Recipe: How to make your dogs healthy through making their food instead of buying.

The recipe in images below is something a little different from normal recipe posts.  It is dog food, based originaly on an idea from Hive account@jennswall Hive account@finleyexp Hive account@apothecae , who had been feeding their dog this type of diet for some time.  My two Bedlington Terriers had bad breath and released 'aromas' shall we say from the other end too.  I could not get the food they were used to in England, here in Spain, and their diet here obviously had an 'adverse' effect on them.  My friends'recipe was good but as I am won't to do, I have significantly changed it, so here is my dog food recipe in images:

Firstly, get some liver.  This is a pack of pigs liver from the supermarket.  It cost me 1.40 Euros

Cut up into bite size pieces and put into a large pan.

Add a couple of handfulls of lentils.  Put on heat and saute.

Meanwhile, save all of your vegetables which are a little 'iffy'. Also the roots of vegetables and other vegetables you have spare.

Chop up to bite size pieces.

Add to the pan along with the liver and lentils and stir together.

Sweat the vegetable and meat mixture a little, then fill the pan with boiling water.

Cook until the lentils and vegetables begin to soften.  The water will take on flavour from the liver and vegetables.

Measure out two cups of rice.  I use the cheapest long grain rice I can buy.

Add the rice to the pan and stir well.  Put a pan lid on top.

Cook for about 5 minutes until the rice starts to swell and take up some of the cooking liquid.

Take the pan off the heat and put the lid back on.  Cover with a cloth and leave for half an hour or so.

The rice will have absorbed all of the liquid and cooked through.  

Stir well to make sure the meat and vegetables are dispersed equally amongst the rice.

When cooler, transfer the rice into plastic lidded containers suitable for freezing.  This amount of rice made 6 containers of dog food.  One container is sufficient for both my dogs, fed twice a day.  I quarter each container and they get 1/4 at each meal. I freeze the rest but always have one out in the fridge to use daily.  I take a frozen one out to thaw for use the next day.  This pan makes 5 days food for two dogs!

They absolutely love it.  It is healthy, no added salt or preservatives, and, best of all, their breath no longer smells.  Niether does the other end!  They are healthy and their teeth look a lot cleaner too.

Give this a try.  I make the mixture twice a week.  Apart from chopping the liver and vegetables, it is not a labour intensive recipe; and will save you money too.

Until the next time, Adios Amigos from 'sunny' Spain. X