How to make your own dog food: Recipe 3

Pasta Carbonara for Dogs
By: Chef Cristian Feher
www.mealsfordogs.com

Doggie Pasta Carbonara!

We all love Italian food and your dog is no exception. This dish was enjoyed most sumptuously by my grandparent’s Great Dane, Dutchess! You can substitute the regular wheat pasta with Tinkayada brown rice pasta if your dog has gluten allergies.

Normally, you should feed your dog 2% of its body weight per day. That figure should help you plan how much food to make your dog. 

Ingredients:
- 4 cups of pasta (cooked)
- 1 cup of chopped kale (raw)
- 1 cup of chopped carrots (raw)
- 1 clove of garlic minced
- 2 cups of cooked ground meat (beef, chicken, lamb, turkey)
- 2 eggs
- 2 strips of nitrate-free applewood smoked organic bacon
- 1/4 cup of shredded parmesan cheese
- A pinch of sea salt

Instructions:

1. Cook the pasta and set aside. You will serve at room temperature.

2. Cook the bacon crispy, cool, and chop into bits.

3. Chop the kale and carrots with a knife or food processor.

4. Mince the garlic.

5. Mix all ingredients in a bowl with two raw eggs, and add a pinch of salt. Your dog will love this. And if they don’t.. you will!

How to make organic dog food: Recipe 2

Frosted Mutt Muffins and Doggie Donuts Recipe
By: Chef Cristian Feher
www.mealsfordogs.com

Mutt Muffins for Dogs!

This is a variation of the Mutt Loaf recipe which you can see by clicking HERE.

These are a special treats for your special pet! You can bake them into cupcakes, or even shape them like donuts, or make the mixture into a birthday cake for Pooch! The possibilities are endless.

Doggie Donuts with Peanut Butter Bacon Icing!

Once you finish baking your mutt loaf into any shape you like - as in this recipe where you will scoop the meat mix into a muffin pan and bake at 375 for 40 minutes - you can frost it with one of my favorite toppings below:


Teriyaki Peanut Butter Frosting with Sesame Seeds
Yields: 1 cup of frosting

Ingredients:
- 1 cup of smooth organic peanut butter
- 1 tbsp of organic teriyaki sauce
- sesame seeds for garnish

Instructions:

1. Mix the peanut butter with the teriyaki sauce.

2. Spread onto mutt muffins and sprinkle with sesame seeds.



Greek Yogurt and Bacon Bits
Yields: 1 cup of frosting

Ingredients:
- 1 cup of strained Greek yogurt
- 4 strips of organic applewood smoked bacon (nitrate free)

Instructions:

1. Cook the bacon until crispy. Let it cool. Chop into bits with a chef knife or food processor.

2. Mix with Greek yogurt.

3. Spread over mutt muffins.

How to make organic dog food: Recipe 1

Chef Cristian’s Mutt-Loaf Recipe
By: Chef Cristian Feher
www.mealsfordogs.com

Forget about the hot dog factory, and think about an even more “interesting” place - the dog food factory. Dog food is usually made with ingredients that are not fit for human consumption - they’re cheap, and they are usually by-products other businesses don’t want. There is very little enforcement over what goes into commercial dog food, and it’s often loaded with chemicals, preservatives, and traces of antibiotics, growth hormones, drugs, and whatever else may have been part of the carcases used to produce the meat “by-products” that make up the bulk of commercial dog food. It’s no wonder our pets are so allergic, diseased and live such short lifespans.

Bluntly speaking, a body is constructed out of the food it eats. Put in healthy food, and you get a healthy body. Put in junk, and you get junk.

My dog food is made with all-natural and organic ingredients that are not only fit for human consumption, but are full of clean protein, vitamins, minerals, healthy oils and vegetable fibers. This is a simple way to help your dog live a long, healthy, happy life.

Ingredients:
- 3 Lbs organic or all-natural ground beef, turkey, chicken, or lamb
- 4 cups organic or regular brown rice (cooked)
- 3 organic eggs
- 3 cups Chopped organic raw kale
- 6 chopped organic raw carrots
- 3-4 cloves of garlic
- 2 tbsp Flax seeds
- 1/2 cup Greek yogurt
- Flavoring: 1/2 cup of Non-alcoholic beer, or 4 tbsp organic teriyaki sauce, or 1/2 cup malta beverage or a couple of drops of liquid smoke.
- A pinch of sea salt

Instructions:

NOTE: Remember that your dog's senses of smell and taste are very keen. So you won’t be flavoring this as if you’re making it for yourself, you want to cut back on the seasoning. This means very little salt and only a little flavoring agent.

1. Mix the ground meat with the eggs, rice, kale, carrots, flax seed and yogurt. For even better nutrition, keep half the carrots, and half the chopped kale raw in the fridge, and sprinkle on the dog food when serving.

2. Mix in the flavoring agent of choice. In my experience, malta and beer are liked best!

3. Put into a meatloaf pan (or shape it how you like) and bake it at 375 until cooked through (about 30-40 mins)

4. Let it cool and refrigerate it overnight. Serve it cold or just slightly luke warm. Not hot. It has been our experience that hot food makes the dogs have to urinate.