Dog Dinner Date: Homemade Dog Food

My dog Tula, she's invited her friend Pippi over for dinner. You won't believe what's on the menu. Hello, welcome back to my channel. If you're new, welcome. If you've yet to do so, click there to subscribe. And then when you click the link directly in the box below, I can send you a copy of my free book. Tula, she's invited Pippi over and I think they've just arrived. Who's here? Tula? Oh, I see someone with a little white nose. Who could that be? Pippi, oh, come on in. Tula, Pippi, you're come for dinner. Whoa, I wonder what is going to be on the menu. Pippi, would you like to see the menu? I take that as a yes. I think we have a couple of hungry dogs. One lab for sure. I don't even think it really necessarily matters what's on the menu, but you got to see. I know you guys may be surprised, but Tula and I, we didn't have to put a whole lot of thought into what was going to be on the menu. Did we, Tula? Yes, welcome to the Jones restaurant. And what are we serving up today? A yummy appetizer, dog kibble for the main. Oh, wow. More kibble. And yet even more dessert. More yummy dried kibble. I mean, there's really no need to spend countless hours thumbing through a cookbook, trying to be creative, even if the pictures look awesome. When all you need to do is just reach up and grab some of this, of which Pippi has no interest in. Totally not nutritious. Full of carbs. Can do nothing for you. You want something better, don't you, Pippi? Or not. So how can we spice up this menu? Kibble, kibble, kibble. Oh, how creative can we be? We just reaching for more dried carbohydrate, maybe a little bit of protein and God knows what else. Do we need a cookbook? I mean, the pictures are awesome. It's a great cookbook, by the way. Not actually the dogs. No, we don't. These are some simple, easy things. All of you are going to have these in your house or have access to them. Like the simplest, healthiest, tastiest homemade dog food recipe that little Tuli here loves to eat, as will the Pipster. First, we have some stewing beef. This is local. These guys are pasture-finished happy cows. No antibiotics. No growth hormones. In today's recipe, we're doing approximately one-third protein, one-third of a healthy carbohydrate, one-third of a vegetable, along with some supplement that I'll show you what's going to mix in. So knowing that, I'm going to measure this out. And this is going to probably equate to about a cup of beef. No, Tula, not yet. Also, this could be raw, but in today's recipe, we're going to cook it up. So I just want to measure it up. Minus, no, Tula, yes, good girl. Wow, lucky for Tula, she's on the table. So you're close to all the action and all the food. Whoa, doesn't that look good? So there we have about a cup of beef. Next, we have our sweet potato. So I'm taking the liberty to start peeling it. I'm going to chop it up into mid-sized pieces because we're going to put this all into one pot, cook it up as a stew. And I'm going to do a third sweet potato. So once again, I'm going for about a cup of sweet potato. Yum, Tula. The last major part of our stew, it's going to include these carrots. I've gone into the garden, pulled a pile of carrots. I've taken the liberty of washing them. Hence, they are here. And once again, I'm going to chop those up, getting them ready for the stew. And because we're making a third, a third, a third, I'm going to do one cup of carrots as well. We need a pot. Now let's load up the ingredients and we're going to measure them all out. We've got one cup of the meat, which Tula is thinking she wants already. Okay, Tula, here's our one cup of meat in our pot, second Tula. And we have our sweet potatoes. We have, I'm going to measure out about a cup of sweet potatoes. So there's about a cup. Ta-da. The carrots too. It's a bit of an orangey meal today. All right, I'm using the carrots because that's what I had in our garden. One cup of carrots. Here's our tasty looking little concoction. Needs a bit of water, some heat, some time. And you guys are going to have a great dinner date. Tula, things are starting to look their way. Need a cup or so of water, just enough water that it's going to cover our vegetables and our stew and our sweet potato. Actually, it looks like we're, oh, two cups of water. It's just enough to cover all what we've got there. And it's time to cook. So I'm going to get the stove going. Uh-huh, get our pot. Ta-da. Grab myself a lid. And we'll be cooking this for the next few hours. Can you, Tula, wait the two hours? Pippi, I want to know from you, is it worth the wait? Or would you say just like go for the kibble? Maybe if you can't chew on food, next best thing is to chew on your friend's froggy toy. Our stew is now simmering. We're going to let that simmer. I'm going to turn it down. It's going to simmer for the next... a few hours until everything cooks, softens up, we're ready to mash some stuff up and serve it up. It's been about two hours and our dog supper stew, it's ready. And it smells good. Now it needs to be cooled down before we start feeding this to the hounds. I'm going to measure up about a cup. So when you're trying to calculate how much do you give to your dogs, typically, say for instance, Tula, she gets in total one cup of kibble a day. It's about one cup of kibble for 20 pounds of body weight. She gets a half a cup in the morning, half a cup for supper. So she's going to get a whole half a cup. Pippi, she's two and a half times Tula's size. She would probably get about a cup and a half to two cups a day. Because Pippi eats everything else under the sun, I'm just going to give her a bit of a taste, about a half a cup too. It's a little bit hot. That's pretty good. Our stew is now cooled down. Just warm to touch. Kind of maybe a little bit too cold if it was for me wanting to eat it. But it's not I, it is the hounds. So then after it's cooled, that's when you want to be adding the supplement. And you don't want to put it in ahead of time. You don't want to denature some of the vitamins and minerals, some of the other beneficial nutrients. So you want to put it, make it up after it's cooled down. So I would suggest adding in the supplement when you're ready to feed your dogs, as opposed to kind of mixing it in ahead of time. You could do it now, make a bigger batch, go ahead and freeze that. Personally, I think you get the best benefit from the supplement by adding it in right before you're feeding your dog or cat. So we're going to do, I'm going to do a scoop for each of these guys. Let's get this stuff mixed up. And we are ready for supper. The hounds have taken their place at the kitchen table. Good little Tula. I mean, she does have both of her paws or hands up on the table. That's okay. She's a dog. Look at Pippi sitting there all patient. Stay, stay, come on. I did a lot of work setting this up. Nobody move. Stay. Tula, Pippi. Ta-da. For Tula and Pippi's big dinner date, I bring you healthy, yummy dog stew. Ta-da. Yum. Look at that. How often does your dog get to eat at the kitchen table? Pippi's stirred right there. Good girl. Good girl, Tula. Wow. Is that not better than kibble? Okay, yeah, Tula's gone. She's like, screw this sitting on the chair thing, man. I'm eating. It appears Pippi likes the homemade stew. Thanks so much for watching this edition of NRE Secrets. If you had to do so, click there to subscribe. And then when you click the link directly in the box below, I can send you a copy of my free book.