The amount of ingredients and size of the loaves are geared toward my 15lb dogs, please check the calculator on the information page to determine how much food your dog should be eating per meal. My 15lb dogs get 1 cup of home made food per day, divided into 2 half cup servings. Each of these loaves is 1/2 cup of food each! Even if your dogs are larger, you can still utilize this recipe, just adjust the size of the serving to suit your pup!
Ingredients:
2.5 lbs ground beef ($6.24 at Aldi)
1 cup cooked organic steel oats
2 organic eggs
1/4 cup fresh chopped Italian parsley
1/2 cup unflavored breadcrumbs (can also substitute flax seeds)
1 10 ounce bag of frozen mixed veggies *corn, string beans, peas, carrots* (about 10 ounces, NO ONIONS!) (89 cents at Target)
1/4 cup unsalted roasted sunflower or pumpkin seeds (if you don't have or don't want to use these, just add 1/4 more of the breadcrumbs, flax seeds, or steel oats)
**this recipe had both the vitamin supplement I purchased, as well as the calcium supplement I've posted below added to it**
Preheat oven to 350. Cook the steel oats separately. Chop the veggie mix in the food processor so it's a small chop. Combine the meat, eggs, parsley, breadcrumbs, sunflower seeds, cooked oats, and veggies and mix like you would a meat loaf. I used 1/2 cup scoops of the mixture to form balls and placed them in a muffin tin. You can mold it into a big loaf if you'd like, or use a baking sheet and form the size loaves you'd prefer.
Bake for 20-30 minutes (depending on size of the loaf) and remove when done. I took them out about 15 minutes through and flipped them over. There was a lot of fat from the meat, and because the loaves filled the muffin tins completely, I placed the muffin tin on a baking sheet to prevent the fat spilling over into the oven.
Once cooled, I placed in a tupperware container (you could use a ziploc) and put 1/2 of the loaves in the fridge for the next few days and the other 1/2 in the freezer. This recipe yielded 18 loaves at 1/2 cup each. If the total amount the recipe cost was estimated at $8 (including what I bought and estimating what I had) and it yielded 18 servings, that's about 45 cents a serving.