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DIY Raw Meal for Dogs: Keto-Style Lamb Bowl Recipe
For those who prefer to fully take the reins on their journey to Truly Raw, we’ve partnered with a certified canine nutritionist to create our DIY Raw Recipes series. These meals incorporate our DIY Parts products and other raw ingredients and are step-by-step recipes that you can follow to ensure you’re feeding your pet a complete and well-balanced raw meal.
A keto-style lamb recipe for pet parents who would like to feed an easy high fat meal. Ketogenic diets can have potential benefits for dogs with cancer or epilepsy. However, there are multiple levels of keto and every dog may have individual needs that should be taken into account when choosing a keto diet. Read more about ketogenic diets here. Additionally, high fat diets may be beneficial for healthy dogs with high activity levels or who are “hard keepers”.
This recipe uses the Carnos Lamb Variety Blend. The Carnos Lamb Truly Raw Base blend can also be used, but it will change the fat levels slightly and remove fiber. Due to the high fat levels of keto diets, fiber is recommended to support healthy stools. This recipe is balanced to NRC nutritional guidelines for Adult Dogs only by our in-house certified canine nutritionist. The recipe is balanced as-is and any ingredient changes or substitutions can affect the balance of the recipe.
Batch Recipe Ingredients:
- Carnos Lamb Variety Blend – 10 lbs.
- Carnos Ground Salmon – 427g
- Blue Mussels, cooked – 160g
- Canned Oysters, in water – 54g
- Hemp Seed Hearts, ground – 32g
- NOW Kelp powder – 5.4 scoops
- NOW Vitamin E dry capsules – 3 pills
Recipe total yield = 184 ounces = 11.5 pounds
Recipe calories per ounce = 58 kcal/ounce
Recipe macronutrients = 17% protein, 16.7% fat, 3.6% carbohydrate
*This recipe is high in fat. Some dogs may not tolerate high fat diets. Therefore, this recipe may not be appropriate for dogs with digestive problems or who gain weight easily.
Required Prep Supplies:
- Meal containers
- Adequate freezer space
- Food-safe cutting board
- Knife
- Kitchen food scale
- Spice grinder
How To Calculate Appropriate Feeding Amounts For Your Pets.
This is a high calorie recipe (58 kcal/oz). Divide your dog’s daily calorie intake by 58 to find the total ounces to feed per day.
*Every dog is an individual with a unique metabolism. Feeding amounts should be adjusted as needed. If a dog is too thin and health issues have been ruled out, increase daily food. If a dog is too heavy and health conditions have been ruled out, decrease food within reason.
Meal Prep Instructions:
- Calculate how many days the recipe will last your dog. The batch can be doubled or tripled if desired. Set out the required amount of tupperware or bento boxes to hold meals. Larger dogs will need larger containers and feeding amounts, while smaller dogs will need smaller containers and amounts.
- Thaw meat ingredients safely.
- Grind seeds for optimal digestion in a spice grinder. Place in a bowl and add the powder supplements (open any capsules). Mix seed powder and supplements thoroughly.
- Portion out each ingredient as evenly as possible into the meal containers.
- Place 2-3 containers in the refrigerator and store the rest in the freezer. Remove 1 container from the freezer each day as 1 thawed container is used. Daily containers can be split into 2 meals per day if desired.
- An alternative prep method would be to add all total ingredients to a large bussing bin or tub and mix together thoroughly, then portion as needed.
Prepping Pro Tip: Use the total weight of ingredients rather than weighing each daily amount for each ingredient. For example: take the total grams of oysters and divide into meal containers as equally as possible. No need to weigh ingredients individually for each day.
Nutritionist Tip: Green lipped mussels will not provide enough manganese to meet nutritional requirements. Blue or black mussels can often be found in the seafood section, such as the brand Panapesca. Blue or black mussels will simply be labeled “mussels” or “mussel meat” in contrast to green lipped mussels, which are labeled specifically as green lipped from New Zealand.