods that can harm your dog. Bones can not be easily digested an can effect your dog’s digestive tract. Other foods that you should need feed your dog include avocados, mushrooms, chocolates, grapes, onions, garlic and macademia nuts.
How about a nice hamburger
One easy-to-fix recipe is dog hamburgers. You make them out of a combination of cooked hamburger patties, chopped boiled eggs, oatmeal, green beans, carrots an cottage cheese. These are easy to prepare since you only need to mix the ingredients. You can store any leftovers in the refrigerator where they will last for three days. These dog hamburgers contain lots of minerals and many vitamins.
Another good dog food recipe is homemade dog biscuits. These are made from what flour, white flour, baking powder, oatmeal, peanut butter and milk. Just combine the ingredients and mix well. Cut the cookies into treats and bake them at 400 degrees for 15 minutes.
Maybe you won’t like the smell, but your dog will
Dogs choose food by smell as they are color blind. Dogs usually like food with gamey flavors such as liver, fat, horse meat, lamb, beef, cheese and fish.
If you’re making a meat meal, it’s always a good idea to add a grain such as kibble, wheat germ, cooked oatmeal or whole wheat or bread.
Once you begin making dog meals yourself, you will find that it’ relatively easy and you will also save money. Remember that all dog meals should be served at room temperature - don’t serve food right from the stove or refrigerator.
A few dog food recipes
Veal Stew
Combine 1/2 pound stewing veal, one cup canned tomatoes, one cup water, one chicken bouillon cube, 1/2 onion (chopped), parsley, add a dash of garlic powder in a pot and simmer. Remove all bones when the meat becomes tender.
Cut the meat into chunks an mix the stew with kibble or some other grain.
Chicken Soup
Combine one chicken liver, one giblet, one chicken heart, one chicken neck, two cup water and one tablespoon finely chopped parsley. Add one 3 1/3 jar of strained liver baby food or homemade blended liver. Still until everything is well mixed. Cover and simmer until the giblet is tender. Remove the bones, chop the meat and mix with kibble.
Liver cookies
Preheat over to 3500 F. Combine 1/2 cup dry milk and 1/2 cup what germ. Drizzle one teaspoon honey on top. Add one 3 1/3 oz. jar of strained liver baby food or homemade blended liver. Stir until everything is well mixed. Form the mixture into balls. Place the balls on a greased cookie sheet and flatter with a fork. Bake 8 to 10 minutes.
You can store the cookies in a jar in your refrigerator or freeze them if you intend to keep them for more than a few days.
Dog morsels
- 2 cups whole wheat flour
- 2 tsp. garlic powder
- 2 cups white flour
- 1 cup skim milk powder
- 2 eggs
- Water
- 1/2 cup melted beef or pork drippings (or lard)
Mix ingredients together with enough water to make a stiff dough. Roll out and cut into Christmas shapes. Preheat over to 3500 F. Bake morsels on cookie sheet until hard.
Fish cookies
Just follow the recipe for liver cookies except use 3 1/2 oz. of mashed and boned mackerel, either caned or freshly cooked.
Where to get more healthy dog food recipes
If you’d like more dog food recipes and to see videos that will show you exactly how to prepare them, just go to the website expertvillage.com
Will your dog be killed by its food?
Did you know that the wrong diet can cause your dog to die prematurely? The fact is, commercial dog foods that are high in preservatives can cause cancer in dogs, as well as liver failure, leukemia and even increased aggressiveness - something that can be a real problem if the dog is around kids.
Written by Douglas Hanna
