Love this post from the folks at Feed Real
Feeding your dog a homemade fresh food diet doesn’t have to be complicated. It can be overwhelming when you’re told that each meal must have 20 different ingredients and you need to use a spreadsheet and supplements to make sure every meal is complete and balanced.
We recognize the importance of following AAFCO/NRC/FEDIAF guidelines for making dog food, and checking with formulation spreadsheets when you are new to raw feeding can be helpful. Using spreadsheets and precise numbers can also make feeding your dog fresh food unnecessarily complicated. Those guidelines were developed based on kibble, not whole human-grade food, so following them closely can lead people to over supplement or supplement without purpose.
We don’t meticulously measure each component of our own food, and similarly we advocate for balancing your dog’s meals over time. Nutritional balancing over time ensures a balanced diet for dogs by offering a variety of ingredients and recipes over time rather than relying on detailed nutritional analysis and spreadsheets for every meal.
Use our free calculator to incorporate fresh food into your dog’s diet in just a few simple steps. We also have a feature that allows you to use air-dried treats as a substitute for one of the six components in your fresh dog food recipes.
Give it a shot and see how simple making your food at home is! Dog Food Calculator