Easy Homemade Dog Food for Busy People

a recent study found that 95% of homemade dog food recipes even those developed by veterinarians are deficient in at least one major nutrient that's not good enough for us so today we're showing you how to make store and feed one week's worth of fully balanced homemade dog food so you can be confident that this food has everything your dog needs in it this specific recipe is for a 40 lb dog but at the very end we'll show you how easy it is to just these amounts so it's perfect for your pup you're kind of digging

your nails Into Me Oh So before we get started we need to talk about the supplies that you're going to need to make this meal so first up I have a giant 14 C stock pot this I found is about enough to make a week's worth of food for a 40 to 50 lb dog you can also use a pressure cooker or a crock pot if you want as well next up we have a blender this can be replaced by a food processor a grinder or just a knife and a cutting board but we're going

to use it to cut up a lot of the meat so that the final product is a ground mixture then we have our storage bags I have these gallon freezer bags for any extra food that we need to store kind of in bulk and then we have these smaller bags which will be the actual meal bags we fill up later and look I know are these sustainable no they're not but let's get homemade dog food down first and then we can figure out how to make it more sustainable next up we have a food scale

this is is going to be very important whoo to make sure you get all of the proper amounts in there couple utensils tongs spoon tablespoon cup scissors and then a bowl to actually measure all the stuff on and then finally some paper towels and a disinfectant spray to clean up later if this is force of nature not a sponsor or anything just big fan of their product and then when we look at ingredients here's what we're going to need beef heart as our main muscle meat we also have some ground beef beef as our other

main muscle meat ground salmon beef kidney as organ meat number one beef liver organ meat number two then our non-meat stuff we have hemp hearts some kelp hemp seed oil bone meal powder cuz we're not using any meaty bones today and then turmeric and most of this other stuff is just to kind of help balance it oh and one other thing I forgot is frozen kale the frozen kale and the hemp parts are going to be our primary plant matter in this recipe so the way I want to set this up to make it really

easy on ourselves is I have all of our ingredients s here we're going to process our meat first and basically just blend it up in the blender then we're going to weigh it then we're going to dump it into the pot so once we dump everything in here we know that's the fully balanced recipe and we're ready to cook it and now it's just time to process our meat so grab our pair of scissors grab our first item which we should probably start with beef heart and we're going to start blending now I will say

you can skip this step if you have a dog that loves chunked meat by all means just maybe maybe throw this in the oven instead of a pot and feed it to him chunk but our dogs we know like the ground texture a lot more so the blender is working really hard we're going to switch to the food processor let's try that one more time so much better now I'm not trying to absolutely pulverize this meat I'm just trying to get it into a pretty ground consistency we're still going to have a few chunks and

that's all right so I know according to my recipe I need 50 just under 57 o of beef heart so as I start dumping all this out I'm going to make sure that I measure it too so that's going to be all the beef heart for this recipe ground up so what I'm going to do is I'm going to toss all of this into the pot which we'll be cooking up later and then I'm still going to blend up the rest of the beef heart and put it in some Ziploc bags that way the next

time I make food it's super easy it's already ground up next up we're going to get our beef kidney Blended up if you have have a picky dog especially blending up your organ meat is going to help a lot because we have two dogs one of them is picky and one of them really isn't but neither of them will eat whole organ meat they like it ground up like this okay so into the pot goes our kidney all right last organ meat we got the beef liver going in all right that's going to be all

of our meats that need to be Blended the meats we have left are going to be ground beef and ground salmon but if you need to grind your meat just throw any other stuff in here like normal so next up we got our ground beef and I know that I'm going to need just over 3 and 1/2 lb this entire bag is 2 and 1/2 lb so I'm not going to measure this one I'm just going to add it straight [Applause] in then we have our ground salmon oo that smells like salmon so that's all

the meat and that's really all that needs to be cooked so all this other stuff we're going to add to the finished food once it's done cooking but right now we're going to throw this pot of meat on the stove let's clear off the raw meat bits we can ignore those we'll put it on let's say medium low heat for 20 or 30 minutes until it's fully cooked through but we don't want to cook this at a really high temperature so while that's cooking we're going to get the rest of our stuff in bulk storage

and one thing you want to always remember is to write down what the food is and what date you're putting it there you have no idea how many times I've gone to grab something and I'm like is this beef kidney or lamb pancreas so now that we got all these in bags I'm going to zip them all up squeeze the air out and then all of these will go in the freezer for bulk storage all right this ended up cooking for like 30 to 40 minutes just a big pot of food but I think we

are all cooked through here so what I've done is I've killed the Heat and now we're ready to add the rest of our ingredients first thing we're going to add is going to be our hemp seeds or hemp hearts here just over 74 gram throw that right into the food so then it's going to be 73 G of hemp seed oil so now our dry stuff we're going to go with just over 50 56 G of bone meal powder 3.5 G of kelp powder one thing I have noticed is my current scale struggles with really

small amounts so that's something to keep in mind you may want to get a bit more of a sensitive scale but I have this really tiny one that's very accurate that we can do the kelp with okay so that's going to be all of our kelp going in there as you can see you really don't need a lot of kelp to hit those iodine numbers second to last thing is our turmeric and this is going to be 5.86 Gams all right so all the dry goods are in there and the very last thing we need

to add is the kale 17 Oz that's going to be a lot of kale so this is a pound I'm just going to add this whole thing it's time to give this a Final Mix here now the thing about this it's not going to be per perfectly mixed throughout because you know we're human and we can't get it perfect but this is a week's worth of food so as long as you feed all of this food within the span of a week your dog's going to get all those nutrients that they need within that week

not every single meal needs to be perfectly balanced but about a week is as long as we like to go giving a balanced diet come on that looks like freaking dog food dude okay now we're ready to bag everything up we have our seven Ziploc bags ready to go we have our food food ready to be added and the other cool thing about this is you don't have to fill these bags perfectly even much like the balancing as long as you feed all of this within a span of a week your dog's going to be

getting all the calories that they need in that week and be careful the turmeric will stain your entire life it's insane it's like shark infested waters when you drop something on the floor here now we're obviously going to get get every single morsel of food out of here cuz we paid good money for all these ingredients but you also want to make sure you feed all of the liquid in the pot luckily for us the liquid has all kind of stuck to the food itself but if there's anything left over dump it in with the

rest of the food so now that these are all filled again we're going to get the air squeezed out of them get them sealed up and then I'll probably put three in the fridge for the next three days and the other four in the freezer cuz these only last about 3 days in the fridge and remember that each one of these bags is one day's worth of food so if you're going to feed two meals you want to split this in half if you feed three meals split it in thirds Etc and then we dealt

with raw ingredients here so we want to make sure we're following all the safety practices we're going to wipe everything down with a disinfectant we got all the dirty dishes in the sink those will go in the dishwasher and they'll go in the dishwasher on a sanitized specific setting so we make sure to kill any of those bugs so now you know how to actually make the food if you want to get the correct amounts for for your dog and their weight head to our description and there's a spreadsheet down there that tells you based

on every 10 lb this is how much of each ingredient you need if you still have questions and you want to learn even more we have a homemade diet guide that goes even more in depth that's down in the description below as well and it's a sliding scale pce system part of me was like wanting to maybe ask for your help with this but I also want to show pet parents that like you can do this by yourself yeah cuz not everybody has a partner that's good ide