Great article on setting goals for the new year here.
I will be posting on mine tomorrow (one of them is blog more!).
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Monday, December 1, 2008
Cooking for the dogs
I feed mainly kibble (ProPlan Sensitive, the salmon one), but I cook for them 3x per week or so.
I am really lazy, so I try to make it as easy for me as possible.
First, I get lots of frozen veggies, and grind them all together in the food processor (mixed veggies, spinach, cauliflower/broccoli, carrots plus what ever extra I throw in). I put that in 1 cup or 2 cup plastic storage containers, and freeze (I also do a couple ice cube trays full).
So I then have a month's worth of veggies that just need to be popped out of the container. I use the smaller ice cubes in stews as extra nutrition for me!.
The day before I cook up a big pot of brown rice in my rice cooker. (I LOVE my rice cooker - so so easy to do rice it's just not funny. I never cooked rice for myself before I got one.
I put the veggies out to thaw (my house is cold, so it takes quite a while).
The day I am feeding their special meal I cook up several eggs, dump a can of diced tomatoes in, the thawed veggies and the rice. Fruit, ground flax, bran, yogurt or cottage cheese or such occasionally get added, depending on what I have on hand and want to use up.
You can add chicken broth, Bravo patties or other meat, but my dogs devour it without anything special.
It's really easy - just dump everything in and divide it!
This way they get more high quality vegetable nutrition. Fruits and veggies are so important for us, and I really think it helps them. I am not comfortable doing my own raw and can't afford to feed a prepared raw, so this is a way to give them a quality supplement.
I am really lazy, so I try to make it as easy for me as possible.
First, I get lots of frozen veggies, and grind them all together in the food processor (mixed veggies, spinach, cauliflower/broccoli, carrots plus what ever extra I throw in). I put that in 1 cup or 2 cup plastic storage containers, and freeze (I also do a couple ice cube trays full).
So I then have a month's worth of veggies that just need to be popped out of the container. I use the smaller ice cubes in stews as extra nutrition for me!.
The day before I cook up a big pot of brown rice in my rice cooker. (I LOVE my rice cooker - so so easy to do rice it's just not funny. I never cooked rice for myself before I got one.
I put the veggies out to thaw (my house is cold, so it takes quite a while).
The day I am feeding their special meal I cook up several eggs, dump a can of diced tomatoes in, the thawed veggies and the rice. Fruit, ground flax, bran, yogurt or cottage cheese or such occasionally get added, depending on what I have on hand and want to use up.
You can add chicken broth, Bravo patties or other meat, but my dogs devour it without anything special.
It's really easy - just dump everything in and divide it!
This way they get more high quality vegetable nutrition. Fruits and veggies are so important for us, and I really think it helps them. I am not comfortable doing my own raw and can't afford to feed a prepared raw, so this is a way to give them a quality supplement.
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