Some hints, some recipes and foods to avoid when cooking homemade dog food for pets with allergies.

What you need to know before cooking your own dog food for your pet. 

Homemade dog food recipes for your pet with allergies to food

The ingredients to avoid and what additives are in commercial pet diets.

Go straight to the homemade dog food recipes

Look below for a list of what is in the very high priced dog food, Prescription Diet made by Hills - It costs me a fortune to buy it and it is made up of mostly water, rice and a little bit of chicken so I'd rather make my food myself as homemade dog food is relatively inexpensive to make once you break it down you'll see that it really doesn't cost that much! So I've added a recipe for pet food that is very close to the ingredients in the high priced canned diet and left out a bunch of ingredients that my pet doesn't need.

Before making homemade dog food for your pet get your vet's advice to be sure!

Ingredients to Avoid

• Chocolate can cause damage to the liver (dogs cannot metabolize many foods)
• Sugar and anything containing the sweetener Xylitol
• Grapes
• Grapes or raisins
• Macadamia nuts
• Mushrooms
• Mustard seeds
• Onions
• Garlic

Canned dog food my way.

• 3 pounds cooked and then ground chicken meat
• 2 1/2 cups broccoli, cauliflower and peas, steamed then chopped
• 2 cups rice cooked
• 1/1/2 cups mashed potatoes
• 1 TBL of bone meal
• 10 tablets pet vitamin (recommended by your vet) I use Pet Tabs

Prep time  15 Min
cooking time 35 Min
Yield: 12 cups

DIRECTIONS

1. Place chicken in a large bowl and add bone meal and vitamins.
2. Add vegetables, and rice into the chicken and mix together, add potatoes and mix some more.
3. Use some old dog food cans to store the food in.
4. Keep a couple in the fridge (more if you have a large dog)

Store covered in the refrigerator and freeze the rest if you are not going to use it right away.

Here is a list of what is in my expensive dog food

I pay around $25.00 for a case of canned dog food from my vet. I'm going to list exactly what's in the can of food from the largest percentage of ingredients to the least.

• Water
• Egg product (what's an egg product?)
• Turkey
• Rice
• Ground whole grain corn (I wouldn't use corn. It's used as a filler)
• Pork liver (along with all the hormones concentrated in the liver?)
• Soy fiber
• Dicalcium Phosphate (Mineral Calcium phosphate)
• Potassium Chloride (use regular potassium. This type is used to make fertilizer and given to cattle, therefore cheap)
• iodized salt
• Calcium carbonate (inexpensive dietary calcium supplement or antacid)
• Choline Cholride (Choline chloride is mass produced and is an important additive in feed especially for chicken where it accelerates growth)
  
  Vitamin e
  Ferrous Sulfate (Ferrous sulfate is used to treat iron-deficiency anemia. Side effects of therapy may include nausea and epigastric abdominal discomfort after taking iron)
  Zinc oxide,(Zinc oxide is added to many breakfast cereals, as a source of zinc; a necessary nutrient. (Other cereals may contain zinc sulfate, for the same purpose.) Some prepackaged foods also include trace amount)
• Taurine (taurine is used as a functional food in many energy drinks and energy products)
• Thiamine Mononitrate vitamin B1
• Copper sulfate (Copper sulfate pentahydrate is a fungicide)
• Manganous Oxide
• Niacin
• Calcium Pantothenate (vitamin b5)
• Vitamin b12
• Pyridoxine Hydrochoride (Vitamin b6)
• Biotin
• Riboflavin
• Calcium iodate (is a compound of calcium and iodate anion. It is used as a dough conditioner)
• Vitamin D3 supplement
• Sodium Selenite (This salt is a source of selenium in many food supplements)
• Folic Acid

Things your dog food should NOT contain:

• Chemical Preservatives - BHA, BHT, Ethoxyquin
• Corn - known allergen, poor source of protein, highly indigestible
• Wheat - same as above
• Soy - same as above
• By-Products - indigestible beaks, feathers, feet, heads, etc. Does not have to contain meat
• Animal Fat (non-specific) or Beef Tallow - hard, indigestible fat source
• Flour - of any kind, used as a filler
• Pentobarbital - from tainted meat sources. Same chemical used in euthanizing animals

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