In this post, we will be looking at one of my favorite vet-approved homemade beef recipes for dogs.

I will also be giving you the reason for each ingredient in case you might want to substitute any ingredient for your preferred ingredient.

Ingredients you will need for this recipe

Lean beef

Eggs

Sweet potato/ white rice

Sunflower oil/ coconut oil

Krill oil supplement

Ground eggshell

Kale

Grounded flax

If you feed your dog raw food, you can follow the steps and add the ingredients without cooking it but if you don’t feed your dog raw food, you should cook the ingredients that need to be cooked before them. (the rice and potato should be boiled even if you are a raw feeder)

Steps

Put 1 pound of lean beef into a bowl/plate and add 2 eggs. The beef is the protein source.

Add either sweet potato/white rice as a carbohydrate, add 1 cup per pound of meat. I prefer using sweet potatoes because they are richer in vitamins A, C, E, and B, and it is also rich in fiber and proteins.

Add sunflower oil or coconut oil for fat, add ½ tablespoon per pound of meat. Sunflower gives a balanced omega-6 omega-3 fatty acid ratio and it is high in vitamin E. Coconut oil is also high in vitamin E.

Add the ground eggshell for calcium, the ground eggshell is an inexpensive source of calcium and it is convenient since eggs are part of the recipe.

To make the ground eggshell, I rinse my eggshell and put it in the oven for about 10 to 15 minutes and I grind it in a coffee grinder. For 1 pound of beef, add ½ teaspoon of ground egg.

Add 1 full cup of shop kale (you should likely steam it), kale is rich in vitamins A & C, calcium, zinc, potassium, flavonoids, and gluten.

Add 1 teaspoon of grounded flax per cup of food, flax provides fiber.

Add krill oil dose of 500 milligrams per 20 pounds of body weight (this should be added after everything is cooked if you don’t feed raw). Krill oil provides additional omega fatty acids.

You might be wondering “What about the vitamins and minerals”, the vitamins and minerals are already in the ingredients we used. Let me show you:

Vitamin D – egg yolk

Vitamin E- sunflower/ coconut oil

Vitamin B – kale, sweet potato

Iron – meat, kale

Zinc – meat, flax

Iodine – egg yolks are rich in iodine

Potassium – sweet potato

If you don’t want to worry about the amount of vitamins and minerals in each meal, I suggest you use Dr. Jones’s ultimate canine advanced health formula, it is a complete multivitamin, multimineral supplement for dogs, use it according to the instructions.

Important information

I am not a vet, any advice shared in my blog is from my personal experience, deep research, and advice from dog parents, and vets in the Reddit and Facebook dog groups and dog forums that I am a member of.

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