Making our Veggies patties for the dogs (Pics included)

 We started our "Veggie Patties" that we made for the dogs.  


The recipe we made up (for now) was:  

NOTE: We shredded all of this  before hand in our food processor and then added it back in the processor a little at a time and adding raw hamb to it.  There was 10 oz of veggie mix to 8 oz of hamb but we will try 1/2 and 1/2 mix next time (it is recommended to do it 1/2 and 1/2).  If they are too gassy we will up the meat a little for sure!  The veggies are bound to give them SOME gas I'm sure. 

3 lbs carrots
2 bunches of celery
1 head of cauliflower
2 bunches of brocoli
1 bag of spinach (10 oz bag)
1.5 bell peppers (found in fridge and pass their prime so we added them)
Dark leaf lettuce (also found in fridge but still edible enough for the dogs)
11 lbs of hamb (raw) to hold the pattys together and make it 
pleasing to the dogs so they 'eat their veggies' 

NOTE:  We are planning to change our recipe to add a few more important veggies, eggs, and also probiotics as well.   The new recipe will be added to a newer post.  As we learn and time goes on this MAY change again.  

This made 51  8-9 oz patties which will last them  about 26 days (each dog gets one a night)

Some ppl add garlic we did not.  I have read some places not to feed dogs garlic so I choose not to add it.  
Now, this was messy, I'm not gonna lie!  But it was kind of fun in a way also. We worked together (husband and I) and we kind of enjoyed it...THIS time haha.  We will see how it goes as we keep doing this.  My sons girlfriend claims that this was the strangest thing she had ever seen.  I believe her!  
We only got about 1/2 of the patties made so far and will finish up tomorrow.  We ran out of hamb so had to put it on hold until we get more tomorrow (another 5.5 lbs which I already added to the recipe so don't get 16.5 lbs of meat...you only need 11 lbs TOTAL) we have our veggie "slaw" in a big bowl for tomorrow.  
SO...bet your wondering how the dogs liked it??  We DID try it out on them.  First I tried a piece of veggie here and there.  They ignored that and dropped it on the floor.  OK, then I tried our mushed veggie pattie mixture and they went crazy for it!  We tested the mixture on our Boxer and our Chocolate Lab and they were both pleasantly (VERY MUCH SO) pleased by them which made US very happy because we worked hard on making these and made a big mess in the process!  
We also added a little beef  carne picada (just shredded beef pieces)  to the chicken they had been eating for the first week to give them a little something different for week two.  Week one WAS a shorter week then planned but they had NO problems at all so I figure it would be just fine.  We will give them the meats for meal one at 7-8am and then the veggie pattie with a very small portion of meat with meal two.    Also weighing the dogs today to see what the  results of week one is after being on this diet for about 6 days.  Will update that tomorrow. We will get the costs together also vs. the cost for our kibble food.  So far so good with that! Little more to figure yet but we are keeping a spread sheet on our costs of the meat/veggies and will post it on another post.


Now for the pictures of our Veggie Patties: 

Pic 1 is of the shredded "slaw" mix (this is ONLY veggies using the shredder blade on the food processor)
Pic 2 is getting ready to pulverize about 10 oz of veggies ("the shredded mix (pic 1)"), 8 oz of hamb and about 1/4 cup of leaf spinach.  Pulse that until it looks like a paste.
Pic 3 is what that mush should look like when done
Pic 4 is the patties (put them on a large cookie sheet and flash freeze them for a few hours and add them to a gallon size baggie grab one our per night time meal (5-6 pm) along with a small protion of meat (chick wing) maybe.
Pic 5  we measure each pattie out to equal about 8 oz per Pattie. the plate shown in picture is a med sized plate.