"Dog Food"

I've been experimenting with a recipe for dog food that I found on a blog called down--to--earth. It has minced (ground) beef, lentils, pasta, rice, vegetables, water, I'm not sure what else. No onions, she says.

I've tried making several variations on her recipe now. And I keep tasting my experiments myself and find that this "dog food" is good!

My first recipe was rice, chopped up chuck roast (because it was actually cheaper that day), green beens and a few tomatoes. Both of my dogs ate it willingly. I liked it too.

Second recipe lentils, rice and green beans. I liked that pretty well. One dog wouldn't eat it. I suspect he only eats veggies if they taste like meat!

Third recipe, surprising to me, a combinations of about 1 lb. macaroni noodles, a package of lentils and a can of chopped tomatoes. I loved it. This was the first surprise. And then I discovered that when I offered it to my veggie eating doggie she loved it and ate it before eating the dried dogfood I usually feed my dogs, my second surprise!

I read up on it a bit and found out that dogs shouldn't eat onions, mushrooms, chocolate (I knew that already), and several other things. There are some differences of opinion on certain things like broccoli, garlic and avocados.

Home prepared dog food, you and your dog can eat!