Showing posts with label Food for Pets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Food for Pets. Show all posts
Its been a very long time since I shared treats for Mitzie on here.
I did a post on making your own dog food not too long after she was born, but I haven't done anything since, and I'm not sure why.
As a very important member of our family, she certainly demand equal time and attention!
I've always said I wouldn't feed her anything I wouldn 't eat myself, and thats not really true.
You will never catch me munching on her low fat dry food, nor the low fat wet that she gets a tiny taste of every day! But these, I would eat. In fact Todd tasted them and thought they were really tasty!
There isn't really anything unusual in them . . . flour, egg, sharp cheddar cheese, oil, water.
The original recipe called for garlic, but I have always understood that garlic and onion were poisonous to dogs, and so I did not include it.
They end up being rather like a thick, crisp, crunchy cracker! I used my bone cutter to cut them out, and they turned out quite cute I thought.
But you can use whatever shape you like. Little bears would also be cute!
I cut the recipe in half as I wasn't sure if she would like them, but next time I will cook the full recipe, because she is rather fond of them, and they will keep quite a while.
I am pretty sure you could also freeze them for longer storage.
I got about 23 from half the recipe and my cutter is about 3 inches in length.
They certainly smelled really good while they were baking!
Mitzie loves cheese and whenever I am using it in the Kitchen, she hangs about waiting and hoping I will drop some, and yes, I confess . . . I do always give her a tiny tidbit for a treat!
Today her patience was well rewarded! She was very happy with this and could not wait to tuck in. It was hard to take a photo of her eating it, as she was a big happy, tail wagging blur, crunching away on her treat!
*Cheesy Dog Treats*
Makes about 50
Place the flour, cheese and vegetable oil into a
food processor fitted with a steel blade. Pulse 5 or 6 times. Scrape
down the sides of the bowl.
Pulse again until the mixture resembled
coarse meal. Beat together the water and eggs. Turn the motor on and
drizzle this mixture into the food processor through the feeder tube
only adding the wet ingredients until the dough becomes a ball.
Tip out
onto a lightly floured surface and gently knead a few times. Divide
into two manageable balls.
Preheat the oven to 200*C/400*F/ gas mark 6. Line several baking sheets with baking paper. Set aside.
Roll each ball of dough out to 1/4 inch thickness. Cut out into shapes and place spaced slightly apart on the baking sheets. Reroll any trimmings and recut until you have used it all up.
Bake in the preheated oven for 15 minutes. Remove from the oven and carefully turn over. Return to the oven and bake for a further 10 minutes. Cool on a wire rack and then store in a loosely covered container at room temperature.
Note - These are rather high in fat, so be judicious in handing them out! I only give Mitzie 1/2 of one at a time. She loves them.
Now that's one very happy camper! When she's happy, I'm happy! Have a great weekend!
(The long suffering, patient and adorable Mitzie)
A few weeks back the people from Petplan contacted me and asked me if I could come up with some tasty Nutritious yet Festive Recipes for our much beloved pets, so that they too could enjoy Christmas lunch as well!
We all like to spoil our pets at Christmas. There' s nothing wrong with that, but . . . if we are going to spoil them, we might as well do it in a healthy way.
Feeding them the skin off of the turkey, while they might find it very tasty . . . is just not good for them. Neither are chocolates and other odds and sodds that we might be tempted to feed them.
Fido's Festive Feast
Festive Feline Surprise
I had ever so much fun working out some tasty dishes for our pets. They're not that hard to make and use every day ingredients that your furry family members will love, and that will be healthy for them and tasty too!
Mitzie loved both versions . . . even if she isn't a cat! She gave them two paws up!!
Hop on over to the Pet Plan site to get the recipes and read more!
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