I have several recipes for dog treats. So I will list some variations for you below to the recipe. We go through treats like crazy. Every time we leave they get a cookie, every time we get in the car...They get a cookie...vicious cycle. You even say the work cookie and it's crazy town up in here. So it helps to make our own and I know they will be better for them. A lot of times I use what I happen to have on hand for the treat recipe as well. We always have mint hanging around like 4 different kinds (we drink a lot of Moroccan tea) so it's easy for me to make my own fresh breath treats now and again. Cheaper too...I have even thrown in some left over cheerios before. I do try to limit the sugar in a recipe for the dogs though as I know that won't be very good for them. Today I happened to have just a smidge of light organic agave nectar so I tossed that in to use it up since pumpkin is bland. I don't use exact measuring when I make the dog treats it's more about this or that. So if your dough is a bit thick add some extra applesauce, thin add some extra rolled oats. It will all balance out in the end. Today's recipe included: the core ingredients with rolled oats and flour, agave, pumpkin, and about 1/2c chopped mint (I didn't have any fresh parsley so they can go without this time).
Dog Treat Recipe
Core ingredients:
1 Cup Flour of choice or 1/2 flour 1/2 rolled oats (even thrown some ground flax in before)
1 tsp baking powder
pinch salt
1 egg
Variants to add:
1/4-1/2 cup pumpkin puree
1/4-1/2 cup banana
1/4-1/2 cup applesauce
1/4-1/2 cup peanut butter
Fresh mint/parsley
shredded carrot
*note the cookies with the banana are the sweetest. The others w/o an added sweetener are kinda bland but Butter and Nana don't seem to mind. I also keep the cookies in the freezer in a Ziploc and just take out what I will use for a week.
Bake at 350 for about 15-20min or until done (I peak through the oven window at about 12min). Makes about 24 cookies or so using one of those tiny cookie scoops that looks like an ice cream scooper. I often times split the cookie between the 2 pups. I make mine with the scooper because Butter is old and missing a few teeth so it makes the treats softer and easier to eat. You can always make them more crunchy by making them thinner and doing it like a sugar cookie and make the dough a smidge dryer then I did in the picture.
Pumpkin Pie Protein Shake
1 cup 1% milk
1/2 cup pumpkin puree
1 scoop vanilla protein powder
2 tbs of splenda *
1/2 tsp pumpkin pie spice
1 tsp vanilla
*I hate the flavor of vanilla protein powder so I used 2 tbs of splenda but if I was making this for someone else I would use 1 tbs. I just need the extra sweetness to mask the vanilla powder.
Blend for 1 min. Serves 2 of me but 1 hubby Enjoy!
Nutrition (1/2 recipe): 173 cal, 16g carbs, 20g protein
Time to head out and figure out what to make with some chili lime flavored ground pork I bought o sale at Food Lion the other day. Taco's maybe? Grilled like a burger?
If you try the dog treats let me know how they turned out!
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