Menu Monday featuring Domino & Lola's Meal Plan

Welcome. This is an exciting week.

We are featuring our 2nd Annual 

Dog Days of Summer Event. 

All this week you'll find Dog Theme posts. 

Beginning today with Domino and Lola's Menu. 

Photo taken at 

Kempner Park Galveston Texas

In July

For those who might be new I have served my girls Home Made food for over 4 years. 

We made this decision when we had Domino a little over 9 months. 

At the time she would have been about 2 1/2. 

In the beginning I fed Domino Chicken flavor Benaful Dry food because that is what I had fed Daisy. 

We never had any problems until our store started having issues keeping it on the shelf.  

I visited other stores and Chewie.com and found much  higher prices. 

About the same time there were several other brands that were being recalled.

At that point.  I/we were done. We had lost faith in producers and wanted a healthy diet. 

A diet that I knew the ingredients. 

It has now been 4 years.  What I seve our dogs is still evolving. 

We buy 10# of White Rice a month.

And 5# of Brown Rice

I usually cook 2-3 days of Rice at a time in a big pot in the oven.  I toss it in oil and cook a bit before adding water and cooking 20 minutes in the oven. 

The protein the girls eat is Chicken.

Usually I buy legs and thighs.  They are the easiest to bone and inexpensive.

When we can get a deal on ground Chicken or Turkey I grab it! 

We buy 24 cans of Green Beans a month. Walmart is .47 a can.

20 cans of Peas and Carrots

I buy about 6 cans of Corn and grind it in the Cuisinart to add to Corn Bread.

I only recently added canned Low Sodium Chick Peas as a Protein supplement when I run short on Chicken or don't get it cooked.

I cook Lentils ever other day also.

And they each get an Egg a day.

Either Scrambled or Poached in the morning. 

They like the gooey poached Egg. 

When I scramble Eggs I make enough for a couple days.

We buy 4 cans of Chicken for emergency. 

We buy 2 bags of Apples each month.

I either dice or use my grater. 

When we have Corn Tortillas that are not fresh enough I add them to their meal. 

Carrots and Apples grate easily. 

When we have fresh Parsley I chop fine and store in.  

I do add Mashed Potatoes when we have leftovers. 

I don't give anything that has Onions or Garlic. 

Domino likes Parsley as much as she likes Spinach.  

Since we have moved to Galveston Domino drinks very little water. 

Not Lola she will even drink out of a bottled water. 

Last week I began offering them Icy Pops.  I started slow breaking one in chunks giving each girl half in  about an inch of water. 

Now they are down to 1/4 of the ice pop in a cup of water.  

That's a huge success! 

Making our own by dog food in is a huge challenge. 

Especially since moving.  I don't have a dishwasher.  And no back yard.  

I  spend alot of my day cooking, cleaning up.  

And walking the dogs. 

But I feel good knowing that they  are be getting the best food!  

Thanks for joining me today I hope your visit My Reading Journeys and see the great books being featured this week! 

Tomorrow I will be sharing our dog park adventures here in Galveston.