| Level: | Easy |
| Total: | 40 min |
| Prep: | 25 min |
| Cook: | 15 min |
| Yield: | this recipe serves 1 large dog for a month |
Ingredients
- 2 pounds ground turkey
- 3/4 ground beef
- 2 tablespoons bone meal
- 1 tablespoon fenugreek
- 1 1/2 tablespoons chopped fresh rosemary leaves, use less if dried
- 1/4 cup marigold petals
- 1 cup roughly chopped parsley leaves
- 2 apples, or 8 ounces fruit, no grapes or raisins, roughly chopped
- 1 squash, roughly chopped
- 2 carrots, roughly chopped
- 1 cup broccoli florets
- 1 cup dandelion greens
- 1/2 pound haddock, chopped into 1-inch squares
- 1/4 pound beef heart, chopped into 1-inch squares
- 1/4 pound liver, chopped into 1-inch squares
- 1/4 pound kidney, chopped into 1-inch squares
- 1/4 pound gizzards, chopped into 1-inch squares
- 1/4 pound beef fat, chopped into 1-inch squares
- 4 eggs
- 1/2 cup olive oil
- 4 cloves pressed garlic
- 1/2 cup dried organic seaweed, soaked and strained to remove the salt
- 2 cups chicken or beef stock, optional
Instructions
- Put ground turkey and beef into a large mixing bowl. In a separate bowl combine bone meal, fenugreek, rosemary, marigold petals, and parsley, and mix well. Combine with the meat mixture. Use a food processor to grate apples, squash, and carrots. Add broccoli florets and dandelion greens and mix well. Add to the meat mixture. Combine haddock, beef heart, liver, kidney, gizzards, and beef fat and mix well. Add to the meat mixture. Combine eggs, olive oil, pressed garlic, and seaweed and mix well. Add to the meat mixture and thoroughly mix all the ingredients with your hands.
- Recipe can be served as is to dogs that are accustomed to a raw diet. Otherwise make patties and poach them in chicken or beef stock.
- To serve either raw or poached, put a generous helping of recipe into dog bowl, add 1 cup of high quality, meat based kibble, 1 egg, 2 to 3 tablespoons of olive oil, and supplement with super foods: digestive enzymes, probiotics, co-enzyme q10, and wild blue green algae.
- Recipe can be made ahead and stored frozen in 1 week-sized containers.
Reviews
The reason why most vets are opposed to raw diets is because they do not get any training in dog nutrition when they go to vet school, and if they do get training, it is sponsored by the kibble companies. Dogs have been eating kibble only in the last 50 years or so, so I wonder what they ate before kibble was invented.
I agree that kibble and raw should NOT be fed at the same meal, although it is okay to feed them as separate meals. It takes longer for kibble to digest and all of the digestive enzymes and acids focus more on the kibble, essentially leaving the raw food to sit in the gut and rot.
Feeding cooked bones is a no-no, although if the bones are pressure cooked, that is fine because the pressure cooker will soften the bones up a lot. Just make sure you go through the bones first and make sure there aren’t any sharp bones that haven’t softened.
2 apples, or 8 ounces fruit, NO GRAPES OR RAISINS, roughly chopped
The recipe actually feeds 2 large dogs for a month.
NO GRAPES OR RAISINS!
The proof is in the pudding and I have 2 dogs who have been eating like this for a long time. Soscha will be 16 in May and was 115 lbs in his prime and still walks a mile or 2 every day. Bunny was 12 (70 lbs, average) at Christmas and most people think he is 6 or 7. We have few if any vet bills.
I feed lots of garlic and also occasional onions (my left overs). If you are feeding kibble, please consider the labeling laws – this is much like a what we find in the bottled water and all food and supplement industries – you have to trust WHOM you are buying these products from. I supplement with Orijens. I know they were recalled in Australia but that food was irradiated upon entrance to the country – a policy I consider dangerous under any conditions – basically a catch up for poor growing and processing practices that are below rudimentary and common sense standards. Irradiation also changes the molecular structure of particles including nutrients, perhaps most profoundly fats. They are designed to accommodate Big Ag and corporate dollars. This is not about ‘safety’ or ‘good practices’ but about profits – lots on that, but I will leave you to your own research.
Some errors in the piece but overall the message remains in tact which is FEED REAL FOOD to yourself and your animals. That will require some research on your part because the FDA and USDA is working largely on behalf of the monied interests and NOT for you or I. I am currently working with the Real Food Campaign, helping to promote Nutrient Dense Farming practices.
I hope you and your animals are all well and enjoying every day – A LOT!
If you would like to email me, please use gianni@gianniortiz.com.
Best,
Gianni