Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Homemade Dog Food




We were watching a Chopped rerun, episode “Crunch Time” where the winner of that battle was Madison Cowan. He has a really cook accent, looked him up on the internet and found he had a webpage. I was curious and was looking around it. In the blog portion of it he was talking about making his pup some food.

We just happened to be low on dog food. I had all the ingredients and decided to give it a try. Here is the recipe.

Pour 2 1/2 cups of oats into 3 1/2 cups of boiling water, stir to thicken and remove from the heat. Sprinkle on 2 tsp of powdered chicken stock, crack in an egg; add 1 chopped apple and a handful of shredded cheese. Stir and allow to cool for 5 minutes. This makes an exceptionally healthy, satisfying and cost effective substitute until his regular kibble comes in.

We made it and our dog loved it. There were some things I will do differently; I will chop the apple up in to much smaller pieces. When it got down to the end my dog would “spit” out some of the apple when the oats were getting low. I think next time I am also going to try it with beef stock. I didn’t have any otherwise I would have done that this time, my dog is sensitive to chicken. Another alternative will be to make this with rice instead of oats.

So, what do you think?

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