Recipes For Dog Food

Here at How To Make Dog Food there is lots of information about homemade Dog foods and the benefits and also the realities of preparing food in the home for your Dog. I am gradually adding more and more information about just what is required to make healthy homemade Dog treats or regular meals every day for your Dog. Recipes for Dog food are springing up all over the Web, as well as a bewildering array of conflicting information on just what the correct diet for a Dog is. It can become very difficult to know exactly what the correct nutritional content of the homemade Dog foods should be. Before I get on to providing some recipes for Dog food I want to show you a few examples.

This is from the top result in google when I typed in "correct nutritional content of homemade dog foods". They have a table of the correct nutritional needs and the results for an average Dog are that they should have 16% protein, 10% fat, and 44% carbohydrates. One of the other top results states:

Understand that dogs need a diet that consists of 40 percent meat, 30 percent vegetables and 30 percent starch. Follow this formula to ensure that your dog has a well-balanced diet.

Yet another site stated that Dogs should have 30% Protein and 70% carbohydrates. So what do we do? It really is difficult to know exactly what to supply our Dogs with for optimum home made Dog food recipes.

I seriously wonder whether a few slight differences in an optimum diet has much effect on our Dogs. Do we always eat a perfectly balanced diet? No. Should our Dogs? Ideally, yes. But I think that worrying too much at getting percentages of homemade Dog foods exactly right will get us nowhere but worried. As long as you make the natural homemade Dog food recipes as well balanced as you can then I see little need for concern. We don't want to spend our lives constantly making sure we have the ratios exactly right. Especially when we really don't know what these exact percentages should be anyway.

A well rounded diet is the best and by making recipes for Dog food at home it is easy enough to ensure our Dogs get a nice balanced diet with lots of meat, carbohydrates, and vegetables.

Recipes For Dog Food


There are an awful lot of different recipes out there but if you want your Dog to have a balanced diet, then as with our meals, you need a lot of different recipes to keep your Dog healthy and by supplying healthy homemade Dog treats and natural food for Dogs you should be able to provide your Dog with a well balanced diet without worrying about exact proportions.

Here are a few recipes that you may wish to try:

Use any of the following ingredients:

  • Rice, potatoes, pasta, oatmeal

  • All forms of meat including hearts, kidneys, chicken necks etc

  • Raw eggs including the crushed shells

  • Different oils for health

  • Any number of varieties of vegetables

  • A good multi vitamin suitable for Dogs


All these ingredients can be used to create fantastic and healthy meals for Dogs that you can prepare at home.

Healthy Recipes For Dog Food


I call this the "How To Make Dog Food" Chicken Surprise.

Boil up a decent quantity of pasta leaving the liquid in the pan.

Add to this some raw vegetables that you have put through a food processor to make them easily digestible.

Break in a raw egg and mix together.

Grind the egg shell finely and add to the mix.

To this recipe for Dog food add a partial tin of tuna, including the oil.

A small amount of natural yogurt can also be added.

Now, cut up finely some raw chicken.

Add the chicken to the Dogs bowl and pout the remaining contents over the top.

Can you see why it is called chicken surprise?

When you introduce your Dog to homemade Dog foods, especially if your Dog has only ever eaten commercial food before, ensure you do it slowly. You need to get your Dog accustomed to different food gradually. Begin with small amounts of home made Dog foods and gradually make the switch. Alternatively you may wish to only ever make occasional food at home for your Dog. It does not have to be all or nothing.

When preparing your natural homemade Dog food recipes just ensure you don't decide it is what you want for supper yourself! It's for the Dog don't forget.

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