Easy Slow Cooker Dog Food
Easy Slow Cooker Dog Food is the perfect homemade DIY dog food that is nutritious, easy to make and puppy-approved delicious. Simply add in ground beef, vegetables, rice and beans to your slow cooker and let your crockpot serve up perfect home cooked dog food for your favorite pet.
Ingredients
- 2 pounds Ground beef, lean
- 1 1/2 cups Brown rice
- 15 ounces Kidney beans, low or no sodium preferred
- 1 1/2 cup Butternut squash
- 12 ounces Green beans, chopped
- 2 cups Frozen vegetable mix
- 4 cups Water
Instructions
- Add ground beef, brown rice, beans, veggies and water to your slow cooker.
- Cover and cook for 5 to 6 hours on Low or 3 to 4 hours on High, stirring occasionally to break up the meat and combine everything.
- Let cool completely and then portion out your dog food for the week.
Notes
EXPERT TIPS
- When making slow cooker dog food recipes, you will find you can easily customize the recipe around what ingredients you have on hand. Have chicken but no ground beef? Swap it out.. No green beans but have peas? Add them instead… you get the idea.
- Make sure what you are adding is safe for dogs so do a bit of research before adding anything new .. and hey, feel free to message me if you have any questions 🙂
- You are not draining the grease from the slow cooker so be sure to use lean ground beef.
- Let your food cool completely before portioning out for storage. I usually store mine in the refrigerator in a HUGE Tupperware container and feed my dogs by adding ½ a cup or so to their kibble at each feeding. Your dog food in the fridge will be fine up to a week.
- Home cooked dog food recipes like this are a dream to freeze. Simply add your portion to a zip top bag, squish out any excess air, lay the bag on it’s side and press it flat. Freeze them like that and you wont take up all of your freezer space. Frozen dog food is good in the freezer for up to 3 months.
