5 Homemade Food Recipes for Healthy Dogs

As a result of my last articles, where I directly relate the diet based on industrial feed with most health problems, directly influencing the character of your dog and its stress levels, I have friends and clients who have asked me: but Antonio, What do you feed your dogs?. In order to answer that question, I am going to create a series of cookbooks, with various proposals for healthy and balanced recipes for your dogs.

Today I bring you the first of several cookbooks dedicated exclusively to feeding your dogs, and where I will give you, apart from the recipe, some variations so that you always have an extra option. Without more, I leave you with 5 Homemade Food Recipes for Healthy Dogs.

A few tips before you start:

Before starting with the recipes, I'm going to give you a couple of tips:

1. Criterion. Think about how you consume the food that sustains you, and what your dog's life would be like in nature. Like you, you don't eat the same every day, he would not eat the same every day. Dogs need a varied diet to be healthy, and this is where your personal judgment comes in. I am going to give you some maxims and you from there, reflect and develop the diet that you see that you do better. For this it will be good for you to use my second advice.
2. Observe. By observing both their behavior and their bowel movements, you will shape their ideal diet. Just as not all meals do not feel good depending on the time, day or mood, the same will happen to him. If suddenly, you give him too much fiber in his diet, he will have diarrhea, however, it is normal that not eating the same thing, one day his stools are harder and others softer. You have to learn to differentiate a specific diarrhea from a stomach infection. In time you will make it perfect. Also see if any ingredient gives you allergies. If you are going to add something new, do it little by little and see how it feels.
3. Read. Check out our Feeding guide

Recipes for healthy dogs

First Steps

I am going to describe some recipes for adult dogs, which do not have any type of health problem, as well as their preparation process; however I am going to start by giving you some tips to start with your dog's diet, so that it is easier and more comfortable for you to start making recipes for him.

We will make the dog's food once a month, buying the ingredients and making portions that we will keep in the refrigerator.

We are going to provide you with a varied and balanced diet, where we will not stop giving you feed, although we will try to make it of the best possible quality. Soon I will write an article where I will talk about how to choose I think correctly. Our dog will eat monthly, his prepared rations, I think, and our leftovers. We can also include Naku in the diet.

An essential element in our animal's diet is salmon oil, which will provide the omega 3 and omega 6 acids necessary for their body in their diets. It is advisable to buy it by the liter and add it to your meals, following the manufacturer's instructions.

You always have to take into account for its correct diet ...

Within what would be the preparation of the diet itself, there are some notions that I want to contribute:

1. The recipe will always be the norm 3 parts of animal protein, 1 part of carbohydrates in the form of cereals and 1 part of fruit or vegetables.
2. If you are going to include bones in your diet, they will always be chicken, quail, partridge, rabbit, hare or small animals. Never cow or pork bones. Those are recreational.
3. If you are not going to include bones in his diet, you have to give him I think about 3 times a week. The feed has the contribution of calcium and minerals that it needs on a daily basis.
4. If you are going to cook your food, follow the 3 minute rule. If you cook, only 3 minutes on the fire, as if you fry or bake. 3 minutes. This is done so that you do not lose basic nutrients for them.
5. You have to cook the vegetables a little. 3 minutes will suffice. The raw fruit.
6. Don't feed her raw eggs. Cook them.
7. Go from less to more. Don't start by giving him a 300gr piece of chicken. Give it little by little.
8. You can give him the leftovers of your food. Nothing happens and you will get a lot of nutrients.
9. It is good that you fast a couple of days a month.
10. Do not include more than 3 or 4 ingredients in your dog's diet at the beginning. It is not necessary and he will not digest it well. Go from less to more.

Recipes for healthy, active dogs

Now I'm going to write you 5 simple recipes for your dog:

Chicken Liver Omelette with Rosemary and bread

Ingredients:

• 1 Dozen Eggs
• 400gr of Chicken Livers
• A piece of stale bread
• Fresh rosemary branch

Cook the livers in a tablespoon of olive oil, over medium heat for 3 minutes. We cut the rosemary and in a bowl, we put the eggs, the livers, the rosemary and the stale bread, which previously we will have had in water for a while.
We mix all the ingredients and make an omelette.
This omelette admits variations such as sausages, tuna, sardines, veal livers ...
You can make it rations and freeze it without problems to take it out according to the use that you are going to give it.
It is a very inexpensive dish, which will not even reach 5 eu.

Chicken with rice

Ingredients:

• 1 kilo chicken breast
• 300 gr of brown rice
• 300 gr carrot

You prepare the chicken, boiled or grilled. Cook the rice with the carrots, making sure to boil it a little more than necessary so that it is passed and thus be able to facilitate the assimilation of the starch by the dog. Once everything is prepared, you mix it.
This dish admits variations, changing chicken for tuna, tuna, mackerel, sardines, sausages, or eggs.
This recipe can be easily rationed and frozen, and without any problems.

Tuna and Sardines Bites

Ingredients:

• 300 gr of canned Tuna and Sardines
• Bread crumbs
• 3 eggs

Mix the eggs, tuna and sardines, and the breadcrumbs in a bowl with some hot water and make a homogeneous mixture. With that dough, you make balls of about 50 gr, although you can vary the weight to your liking. Prepare the sandwiches in a microwaveable tray and cook for about 10 minutes on medium power.
You can vary the recipe, changing the tuna for chicken or for pork and beef.
Both the dough and the snacks, both made and without baking, are freezable and easy to portion.

Macaroni with veal

Ingredients:

• 300 gr of beef
• 200 gr of fresh pasta
• 100 gr of Carrots
• 2 tablespoons tomato sauce

We cook the veal. We will buy a veal that is very lean and has very little fat. We cut the meat into cubes and put it in a pan where we will have previously heated some olive oil. We cut the Carrots and add them together with the meat to the pan. We fry everything for about 3 minutes. Then we add half a glass of water and let it simmer for about 10 minutes. Then we add the tomato sauce and stir. We will cook the pasta separately and mix it together ready to portion and freeze.

You can vary the recipe somewhat with other meat or fish, if they are natural (not canned) we cook them in the same way as veal.

Eggs with Rice a la Carretero

Ingredients:

• Half a dozen fresh chicken eggs
• 1 k Chicken breast
• 300 gr of brown rice
• 100 gr carrot
• 100 gr Peppers
• 28 gr of vegetable oil
• Half a glass of tomato sauce
• A garlic

We fry the garlic in the oil in a frying pan over medium heat. Cut the peppers and carrots and fry them for about 3 minutes. Then we add the meat to the pan cut into cubes. We fry everything for another 3 minutes and generously pour water over it without covering it. We put it on a low heat for 15 minutes. We add the tomato sauce and remove it from the heat. We cook both the eggs and the rice separately. Once everything is finished, we ration and freeze. In the portions, we will always try to put twice the weight of chicken than rice.

In the variation of this dish, the chicken can be perfectly substituted for beef or pork, or a mixture of the two. We can also substitute for natural cooked fish such as hake or cod.

Dietary supplement

To make sure that our dog has everything he needs in his diet, we are going to make him a food supplement, easy, cheap and very nutritious. Dogs often have a severe deficiency of vitamin B12 in their diet. This nutritional deficiency does not usually lead to short-term problems that are visible, however, it can lead to all kinds of long-term problems. That is why sardines in vegetable oil are a natural source of B12 and Calcium for our furry friends.

Well, with canned sardines and some fresh fruit, we can create a perfect food supplement for our dog's nutritional needs.

Sardines and Fruit Food Supplement Recipe

Ingredients:

• 500 gr canned sardines
• 750 gr fresh fruit

Preparation:

Put the sardines with all their oil in a bowl. Also introduce the chopped fruit. With a mixer, beat everything until it is a mixture.

You can vary the fruit by vegetable, however it must be cooked. The cooked vegetable jars will be your great ally.

To ration it, we can deposit it next to the food ration that we are going to store, that is, with the rations of the recipes that I have described above.

Leftovers from our food

The leftovers of our food, they are an ideal contribution of nutrients of all kinds to our dog's diet. Although it is not logical or healthy, humanizing our dog's diet by giving him only the leftovers of our food, giving them once or twice a week, has good nutritional value in his diet.

Don't worry about occasionally giving her a piece of cake that you have left over, a piece of chocolate, or licking the custard we just ate. While it is not good to do it every day, nothing happens that we give him a joy in the form of candy from time to time.

Final indications

As I have said before in this article as a home recipe book, for an optimal feeding of your dog, or do you give him raw bones in his diet, from which he will extract the minerals and calcium, among other things, and that otherwise we will have to supplement it in some way, either with bone meal, or directly by giving it feed.

Carlos Alberto Gutierrez tells us in his book, Homemade Natural Diets:

There is no shortage of people who ask me to feed their dog only on homemade diets; I already tell you, by wide
experience, which I do not recommend. I have said the importance of variety, because variety
it also includes feed (commercial food).
Think that the homemade diets that you will do are not perfect, nor do I pretend that they are because that is not
exists; then, to have a healthy and balanced diet, it is advisable to introduce commercial foods,
that yes, that they are of as high quality as possible.

I would also like to point out that it is not about being obsessed with feeding the dog by making them eat every day, but about being proactive and giving them a balanced diet for their needs that is within our means, both in terms of time and money.

The proposal that I make to you is simple: cook and ration according to the needs of your animal, which will be marked by its weight, age, size and the daily activity that it develops.

The Great Carlos Alberto Gutierrez of Nutricionistadeperros.com, gives us some indications about the relationship between weight and amount of food to be given:

It is important, especially at the beginning, that you have some reference numbers. So how much should a normal adult dog eat in grams?
1,5 to 3% (weight of raw food) of your body weight. Approximately. I repeat, approximately.
A dog should eat 1,5 to 3% of its weight in natural foods a day (When eating homemade diets).
Approximately. The bigger the dog, the less percentage eats per kilo of weight.

Learn the first rule of thumb: 60% of your dog's diet should be made up of meaty bones (bones with meat like chicken wings, or the legs of a rabbit, etc.). With this you already have 80% of the way covered.

I also encourage you to mark a calendar of meals for the dog, that is to say that you prepare your recipe or recipes, the rations and freeze them. If you are not going to include bones in the dog's diet, give him 3 days a week I think.

I give you a practical example, my dogs. I give them about 4 days natural food (where I include meaty chicken or rabbit bones), a couple of days I feed or canned meat, and one or two days leftovers from my food, which are also, as I said before, a good contribution of varied nutrients to their diet.

As you can see, my dogs have a varied diet, where I do not skimp on giving them everything, without for this reason the dog is a Thermomix. I give them everything, and yet I don't give them everything at the same time.

In future articles, I will talk about how to choose feed according to the needs of our dog, or the myths that exist around some foods. I also promise more cookbooks.

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Greetings and take care of your dogs.