Kidney Beans Porridge For Dogs In Recovery
Although Snowball has strong opinion about his meals, he certainly was not showing any sign of distress when I fed him Kidney Beans Porridge for a whole week. He had a temperature of 102.8 – 103.5°F last week and during which he ate and drank very little. So to replenish his protein and liquid intake, I had to whip up a dish that can do just that at one go in least amount of preparation time. Hence Kidney Beans Porridge recipe was “created.”
Ingredients:
- 2 cups of kidney beans, soak them in filtered water overnight
- 6 cups of millet
- 2 cups of cottage cheese (optional)
- 2 tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil, organic
- 2 tablespoon of bonemeal
- 1/2 cup of broccoli, cut and steamed for 2 minutes
- 1 clove garlic, crushed
Methods:
- Bring kidney beans to a boil in 6 cup of water, then reduce heat and simmer for one hour.
- Boil millet in separate saucepan with 6 cups of water, then reduce heat and simmer for 30 minutes.
- Combine both ingredient into one pot when cooking is complete.
- Mix in remaining ingredients, and let it cool before serving.
Special Notes: Depending the size of your dog, this recipe can serve up to a week’s meal for Snowball, Maltese. One important note is never to reheat the remaining portion everyday. Doing so, you will kill all the nutrition values in it. Store the remaining portion into individual container and heat only that portion for that day’s meal.
Just about any kind of beans or lentils can be used in place of kidney beans in this recipe. Just steer clear of canned or refried beans, as they’re nutritionally lacking and cause excess gas.
Barley or barley and oats or other grains can be used in place of the millet in this recipe.
Feb 12th 2010
1:34 AM
I notice you use garlic in lots of your recipies, and just wanted to point out that IN SMALL QUANTITIES garlic is a wonderful supplement, amongst other things, it acts as a natural flea repellant for dogs and cats, and garlic has wonderful antifungal and antibacterial properties.
HOWEVER!!! PLEASE be aware that garlic (and other aliums e.g. onion) are considered POISONOUS to dogs in large quantities and in fact are often found on veterinary list of foods NOT to be fed to dogs! Both garlic and onion cause anemia, (onion also causes a potentially fatal blood disorder – Heinz disease). Garlic contains a compound named thiosulphate – in high levels thiosulphate is a dangerous toxin that cause hemolytic anemia in dogs.
The ‘flip’ side of this is that because garlic promotes the production of white blood cells, it acts as an immune system booster for dogs with low or compromised immunity, and garlic can also benefit dogs with diabetes because this action helps to reduce blood-sugar levels.
Perhaps you should stress in your recipes that garlic should only be used in SMALL QUANTITIES:-)
I am a doctor of Complementary Medicine (now retired) and while most of my patients were two legged I am a dog owner who loves to research alternative and complementary ways to help our beloved pets saty healthy and well.
You can check this information with reliable sources e.g. veterinary web sites etc, where you will also see this information and advice given.