30-Minute Stovetop Homemade Dog Food « Healthy DIY Recipe (2024)

I love this recipe very easy to do and my guys love it. is the calorie court for 1 cup?
my guys need to loose 4 lbs and I am unsure how to divide this into breakfast and dinner.
Thanks!
Lisa

Your homemade dog food recipe is undeniably healthy for our furry friends! It’s definitely worth sharing with our fellow dog lovers!

Thank you ever so kindly for the recipe. I’ve yet tO prepare it but much appreciate your free advice. Thanks again Derek Ritchie

Absolutely amazing recipe! I make a giant batch each week for a household of four pups (2 are large breed puppies and 2 elderly small dogs). We use it more as a food topping instead of an entire meal so it does last a bit longer in our household as we are not using so much at a time. The cost of this recipe is SO affordable and our kibble lasts us much longer as well. Plus the dogs LOVE meal time now and I’ve definitely seen a different in their coats and energy levels.
Thanks for putting this out there for people to recreate 🙂

My dog is crazy in-love with food. Thank you for the recipe!!

Hi I’m glad to see this website and this recipe I had a little puppies whose mother was horrible horrible mother I love her but she’s horrible had to fight her to hold her I’d hold her down to feed the babies and she growled at him the day many they were born and I don’t know anyways I at 11 days old she bit one of the puppies over a piece of kibble and I got a can of puppy food because they were crying while they were nursing like they weren’t getting what they needed for some reason and this was an unplanned later with a mixed breed dog so I went to the grocery store I got beef hearts this is without looking it up too before it’s beef liver calf liver goat’s milk chicken lizard and gizzards the probiotic prebiotic baby cereal oatmeal a couple of cans of baby meat long grain brown rice I got frozen vegetables like broccoli carrots green beans peas I spent probably $70 and I made 9 lb of homemade food after I run it all through the grinder and they were eating dog food at 13 days old but that later was also house broke at 3 and 1/2 weeks to the paper and the recipe worked awesome you would not believe how big those puppies got in a short period of time and they adored it they loved it so did the mother of course I just wanted to say thank you because I didn’t know if I were at the time what I was doing was right or not but it seems like maybe it was… Oh yeah I also bought a five or 10 lb bag of bone marrow and cook it gave the bones to my mother and use that as the juice for the base of the for the stock of the food

Spinach
Yes, dogs can eat spinach, but it’s not one of the top vegetables you’ll want to be sharing with you pup. Spinach is high in oxalic acid, which blocks the body’s ability to absorb calcium and can lead to kidney damage. While your dog would probably have to eat a very large amount of spinach to have this problem, it might be best to go with another vegetable. If you want to give your dog the benefits of the leafy green, you can find spinach dog treats for an occasional snack.

My 1 yr. old Mini-Dachshund has been so picky about food. She started out on kibble, but she was so small and skinny as a puppy, I started looking for a good canned option to have with kibble. She hasn’t like hardly any and I started trying different home made options. I like this basic recipe and she LOVES it! So happy about it. So far, trying different vegs and proteins. Question: Just want to make sure she’s getting enough calories. I think I read somewhere she should get about 300 per day (she’s 8.2 lb) but the recipe says 240, so not sure if that’s per cup or for the whole recipe? I feed her half a cup in a.m. and another in p.m. (Plus she might much on kibble mid-day which I’m leaving out for her in this transition.) Thanks!

I make my dogs food and freeze. I make with chicken, let it thaw but use a microwave to warm up servings. Is a microwave bad for warming up my furbabies meals.

Hi, just made your recipe for my Yorkypoo, he loved it. Thank you so much.
Twyla
Mazatlan, Mexico

This was so easy to make . I have old pups and young pups and they all love it. My older dog seems to have more energy and they all have better breath. Thanks for sharing this recipe.

I have an 80 Pound golden retriever. How much do you think he should get per meal
Of this?

I didn’t want to give my furbaby store bought food anymore. I found this recipe, and my Sweet Girl has been enjoying it for almost a year. I think I will add in a little spinach with her next batch. She loves it! Thank you for sharing.

I just adopted a big Rottie mix who was being very picky with his food. He’s pretty malnourished and I was desperate to get him to eat. I decided to make him some food from scratch and this recipe did the trick! He gobbled it up and begged for more! I am hopeful that I’ll be able to nurture him back to health with the help of this amazing recipe. Brutus says thank you! 🙂

quick, easy, and healthy meal! my little doggy loved it! he cleaned his bowl, and he is usually very picky not even eating vegetables! he ate his kibble and the veggies! it smells and looks like real food, thank you

I started making a similar recipe for my mother’s dog and she loves it, I use 85% Ground Turkey to give her some extra fat, the extra lean turkey didn’t seem to have as much flavor. I also add some low sodium organic broth when making this to keep the rice moist when stored in the fridge since I make 2 pounds of meat at a time, giving me 6 dinners 4 breakfasts ( she gets a cup of kibble) with breakfast and a half dinner portion. I mix it up with steamed carrots, and or string beans, I was wondering if I could use steamed beets ?

Thank you for this awesome recipe! My dogs LOVE it!!

Hi, I have not made this recipe yet but plan to tomorrow. I know my 11 year old Bella the Bichon will love it. We just lost our other dog Meko, who was only 6 years old due to kidney failure, two days after Christmas. Not only were we grief strickened but so was Bella who stopped eating & drinking for an entire week. I took her to the vet, crying my head off & was prescribed meds to increase her appetite & electrolytes to keep her hydrated. In writing this, it would be nice to see recipes for various ages of dogs, the importance of hydration, & maybe a breakdown on why your recipes stand out. I appreciate so very much what you are doing in your blog as it warms my heart. Wishing you the best year ever! Sharon

Our 10 year old Corgi mix loves this food and we love the results! Her coat is shinier and she slimmed down to where she needed to be! Our vet was impressed. It is a lot of work to make it but so worth the outcome. We love knowing exactly what she is eating. We 4x the recipe and make a huge batch, it lasts about 10-12 days. She eats 1 + 1/2 cup in the morning and then again in the evening. She is about 38-40 lbs.

You saved my sanity with this recipe!! I have a 12 year old Yorkie Davy who is so picky. Getting her to eat has been a challenge every day. She barks for treats because she doesn’t like her food. Plus I have an 87 pound Golden Retriever who will steal her food if I don’t pick it up when abandoned. This recipe was the key. Now when I out it down Davy does not hesitate and eats immediately. Sadly my Golden is a little jealous so I might have to give her a little on too of her kibble.

It’s missing organ meat which is needed to make this truly balanced.

Hello, can cats eat this also? I am looking for a homemade recipe that works for both cats and dogs. Thank you in advance for your response!!

Nice recipe! Some notes that I’m paraphrasing from the book, The Forever Dog.
1. dogs don’t need any carbs, so drop the rice.
2. dogs can eat garlic, avocado and kale.

I have a 18# Shizpoo, which is having itching problem. I was going to try this recipe, about how many cups should I give him.