Is there an app that offers recipes, cooking tips, and a nutrition calculator?

I'm considering home made dog food. My 4 year old rat terrier/cattle dog mix is my best friend. I eat a whole food diet because I hate ultra processed foods. Why should my dog suffer from bad food. I want her around as long as possible and healthy too. She's such a ball of energy and so smart. I don't want to see the sad look in her eyes when she can't play like she use to.

I ordered a set of 2 silicone training treat molds from Amazon (very cheap), made these from pumpkin, frozen bluebs, oat flour, 2 eggs, and some almond butter. Sprayed some avocado oil down first on the mold (for all I know it wouldn't have stuck anyway), and they fell right out. I was hoping to get them crispy but not sure how to do that. They are a bit spongy but very solid. The dogs love them! These are .8 cal per treat but next time I will use more oat flour and less almond butter. Might try sunflower butter. Trying to get them down to maybe .7 cals per treat or less. One recipe made 1188 treats! Way cheaper than buying! Will use these to snuffle and in their treat-dispensing toys. I wanted them crunchier so I put them all back on a baking sheet in a 170 degree oven for a while until they were a bit more dehydrated.

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1 cup pumpkin

1/2 cup oat flour (I could have used more)

2 eggs

maybe 1/2 cup frozen blueberries, might have poured in a bit more

1/3 cup almond butter microwaved with some water to thin, but next time I'll use less, I didn't realize how many cals it has!

Blended up and spread in the treat molds, baked at 350 for 15-20 mins but you could try longer.

How do we feel about Zesty Paws products?

Hey everyone new to this sub and new to homemade making. I moved countries to America and all the dog food has made her incredibly sick. So decided to make her food in the mean time and started slow with the basics beef and brown rice and then veggies, carrots broccoli cauliflowers and pumpkin.

I would like to continue doing this as her energy has highly increased from pre moving and sickness.

I am looking for a chart that shows what each food group is and which pertains to what and portioning size. I know the basics I listed are not enough long term and I need to also add more. My dog is also an extremely picky eater unfortunately, so I'm looking for different supplements for omega oils, she hates fish.

I tried looking for it on the group home page and couldn't find it, possibly because I'm on mobile?

Anyways, glad to find this community and start looking through the recipes.

Hopefully someone knows where I can find a chart like this. Thanks!

I found all the details online to dehydrate chicken paws in my slow cooker. I bought the dehydrating racks for the slow cooker and now that they’re here and I have paws, I can’t find the info anywhere.

I assume cooker should be on low (oven doesn’t go low enough to cook without making the paws dangerous to eat) but do I need to add anything other than oil to the paws (light oil?) and how long does it need to cook?

I can’t find the info anywhere, now. Help me Reddit, you’re my only hope!

Hi all

My 2 year old corgi just had HGE and went to the vet for a few days. She had a reoccurrence last week. I want to start her a new homemade diet for her stomach issues. I think we need low fat options. She loves boiled ground turkey!! So far we are giving her turkey, rice, and pumpkin. What are some essential nutrients to give her/some more things to add in?

Thank you!

What are peoples' thoughts on including bones/ground bones? What are the pros? I know the cons are choking hazards.

Thanks!

Hi there, I have a mini dachshund recovering from IVDD who needs stimulation and to get his energy out. He was very very active before and has gained a couple of pounds since this happened :( The snuffle mats and the silicone balls they push around that dispense treats work well, but as we have 3 dogs, this is costing me a lot in buying the training treats! I have to do it for all three of them. I use the lowest cal ones I can find which are 1.5 or 2 cals per treat. I thought of buying the silicone baking mat with 468 half-inch treat holes, and just making my own. Anyone know any good recipes that dogs love that are around a calorie or 2 per treat, that can be made cheap? I also wonder how this compares to the number of calories in one kibble. I will often mix the kibble with the little treats in the dispensers and they seem fine with that. Since veggies are low cal I thought I could mix lots of veg in with the other stuff but I would like to bake them so they are hard and can go in the snuffle mats and dispensers. Thanks for advice!

[edit] - sorry, I should clarify he didn’t stop eating, but has gotten very picky with his food. He is not sick. Sorry for the misleading title. We’re just looking to make his food more appetizing :)

Hey guys!

So my dog (about to turn 11) has been getting homemade food now for around 7 years-ish. He’s an Anatolian shepherd mix and he’s around 80lb. The recipe has always been the same:

• 5-6 chicken feet
• 1 lb ground beef
• 1 lb chicken liver
• 1 lb chicken gizzards
• 2 cups brown rice
• 2 cups lentils
• 1.5-2ish cups green beans
• 2 tbsp salt

That gets cooked in an instant pot for 50 min, then we add:

• 1 can (16oz pumpkin)
• 2/3 cup psyllium husk (for fiber)
• 1 tbsp egg shell powder

This food usually lasts him about 4-5 days and he’s always had no trouble eating it.

Recently tho, he started getting very picky and not eating it sometimes. So we tried experimenting by adding more meat, swapping the lentils for carrots, celery, kale, and/or peas, adding oregano, cooking it in bone broth, etc.

He would eat the first batch of “new food” we made but then go back to not wanting to eat it. At this point we’ve probably tried 10-15 different recipes in the last 2-3 months. We’re not sure what it could be. The spices like oregano? Not enough meat? Too many veggies? The wrong veggies? Are his macros and micros okay?

(The ones we’ve cooked in homemade bone broth and added more meat to he’s loved, but that’s expected. We can’t always made homemade broth because of time and we can only give him so much meat before it gets too pricey)

Looking for some input on what we could be doing wrong before we totally give up. We are just getting discouraged at this point…

My husband and I have been together 6 years, he came into our relationship with a beautiful husky who will be 9 in January. When she was a puppy, she had a lot of allergy issues and the vet recommended chicken and rice which worked incredibly well. He's been feeding her that ever since -- about 1/4-1/2 cup cooked chicken breast and maybe 1/2 cup white rice (we cook one cup uncooked rice and split it, so I don't know the cooked volume). We feed her this twice a day. A year or 2 ago I convinced him to add in some extra fiber (about 1-2 table spoons carrots) because my darling step dogger was constantly having the runs. This definitely helped at the time. We swap out chicken breast for thigh or ground beef sometimes but not often. The last year or so I chop up 1 tbsp of kale or spinach once every couple weeks.

I'm worried about her in her old age. She is having joint issues and is pretty "husky" for a husky and has always been low energy, in a breed that's famous for high energy. I decided to do more research on what she should be eating and now, quite frankly, I'm a little worried that she could have a lot of deficiencies. But at the same time I'm like, if it ain't broke don't fix it?

I'm completely overwhelmed by the amount of information out here, even on this subreddit which I've been pouring over for hours. All I am looking for is a simple breakdown of macros so that I can tweak what we've been feeding her.

Here's what I put in a recipe analyzer just to see what she's been eating.

So TLDR: We've been feeding our dog homemade almost her entire life and she's ~fine~ but I want to make sure she's better than just fine. What is a good macro breakdown I should be targeting when building a recipe?

Note: I know what we are doing (pictured) is not aligned at all with what I've read on here so please don't yell at me. My husband has always been in charge of this and I just decided to take a deeper interest recently which is how I've learned we are slacking.

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Anything I’m missing? And would I still need to add offal since it has beef liver heart and kidney?

Over the past few years, my senior dog has become increasingly pickier. I've found the best nutritional combination is a kibble/cooked combo - she gobble it down and low-ish effort for me. Therefore, I don't need the fresh portion to be perfectly balanced.

I'm looking for a chicken-based recipe that checks these boxes:

1) Simple to make - very minimal prep, small ingredient list, throw everything in a crockpot

2) Nutrient dense - well-rounded ingredient list (bonus if they help senior dogs)

3) Flavorful - tastes good!

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With all that in mind, here are some ingredients I'm considering:

Protein: chicken (low fat, cheap), egg, chicken liver

Starch: brown rice, oats, sweet potato

Veggie: zucchini, red pepper, green bean, carrots, spinach

Other: broth, missing link joint powder

What recipe would you recommend that is simple and affordable? Proper ratios & portions to last 2 weeks (2 cups a day)?

For those who meal prep - How are you portioning? By weight? How do you store it? I would like to be able to find easy solutions to meal prepping. Right now I’m using freezer bags but would like to cut down on the waste.

I've used pork and chicken as the primary protein source for homemade dog food, and so far so good. It's rounded out with veggies and fruits, some supplemental stuff like eggshells and turmeric, etc. I'm interested in trying a seafood recipe.

Aside from wild salmon, any other fish sources people recommend? I was thinking catfish might be good as it's low in mercury and still high in omega 3s, not to mention it's pretty cheap comparatively.

Any thoughts on which fish to use and which to avoid?

Do u give ur pups raw or dried ears? With hair or without? Thanks

Hey guys! i’m wanting to make some dehydrated coconut chicken jerky for my dogs.

we currently do tumeric chicken and “chicken nuggets” (shredded coconut on diced chicken) And i’m wondering how do i do chicken jerky WITH liquid coconut?

is it the same as shredded where i lightly apply before dehydrating!?

Im asking because i thought i was in a good range because i thought actually my carb level was a bit high for homemade foods but a good happy medium between super high protein expensive homemade food and cheap high carb store bought but when I googled it again tonight it said 43% protein is not good and now I'm wondering because I don't know 😭 the numbers are the amount I calculated in grams though i don't have a kitchen scale available atm so I just took the servings on the package and multiplied them by the amount of servings it says is in the package and got these rough estimates, for reference this is 3 packs of ground chicken, 1 pack of frozen spinach, 1½ cups of natural brown long grain rice (dry), and 1 bag of shredded carrots, i put them all in a big pan, mix it up with enough water to hydrate the rice and to keep the other ingredients soft as my oldest dog's teeth are now not very useful or many, this is about 6 or more days worth for my 3 dogs, 11lbs, 13lbs, and 15lbs, my oldest dog is the 11lb one and I feed her almost as much as the other 2 combined because she's not holding as much weight as she used to and shes actually taller than them and I try to keep the other 2s' servings per day at 2% their body weight or sometimes a little less because they're actually slightly overweight like plump little sausages almost, if any additional info is needed ask away, but what do yall think is this percentage a good amount? Overall does it look like a good amount of everything? Thanks in advance

Could someone please help me figure out the break down of carb/fat/protein etc..

I am trying to make food for my 8 month old GSD + Standard Poodle mix. He is around 68lb now.

I have been banging my head for a day now trying to figure this out. How many OZ of protein, carbs, fats and other stuff I need to feed him per day?

When I look up, e.g., protein I get like 70 grams (1g per pound of body weight), which is ~2.5oz!! That seems way to low to me. What am I missing here?

I have a 2 year old papillon-border collie mix with sensitive teeth and a sensitive stomach. He gets diarrhea with food besides freeze-dried food, but it is SO expensive.

We are going to be making his food from now on, and started with chicken, brown rice, mixed vegetables (carrots, peas and corn), and pumpkin. He loved it and seemed to have good energy, but I want to make sure that the ratios are right so he is getting the right nutrients.

Anyone have an amazing recipe for a 17 pound dog to keep him super healthy?

Thank you SO much!!

Hey fellow dog parents! 👋

I've been feeding my pup some high-quality gently processed food (think Farmer's Dog style) and now I'm looking to level up their diet with some offal.

Quick questions for the community:

• What offal do you guys feed your dogs?
• Do you serve it cooked or raw?
• How often do you include it in their meals?

I'm thinking of aiming for about 5-10% offal in the diet - probably gonna rotate between beef heart, liver, and maybe some tripe.

Any tips or personal experiences would be awesome! Thanks in advance for helping me out.

Long story short, my family has a crap ton of beef (a very scarily large amount) and I was wondering if anyone has some good recipes for homemade dog treats that use beef? We mostly have ground beef so I'd prefer to use that if possible.

What are your thoughts/experience with different multivitamin additives? Azestfor vs. nupro vs canine complete? Or any others you have had good results with.

Just got into making homemade dog food after I did the math on farmers dog vs making it myself. Here's the recipe that I use:

1 cup (dry) brown rice 1 can mixed vegetables 1 lb of uncooked chicken(thigh or ground beef or breast) Beef broth

Is there any essentials that I'm not adding that a dog needs? This is very price effective at less than a dollar per meal

I got a great fish oil and its causing my yorkie diarrhea, gave her such a tiny bit. Then i was like maybe flax for omegas and it said that may not be any better. Will this get better? Is there another source of omegas I can give her? Please help. so stressed. Do I keep giving her the fish oil in the hopes it resolves. ?

I make my dog food in relatively large batches, and would love to find a way to freeze/store without using plastic. Glass is great but can get very heavy and can break. Has anyone found other options with a lower environmental impact than plastic?

Thanks in advance.

I have been trying to utilize this site. It gives the options of human supplements but micro-dosing them (is this ok?). Like for instance, according to my recipe I created, my dog needs some extra iron, b12 and choline. I ordered the human vitamins from pure encapsulations so there are no extra ingredients etc. And I plan on crushing them up and microdosing down. Is this okay? It does say to use canola oil (i have decided against seed oils), not sure if that will affect the calories? It said to also use Nordic oil, but I Just ordered a fish oil that is IFOS approved . So that is where I am. I am disabled and trying to do the best I can for a homemade diet. My dog has ground up chicken, sirloin steak, lamb with pumpkin squash carrots and broccoli and butternut squash with shitake mushroom, banana blueberry. Shes a bit underweight, i'm chalking it up to the lack of canola oil (and the fact that I am not doing rice or potatoes) but I do have that fish oil on the way and started her on the human iron yesterday. I am so stressed out. Based on what I said, am I on the right track? Requesting help from a gentle soul out there . . . . .