Veggie Delight Dog Food Recipe

Dawnben

Grains:
2 cups uncooked brown rice
1 cup millet
2 cups long cook oats
1/2 cup ground flax seed do not cook


Cook grains per instructions, put in large bowl to cool.

Beans:
4 cups 21 bean mix (bought in bulk)
1 cup barley
3 cloves garlic chopped

Put all ingredients in large pot cover with water bring to a boil turn off and let sit for one hour
after one hour rinse beans and put back in pot cover with water and cook for one hour or until beans are tender. drain and mix into grains.

Vegetables:
Always 3 sweet potato's then you can add broccoli cauliflower carrots zucchini anything you have in the house usually equals 5 cups of veggies. I put the veggies through the food processor and chop it or you can do it by hand.

I use a steamer and steam for 15 minutes but you can sauté in 1/8 cup of olive oil in a large skillet for about 15 minutes, mix with other ingredients and you are done.

This feeds my 2 dogs for 5 days 1 dog eats 1 1/4 cup per meal the other 1 3/4.

If you want to make smaller portions just make sure you use 1/3 of each group.

Dawnben

I changed the grain to 3 Cups of Quinoa instead of rice and Millet -----While quinoa is usually considered to be a whole grain, it is actually a seed, but can be prepared like whole grains such as rice or barley. of all the whole grains, quinoa has the most protein, 12 % Quinoa provides all 9 essential amino acids, making it a complete protein. Quinoa is a gluten-free and cholesterol-free whole grain It is also highly digestible.

Dog Shrink

Question... are your dog's on a vegitarian diet or is this suggested as an occasional treat?

Dawnben

Yes my dogs have all been vegetarians for a many years , except for 6 months in Mexico when I made the mistake of putting them on a meat based diet. If you are going to lecture my on the problems with this kind of diets for dogs don't bother I have heard them all. My dogs are healthy happy and very energetic. On the home cooked verses processed vegetarian they are even better, they no longer need their teeth cleaned. I do include a supplement daily to make sure they get everything they need. On the meat based diet my hound was fat sluggish and had chronic stomach problems. End result meat of any kind does not agree with him or his stomach.

Dog Shrink

Wow defensive much? How do you provide the appropriate protein content on a vegitarian diet? I wasn't gonna lecture you on anything. Seemingly if this is a diet you've been feeding for years then obviously you know what you're doing with this which really confuse some now given the debate we had over celluose in another thread. Since your dogs are vegitarians I can only assume that you are as well?

Interesting concept altho it is not something I would do or recommend for most dog owners seeing as how a dogs diet is like 90% meat and 10% vegitation when left to forage for themselves. I guess if your dogs ever got out they'd be going to the tofu isle first insted of the meat freezer

Dawnben

[quote=Dog Shrink;69676]Wow defensive much? How do you provide the appropriate protein content on a vegetarian diet? I wasn't gonna lecture you on anything. Seemingly if this is a diet you've been feeding for years then obviously you know what you're doing with this which really confuse some now given the debate we had over celluose in another thread. Since your dogs are vegitarians I can only assume that you are as well?

Yes I am tired of people telling me that dogs wont be healthy as vegetarians. I would not eat most meat because of the toxic state of the meat industry and fish is full of mercury. I feel that my dogs are healthy. Buck is 5 and has been a vegitarian all but 6 months of his life. That 6 months he was sick all the time with gas ,throwing up bile every morning ,gastritis as a veggie he is fine.
I don't have any trouble getting enough protean in my dog food These are a few of the things I use, and yes I am a vegetarian. My dogs also get cheese and eggs added to their meals almost daily.
kidney beans, with 16 grams in a one cup serving. Black beans and navy or haricot beans have 15 grams or protein, while blackeyed beans, garbanzo beans, and lima beans have around 14 grams per cup.
A cup of cooked lentils has 18 grams of protein, but under 1 gram of fat.

Quinoa has more calcium and protein than a quart of milk, Quinoa delivers significant amounts of 20 different amino acids your body uses to maintain and repair tissues. These are protein building blocks your body can't make and has to get from food. It’s high in iron, magnesium and potassium.
Quinoa reigns supreme in the protein department: an average of 16.2 percent,

Dog Shrink

With all that bean product do your dogs have any gas issues? So thru using beans (and a little egg and cheese) you make up the minimum 18% maintenance requierments for proteins in a canine diet. Interesting. what would you say is their total protein % consumption fed a day and how many cups of food does that equate to?

Dawnben

if a cup lentils have 18 grams of protean per cup and the quinoa had 18 per cup thats 36 grams of protean right there and Buck eats 2 cups morning and night he weighs 63 lbs my 32 lb dog eats 1 1/4- 2 times a day That does not include the extras that go into their food. No they dont experience any gas or stomach distress. I change ingredients about every 5 days and never have a problem. They get different beans , lentils and different veggies and fruit all the time and the never have diarrhea or any trouble that people talk about when they switch food

Dog Shrink

I can understand the grams part but how does that translate to a protein percentage? Do you know the calories per cup when feeding a vegitarina diet? I find this all interesting how a dog that is 95% carnivore can survive and thrive on a veggi diet with out sufferng the typical diseases you'd expect to see such as protein deficiency syndrom or other mineral deficiencies or even gas for that matter on such a hich bean/legume content diet.

pawzaddict

I could be wrong so let me know if I am, but aren't there certain vitamins and minerals found in meat?
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