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Users heaped praises in the comments box about how their dogs lapped up these meat cakes.

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This tasty recipe straight from All Recipes, an uberpopula­r human recipe site that has a surprising number of homemade dog food recipes.

Rated as 4.67 out of 5 stars, it comes from Shelly H, the owner of five dogs (all Terriers) ranging from five years to 17 years. After a big dog food scare, she says: “I didn’t want to take chances so I tried to figure out a healthy recipe for them, something that had all the nutrients and fat they needed. This is what I came up with and my dogs loved it! The nice thing about this recipe is that it can be eaten by humans as well.”

POOCHIE MEAT CAKES

Prep: 35 minutes Cook: 1 hr 15 mins Ready In: 2 hours

Ingredient­s

1 1/ cups brown rice

2

3 cups water

2 large potatoes, grated 4 large carrots, grated

2 large celery stalks, chopped 6 kg ground beef

8 eggs

1 dash salt

1/4 cup olive oil

1 1/2 cups regular rolled oats

Directions •Preheat oven to 205 degrees C. Grease 36 cups of 3 large muffin tins.

•In a medium saucepan, combine the rice with water. Bring to a boil over high heat, uncovered, and cook 10 minutes. Reduce heat to low, cover, and simmer 20 minutes. •Remove from heat, let cool several minutes, then fluff with a fork and set aside.

•In a large bowl, combine the potatoes, carrots, celery, ground beef, and eggs. Mix ingredient­s together using your hands or a sturdy spoon. Add salt, olive oil, rolled oats, and rice; mix well.

•Fill each muffin cup with some of the meat mixture, and pat down the to make it firm. Bake 45 minutes, or until surface feels set. Cool on a rack 10 minutes or longer.

•Remove the meat cakes by turning the muffin tin upside down over a sheet of aluminium foil. Tap each muffin cup to release the cake. Refrigerat­e or freeze in sealed plastic bags.

NOTE: Do not feed to dogs while still hot.

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