Do you prefer to prepare your meals yourself rather than buying kibble or mash for your dog meal? It is a solution with multiple advantages, as long as the animal’s nutritional needs are met. After reviewing some basic dog meal rules, we offer you simple recipes to get ready a homemade dog meal for your buddy.
You are never better served than by yourself. An old saying that applies to many aspects of our daily lives, including when it comes to our dog friends and what they are feed. Prepare your dog meal for your 4-legged companion and a choice made by many owners for different reasons. If you want to do the same, here are some recipes.
Why a Homemade Dog Meal?
We make our dog meal ourselves first of all because it allows us to know what he has in his bowl. Even if the quality croquettes offered in the trade developed such a way as to meet the needs of the dog, mistrust remains in more than one owner.
This choice is also dictated by the pleasure of cooking good things for those you love, in the same way, you prepare an excellent dog meal.
The Rules Of Dog Nutrition To Respect
But for these preparations to be beneficial for the dog’s health, some concepts must be understood and applied. Some dog parents may be worried about their dog either putting on too much weight or not putting on any at all. It is natural to wonder, “how heavy should my dog be?”, as ensuring the ideal weight is important to avoid health issues. For this, understanding the right elements of a dog’s meal becomes important. The main one is the rule of the three significant components of a dog meal: meat food, starches, and vegetables.
- Meat food: it is the source of animal proteins, essential for the dog’s body. These are meat (red or white), fish, organ meats (especially liver, which is also generous in minerals) or eggs. These should be given occasionally and cooked.
- Starches: these are pasta or preferably rice.
- Vegetables: carrots, green beans or even zucchini bring their richness in vitamins and minerals.
These three food are added fats (rapeseed, sunflower, walnut oil, etc.) and food supplements.
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Chicken Recipe For Dog Meal
Ingredients: 150 g of chicken, 150 g of vegetables (your choice: carrot, zucchini, green beans, or a mixture of 1 tablespoon of rapeseed oil, one tablespoon of brewer’s yeast.
Preparation: cook the rice for a good half an hour (until it becomes sticky), immerse the vegetables cut into small pieces in boiling water, then add the chicken at the very end of cooking. Stir in the brewer’s yeast and rapeseed oil.
In this recipe, as in all the others, remember that you should always add it raw to the dog meal. The essential fatty acids they provide cannot withstand the heat of cooking.
Beef and Green Bean Meal
Ingredients: 150 g of ground beef, 150 g of green beans, 50 g of rice, one teaspoon of eggshell powder, 1 teaspoon of rapeseed oil (or other vegetable oil), 1 capsule of vitamin food supplements (vitamins A and D).
Preparation: Make sure the rice is cooked through. As in the previous recipe, the meat should only be cooked lightly. To do this, add it at the end of the preparation of the green beans. Stir in the eggshell powder (for calcium), supplements and rapeseed oil.
Fish, Rice and Spinach
Ingredients: 125 g of fatty fish (salmon, mackerel, tuna, etc.), 80 g of rice, 150 g of spinach, vitamin and mineral supplements, 40 g of yogurt, dill.
Preparation: Cook the rice, blanch the spinach and add the fish at the end of cooking. At the same time, mix the yogurt, dill and food supplements. Pour the mixture over the whole fish/rice/spinach.
