Blog DIY Raw Meal for Dogs: Tripe 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.
This recipe is balanced for All Life Stages to Nutritional Research Council (NRC) nutritional guidelines for dogs by our in-house certified canine nutritionist. This recipe is complete and balanced as it is written, and any ingredient changes or substitutions can affect the balance of the recipe.
Pro Tip: It is recommended to rotate recipes containing neck bones with recipes containing other meaty bones to avoid potential dietary hyperthyroidism due to residual thyroid hormones that may be left on necks.
Batch recipe ingredients.
- Carnos Boneless Beef with Tripe Mix – 2,740g
- Carnos Green Tripe, ground or chunks – 500g
- Carnos Turkey Necks or Duck Necks, ground, neck ends or whole – 1,250g
- Carnos Duck Organ Mix – 500g
- Carnos Salmon, ground or chunk – 500g
- Canned Oysters, in water, drained – 200g
- Green Beans – 500g
- Hemp Seed Hearts, ground – 30g
- Nutritional Yeast – 10g
- NOW Iron Bisglycinate, 18mg – 8 pills
- NOW kelp powder – 5 scoops
- NOW vitamin E dry capsules – 2 pills
Recipe total yield = 220 ounces = 13.7 pounds
Recipe calories per ounce = 45.4kcal/ounce
Recipe macronutrients = 16.13% protein, 9.62% fat, 1.37% carbohydrate
Required Prep Supplies:
Meal containers, freezer space, cutting board, knife, kitchen food scale, spice grinder, blender.
How to calculate appropriate feeding amounts for your pets.
This is a very general guideline for calculating feeding amounts:
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.
Puppies: Puppies will typically start at 8-10% of their bodyweight at 8-10 weeks of age. The percentage will slowly decrease as their weight/age increases. You want to feed enough that your puppy is not underweight, but not enough to make them chubby so take care to monitor their weight gain as they grow and adjust feeding amounts as necessary.
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
Meal prep instructions.
- Calculate how many days the recipe will last for your dog based on how much they should be fed daily, according to the calculation instructions outlined above. This recipe batch can be doubled or tripled if you’d like to prep additional food and have the appropriate freezer storage space. Set out the required amount of air-tight storage containers to hold the meals. For example, if your dog eats approximately 1lb per day, the recipe as is would 13.7 days, and you would need 13 containers that are large enough to hold 1 pound of food. Larger dogs will need larger containers and feeding amounts, while smaller dogs will need smaller containers and amounts.
- Thaw meat ingredients.
- Grind hemp seeds for optimal digestion in a spice grinder. Place in a bowl and add the powder supplements (open any capsules). Mix hemp powder and supplements thoroughly.
- Blend the green beans well. Slowly mix or blend the hemp/supplement powder into the blended green beans. Ensure it is mixed well.
- 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 mix all ground ingredients in a large bin, then portion as needed.
Prepping Tip: Use the total weight of ingredients rather than weighing each daily amount for each ingredient. In the example of prepping this recipe for 13 days, take the total 500 grams of organs and divide into meal containers as equally as possible. No need to weigh organs individually for each day.
Nutritionist Tip: When the ground option for all ingredients are used, this recipe can be mixed well into a balanced food mix that is a great option for weaning puppies. Using thick cleaning gloves that are new and clean can help protect hands from cold temperatures while mixing.