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