VET APPROVED HOMEMADE HEALTHY DOG FOOD RECIPE | COOKING FOR YOUR DOG | PART 2

[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] all right boys and girls bentley where are you are you guys ready to make some homemade dog food are you ready bentley blissey looks like she's ready are you ready to make your homemade dog food and show everybody all right let's get it started hey guys welcome back to my channel okay lizzy you want to come on too come on come on in today's video i'm going to be sharing with you guys another homemade dog food recipe if you guys missed part one you definitely want to check out that video i talk about why i switch my dogs over to homemade dog food and what it has done for them you guys remember that video if you're coming back from part one lissy was six pounds in that video and how do you guys see her she is about three pounds now and she has been on only homemade dog food since we brought her home right blissey girl ready bailey you want to come say hi come on baby come on you guys remember bentley too love it here's bentley he's doing well billy has put on quite a bit of weight since that last video he was about eight and a half pounds now he is a perfect nine pounder he's no longer malnourished so we are so excited about that right if you hear a little foot pause walking around those are my dogs that are walking around they know that i'm getting ready to make their homemade dog food so i want to share another recipe with you guys i got so many requests to share another recipe i have been feeding my dogs so many different variations of homemade dog food so i thought in today's video i can share another variation now my last homemade dog video has over a hundred thousand views you guys so thank you so much if you watch that video so if you have not checked out that video i share so much information about why i switched over supplements i add to my homemade dog food and all of those details this video is going to be a second recipe i'm going to be sharing i'm also going to be answering some highly requested questions that i got in that last video but i figured a lot of you guys are just coming over for the recipe so i'm going to be sharing the recipe first and then after we have the recipe cooking up then i'm going to go ahead and answer some of the most common questions i got in that video all right so for this homemade dog food recipe i'm going to be sharing with you guys all the ingredients you are going to need one apple make sure you wash it very well you're going to need one bag of these frozen green beans you can also use fresh as well it's 12 ounces you're also going to need some broccoli i'm using 12 ounces of some frozen broccoli all of this you can use fresh or frozen whatever works for you i'm using five cups of some frozen spinach i am using four carrots and i'm actually going to be keeping at the skin on these carrots so many of you guys commented that i could keep the skin on so thank you for sharing that tip i just washed them very well so i'm not going to be taking the skin off of them in this video you're also going to be needing a couple of tablespoons of some extra virgin olive oil um you're going to need about five to six pounds of some ground beef this one is about 5. 27 pounds i tried to get a pack that is six pounds but they didn't have one at my grocery store this time so about between five and six pounds of a protein will work you can use beef you can use turkey you can use chicken as long as it's ground that would be a really good meat source for your dog and then also we are going to be using some good ol brown rice so this is everything that you're going to need for the recipe i will leave all of the ingredients and the exact measurements found in the description box for you guys so the great thing about this recipe is you can buy literally everything frozen you can buy the carrots already frozen so that way you don't have to chop it up and i'm going to be using an instant pot for this recipe a lot has changed since my last video and i didn't even say that in the intro we obviously are in a new home now so we just recently moved a few weeks ago also i upgraded to the 10 quart instant pot and that has been a game changer and my first homemade dog food recipe i use the six quart and i couldn't fit nearly as much as i'm able to fit now and it has been so helpful in making homemade dog food because i can make so much more so i strongly recommend if you're going to invest in an instant pot to invest in a 10 quart one because you'll be able to make so much more but i just have my washed um carrots on my cutting board i also have an apple now you want to be very careful when you're chopping your apple because the seeds can be very harmful for your dog so you want to make sure you don't include any of the apple seeds in there so i just cut the end off of my carrot and i chop it in half lengthwise and then i chop it in half again we are going to be pressure cooking this so you don't need to get it too small because we are going to be mashing it and you will see how that turns out when we have everything in instant pot [Music] so i have all of my ingredients prepped out and we are ready to make this recipe i'm laughing because my dogs are watching me from their dog beds i had to kind of move them out the way because they knocked over one of my lighting thank god that's okay but we're gonna go ahead and get started i did want to say again this is a 10 quart instant pot i will link it down below i got it from amazon highly highly recommend this you do not have to make this recipe in an instant pot you can also make it in a crock pot you can do a 10 quart crock pot it will take about eight hours on low six hours on high which you choose to do i love the instant pot because it is done so fast now when we added the ingredients into the instant pot it's very important that you do it the way i'm doing in this video so you don't get that burn signal if you just add it in no particular order it will burn so i'm going to share with you guys what you add first so the first thing you're going to add is you want to add that carrot and apple mixture just dump that right in at the instant pot and then now we're going to go ahead and add our frozen vegetables so you are going to be using and you can use fresh like i said whatever works for you sometimes i use fresh sometimes i use frozen i like frozen because it's already been washed for you which is one less step you just dump it in so this is a 12 ounce bag just dump the whole contents inside the instant pot and then the same thing with the green beans these are cut green beans and this is a 12 ounce bag as well dump it in the next thing that you want to add is your frozen spinach this is five cups of some frozen spinach you can also use fresh i like frozen better than fresh while i buy it fresh and then i freeze it and the reason why is i can really press it down and it doesn't take up as much room in the instant pot so you're able to get a lot in this instant pot versus when you use fresh it takes up a lot of space so this is five cups i take my fingers and i press it down all the way down all right so now for the brown rice i do buy mine in bulk from amazon you can also buy them bolt from costco i get it for a very good price so i will link the exact one that i use below but i use about three cups of brown rice and you just put that right on top of the spinach and now for the beef so this is about 5. 27 like i said i usually get six pounds but five to six pounds will work perfect for this recipe you can use any variation of meat you want sometimes i use beef sometimes i use turkey chicken my dogs like it all i will say a beef is their favorite combination so i use beef for the most part i'm just kind of chopping it up a little bit so it can go in the instant pot it can fit this recipe fits perfectly in the 10 quart instant pot you will have no leftover space so you won't be able to use much more than this now this is way over the fill line but i promise you guys it will still cook the reason why it's kind of rised up is because the spinach takes up a lot of space but it cooks down so much that it will only stay this high for a few minutes in an instant pot it will be completely fine so i take my hands and i press the meat mixture down everything down in here so it's you can shut the lid and then i'm going to wash my hands and we'll continue the rest all right now that we have everything pressed in the instant pot i'm going to go ahead and add two tablespoons of some olive oil you can also do fish oil i always switch my oils i did coconut oil in my original recipe i did fish oil last week i also do olive oil they're all great sources of a good healthy fat so i do about two tablespoons and then after you add your oil you're going to go ahead and add three cups of water you want to make sure you add water so that way your food doesn't burn at the bottom and i just pour it all around you don't need to add more than three cups because remember spinach has so much water in it already so you don't want to make it too soupy so three cups i find is like the perfect amount and then you're just going to go ahead and put the top on your instant pot all right so everything is in the instant pot and we are all ready to rock this takes about 25 minutes in the instant pot i will say you can also use frozen meat i will just increase the time by 10 to 15 minutes so i'll do 35 to 40 minutes i'm using frozen beef but i had it fresh this day so let's go ahead and get this started and then i will answer all of the questions you guys have been asking me in my first homemade dog food video so you want to make sure you hit the pressure cook button and it's set at 35 minutes because i made it yesterday and i used frozen meat so i'm going to go ahead and change that to 25 minutes and we will let this heat up it does take about 5-10 minutes to heat up to temperature and then the countdown will start from there hey hey all right guys so we have the food in the instant pot it is cooking up i have my dogs here excited for it to finish so i got so many questions in that last video i think i had like 700 comments okay let's go and pick you up all right all right all right let's see girl hey girl what okay all right you want to get down or you don't know what you want to do all right all right and so many of you guys asked me like the same question so i wrote them down and i thought i would answer it in this video to be helpful listen your food is cooking it's coming okay it'll be here very soon all right so the first question that i got asked so much is how much dog food do i feed my dogs how do i know how much i should hey hey hey so i did get all of my measurements from my veterinarian and we're very fortunate that our veterinarian also has her dogs on a homemade dog food so she did provide a lot of insight which helped me create this recipe the last recipe and it also got me exact serving sizes for my dogs so unfortunately i'm not going to be able to give you your exact serving size it really depends on your dog breed your dog's weight your dog's activity level and also their prior health so if they have health issues obviously they may be on a different kind of diet i will say if you go to your veterinarian if they specialize in homemade dog food they will be able to generate a serving size for the needs of your dogs or if your dog's veterinarian does not specialize in homemade dog food you can also consider hiring a pet nutritionist those are some options you can do and another option is there is hundreds of articles online i've done hours and hours and hours of research to really perfect my homemade dog food recipe and to really make sure i'm meeting all of my dog's needs so i will link some resources down below to help you be able to formulate how much you should be feeding your dog these are just estimates you know your dog better than anybody else so for example when i did bitly's estimate i think it had said he was supposed to be at like a cup a day and we were finding that was way too much for him he was not able to consume the entire cup so we have bound for him he is nine pounds he was 8.

5 pounds when i did that original video he has since put on 0. 5 pounds of healthy weight he was malnourished when he was on kibble he was completely unhealthy his blood work came back awful you guys he had so much deficiencies when he was on kibble and he is now officially a healthy dog he's at the weight he's supposed to be at so i will say that he is perfect at three-fourths of a cup you just have to kind of figure out what works for your dog so when i got my measurements my veterinarian she said really between like three-fourths to one cup for bentley and we find that the three-fourths of cup is perfect for him now for blissey she is a f1 bb golden doodle and she's about 30 pounds she is expected to get between 50 and 60 pounds we're not really sure how much she's going to get we're thinking she's going to be about 55 60 pounds so her serving size is changing by the week depending on her weight depending on how much activity she's getting so i don't really want to tell you how much she's getting because it will be different next week but when she gets to her full-grown weight i can definitely share what she's at um and we can go from there she is five months old i don't know if i said that she'll be six months next month and i know her food will start to level out the next question i got is when do i feed my dogs so blissey is a puppy she gets fed three times a day and bentley is six years old getting ready to turn seven so he gets fed twice a day he gets three fourths of a cup like i said so he gets about one fourth and two tablespoons in the morning and one for two tablespoons at night which equals about three fourths of a cup and a blissey gets fed in the morning she gets a lunch serving and she also gets a nighttime serving as well when she turns six months she will go down to the two servings like bentley is on the next question i got asked is what supplements i add into my homemade dog food so i did talk a little bit about this in my original video so i will link that above if you haven't checked that out but i also add more supplements so i'll go grab those for you guys and i'll be sharing all the supplements i add in their dog food all right so this is my pantry and this is where i keep all of my dog supplements they have their dog treats here some more dog treats this is bentley supplement blissey supplement the joint health and the calcium so let me go ahead and grab this and i'll talk more about it all right so for their supplements i will start with the ones that i already explained in the last video my dogs are on the exact same supplements that i shared in my part one video i know they sold out you guys sold out those supplements so i will be sure to link another brand that has similar ingredients down below for you guys in case this one sold out but bitly is on an adult supplement that i add into his morning serving of food i do not pre-mix it in their batch of homemade dog food because i am feeding two dogs if you are feeding one dog you can measure it out and mix it in the food itself when it's done cooking but since i'm feeding to a different dogs with different needs i literally mix this in right before i give them their morning serving so that's bentley's and then blissey gets hers hers are in treat form she does not take them ash treats she's very picky with her treats so i just smoosh them in my hands i don't even chop them it breaks up in my in my hands when i move it around put it in there mix it in there she has her multivitamins and her minerals added in her food and then a new thing that i added to their dog food that i did not add in in my first video so i add calcium so you can make your homemade calcium by grinding up egg shells like in a coffee grinder you got to bake the egg shells first to dry them out you have to grind them up i don't always have time for that to be honest so i buy them their calcium i will link the one that i use down below it works amazing for our homemade dog food it tells you exactly how much to add on the back of the container so that way you can know how much to add it really depends on how many pounds of food you're cooking and that way you'll know how much to add i add their calcium once the food is done cooking you don't want to add it in before it's cooking because it will take all the nutritional value out when it's pressure cooking so add it in after and then the last supplement that i added to their homemade dog food is joint health so it tells you exactly how much to give your dog on the back of the bottle depending on their weight so blissey gets two of these tablets because she's 30 pounds and since bentley is about nine pounds he gets one of the tablets and this is just really good for their joints and just their overall health so i will make sure to link this down below the last question i'm going to be answering is i got a lot of questions asking do i feed the recipe hot or cold my dogs don't seem to mind it either or so today they're going to have it hot a little warm i never feed my dog's hot food i will let it come down to about a warm temperature and then i will feed it to them that way when it's fresh but usually today today i will just pull it out the fridge and they get it straight out the fridge just keep in mind if you're heating it up you are losing nutritional value every time you're heating it up in the microwave so take that in consideration all right so those are most of the highly asked questions that i got in the comment section if i missed any of the questions that you have feel free to leave them down below and if you're coming here for the first time i strongly strongly recommend checking out my first video because i answer a lot of the questions you may have in that video so the instant pot just has a few minutes left cooking i'm gonna let that kind of come to a warm temperature and then i did feed my dogs a little appetizer this morning so i knew they'd be starving they eat breakfast every morning at 8 a.