Free Recipes for Natural Home Made Dog Food: Free Recipe Book
Here are some very basic natural homemade dog food recipes. Recipes like these will make up a large portion of the food you prepare for your pet.
Remember, making homemade dog food can be great fun and can be a family project.
Family meal time is the perfect time to set aside food for your dog. Extra food set aside during food preparation saves time later. After you’ve eaten your meal, keep the scraps (no bones) in a sealed container in the refrigerator. These scraps will become the basis for tasty meals for the furry member of your family.
Some notes on these recipes:
All meat we recommend is cooked. A limited portion of beef fat is fine and can promote a healthy coat. If your dog is overweight, however, it is best to restrict calories — substitute a tablespoon of olive or canola oil.
Fowl (turkey, chicken, etc.): all meat should be off the bone. Cooked turkey and chicken skin is fine.
Many of recipes call for specific vegetables. Not all dogs like all vegetables. If you are hand blending, your dog will let you know her the vegetables she doesn’t like by not eating them (however if you prepare her meals in a blender she’ll never know).
On these basic recipes we have called for mixed vegetables. In fact you can use any green or yellow vegetables (except onions). Starchy vegetables such as potatoes, when called for, will be specifically named in the recipes.
We love to use a blender or food processor. Chop up the food, divide into meal size portions, feed your dog one portion, refrigerate portions for another two days, and freeze the rest. It is best to not prepare meals more than a week in advance. And remember each night to take the next day’s meals and thaw in the refrigerator overnight.
Portions vary by size of dog, and you will want to experiment with this. Recipes in recipe books will be more specific and will give you nutritional information such as calories, etc.
We have listed the actual recipes on the sidebars in order for them to stand out and be easily copied.
Okay. Are you ready? Here we go — have a ball!
Don’t forget to let your kids take part in the preparation. Your pet may be the family dog. But she’s your kids’ dog first! Let them feel the satisfaction of doing something good for their dog!
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March 23rd, 2009 at 5:40 am
Excellent blog, very imformative and to the point, keep up the good work.
July 26th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
Great article. With the way that the dog food industry is going I don’t blame you for wanting to make your own. Some of the cheaper dog food out there can contain some horrendous ingredients. At least when making your own you know exactly what goes into it.