Making Homemade Dog Food

If you are ever interested in whats in your pets dog food - Google the brand and then look into where these factory's are getting their meat. You will usually find very low quality meat and lots of filler - chicken meal, etc.

My dog Linus, a wonderful dachshund died early - his whole torso full of cancers. I cant help but wondering if his whole life of Alpo canned dog food that I microwaved everyday contributed to his early death.

I must give credit where credit is due - Poochy Trends made some homemade wet dog food at their booth last week that we bought. The pups liked everything but the blueberries. It only fed them for 2 days so I needed to find a simpler and more cost effective way to feed them high quality dog food.

This is the protein blend I came up with. You will need :

1. Sweet Potato - steamed and mashed

Sweet Potato

#2 - 2 cups of rice - I meant to get brown rice but picked up the wrong box

Rice

#3 - 1 lb Ground Beef - I added salt and some Worcestershire sauce for taste. Brown and Drain

Ground Beef

#4 - Fried Eggs - I used 5 eggs this time with S&P and paprika. Chop up once cooked

Fried Farm Eggs

#5 - for some fresh greens - added a small about of local chives. It brighten it up and adds flavor

Chives

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then all you have to do is mix all together in an air tight large bowl. I toss in a bit more salt and then stir is all together! When you are done - it should look something like this:

Finished Dog Food

I broke down the cost :
Rice $1.00
Eggs $1.20
Beef $ 3.50
Sweet Potato $1.00
Chives $0.50

Total cost of a weeks worth of dog food - $7.20

I think this amount of food mixed with some dry every morning will last a week or so. I know that they will love the flavor and also saves having to buy $1.50 cans of dog food that have lot of chemicals in them. Let me know if you try this or a variation.