Tools and supplements

Great advice Liz. Honestly, since I'm not going to be buying so much food, prices aren't a huge worry. And since I can't feed him a lot of heart/neck/etc, even better, lol. As in not worry about it. There is a great co-op in my area for bulk buying. When I have a home and a big freezer and am ready to go all out, I'll go that route.

But for Miko's kidney diet, it'll mostly be dark meat chicken (that I can get for $1/lb and ground beef (this may get more expensive. I may have to find something else for that). The rest is going to be grains and very little veggies.

Of which....I bought some farina (cream of wheat cereal) and tried to cook it. Um, bad cook (I don't cook), it turned all rubbery. LOL. But they made great patties. And Miko didn't seem to mind at all. In fact, he seemed to love it. I'm going to ask my friend to help me get some of the meat now (I'll be buying the dark meat chicken at a vietnamese grocery store and well, they don't speak english very well). I'll get the liver from a korean market and well, as for the ground beef, not sure yet. LOL.

For those that feed all this stuff. Do you tend to freeze everything once you make your meals? I'm assuming it would only last in the fridge for a couple of days otherwise.

Oh, gotta buy scissors and a bigger knife. Maybe a chopping block just for this stuff too. :)
 
I get mine portioned and delivered at a great price, LOL
I L O V E it, even more so after reading all your troubles on here... lollll, sorry

As to the scale, I don't use that.... Toffee only was a little hefty because I continued with kibble, but ever since I cut it out for good, and only use either his ball or tiny pieces of dehydrated liver as training rewards, he lost weight and is looking very healthy now. I only now went back to agility class because of ankle injury I had sat out a term, but my awesome Instructor saved me the spot... ANNNNDDD one of girls saw Toffee after the hiatus and said HOLY CRAP, I can't believe that he is so looking like a mean, lean jumping machine. (mind you this is my big, ole short strided Toffee, we taking about here, lolll)

As for the tripe, I feed Green Beef Tripe that come in a five pound package of 10-1/2 pound patties of ground green tripe, so I don't have to deal with it, and to change it up some, I have also ordered some ground lamb... very easy to transport if I go away for a weekend with him, it can stay in cooler or mini fridge and is readily packaged, etc
 
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Thanks everyone. I ended up with the following new tools:

-Cheap scale (I tried to eyeball things and I was WAY off with some, so I may stick to using it for now)

-New cutting board (actually, it's a larger one, and thank gawd, cuz I needed the space)

-Stainless steel measuring cups (since I'm packing in the raw foods, figured it's better than contaminating our daily use ones)

-Plastic freezer safe bowls for storing the daily meals in (I love them too. They have screw on tops and hold the perfect amount)

And I bought them all at Bed Bath and Beyond with 20% off each item coupons. Woohoo!

The things I didn't need are a knife. I realized I have 3 different chef's knives at home, so I'm just using those. I found 3 different types of scissors, so I'm covered if I need to cut meat and/or bone. I think I'm good for what I need to cook/make. :)
 
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