There are so many variations on the subject each of us will develop our own way of preparing our natural homemade Dog food recipes. We will need to decide whether we are going to make homemade Dog food as a raw or a cooked meal. Personally I do like to feed the Dogs raw when I can. Raw meat is natural for Dogs and most Dogs never react badly to it at all.
However as with all new diets that Dogs are introduced to it should be done gradually. You should not simply jump from feeding commercial Dog food to recipes for Dog food that you have made at home. It will need to be a gradual process. Try introducing an odd home cooked Dog meal a few times a week to gradually get your Dog used to it. Maybe you do not wish to prepare food for your Dog more often than this anyway. You may decide there is too much work involved in constantly preparing your Dogs food, money may be a constraint or you simply feel like making healthy homemade Dog treats on occasion.
Home Made Dog Food Recipe
Lets look at an example of a Raw Meal we can prepare for our Dog at home. The tasty meal will have the following ingredients:
- 1 Raw Egg
- Half a cup of Yogurt
- Half a can of Peas
- 1 stick of celery
- 1 Cup of Vegetable or Meat Stock
- A large handful of a meat of your choice
- 1 spoon of Olive Oil
Of course, the variations on this are innumerable. You can substitute the vegetables, meats etc for any of your choosing. This is also just one meal. If you are going to be feeding only natural homemade dog fod recipes then you will have to ensure that the correct ratio of fats, proteins, vitamins and minerals are present in your Dogs diet. For an occasional home made Dog food recipe this is not such a major consideration.
How To Prepare Your Home Made Dog Food Recipe
The above recipe for Dog food will be served mostly raw. If your Dog has never eaten raw before then make sure you introduce raw meat very slowly. For the sake of this recipe I am assuming you have already given your Dog small amounts of raw meat and it is used to it.
As we are serving raw the time taken to prepare the meal will be drastically reduced. This recipe will be for an average, medium sized Dog. Obviously you will make more or less depending on the size of your Dog, or you will save some for a later meal.
There is not too much preparation involved as it will be mostly raw.
Slowly heat up the stock so it is warm but not too hot.
Add to this a large handful of raw meat such as Chicken, Turkey, Beef etc
Add the yogurt, Oil and drained Peas.
For the celery or maybe carrot, ideally you will blend this to break down the fibers and make it more easily digestible.
After blending add the whole raw egg to the blender and mix until it is thoroughly broken up.
Add to the rest of the ingredients and serve.
This natural homemade Dog food will be appreciated by any Dog. It is full of proteins, fats and healthy for your Dog. Do not worry about serving the whole egg, calcium is important and an amount of roughage will do nothing but keep your Dog in fine shape.
This recipe is by no means perfectly balanced but whose food is. We can get hung up on technicalities without looking at the bigger picture. If you feel that commercial foods lack the right qualities for your Dog then surely a healthy meal like this will be a vast improvement.
Natural food for Dogs will do nothing but improve their health. We will be trying to source our produce cheaply and if possible both buy and prepare in bulk, saving both time and money. If you do try the above recipes it is very doubtful that even the fussiest of eaters will leave anything. Raw meat is a firm favorite with Dogs but if you really don't wish to serve raw then boil the meat on the vegetable or meat stock first.
Just remember that Dogs never eat cooked meat in the wilds. Their bodies are perfectly suited to deal with raw meat, it may just need to get used to it if you have never provided raw food before.
A raw Dog food recipe is much easier and quicker to prepare than many homemade Dog foods which is an obvious advantage. Nothing is set in stone however, just use your judgement and serve what you feel comfortable with. Preparing recipes for Dog food means, to a large extent using your common sense. Think about what will be a healthy meal for Dogs and you cannot go that far wrong. The Dog food meal that you prepare may not be perfect in every respect but if commercial food for Dogs concerns you then you will probably feel much happier even if it is not a totally optimised recipe for Dog food.
We will look later at how to totally optimise homemade Dog foods if we are going to serve nothing but healthy homemade Dog Food, but the above recipe, with the endless variations that are possible is a good starting point in response to the question "How to make Dog food?".
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