Easy Homemade Dog Food! Perfect For Your Allergy Prone Dogs!

Hey everyone, welcome back to my channel The Real Life Mama. Today I'm going to be sharing with you how I make my dogs raw food and also like the ingredients, the recipe, and just kind of everything that I put into it. He does have food allergies so we are going with turkey instead of chicken, but it is more affordable if you want to do chicken instead of turkey, but just know that that's why I'm doing turkey. So I went shopping at Walmart and I ended up getting my meat at Aldi because it is a better price. The eggs and the hemp seeds I already had on hand so that is why it is not like included in the price. Everything you see here cost me a little bit under $70, but if I was buying the hemp seeds and the eggs it would have put me over that budget, so just kind of keep in mind. And I'm hoping to get one month's worth of food out of everything that you see here. So first starting at Walmart I have two bags of their sweet potatoes. The recipe does call for pumpkin, but my dog likes sweet potatoes better so that's why I chose that. We have some ground ginger, one red bell pepper, some frozen broccoli florets, frozen chopped spinach, some turkey necks, sardines in water, and if you look at the ingredients it's just sardines, water, and salt, and then some chicken lovers. So that is everything that I got at Walmart and my total at Walmart was $24.25. I should have probably bought one or two more containers of the sardines, but this was all that they had left so I grabbed what I could. Again the eggs and the hemp seeds are not included in these total prices. And then at Aldi I bought a total of like 15 pounds of ground turkey for $44.83. So first you're going to want to add all of your meat into a big mixing bowl. Hopefully this will be big enough, but this is an eight quart mixing bowl. So next you're going to want to crack all 12 eggs and save half of your eggshells to add into your turkey mixture. So here are half the eggs, oops, half the eggs going in. Next you're going to want to add in eight teaspoons of ground ginger. Now the recipe that I'm using calls for three cups of hemp seeds, but I only have about half a cup so I just need to order more. The store that I went to was out of them, so yeah you he knows that his food is being made. He's super excited. So I'm only going to add in half a cup, but just knowing that when I'm feeding him I'm going to be adding in more hemp seeds and mixing it in. And also I'm out of kelp powder, that's something that we need as well. So once that arrives I will be mixing that in with his food as well. And I will also make sure to link the recipe that I'm using in the description below. Enough buddy. So that way you guys can have the recipe too. Next we're going to add in the sardines. If you don't want to buy sardines you can also just do like cod liver oil or salmon oil and give that a good pour. So next I have my food processor out. I'm going to just do this in small batches, but I'm going to blend the sweet potatoes, the broccoli, the spinach, the bell pepper in eggshells, the liver, the chicken livers that I got, and I'm also just going to like dice up the turkey next. But I'm just kind of processing all of this down so it's easier to mix in with the food. But like I said it is going to take me a while because this is a pretty small food processor. So let's get started. Here are the red bell peppers in the eggshells that I'm going to mix in together now. And this is the sweet potato. This is only one bag so I do still have to do the other one. And this is the broccoli. I know I bought two bags but I'm probably only going to use one of them. This is still a little frozen so it was a little hard. I did put it in the microwave and warm it up a little bit, but with the amount that just came out of this I think just one bag is going to be necessary instead of the two. And here is the spinach. Again I only used one bag of the spinach instead of the two bags so I will have those left over for next time. So next up is the chicken liver. This is 1.2 pounds and I only need about 12 ounces so about half of the container. I'm going to just add half of the container into the food processor, blend that up until it's really fine, thin, smooth, and then that's going to get added into the meat mixture as well. So this is the blended up chicken liver. Now I'm just going to give everything a good stir and then to top it off I'm just going to chop up some of the turkey necks to kind of add in throughout here. The bowl is just getting a little full so bear with me. I'm definitely gonna have to use two hands for this. Here is Roscoe. He is so impatient he can't wait. But this is what everything looks like once it's all been mixed. Like I said this is 15 pounds of ground turkey with all of the different mix-ins. So basically what my plan is is to just portion this out into some gallon size freezer bags. Then I'm going to just lay them flat, put them in our deep freezer, and then as we knead this I'm just going to pull out one bag at a time. So we'll see. This is my first time doing a double batch so we'll see how long this will last us but I'm hoping this will at least last us three weeks worth of food if not a whole month. So I'll keep you posted with that but like I said I'll link the recipe below so you guys can see it too. But it was honestly very simple as long as you have a food processor already. It's pretty inexpensive. I went online for farmer's dog last night just to see how much it would be for both of our dogs and it would be almost like $200 a week to feed them. So this is much more affordable than doing that. Let me know I guess if you do farmer's dog if you like it or not. But I know some people will then go and just like portion out the meals and then cook the meat as the dogs are eating it but Roscoe's already on a raw diet and I'm hoping I can save myself that step. So we'll just see how his stomach tolerates it but like I said this should be pretty good for him to eat because he's used to eating it already. I did not do any rice or lentils. I just don't think the dogs need it. They have carbohydrates in with the sweet potatoes. But yeah let me know in the comments below what you think. If you want to give it a shot it is way better than feeding your dog kibble. They like will gobble it up as you've seen Roscoe has just been circling me this entire time. He can't wait. And then also the feeding portion like the size is different per dog. So Roscoe is about 70 pounds. You want to feed them between two to three percent of their body weight. We choose to feed him two percent because he's 10 and is not very active so he doesn't need a whole bunch of food. So that equals about 1.2 to 1.4 pounds a day. So he should be getting somewhere between two and a half to three cups per day. So we sometimes will feed them once a day. Sometimes we'll feed them twice a day. So we'll just make sure that he's getting the right amount for however many feedings that he's getting. But yeah so that is everything. Let me know if you have any questions in the comments below. So this is what it looks like in the bowl. He is ready. So I'll go ahead and show you just how quickly he eats this because it is insane. All right sit. Wait. Wait. Okay. Is it good? And here is what it looks like once it's all packaged up. I was able to get between nine and ten cups per bag. Thank you so much for watching. Let me know if you have any questions in the comments below. Don't forget to like and subscribe and as always we'll see you next time. Bye!