Blog DIY Raw Meal for Dogs: Surf and Turf Recipe
For those who like 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.
This recipe is balanced to AAFCO nutritional guidelines for Adult Dogs only by our in-house certified canine nutritionist. Without nutritional yeast, the recipe meets the NRC minimum for Vitamin B1 but is 3% short of the NRC Recommended Allowance. Adding nutritional yeast will adjust the recipe to meet NRC guidelines in addition to AAFCO. The recipe is balanced as is and ingredient changes or substitutions can affect the balance of the recipe.
Batch Recipe Ingredients
- Carnos Beef Truly Raw Base – 13 lbs
- Carnos Ground Salmon – 1 lb
- Blue Mussels, cooked – 200g
- Hemp Seed Hearts, ground – 30g
- NOW Kelp powder – 5 scoops
- NOW Vitamin E dry capsules – 3 pills
- NOW Nutritional Yeast (optional) – 1.5 tsp
- Fibrous Vegetables (carrots, spinach, etc. This ingredient is optional.)
Recipe total yield = 232 ounces = 14.5 pounds
Recipe calories per ounce = 43 kcal/ounce
Recipe macronutrients = 17.5% protein, 9.6% fat, 5.8% carbohydrate
Required Prep Supplies
- Meal containers
- Adequate freezer space
- Cutting board
- Kitchen knife
- Kitchen food scale
- Spice grinder
How To Calculate Appropriate Feeding Amounts For Your Pet.
The following is a very general guideline for calculating feeding amounts. Try using our Feeding Calculator to help you determine how much to feed your unique dog.
Adult dogs: 2% of bodyweight for inactive dogs, 2.5% of bodyweight for most average dogs, and 3-4% of bodyweight for highly active dogs.
Example: A 45-pound healthy, average adult dog fed at 2.5% of their body weight should be fed 18 ounces of food per day.
*Every dog is an individual and their metabolism is unique to them. 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 finely chop mussels and 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 mussels 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.