Free Dog Food!

I have been researching dehydrated "raw" dog food and it's really expensive, but then the store bought dog food is getting spendy too and my vet says none of them are ideal for the best nutrition. Sooo, after ordering a box @ $60, I read through the ingredients and thought, well, I can do that, or at least a decent replica from foods I already have on hand! I made up this big bowl of homemade stew in about 45 minutes and it didn't cost me anything! I should probably add supplemental dog vitamin to it, but otherwise I think this is pretty good attempt. I will bag up one cup portions and freeze them since there is a lot of food here for my two small dogs.

Ingredients: For the meat, I used one pound package of elk meat from our freezer. Of course, most folks would have to use alternate. Pan cooked it till pink was gone and scrambled in two eggs.

In a separate pan, I added to four cups of boiling water, 1.5 cups old fashion oats, 1/2 cup rice, partial packages of frozen carrots/peas and chopped spinach, tablespoon of honey, and one mashed overripe banana. When the meat/egg mixture was done, so was the grains/veggie mix (about twenty minutes). Mixed it all together along with 4000 mg of flaxseed oil, and viola! you see the finished product! I didn't add any herbs, the dogs don't need them and besides, I don't think they are suppose to have garlic? anyway.

Both my dogs were sitting by their respective bowls when I turned around, LOL

They had to wait for it to cool down but I think it was worth the wait.

I will keep the commercial dehydrated mix for when we travel I think. I may try dehydrating mine just to see if it works but I freezing will be easier and of course, quicker!

The original commercial dog food ingredients are:  Turkey, Oats, Potatoes, Flax, Carrots, Cabbage, Alfalfa, Organic Kelp, Apples, Honey, Garlic, Rosemary.