Recipe 3: Beef Treats

In my first post "What to feed your dog" I quickly touched upon treats, and how one of the most bought treats (rawhide) can be quite bad for your dog. Odette's treats consist of bull wrinkle, raw bones, peanut butter and home-made treats.

This first recipe is very easy. Once again, it is from the book "Frisst night - gibt's nicht"by Ingeborg Pils.

What you need:

• Raw beef (any beef will do)
• Oven

The process is quite time consuming but simple:

• Cut the beef into pieces that are about 1cm x 1cm
• Put them on baking paper, apart so that they do not touch
• Put them in the cold oven and turn the temperature to 150 degrees Celsius 
• Leave them at 150C for 1 hour
• Turn the temperature to 100 degrees Celsius
• Put a wooden spoon into the oven door and leave it at 100C for 2 hours
• Take them out and let the pieces dry over night 
• Store them in an airtight container

We bought 2kg of meat for about $17 and it rendered about 500g of treats. However it is a very time consuming process, overall I was cutting away for at least 5 hours and then putting them in the oven, tray after tray, and that took me three cycles of putting them in at 150, etc...

Since I cut the treats into quite small pieces, they will probably last for about 3-4 months. This is why overall the treat is (in my opinion) cheaper than most others because I give Odette a couple of treats a day and they'll still last a while. On top of that do I know that they are completely natural and every dog I have given these to has absolutely loved them, my dog even stopped eating commercial treats because she prefers these so much.

Tip: If you put the treats in an airtight container, they will last for up to a year.