Food proportion for dogs

This a quick and sample guide to help you proportion your dog food when you do homemade meal.
IMPORTANT
Please verify with your veterinarian before you plan changing any diet for your dog because like human, every dogs have different metabolism and some dogs need more then others.

How to proportion homemade meal for dogs?

* 10 pound dog: 4 ounce meat a day, 1 ounces of starch and green veggies unlimited 

* 20 pound dog 8 ounce meat a day, 2 ounces of starch and green veggies unlimited 

* 40 pound dog 12 ounce meat a day, 3 ounces of starch and green veggies unlimited 

* 60 pound dog 1 pound meat a day, 4 ounces of starch and green veggies unlimited 

* 120 pound dog 2 pound of meat a day, 8 ounces of starch and green veggies

unlimited but it always depend on your dog metabolism.

If your dog is over weight and loves to eat it’s always good to feed him a lot of veggies not starchy veggies.

Dog recipes, table food?

Dog food, diet, table food, what is the best?

In this part of my blog I will share what I found to help you feed your doggy healthy, diversity, and super easy to follow. Like human, dogs are also subject to malnutrition, obesity and all kind of issue that is related to the food they eat. Sometime we think,  “it’s expensive food, it must be good, all the advertising said healthy, low fat, no grain etc..” Where do we go from there? Like human, everything have a balance everybody have a different metabolism and digest ingredients differently.

For dogs there is some food DO NOT GIVE TO DOG this is very important to read.

I will had things in my blog for helping you guiding your furry animal to stay the most healthy possible and have variety and suggestions of meal for your dog.

First, if you want to make you dog an homemade meal, the common mistakes people make it forget to add calcium. You must add calcium in your dogs diet. Adult dogs need around 800 to 1,000 mg of calcium per pound of food. The best way I had calcium to my dog food it’s by egg shells. 

The more meat diet food, the more calcium will be required to reach the correct calcium:phosphorus ratio. The meat you cook don’t have the bone so it’s why you need extra calcium in you dogs diet. 

I do ground eggshell  as a calcium supplement. You can rinse eggshells and dry them on a counter or in the oven, then grind them. One large eggshell provides one teaspoon of ground eggshell, which contains 2,000 mg of calcium, so add ½ teaspoon ground eggshell per pound of food fed. Do not  use the eggshells that haven’t been ground to powder, they may not be absorbed well. 

You can also use other types of calcium supplements over the counter and powdered it on top of the food. 

Why feeding homemade food? 

Variety  I believe dog have taste and love variety as much as human does. A homemade meal include a variety of different foods witch is better to feed many different types of meat (beef, lamb, pork, chicken, turkey, fish, etc.), as well as other foods, such as organs, eggs, yogurt, and healthy ingredients. 

Do not feed your dog these ingredients

* DO NOT GIVE TO DOG *
IMPORTANT

Most food is safe for people but are unsafe for dogs. Here are some food you should not feed your dog:

• Garlic and onion: can cause anemia
• Tomatoes, peppers, and eggplant may aggravate arthritis pain and grains and starchy veggies aggravate other forms of inflammation.
• Potatoes: may aggravate arthritis (sweet potato is fine)
• Macadamia nuts: toxic to dogs
• Chocolate and caffeine: toxic to dogs.
• Xylitol, a natural sweetener, very toxic to dogs. Be careful, you can find it in many different type of peanut butter used as sweetener.
• Grapes and raisins: can cause kidney failure. 

Indonesian chicken peanut skewers

Ingredients 

It’s a big recipe but you can cut it in half

4 pounds chicken tenders

1/2 soya sauce

1/3 cup of peanut butter

1/8 of Worcestershire sauce

1/4 cup crush peanuts

2 garlic clove minced

1 tbls minced ginger

2 tbls cumin

2 Thai chili minced 

Mix all ingredient and marinade for 2 hours in the fridge.

Put chicken tender on a skewer leaving space for cooking on a barbecue. 

Cook until done. Easy recipe and easy to serve when you receive visitor at your house. 

Chocolate banana bread

INGREDIENTS

• 3 large ripe bananas 
• 1/3 cup melted butter
• 3/4 cup brown sugar 
• 1 teaspoon salt 
• 1 large egg, beaten
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 1/4 cup all purpose flour
• 1/4 cup natural unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chip
• 1 5x9 loaf pan

Instructions 

* Prepare pan and preheat oven:  Butter the inside of a 5x9-inch loaf pan. Preheat oven at 350f

* Mash bananas: Using a fork to purée bananas.

* Mix all wet ingredients and sugar: Place the banana into a large mixing bowl. Stir the melted butter. Stir in the brown sugar and salt.  Stir in the beaten egg and vanilla extract.
* Mix all dry ingredients: In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, cocoa, baking soda.

* Add the flour mixture to the banana mixture and stir until just incorporated. Stir in the chocolate chips.

* Bake: Pour batter into a buttered loaf pan. Place in a
350°F (175°C) oven and bake for 45 minutes.

One way to test is to gently push the center top of the banana bread down with your finger. If it feels
Mostly firm and bounces back when you release your
finger, that's a sign that it's done.

* cool down: Remove from oven and let cool for 10 minutes in the pan.
Gently remove the loaf from the pan and place on a rack to cool completely.

The art of couponing

Who doesn’t want to save money when you go shopping?

I will share with you the way I’ve been managing to save around $200 a month with couponing. It come with some work. It takes me 2 hours a week just to plan for grocery. My meal planing is done with what is on special this week at the grocery store. I’m not going crazy with the saving because I don’t have that much time. Some people are a lot more experienced then me and please share with me your tricks also to save money. 

First of all, my shopping is mostly done in Texas because it’s where I’m located. Maybe you can find some of those store in other states but I also use some apps that can be use in many other place. 

For today I want to share with you one of my favorite apps. Save money with the app Fetch Rewards. I’ve just made $25 that I can use in my favorite stores. You can use my code   K1MGX and get 2000 point =$2 it’s a free app. You just scan receipt of your groceries shopping and receive point. It’s that simple. What’s really nice about this app is that no matter the receipt you Receive a minimum of 25 points.

https://www.fetchrewards.com

Earthy burger

This is an other to make a burger healthier.
Ingredients

• 1 pound of ground beef
• 1 tbls cumin
• 1 tbls of fresh coriander 
• 1 garlic clove minced
• 1 tsp of ginger
• Salt and pepper
• Bread (any type but I use 10 grain)
• Avocado slice
• Alfalfa sprouts 
• Condiments (mustard, mayo, etc.)

Instruction

Mix the meat with all spices then make patties. Cook the meat in a pan. I toast the bread then add condiments, avocado, and sprouts. Enjoy

Guinea Pig on a leash

We have two beautiful guinea pigs that’s been giving to us by a friend. We have fun with them but you can’t do much with a guinea pig other then pet them, feed them and clean them. I decided to make a leash for them so they can finally go around the house securely. We had so much fun and I could even train the dog to come close and smell.
I made the harness out of fleece then I crochet a little leash to go on it. It worked perfectly. Now we have a new way to entertain these little pets. Both of them seem to enjoyed there new walk around the house.
The white and brown guinea pig is name is Captain Guinea and the brown hairy guinea pig is name is Mister Butt Cheek.

Ham nuggets

Ham Nuggets

1 pound ground ham
5 cooked mashed potatoes mix with just butter salt and pepper
1/4 cup gratted cheddar cheese
5 green onions minced
2 eggs

Mix ham, cheese green onions and one egg together. Make little patties and wrap ham with mashed potato and roll in eggs. Fry in the pan. Very nice recipe for rest of ham. Kids love it too

Beans Canadian style

Ingredients 

• 2 cup of dry red kidney beans
• 1/2 lb salt lard
• 1/4 cup dark brown sugar
• 1/4 cup molasse
• 1 tsp dry mustard
• 1/4 cup ketchup
• Pepper
• 1 tsp salt

Instructions
Clean your bean and be sure there is no rock in it. Cover them in cold water all night in a big bowl (12 hours). Then boil them for 1 hour. Through the water. Preheat oven at 250 f. cut the salt pork in small dice. and put half in a deep high strong pot like (clay pot). add the beans and the rest of the pork. Mix all other ingredient together the poor it on top of the beans. Cover all with warm water. cook in oven for about 7 to 8 hours. Verify the level of water every 2 hours. Just had water if it look too low. 

It's delicious. You can also use smaller beans. But that's good big beans.

Stir fry chicken noodle Chinese style

This is one of my stir fry recipe chinese style. You can modify any ingredients to make it your own. It’s simple when you don’t have a lot of time to cook, always do a stir fry with soya sauce and hoisin sauce.
Ingredients
1 pound of chicken breast cubed (can be any protein)
4 cups of frozen veggies (can be fresh also) it was carrots, broccoli and cauliflower.
2 cups of fresh bok choy
1 cup bean sprout
2 Thai chili minced
1 garlic clove minced
3 green onions
1 tbls minced ginger
2 tbls fresh basil leaves
2 pack of ramen noodle style. (I use the pre-cooked rice noodle package)
3 tbls sauce sauce
2 tbls hoisin sauce.

Instructions
The best advice for stir fry it’s to prep everything before you start your wok. Also the cooking order of the veggies is very very important (who wants a soggy bok choy 🥬)
First sauté garlic, green onion, pepper, ginger in oil for 1 min, add chicken and frozen veggies and add half soya sauce. Sauté until chicken is almost cooked then add bok choy. Sauté another 2 minutes
Then add bean sprout and the cooked noodle, add all the sauce, mix really well, finish your touch with cut fresh basil and it’s ready to eat. It’s a recipe that is easy to modify just don’t forget not all vegetable have the same cooking time.

Sausage and bean casserole

Ingredients

• 6 sausages (Italian or polish style) 
• 4 carrots chopped
• 1 can of white bean rinsed
• 3 green onions chopped
• 1 garlic clove minced
• 1 cup of white wine
• 1 tbls of fresh tarragon 
• 1 tbls of butter
• 1/4 chicken broth
• Salt and pepper

Instructions 

Sauté green onions and garlic in a pan with butter. Add carrots and sausages until cooked, add broth to help cooking. Take the sausage and carrots out the pan, set aside. At medium high heat, add the wine in the pan with broth and reduce it to haft. Add all of the ingredients in the pan for 2 min just to add all the flavor. Quick and easy recipe that we all enjoyed.

Stuffed vegetarian zucchini

Ingredients

• 1 pound of beyond beef (it’s not beef) You can use any type of ground meat if you don’t want to make it vegetarian. See below for the picture of beyond beef. 
• 4 zucchini cut in half lengthwise and empty the seed
• 1/2 cup of grated Asiago cheese (you can also change it for any other cheese or a vegan cheese)
• 2 tbsp chopped sun dry tomato
• 2 tbsp pine nuts (I used chopped pumpkin seed)
• 2 green onions chopped
• 1 garlic clove minced
• 1 tbsp of Italian herbs
• Salt and pepper 

Instructions 

Preheat oven at 400f. Clean and cut zucchini lengthwise then empty the middle to make place for stuffing. Heat butter or oil in a pan then sauté onion and garlic for 2 minutes. Add the ground meat and sauté for 5 minutes then mix all of the other ingredients. Stuffed The zucchini then cook in the oven for 15 min. It’s delicious 😋 

Oatmeal curry soup

INGREDIENTS 

• 1/2 cup steel cut oats
• 1 cup of tomato diced 
• 1 tsp cumin (ground fresh seed)
• 1 tsp coriander (ground fresh seed)
• 1 tbsp fresh ginger 

• 1 tsp salt (use as needed)
• 1/2 tsp red chilli powder or red Thai paste
• 3 green onions (chopped)
• 2 garlic cloves minced
• 1 cup chicken broth
• 1/2 cup heavy cream

Instructions

Put all ingredients in a saucepan except the cream. Cook all ingredients at medium heat for 30 minutes. Use a blender to mix the soup then add heavy cream. Enjoy with naan bread! 

Oatmeal cold cherry breakfast

Breakfast cold cherry oatmeal

1/3cup oatmeal
1/3 cup chopped cherry
1/3 mini chocolate chip
2/3 cup milk
  Mix all ingredients and refrigerate overnight then enjoy your breakfast.

Moroccan style chicken dish

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup chopped green onions  
• 1 cup chicken broth
• 2 garlic cloves minced
• 3 carrots sliced
• 2 Tbsp olive oil
• 1 tbsp fresh chopped mint
• 1 tsp coriander seed (or ground)
• 1 tsp cumin seed (or ground)
• 1 tsp salt
• 3 lbs chicken legs (or any part of chicken with bones
• 1 cup cubed potatoes

Instructions (use a Tagine, slow cooker or high skillet)

* Tagine is Moroccan dishes that is use for slow-cooked savory stews.

1. On the bottom of the tagine dish place the green onions, carrots, and garlic. Place chicken pieces on top and season with the spices. Pour over the olive oil. Add roughly 1 cup of chicken broth.
2. Cover and cook over medium heat for about 1 hour. Check for doneness. The chicken should be tender and easy to get of the bones. You may have to remove some broth as you go if it starts to run over the sides. 
3. Drain potatoes and add then to the chicken. Cover and continue to 
   cook for another 20 minutes or until the potatoes are ready.
4. Serve with couscous or rice.
   
   
   
   
   
   

Middle East meat balls kofta recipe

Middle East meat balls kofta recipe

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoons fresh parsley chopped
• 1 tablespoon fresh mint minced
• 6 cloves garlic minced
• 1 1/2 teaspoons of salt
• 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
• 2 tablespoons ground coriander (fresh ground is better)
• 2 teaspoons ground cumin
• 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
• 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
• 2 pounds ground beef
• 1/3 cup green onions

Mix all ingredients and make balls about size of golf balls. It’s better cook on a barbecue grill but on the stove it’s also good.

Meat pie recipe (Quebec)

• Meat pie (Tourtière du Québec)
• This recipe is originated in Quebec, mostly south. Tourtière is a traditional French Canadian Christmas and New Years dish. This recipe is very big and makes about 5 pies so maybe you can just cut it in half.
• Have a look for the Pie Dough Recipe

• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 10 green onions, diced
• 2 garlic cloves, minced
• 10 pounds ground beef
• 3 pounds ground pork
• 2 cup small cubed potatoes 
• 1 teaspoons cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon cloves
• 2 tablespoons salt
• 5 tablespoons fresh thyme
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1. Preheat oven to 375˚F.
2. Heat a pot set to medium high. Add the oil, green onion and garlic, sauté for 1 min.
3. Add ground beef and pork and cook until no longer pink, breaking up the meat into small pieces.
4. Add cubed potatoes and spices.
5. Cook for about 40 min.
6. Cool off
7. Place filling in the bottom crust (pie dough recipe) in a 9-inch pie plate. Fill the crust with meat and add the top with remaining pie crust.
8. Seal the two crusts together, rolling to one over the other if needed, and press gently with a fork or fingers. Brush the top crust with milk wash.
9. Bake for 45 minutes or until the pie crust is golden brown in color.
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Pie dough recipe

Pie Dough

5 1/2 cup of flour
1 tsp of salt
4 tsp of baking powder
1 lb shortening COLD
1 egg
1 tbsp white vinegar
1 can of 7up very COLD

* First in a bowl beat eggs and vinegar together then add 7up. Put back in the fridge.
* In a large bowl mix flour baking powder and salt. Add shortening and with 2 big forks cut in little pieces in to the flour. You have to go fast. Then go with your hand to mix the graise with the flour until you reach the point where it look like big peas.
* Make a holl in the middle of the flour and pour haft of the 7up mixture. Fold the flour in to it with a fork the add the reste of the 7up. Mix all the flour, sometimes it's easy with your hand. If there's still flour loose, take a little bit of very cold water to help mix it. It will be a very sticky dough.
* DO NOT Manipulate your dough to much. Just put it in the fridge wrapped inside cold humide dish cloth.
* Put in the fridge for at least  2 hours but it's better if it's stay overnight. The dough will be easy to roll. It can be freeze easy too.
* It make around 5 pie of 9 inch.

I love this recipe. It's easy and my dough was perfect and flaky. Love it so much!

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