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" A diet given to me by my vet several years ago:"
 1/4 lb. ground beef, (not ground round)
 1 large egg, hard cookedNOTE:  These diets are meant to be suggestions only and should be discussed with your veterinarian before use as some adjustments may be needed to suit your pet's particular needs.  In addition, canines have nutritional needs which may not be completely met in these diets alone.

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 2 Cups cooked rice without salt
 3 Slices white bread, crumbled
 1 t. calcium carbonate which is 1 Tums or 1 5gm PetCal
 Vitamin supplement such as PetTab

Braise the meat, and drain off all fat. Combine all ingredients and mix well. This is somewhat dry and can be mixed with water to improve palatability. Yield 1 1/4 pound
Analysis
Moisture 66.5%
Protein 6.9%
Fat 5.5
This diet supplies 17% protein calories and 30%fat calories, and 53% carbohydrate calories.

djhill@intellinet.com (Julie and Danny) writes:
A low fat/low protein diet I was given via a vet several years ago is as follows:

½ pkg. Salad Macaroni (cooked)
1 Cup Brown Rice (Cook separately: 1C Rice w/2.5 C water/45 min.)*
2 Eggs Hard-boiled and chopped up finely
8-10 Tums Crushed (calcium carbonate)
½ pkg. Frozen Broccoli and
½ pkg. Frozen Carrots - steamed until crisp/tender (I chop up finely)

Mix everything together. Can be frozen in small portions. You can also add ½-1 Tbs. low cal cottage cheese.

*Rice Cookers are wonderful...

I've also added a little bit of cooked ground chicken...and doubled the recipe for ease and frozen it in serving size portions...

3 cans of green beans
2 cans of carrots
1/4 lb. of lean hamburger
1 small carton of cottage cheese

Another recipe from the Muffins:

1 package of boneless, skinless chicken breasts
distilled or filtered water.

Put chicken in a large kettle, cover with water. Bring to boil, reduce heat, simmer for half an hour or until pieces are cooked all the way through (thicker pieces may require more time - cook *THOROUGHLY* - you can't burn it - just keep the water level over the chicken). Check regularly, and stir occasionally to keep chicken from sticking to bottom.

When done - let cool a bit, then place on breast and some of the cooking water into a blender, and blend smooth. Pour into bowl, repeat until all chicken is blended, then stir together.

Divide among small freezer-safe containers, and freeze. Defrost and use as needed!

Submitted by Shari Burghart <sharib@erols.com> - she says, "I keep my Dogfood.txt file handy. I started making my own Dog food when Maggie was DX with Cushings 5 years ago. (She's doing great!) Eventually I had to put the others on it too. This lasts about 5 days @ 3 cups a day. I freeze as little as possible. Use whatever ingredients you have available. Just try to get a good balance. Warm up (thaw) but don't cook the frozen items. Rice, potato, & ground meat are all that need to be cooked. I feed ½+ this plus ½- Innova Senior dry dog food.

5 - 6 c cooked brown rice (2c rice + 4c water)
2 c ground   turkey, browned & drained (1 lb)
1 1/2 c frozen peas
3 3/4 c frozen mixed vegetables
         (w/variety of beans - Safeway store brand) (1 bag)
2 - 3 c baked sweet potato (1 large)
1 c finely chopped green beans
1 ½-2 c raw carrots (grated or chopped) (3 large)
1 c raw broccoli/cabbage (chopped or shredded)
1 1/2 c raw kale/parsley (finely chopped) (1 large leaf of kale)
1 c raw zucchini/squash (chopped) (1 large)
2 t c garlic powder (= 8 cloves)
½ T finely ground egg shells

Warm up the frozen veggies, but don't cook anymore. Peas & sweet potato may be reduced for diabetic's food. Finely chopped raw vegetables are easier to digest.

Add to serving:
 non-fat plain yogurt or cottage cheese
 raw beef or chicken chucks, egg (do not use
 dressing of olive oil & org. apple cider vinegar
 sprinkle of vitamin powder (Dr. Goodpet)
 Vit. E w/grapeseed extract
 Ester C
 Brewers yeast tablet

Supplement with apples/applesauce, melon, grapes, etc.
Substitute barley or millet for part of the rice
1 c bran cereal, if rice is too wet
No whole corn kernels (go straight through)
Food is better not frozen (kills the enzymes)

Additions for diabetics: millet, oats, oatmeal, cornmeal, rye bread, winter squash, dandelion greens, alfalfa sprouts

Milk thistle for liver support (Cushings)

Cranberry juice for cystitis, other urinary tract problems. Also asparagus, cucumbers.

1/4 pound ground round or other lean meat
½ cup cottage cheese(uncreamed)
2 cups drained canned carrots
2 cups drained green beans
1 1/2 teaspoons dicalcium phosphate2(

Cook beef in skillet, stirring until lightly browned; pour off fat and cool. Add remaining ingredients and balanced vitamin-mineral supplement and mix well.

Keep covered in refrigerator. Yield 1 3/4 cups.

Feeding Guide
Optimal Body Weight Approximate Daily Feeding
5 lb......................1/3 lb
10 lb.....................2/3 lb
20 lb.....................l lb
40 lb.....................1 3/4 lb
60 lb.....................2 ½ lb

Snacking and scavenging should be absolutely forbidden during the reducing period. However, since many obese dogs are accustomed to begging(and receiving) an occasional tidbit of raw vegetable will add only roughage, vitamins and minerals, not appreciable calories.

From: Melicia <melicia@bellatlantic.net

Taffy (DD) loves this and she is very picky.
 1 cup cooked pasta
 1 1/4 cup ground or minced raw chicken
 ½ tbsp corn oil
 ½ cup green beans or sliced carrots ( fresh, frozen or canned)
 ½ tsp morton lite salt
 ½ tsp bone meal or 3/4 tsp dicalcium phosphate

cooking instruction : sautee or microwave chicken in corn oil. Steam or microwave vegetables. Mix chicken, vegetables and pasta with remaining ingredients. Mix and cool well.

These amounts are for 2 days. Divide each day's portion into 2-4 meals. I did it slightly different because Taffy is so picky- she doesn't like ground chicken. I removed the skin and fat from a chicken breast and boiled it, then cut it into small pieces. I skimmed the fat from the broth and added a little of the broth to the food.

I checked with the vet and she said it was ok to add the broth. Taffy eats it like there's no tomorrow- I never thought I would be so excited to see her eat.

From Sharon <gnicely@mail.utexas.edu>

"My min-pin Jeffy(dd-cushings) has been diabetic for 8 years now. When my Jeffy (DD - Cushings) was first diagnosed, he would not eat and he also needed to lose some weight. My vet gave me a recipe from Hill's which he loved and still gets on Sundays as a special one meal treat"

 Recipe

 1/4 lb lean ground beef, browned and drained
 1 can green beans, drained
 1 can sliced carrots, drained
 1/4 cup dry cottage cheese (or low-fat cottage cheese
 1 white Tum, crushed(for calcium)
 1 pet vitamin tablet crushed
 A little garlic powder for seasoning

Mix well, I sometimes slightly mashed it with my potato masher; Refrigerate extra servings, and microwave about 12 seconds per serving to take the chill off; This makes 3 servings

Julie Hise homecooks for Sam:

"Ok, I'd be glad to give you all the recipe. It really is very simple. You can adjust to your dogs needs.

I simply use 10 different kinds of frozen veggies, a head of red cabbage, yam and alfalfa spouts, a few egg shells for calcium, and brewers yeast and dry roasted unsalted peanuts chopped (only 1/3 cup peanuts. Chop all this up and put aside. 

Next I boil brown rice and barley in a pan, add chicken bouillon cubes and cut up fresh garlic. Since dogs are only supposed to have 26% of the meal in meat, I chop up some chicken. For Sam she gets 1 cup each of the veggies and rice mixtures and 4 ounces of the chopped chicken all mixed together twice a day. To that I add for crunch ½ cup of the all preservative free Innova senior dry dog food.

I make this about every other week and store in pre-measured baggies in the freezer. I leave few days meals in the frig so I don't have to use the microwave to defrost.

In her am meal she gets ½ teaspoon ester c powder, and the following herbs (1 each): nacinamde, Gymnema, Fenugreek, beta carotine, Pet tab, glucosamine, charcoal and bromelain. Mix all together, add a spoonful of cottage cheese on top and she gobbles it all up.  In her evening meal, the food is the same, except the herb are as follows: 1 each-400 mg E, a garlic/parsley capsule, a pectin tab, gymnema and a fenugreek.

She gets 1/4 of a hardboiled egg after each injection as a treat and I put a raw egg in her food once a week for her coat."

MORE IDEAS FROM JULIE HISE'S KITCHEN

We started out on Hills W/D as prescribed by the vet.  However, when I found
out what was in it we switched to home cooking with 1/2 cup Innova Senior
dry mixed in for crunch.  I feed this to Sam twice a day:
1/2c mixed vegetables (frozen variety)
1/4c chopped chicken or chicken livers
1/2c cooked barley (cooked in low fat chichen broth)

For treats, she gets 1/2 hardboiled egg after each shot and after each meal
she get 1 of  her homemade biscuts.

To spice up her food, I save the juice(Cooked and seasoned with garlic) from
the liver and mix it in the veges.

I haven't been on the computer in along time but have just read this email regarding food for home cooking.  As a lot of yall know I have home cooked for Laddie for about 8 yrs. now ( He'll be 10 yrs. old on July 25th).  

I cook his chicken on a rotesserie, where most of the fat drains off.  I debone it,  & use the food processor on it as well as his vegetables so it's very ground up.  

His barley, I don't grind it as it's too sticky when I do.  He weighs about 21 lbs. (scottish terrier) so he gets 1/4 c chicken, about 1/8 - 1/4 c vegetables & 3/4 c barley.  I use the steamer to cook his green beans, & broccoli.  I just use the food processor to grind up his carrots, squash & zucchinni raw..

I use 4 oz. of broccoli, string beans, & squash.  2 oz. of carrots & just 1/2 of a small zuchinni.  Sometimes, I add a small piece of sweet potato.  As a treat after each meal he gets a Nutro lite bone.  I usually give him 2 about 10am.  They are small.  I also give him a small piece of peeled raw apple 
sometimes.  

He does get different supplements.  He has always taken a Lutein/Bilberry capsule or softgel , multi vitamin/mineral, & a chromium tablet 20 mcg. (1/2) with each meal.  I also give him about 150 mg. milk thistle ( 1/2 at each meal).  

He's been doing really well.  He stays inside most of the time unless he's outside when I work in the yard.  It's too darn hot & humid in Mississippi.  :0)

- and -

Corn is very hard for a dog to digest.  White rice & boiled chicken is good when they have an upset stomach, but brown rice is harder to digest even though it is more nutritious.   Before I cook Laddie's chicken, I wash a whole chicken, sprinkle the insides with basil & a little garlic powder.  I then cook it 
in the rotesserie so most of the fat drains out of it.  I take the skin off, & run it through the food processor as I do his vegetables.  It's like you are pre-digesting it for him & it makes it easier on their pancreas.  I give Laddie cooked barley as it's the most nutritious grain & I over cook it to make 
sure it's very well cooked.  If the broccoli or green beans cause gas in some dogs, give a little less.  I steam both of them until tender, about 40 mins. in the steamer.  The raw vegetables, like carrots, squash & zuchinni all get run through the food processor as does the broccoli & green beans.

Phyllis/Laddie