Here are some of the recipes from the Nov. 9th episode on food for you and your pets! Enjoy!
Kitty Crackers
(courtesty of i-love-cats.com)
Cat Food Recipe Ingredients:
- 6 ounces of undrained tuna
- 1 cup cornmeal
- 1 cup flour
- 1/3 cup water
Cat Food Recipe Directions:
Preheat the oven
to 350 degrees. Measure all of the ingredients into a bowl and mix thoroughly with your hands. Roll out to 1/4 inch thickness and cut into treat sized pieces. Place on a greased cookie sheet. Bake for about 20 minutes or until golden. Let cool. Give to your cat and watch them gobble it up.
Kathy’s Early Bird Bread Recipe
(courtesy of netpets.org)
- 2 packages of corn bread mix (not sweetened corn muffin mix!)
- frozen vegetable of choice (chopped fresh, or rinsed canned are both OK
- frozen fruit of choice (chopped fresh, or unsweetened canned are both OK)
- hulled raw unsalted sunflower seeds (available at bulk food stores near snacks)
- raisins
- hulled raw millet seed (available at bulk food stores near cereal section)
- fruit juice (orange, apple, etc.) (using more than one kind is OK)
- eggs (1 more than packages call for)
Preheat oven following bread mix instructions. Grease 7″ x 10″ cake pan.
Follow instructions on package for number of eggs used, then add one more egg.
Substitute fruit juices for milk required by mix.
Add approximately 1/2 cup of hulled sunflower seeds, and approximately
1/2 to 3/4 cup each of frozen veggie and frozen fruit.
Add handful of raisins.
Mix all ingredients together well.
Pour into heavily greased 9″x 13″ cake pan.
Sprinkle small handful of hulled millet seeds over top.
Bake until cake pulls away from sides of pan and is golden brown on top
(it should be hard on top, but not burned.)
Let cool completely, then cut into small (1″) cubes.
Place cubes and any crumbled pieces in a plastic bag or container, and freeze.
To use, just remove one or two cubes and thaw, then crumble up into bird’s dish.
Vitamins or wheatgrass powder can be sprinkled over the cooled, baked cake.
For one bird, this should last several weeks. Use as a treat to supplement the regular diet.
In emergencies, this can be served in place of regular food.
For Variety:
- Try using cooked beans, pasta or dry bird pellets instead of frozen vegetable.
- Or mix in 1/2 cup of applesauce (reduce other liquid by 1/4 cup).
- Mix in 1/4 cup of pellets, increase liquid by 1/4 cup to account for pellets absorbing some liquid.
- Or add 4-6 “fruity ice” cubes (see below), thawed, and 1/2 cup melted peanut butter,
to make “PB&J” bird bread!
Do-It-Yourself All-Natural Dog Kibble
(courtesy of greenliving.suite101.com)
To create the basic recipe, mix together in a very large bowl:
- 6 cups of a mixture of potato flour and rolled oats. (You can also use whole wheat and rye flour as well. Avoid the over-processed white flour.)
- 3 cups of cooked brown rice.
- Add 2 cups of dry milk
- And 2 teaspoons of bone meal
- Blend in 3 cups of water to the flour mixture.
In another bowl:
- Beat 4 eggs.
- Melt 1 cup of lard and mix into the eggs.
Stir the egg mixture into the flour mixture. Pour this mixture into a large, greased baking pan. Suitable pans are pizza pans, cookie pans and cake pans. You may need a few of these to do the job. It is okay to use a deeper pan; it will just take longer to bake. You can also add carrots and peas to your recipe, but remember that it’s easier for your pet to digest cooked, shredded, juiced and mashed vegetables.
Preheat the oven to 175 degrees Fahrenheit/80 degrees Celsius. Bake the kibble batter for 45 minutes or until the kibble is done. It should pull away from the sides of the pan and be lightly browned. Take the the pans out of the oven and cool before breaking the baked mixture apart into smaller chunks. Store the homemade kibble in an airtight container in the fridge. and ensure you date and label the container!
Or, if you choose to double the recipe, you can store the remainder in the freezer until ready to use. Thaw then serve.
Gerbil Bites
(courtesy of cdkitchen.com)
Ingredients:
2 cups cornmeal
2 1/2 cups flour
3 tablespoons honey
1/4 cup sunflower butter (or peanut butter)
1 1/2 cup water (more if needed)
2 tablespoons butter
dash of salt
Directions:
Mix all ingredients. Add water until desired consistency and spoon onto cookie sheet
. Bake 10-15 minutes at about 350F.
Puppy Chow (for humans…so human chow)
(courtesy of NetCooks.com)
3/4 cup peanut butter
1 cup chocolate chips
1/4 cup butter
8 cups Crispix cereal
2 cups powdered sugar
Melt the peanut butter, chocolate chips, and butter together. Pour over the cereal in a large kettle or bowl and stir well. Pour the powdered sugar into a large brown paper bag and add the cereal. Fold the bag to seal and shake well to coat evenly.
