Making it Affordable

It doesn’t have to be expensive

If you have done a price check on the commercially-prepared raw or cooked meals at your local store than you may have been a little shocked at the price. You may have changed your mind about trying it or been discouraged about this option. Well, it doesn’t have to be expensive. What you want is human-grade and possibly organic ingredients. That’s not expensive or hard to get, that’s what you eat; it’s readily available at your grocery store! So, you add a few items to your weekly shopping. Select meats such as regular ground beef, chicken thighs and chicken gizzards. Add some extra vegetables to your shopping cart; yams, kale, or broccoli. Buy enough to last until your next shopping and then divide into daily portions to freeze.

Average cost of feeding per day

An 80lb dog will eat 1lb of meat per day. That meat will cost $1.29 - $2.00/lb depending on what type of meat. The vegetables are a very nominal cost of $0.15 - $0.40. Remember that calculation is for high quality, fresh, human-grade food that replicates a carnivores natural diet.

*Hint: use up vegetables that you know your family will not eat before they go bad, to feed to your dog. After grinding up in the food processor or blender they can be frozen in containers or bags. Be sure to portion into small enough sizes that they will be used up in a few days once thawed. 

Basic Recipe

A mixture of 75% raw meat and 25% vegetable

• 40% muscle meat, 20% organ meat, 15% fat
• by choosing meats with high fat content you will naturally achieve the 15% fat. Choose regular ground beef and chicken or turkey with all the skin
• absolute precision is not necessary on a daily basis, the body remembers and will benefit from these ratios being met over a period of time
• heart is a muscle meat, very rich in CoQ10, and very important for animals with any heart conditions

For 1 cup of raw or cooked food:

• ¼ cup of organ meat (preferably liver)
• ½  cup muscle meat
• ¼ cup raw ground vegetables (raw is best even if cooking the meats)
• Calcium supplement by animal weight
• Essential Fatty Acids (Omega 3) by animal weight

Prepare a larger amount and freeze into daily portions:

For 8 cups of food:

• 2 ½ cups of organ meat (preferably liver)
• 3 ½  cups of muscle meat
• 2 cups of raw ground vegetables (raw is best even if cooking the meats)
• Calcium supplement by animal weight
• Essential Fatty Acids (Omega 3) by animal weight