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Man’s best friend, is our dog. As I get older I appreciate my dogs more and more. I have been working in feeding them more nourishing meals and more nourishing treats.

Most of my family have dogs of their own and they are just as much a part of the family. We love all of our pets that have become part of our lives.

I have been making my dogs treats for some time now. By giving them out to others they have become rather popular. The kids started calling them “Gramme’s Cookies“. I make them for a lot of people now.

I developed a basic treat recipe and add different flavors to it that the dogs really like. I have beef, chicken, turkey and peanut butter. I am going to start making a lamb and rice also. I make the stock that I use for the liquid in the recipe from scratch.

I have decided that keeping “Gramme’s Cookies” healthy for the dogs they would need some other basic additions too. Brewer’s yeast, wheat germ and a vegetable. I am also going to start adding bone meal to the recipe too.

You can find out more about “Gramme’s Cookies” here: http://athomelifestyle.com/blog/grammes-cookies/

Do you have a favorite dog treat recipe? What do you consider to be a healthy treat for your dog? Please leave me a comment to share this.

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I guess my dogs are not the only dogs that love my “Gramme’s Cookies”.  I am sure baking up a storm here at my home. 

The quality of the food you can buy commercially is very disappointing.
Have you checked the ingredients lately?  Most dog foods contain corn and for most it is the main ingredient.

And all the additives are shocking.  I grew up learning from the “old school”  and if we had a dog it was an outside dog.  It was not allowed to stay in the house.  But, I grew up in California where the winters were pretty mild and it was not such a health threat as it is here in Upstate New York.

It seems the “ALERTS” for contaminated food or recalls just never stops. All of a sudden that commercial food you have been buying for years and really trust is now poison for you dog and you have been unknowingly feeding poison to your loved pet because you don’t get to know about it until it is too late and you have already fed it to them.

Thankfully you can now go on the internet and research your dogs nutritional needs and get all kinds of advice and helpful articles. And you can make you own nutritional dog food and treats.

I was very interested in what vegetables were good for dogs consumption and could be added to their diet on a daily basis.  I found that there are some very good vegetables that can be safely added and that they mostly have the same benefits as they do for us humans.

For instance, Carrots, Green Beans, Cabbage, Green leafy vegetables, broccoli are all very good for you dog.  The main issue is that they should be cooked to insure ease of digestion. I will continue to research this and post more on each of these vegetables and their benefits.

So, I plan to add at least one of these to my basic recipe for Gramme’s Cookies.  It will be more costly but it will help keep the treats more nutritional for them too.

Gramme’s Cookies has become very popular here at home and continues to get more popular.  If you would like to check them out you can get more information here:  Gramme”s Cookies

What do you do for a treat for “our best friend”? Please leave a comment and help create a discussion here. I am determined to continue to learn and research this topic so any helpful hints are very much appreciated.

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Well, I have to say I am suprised that my “Gramme’s Cookies” are going over very well.  The dog treats that I have discussed on another page here:  Gramme’s Cookies are getting pretty popular just by word of mouth.

I had to work on this a bit as they got more popular.  I have been making my dogs treats and most of the food that I feed them since the big dog food scare in 2008.  You remember, the Poison Melamine found in the protein used to make the dog food and dog treats that came from China.

The fact that we could be unknowingly be feeding our dogs that we love so much a poison I just could not bare.   But then I made my children’s baby food too for the same reason (this was more than 25 years ago).  What really bothered me was that there was no consequences to anyone who made the dog food.  I mean no real consequences.

When more people started asking for the dog treats I decided to come up with a basic recipe that I could just change the flavors that I used in it.  My dogs really enjoy the cheese, beef, chicken, turkey and peanut butter “cookies” (as we call them).

So, then I had to get busy and find a better price and look into getting the supplies in bulk because this changed from just adding more flour and such to the grocery list.

I played around with packaging ideas and label set up for awhile until I found something simple but descriptive  to put on each cookie package.  Now, I am looking into shipping and mailing prices.

It really is a good feeling to have so many really like something you are doing.

There continues to be ongoing alerts in the press that we don’t hear much about anymore. I personally don’t understand why. I think we need to be more aware of what is going on in the pet industry as far as how our dog food is being made and what it is being made with. I plan to continue to research this and make further posts on my future findings.

ALERT!

Here is an Alert on a recent recall that we need to pay attention to  FDA has issued a recall on certain Merrick Beef Filet Squares Dog Treats you can view more information here.

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