Do you love your dog? Want him to live much longer? Great, show it… feed him real food. Food YOU would actually eat. Yes, really.
The health benefits of real food are HUGE. Our pups are happy, healthy, and have the shiniest coats.
People always ask us, “what do you feed them??”. Simple: we cook some basic real food for them. None of that “dog food” stuff.
Google “dog food”. You will be surprised and very disturbed by what’s in those products.
We’ve been cooking for our dogs for years, and once you start, there’s no going back.
Plus, our pups LOVE the food we cook them. And dogs are soooo easy to cook for. They don’t complain if you get something wrong, and they love you like crazy no matter what.
Want to try it yourself? It’s SOOOOO Easy… Here’s the recipe for Yummy Healthy Puppy Food
Ingredients
- 6 lbs ground beef ($18 at Costco)
- 36 Eggs ($4 at Costco)
- 3 lbs frozen stir-fry mixed veggies (Costco Kirkland has a good one)
- White rice (6 cups of cooked rice)
- Glass of wine or brandy on rocks for your enjoyment while cooking
Prepare The Eggs, Rice, and Veggies
- Boil the eggs, then cool and run through food processor to turn shells into mush.
- Run mixed veggies through food processor too. optional but a nice step.
- [optional, only to make it go farther] Cook up some rice: 6 cups (to get 6 cups of cooked rice, use 3 cups rice and 6 cups water).
Cook The Meat
- Cook ground beef in a big pot with lid on, on mid-high for 30 minutes or so.
- Stir every 5 minutes or so, to cook evenly.
- Cook until meat is brown, no longer red.
Mix It All Together
- The stuff you cooked above… dump it in a large bowl and mix it up together. Or mix it in the pot if it’s big enough.
—- That’s it!!! give yourself a raise, splendid work. —-
Lasts in fridge for nearly a week, depending on your dogs. 😉
The rice is ONLY to make it go farther. If money is no object, ditch the rice. It’s still infinitely better than the not-fit-for-human-consumption filler in “dog food”.
Disclaimer: you and only you are responsible for your choices and actions. The above is what we feed our pups, and I would LOVE to see more people make this fairly simple choice.That said, this is your choice, and this post does not in any way guarantee medical, financial, whatever, whatever “professional” opinion, it is just what I do for my pups.
Note that the veterinary profession is largely sponsored by the “dog food” industry, which is why so many otherwise intelligent people who are vets actually believe that stuff is suitable for your loving animal companion. Another case of “what you don’t know, can hurt those close to you”. Like I said, google what’s in it, and ask yourself if you’d want anything to do with that stuff. Dogs are not that biologically different from us, they require good nutrients just like we do.
Lame legalese aside, if I were you, I’d start making my pups some real food and kick that “dog food” crap to the curb.
To make it go farther, add more rice, and more mixed veggies. Yeah, that constitutes “filler”, but it’s way better than anything you’ll find in a bag of “dog food”.
Our philosophy is “better than before”.
My dogs are family, and I love them… And I have this annoying habit of thinking for myself. So my rule is pretty simple… if I wouldn’t eat it, I don’t feed it to my dogs. Super simple.
To the health of your pups!!
What about the greese from the meat ? You didn’t say how much of it to put in. Can you please email me and let me know. Thanks lvshorses777@ yahoo.com Thanks again
Hey Rita! Sorry, just now catching up on comments. 🙂
Grease from meat is a fact of life, I don’t change it. I cook the ground beef and dump the whole pot into my very large mixing bowl. 🙂
I need to update this recipe… got another post on here with more details and more updates. just more good stuff like fresh spinach added to the meat, and a crockpot chicken worth of bone broth added to the mix for calcium.
Dan
My 14 year old Pug/Boston Bull Terrier mix named Georgie has recently been diagnosed with Lymphoma. We’re told he has 1-3 months. Both of our fur – babies have eaten Fresh Pet dog food for years. Yesterday I opened a new roll of their food and noticed it smelled funny. I threw it away and took out another roll from the fridge. I looked at the roll and thought, “this food never has smelled very good. Why would I feed them food that doesn’t even smell good? ” I decided right then to NEVER feed them anything that doesn’t smell good. I found this recipe and cooked it up this evening. Both dogs loved it, especially my sweet Georgie. I only wish I’d done this sooner. I wish it makes Georgie feel better, I wish a miracle happens and he lives many more years, I wish . . .
Hey Steph! sounds like my ephiphany… I too wish I’d done this sooner. it’s easy to beat yourself up, but you can only work with what you know. we’ve all been told this crap about “dog food has all the vitamins and minerals they need” bullshit for year. i believed it too… why wouldn’t we. one day at a time. hope your little one is doing great. if i was in your situation i’d change the meat to something more basic like tuna… at least for a while. big bunch of tuna cans at Costco – 12 for $14 I think. cheapest tuna you can find, infinitely better than that stuff in a bag.
I have been feeding this recipe to my dog for the past two weeks. It’s the first time in seven years that I have not had to coax or beg the dog to eat, and he seems much more energetic. It is so hard to decipher the good and bad information on the internet. However, much of what I read states the dog will not get needed vitamins and minerals in a homemade diet. Have you found this to be true? Do you giving any additional supplements to your dogs?
Hey Laura! ah, the “but your dog won’t get the much needed vitamins and minerals” argument. seen it over and over again for years. maybe they’re right. i think it’s bullshit. this is a common fallacy… an appeal to some idea that we regular folks can’t possibly figure out what to feed our dogs. Seriously, they’re not all that different from us. mechanically speaking… dogs are not that different. and we feed them that crap in a bag. we’ve all done it. i did it too.. for years. not for the last decade tho… i finally sat back and said “hold up, wtf is in that bag that i can’t do better?”. i need to update this article with some of the additions i’ve added lately… but really, my dogs eat better than i do lol. they dont eat junk food. when i cook the beef, i add a pound of fresh green leaf spinach from Costco in it. amazing stuff. and in a crockpot i cook a whole raw chicken from Costco in water, nothign else. bone broth is insanely nutritious. so you’ve got vitamins and calcium from the bone broth. good enough for me, and good enough for my pups for the past decade. damn… just wish I’d known this before. I found this path after my 9 year old pup was diagnosed with cancer long ago. I’d have done better by her if I’d known better back then.
Laura – check out this other post I made more recently… it’s far more updated with a lot more recipe ideas. point is the same tho… our little pups are not that different from us mechanically. feed them real food. at least I try to. https://helpdoggies.org/homemade-dog-food-101-how-to-start-today/