me make food

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I could not take the dark background anymore. And the template made it hard to edit. many other issues as well.

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Theresa has been making treats for a long time. one two. As with the animal soup they are only an addition to regular food. Sure the stuff we make is full of nutrients, but bought food has nutrients worked in that might not be met by the ingredients from the homemade stuff.

If you plan to feed your animal only food you make you need to pick up supplements and mix them into your food. Also the formula Theresa follows is pretty specific. Animals differ in their nutritional needs. One book that goes into great detail has three weight classes and 4 recipes each. You are not supposed to try and size up a recipe cuz it throws off the nutritional balance. Food we make is 1/4 of their intake.

With the treats, a usual ingredient is the dry food to bulk them up. We mix in dry when they get soup in their bowls. I would think you could mix in dry stuff earlier to make it more palatable for finicky eaters.

Veg is cheap, meat and some of the ingredients used make it will be more expensive than what you would get out of dry food, but not too much. Bulk bins for grains and beans, cheap meat, left overs appropriate for the pets, it is not too much more of an expense when compared to the well being and actually happiness of our pets. Plus Theresa loves to cook for them. If all her baking was for just us we would be in trouble

With the whole pet food scare last year and knowing what really goes into dog food and bought treats Theresa decided to start making her own to supplement the bought stuff. She saw Rachel Ray do a show on dog food, got a few books, and now makes huge batches once a month or so. They are balanced with the nutrition the dogs need. We have lots of tupperware and two freezers. The animals get dry food in the mornings, and a mixture of dry and doggie soup in the evenings.

Not gonna splain it all since she took these pics and she mixes the recipes up often, but it is usually something like this:
Meat is not uber lean and is usually a mix of pork, chicken, beef, turkey, or trimmings, and leftover cooked meat.
Veg of some sort and lots of them (some mixed in the meatballs others in the soup)
protien from beans, sunflower seeds
bread crumbs, egg, rice, and pasta.
Chicken broth watered down for the base.
Of course seasoning is not really used and bad stuff avoided. It is more of a thick stew actually.

The pups get berry muffins, chese biscuts, pupsicles, and doggie biscotti. The kitty food is lentils, chicken, veg, and broth. A dog will eat anything, but they love the soup. If you watch them eat they go for the good stuff and finish off the dry food last. They have a shine to their fur and seem healthy.

I can finally show how it works since I have a new camera.

I thought I was so cool with my 3 pounds of garlic, but I was just being silly. I froze them in vacuum sealed bags and figured all would be well. When I pulled them from the freezer I saw they had changed. After reading some internet computer website blogs I noticed a reoccurring theme. Freezing garlic is not a great idea. First it messes with the flavor, and if it is peeled it is a no go. They smelled like garlic, but were like squishy orbs

Man the commercial makes this stuff look awesome. But the real product, or at least what I picked up tonight was thick and ultra pulpy. It has Apple. acai, banana, and raspberry juice. Apparently not filtered. The juice is thick and looks like the sample Austin Powers drinks of fat bastard’s fecal sample. But the taste is a fricking mazing. Really it is awesome. Very impressed, but the commercial lies.

Theresa is going to be at a tech conference for 5 days and I get to grub down on stuff she would never eat. I really want to make my own calamari and am wondering where I can get some not too processed squid to make my own. Any ideas?

I will call midwest seafood tomorrow to check.

Theresa went to Sam’s with her mom and called asking if I wanted 3 pounds of garlic for $5. Sure. Wow that is a ton of garlic. Ended up sucky bagging it and froze it. It should last for a week or so

Foxspit asked me to do a vid on clarified butter. It took me many attempts to get a good vid because of some rambling and one burned

But I found an even easier way. I got the method from cookingforengineers.com.

If you want to see the other way and put up with me rambling and repeating stuff over and over go here.