recipes and note for home cooked meals

Although I receive a lot of private email every day, today's requests
are heart wrenching. Desperate to find a home-cooked diet to feed their
dogs that were kibble fed just a few days ago, people have been emailing
all day. I can't keep up with the emails, so maybe this can help. Please
find below, two diets, one for a healthy 20 pd dog and another for a
healthy 50 pd dog. These go against my fundamental belief that generic
diets aren't a good choice, but due to the food recall, just about
anything is better than feeding an unknown.
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> These diets are cooked because that's what people have asked for. I
don't have anything against raw diets - just to make it clear

Please
understand that I won't be tweaking the diets if your dog happens to
weigh 60 pds or 8 pounds or whatever. The booklets on my site would help
most people much more than these recipes, but these should help in the
meantime.
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> I've taken into consideration that most kibble fed dogs, especially
ones eating foods containing wheat gluten, may have different food
tolerances. I've also considered that these dogs are accustomed to more
carbohydrates in the diet than what many of us feed. For these reasons,
these recipes are *not* indicative of my usual diets. They use
ingredients contained in many pet foods and are formulated to make an
easier transition. They offer no variety, which is also not the usual
way I go about things. However, people are asking for the simplest
recipe possible, and I'm trying to honor the requests.
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> You may crosspost to other lists, if the list rules allow. My goal is
to help dog owners, so go ahead and post to your breed lists, breeder
lists etc - but please post this in it's entirety, or not at all.
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> Please note that I have no way of knowing what supplements someone may
have access to, or what those supplements may contain. For this reason,
the supplements in these recipes are ones from my site, however, I am
not offering these recipes in order to boost sales of my supplements.
You can go to my site to look at what a supplement provides and buy a
product that's the same, or as close as possible, from another source.
Just be sure that you are not adding more minerals, and that includes
the iodine is various brands of kelp.
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> The amounts of foods and supplements are per day unless noted
otherwise. The weight/measure of a food is the *cooked* weight/measure,
not raw. Where weight is noted, use a kitchen scale, not cup
measurements. Cups measure volume, not weight,
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> For a 20 pd dog:
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> 4 oz chicken dark meat with skin, stewed
> 1 oz beef liver - every 6 days
> 3/4 cup enriched egg noodles
> 1 TBS carrot (optional)
> 3/4 tsp bone meal
> 1/4 tsp. NoSalt (found in grocery stores next to table salt)
> 1/16 tsp kelp
> 5 mg zinc citrate or gluconate
> 2 capsules, vitamin E -- per week
> 500 mg wild salmon oil or flaxseed oil
> 1 3/4 capsules magnesium citrate
> 2 capsules, Multi Mineral Complex -- per week
> 1/2 tablet, vitamin B compound, per week*
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> * B vitamins are water soluble and excreted through urine. They should
be provided often, so feed 1/4 tablet twice weekly. Also, B vitamins can
upset an empty stomach. Always feed with food. Best bet: tuck it in a
hand held piece of food and feed as a treat.
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> For a 50 pound dog:
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> 8 oz ground beef, lean, 15% fat
> 1/3 oz beef liver
> 7 oz brown rice (boiled as 1 part rice in 3 parts water until very,
very soft)
> 1 oz zucchini
> 1/8 tsp NoSalt
> 1/8 tsp kelp
> 1 capsule, cod liver oil
> 1 3/4 tsp bone meal
> 2 capsules, Multi Mineral Complex -- per week
> 1 tablet, vitamin B compound -- every 2 weeks
> 2 capsules, vitamin E 200 IU -- per week
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> These diets meet 2006 NRC recommended allowances. Nutrient
requirements are not linear to body weight. That is, a 100 pound dog
does not have the requirements of a 10 pound dog multiplied by ten. So,
these recipes would need tweaking to suit the weight of dogs weighing
more or less than noted, but they're a start. Feed as required to
maintain healthy weight - until you can change the diets to a more
suitable profile for an individual dog.
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> Monica Segal - AHCW
> http://www.monicasegal.com
> Author of: "K9Kitchen" and "Optimal Nutrition"
> Seminars by Invitation: Email monica@...
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