Yummies for My Love

We don't use too many recepies with the barf diet since it mostly consists of raw meat and bones, but here are a few veggie recepies:

Daily veggie puree

Lots of all kinds of fresh versatile vegetables;

• Ekko prefers sweet peppers, cucumber, cauliflower, broccoli, green beans, peas and spinach;
• veggies that are good for your dog but that Ekko would prefer to leave out include for example carrots, celery, cabbage and lettuce porkkana, kurkku, selleri, kaali ja salaatti;
• once in a while I add apples, pears, banana or corn;
  NB! Do not use citrus fruit or onions!

Chop and pulp all the vegetables raw (if you want, you can also boil them before pulping). Stick them in the freezer in boxes containing enough puree for one or two meals (saves you so much energy) or let your dog have a taste right away!

Fast and delicious with peas

2 cups of cottage cheese
2 cups of peas (frozen)
2 cups of hacked frozen spinach

Let the peas and the spinach thaw. Mix all the ingredients in a bowl and pulp them in a blender. Serve for example with raw meat, and your dog will wag his tail while eating!

A few words on bones and meat

With barf, it is important to see that the diet varies both with veggies and meats. I give Ekko a puree meal in the morning with one part of veggie puree and the other different kinds of ground meats and offal. I try to give him as many kinds of meals as possible. At nights then, Ekko eats bones. So far, we've tried the following kinds of meats and bones:

• Ground beef, pork, chicken, turkey and salmon.
• Entire big chops of horse and moose meat a couple of times since I don't happen to have anything to grind the meat with at home. Ekko ate it all happy like he'd eat bones.
• Of bones, we've tried beef both in big, hard bones and the smaller and softer kinds; pork in several forms (ribs are Ekko's favourite!), chicken necks and wings, turkey necks, and all kinds of moose bones of which we usually couldn't even tell what part they were (we get them straigth from hunters so they're not exactly labelled) =)
• Of offal, we've tried ground cow stomach and ground liver, kidneys, lungs and hearts of cows, pigs, moose...Next we're thinking of trying lamb and chicken offal. I give Ekko offal about three times a week.

So, you can actually feed your dog pretty much any part of any animal. We've had as a principle that if on our shopping trips we find something new that we haven't still tried, we'll definitely try it!