Offal dog food recipe
Lites (plucks) are animal lungs and sold as offal…they are used in haggis and in faggots and often minced and added to pork for sausages…they are a main food used in tinned dog food, but as tinned dog food is 80% water you are paying a high price for a very cheap source of meat…think about this…if you pay £1 per tin then you are paying 80p for the water and 20p for the meat content and and vegetable scraps added…as an average they are composed of 75% good quality protein and 25% easily digestible fats…most game registered butchers will sell you lites very cheaply and because of the high protein content dogs don’t need much of them…
My dogs love their lite dinners…yours will too!
Ingredients
To make dog food using offal, you will need lungs (aka lites/pluck tops) or Lung, heart combo (aka Plucks) veg trimmings such as potato/carrot/parsnip peelings…the leaves and stalks from cabbage/cauliflower/broccoli etc or a diced up turnip/swede …my dogs love peas and beans and lentils ..but any veg that is going a bit limp and sorry for itself is good…but no onions…add a packet of cheap couscous/pasta…or if your dog isn’t rice sensitive then cheap rice.
Ohh.. My dog love boiled boar lungs. Can I mix it with red pumkin?
Hi Jamie,
I am going to try this out as soon as I can find me a friendly butcher. Today I cooked up some meaty beef bones from the reduced meat section at work, removed the meat from them and added a couple of leeks and carrots to the stock. Luckily I have an electric pressure cooker which saves oodles of time (and electrickery)!! I think they’re going to love this!
I’m making the change because the dogs are doing well with home cooking so far.
Thanks again for the knowledge you share so freely!
Hey Rosemary,
What a lucky dog you have. I hope he appreciates it. Carrots are great, but I’d prob stay away from leeks, also onions too as not that good for dogs. Garlic is ok in small quantities and keeps ticks and fleas away. Sweet potato is great.
Jamie
Thanks for the tip about leeks… I hadn’t considered them as like onions.