Recipes: Fresh Dog Food

These are meals we rotate at the Safari Doodles Ranch. The key to feeding raw/cooked is variety each week. An adult dog doesn’t need a “Balanced meal” every day. Dogs thrive with a variety of foods to meet their nutritional needs over the course of a week. To learn more about feeding a fresh food diet to your dog, check out more of our articles here in our Safari Doodles Education blog

Texas Tripe pre-made raw food. The “prey model” diet is only meat, organs and soft bones or ground bones. This is a complete diet if a dog gets fatty fish or fish oil 3 days a week and eggs 3-7 days a week. Texas Tripe is a raw pre-made dog food supplier with a prey model diet blend. Prey Model diet is suggested diet for any dog with allergies or gut issues. Texas Tripe makes great raw blends that are cost effective.
Ground Beef: cooked or raw
Pork Bone meal / Deer Bone Meal
Chicken Gizzards/hearts. Raw or cooked
Yams and Pumpkin. Always feed Cooked
Veggies & Fruit blend: fresh & purée.
Follow this link to make this exact Beef & Veggie recipe to improve your dog’s gut health.
  • Dr Harvey’s Raw Vibrance “base” (just add meat & oil). This is the green mix. It covers everything your dog needs after the meat & fish oil.
  • Sardines. 1 Oz per 20/lbs body weight. Low sodium is a must!
  • Beef Liver. 10-20% of the meat can be any organ meat. 5-10% is the minimum organ meat a dog needs.
  • Octopus – fresh cooked from Costco
Raw chicken feet, cottage cheese, raw farm raised egg, beef liver, ground beef. Chicken feet are a great source of bone & cartilage. They are easy for small dogs to chew up. Chicken feet are full of: cartilage, glucosamine, chondroitin, collagen, calcium, protein and bone.
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Lamb meaty bone. Raw!! Never feed cooked bones. Cooked bones splinter and can harm your dog.
Chicken breast. Raw or cooked
Eggs. Cooked or raw
Chicken Gizzards. Raw or cooked
Sardines. Canned in water
Papaya Enzyme pills
NuVet Plus Vitamin
NuJoint supplement
Kelp Seaweed Flakes
Lamb meaty bone. Raw/not cooked
Ground lean beef. Raw or cooked
Eggs. Raw or cooked
Chicken Gizzards & Liver. Raw or cooked
Sardines. Canned in water
Spinach/dark leafy greens. Fresh & purée
Veggie/fruit blend: fresh & purée
Papaya Enzyme pills
NuVet Plus Vitamin
NuJoint supplement
Ground Beef: cooked or raw
Egg: cooked or raw
Deer Bone Meal
Nordic Naturals fish oil/ DHA & EPA Omega-3s
Papaya Enzyme pills
NuVet Plus Vitamin
NuJoint supplement
Chicken breast: cooked or raw
Mussels: canned
Pork Bone Meal
Bone broth: lamb/chicken/beef are all good Make a large broth batch & freeze in small batches. Feed broth many days a week.
Veggies & Fruit: purée. See link for recipe.
Iodine (give only 3 days/week max)
Coconut Yogurt Probiotic
Probiotic by Klaire Labs
Oatmeal mixed with Applesauce (unsweetened)
Chicken breast (raw or cooked)
Eggs (cooked or raw)
Lamb Bone. Only feed RAW bones. Never give cooked bones!
Papaya Enzyme pills
NuVet Plus Vitamin
NuJoint supplement
Iodine (give only 3 days/week max)
Probiotic by Klaire Labs
we mix the pills in the eggs/veggie/mash

Chicken Leg/Thigh quarter. Fed RAW. Do not cooked bones that you feed your dog. Raw chicken bones are chewy and easy to crunch without any bone shards. Cooked bones splinter! We suggest using a bone grinder (pictured below) if you do not want to feed whole bones. Raw chicken can be fed a few meals a week for an economical and healthy diet. Note: some dogs need a lower fat diet. We take off the skin when feeding those dogs! We suggest you also give these 2 NuVet supplements most days of the week. We usually take a day off from supplements every 3-4 days.
NuVet Plus Vitamin
NuJoint supplement
Ground Turkey. Cooked or Raw. You can use turkey in place of chicken or beef in the above recipes. Or give as a stand alone meal. We highly suggest you feed 5-10% organ meat and add Bone Meal. WARNING Turkey bones splinter. Do not feed whole Turkey bones!
Lean meat Pork. Cooked or Raw. We always cook our pork. You can use Pork in place of chicken or beef in the above recipes. Or give as a stand alone meal. We highly suggest you feed 5-10% organ meat and add Bone Meal
Meat /Bone Grinder: STX Megaforce 3000 $170 -grinds chicken bones-

Author: Alicia of Safari Doodles has fed raw/cooked food to her dogs her whole life. She comes from generations of fresh food feeders.

To learn more about feeding a fresh food diet to your dog, check out more of our articles here in our Safari Doodles Education blog

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