Menus & Meal Planner

Sample Feeding Guide and Menu

See the Quick Start Guide available in the bonus section for a four week sample switchover menu.

How to know your dog’s energy level and daily food amount?

Small Dogs: Most small dogs tend to have a higher energy level combined with a faster metabolism which means they consume more weight of food for their size than a large dog would. A good place to start is to feed your dog around 5% of its lean body weight each day.

If your little dog is a real speedy Gonzales and very active, start at 5% and adjust upwards if they are losing weight too easily. If they are pretty laid back, start at 5% and adjust downwards if they are gaining weight too easily.

Medium Dogs: Medium sized dogs generally need between 2% and 4% of their lean body weight in food each day. If your dog is a ball of energy, very active during the day, slim and has high energy, start by feeding them 4% of their daily food needs and adjust up or down as you notice their body condition using the reference chart below. If they are very laid back, sleep for long periods during the day and generally quite mild mannered then start out feeding 2%.

Large Dogs: Large dogs tend to have lower metabolisms and don’t tend to get into gear until play time. If your dog is active start at 2% and if they are very laid back, start at 1% and adjust up or down from there referencing the visual dog condition chart in the Quick Start Guide.

Working out your dogs daily food requirements

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If you’re anything like me then working out a bunch of math is painful, so the table below will help you to know how much your dog needs to eat daily for their energy level percentage. Adjust up or down slightly if your dog’s weight falls between sizes in the table.

How to know what percentage of each food group to feed your dog each day/week/month? 

You won’t be feeding all the food groups at once, so one day it’s 65% muscle meat, 30% meaty bones and 5% veg. The next day it could be 100% muscle meat.

The point being, you can vary the food greatly over the month but overall for that month you have fed the blue portion of the pie as muscle meat, the red portion as meaty bones, the green portion as organs and the purple portion as vegetable matter. And that makes up a balanced diet for your dog each month.

If your really not sure how to work with the percentages above and fix in your mind how that translates into a weekly feeding regime, just go by the information below.

“Feed a pure meat based meal 3 days a week, feed meaty bones 2 days a week and for the other 2 days feed a mixture of meat, bones and some form of vegetable, leafy salad greens or edible herbs, plus eggs, fish or offal such as liver. This will provide the variation and complete nutrition your dog needs.”

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Here’s a breakdown of the overall diet:

Feed around 50% to 65% boneless muscle meat including attached fat.

This includes muscle meats like:

• Turkey mince
• Lamb mince
• Chicken breast
• Ox tongue
• Eggs – count as meat protein
• Lamb, Pork or Ox heart

Feed around 30% meaty bones including attached fat.

This includes meaty bones like:

• Chicken & Turkey necks
• Chicken frames, quarters and wings
• Lamb breast
• Pork trotters
• Veal ribs
• Ox tail
• Fish

Feed around 10% to 15% of the diet in organs:

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This includes organs like:

• Heart
• Liver
• Kidneys
• Spleen
• Lung
• Trachea

Feed around 5% of the diet in vegetable and/or fruit matter.

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This includes various vegetables, leafy salad greens and edible herbs.

• Carrot
• Broccoli
• Cabbage
• Zucchini
• Lettuce
• Spinache
• Cress
• Parsley
• Basil
• Canteloup
• Apple
• Pear
• Banana
• Berries

Other balanced foods you can feed often include:

• Green tripe
• Eggs
• Whole animals like rabbit and quail
• Fish such as Herring, Mackerel and Sardine
• Pre-made commercial raw food meals

Supplements include:

• Krill oil or Fish oil (for grain fed meat)
• Vitamin E (for grain fed meat)
• Super greens
• Himalayan Pink Salt
• Coconut oil
• Canned sardines

How to balance your dogs diet over a month?

No single food source contains everything a dog needs!

Dogs rely on variation, just as we do.  We seek balance through variation, which is easily achieved over a period of time.

As the wolf and other wild carnivores prove to us, there is no need to balance each individual meal.  In fact, it is much better to make each meal different, in order to maintain strong flexibility in the digestion processes and the metabolism.  Wolves in nature are very adaptable and will adjust to almost any conditions and food sources they get access to.  This is good news for us, because it makes it possible to accept a large variety of food sources for our dogs.

By balancing the menu over two to four weeks for an adult dog, you’ll be absolutely fine.  You can actually feed quite one sided for a full week, simply use the following week to compensate for the imbalance.

As an example, if you decide to buy in enough food for one whole month, you can manage it with the feeding guide inside the Quick Start Guide.  This will let you know at a glance what’s needed for each day, so you can stay on top of what to buy or order in ahead of time. Don’t worry too much about which days you feed what, as long as you more or less use the food you have planned for that month.

It’s a great idea every now and then, to experiment with new kinds of food your dog has never tried before.  This provides variation, new, possibly better options and keeps things flexible incase a regular supply source dries up.

Example Menus of Complete Meals for Various Sizes and Energy Levels of Dogs

The following sample meals provide good examples for putting together other well balanced meals. These are complete meal examples but remember you don’t need every ingredient in every meal. They are there to show you what to feed your dog over a week or two. So day one the meal could just be chicken necks, frames or wings, day two a complete meal with supplements, day three minced beef with egg, day four lamb neck, day five complete meal with supplements, day six turkey necks.

The idea is to spread the food balance over a week or two. So for example, your dog gets:

• Fish 1 day a week
• Offal 1 day a week
• Green tripe 1 to 3 days a week
• Beef 1 to 3 days a week
• Chicken 1 to 3 days a week
• Lamb 1 to 3 days a week
• Super greens powder 2 or 3 days a week
• Eggs 2 or 3 days a week
• Vegetables and herbs 1 or 2 days a week
• Coconut oil 2 or 3 days a week
• Himalayan pink salt 2 or 3 days a week

Now if you just bought in a box of chicken frames because they were on offer and have run out of turkey necks or green tripe, just work your way through the chicken frames over the following week or two until you get fresh supplies in.

I like to use super greens powder because it’s rich in vitamins, some minerals, contains a huge range of vegetables, sea greens and herbs, antioxidants, pre and probiotics plus other extracts that can provide extra variety and nutritional benefit – plus it’s super convenient! I still include vegetables, herbs and salad greens to some meals for extra whole food fiber, nutrition and variation.

You can always make up complete meals in large batches then bag up meal sized portions and freeze them to feed throughout the following week or two. Make sure to alternate them with simple meat on the bone, minced (bone in) or limited ingredient commercial raw ready meal choices.

One whole month of menu’s to choose from:

It’s a good idea to feed 3 alternate days meals as complete meals with all 4 supplements included and the rest of the weeks meals as what I call base meals. Let me give you some examples:

Base Meals to Feed Each Week with Meat or Green Tripe   (You can also use Pre-made commercial raw food meals) You can add organs to these meals.

• Green tripe & fine chopped Parsley
• Minced beef with beef liver & part cooked and mashed cabbage
• Minced chicken (bone in) with mashed/liquidized/pureed carrot
• Minced lamb with fine chopped & mashed lettuce
• Minced Turkey & mashed Zucchini
• Sliced Ox tongue & mashed broccoli
• Lamb heart & crushed alfalfa sprouts

Base Meals to Feed Each Week with Meaty Bones

• Lamb breast, ribs and necks
• Pork trotter, neck, rib, breast and feet
• Beef rib, neck and tail
• Veal ribs
• Whole or part fish including head
• Turkey neck
• Chicken neck/whole frame/quarters/leg/thigh/wings/wing tips
• Rabbit, all parts
• Minced (bone included) chicken, turkey, lamb with egg

Complete Meals with Supplements to Feed 3 Alternate Days Each Week:

10lb dog with 4% energy level: 6 ½oz of food per day

• 4 oz of raw green tripe
• ½ oz of liver
• ½ single canned sardine
• pinch of super greens powder
• ½ whole egg (minus shell)
• ¼ tsp coconut oil

25lb dog with 3% energy level: 12oz of food per day

• 8 oz of minced (bone in) chicken
• 1 oz of lamb kidney
• 1 single (canned) pilchard
• ¼ tsp of super greens powder
• 1 whole egg (minus shell)
• ½ tsp coconut oil

60lb dog with 2% energy level: 1lb 3oz of food per day

• 9 oz of mixed chicken frame and small chicken breast
• 2 oz of beef liver
• 1 handful of fresh broccoli, carrots and parsley
• 1 full can of pilchards (usually 3-4 in can)
• 2 whole eggs (minus shells)
• 1 tsp coconut oil

90lb dog with 2% energy level: 1lb 13oz of food per day

• 13 oz of beef mince and small lamb neck
• 4 oz lambs liver
• 1 full can of pilchards (usually 3-4 in a can)
• 3 whole eggs (minus shells)
• 1 ½ tsp coconut oil
• ½ tsp super greens powder

Example recipes for one complete month

Here’s an example month’s feeding schedule. You can follow this routine or make up your own from what you find available. Just rotate through poultry, pork, beef and other meats for variety over the month.

Menu Planner for week 1: 20lb dog at 3% of lean body weight​

Monday: Base meal 10oz or 280g

• 2 x 3oz Chicken necks
• 4oz beef heart
• 1/2 oz fine grated/mashed/liquidized or pureed carrot

Tuesday: Complete meal with supplements 10oz or 280g

• 6oz minced chicken meat
• Half can of sardines
• ¼ tsp of super greens powder
• 1 whole egg (minus shell)
• ½ tsp coconut oil
• Medium pinch of Himalayan pink salt

Wednesday: Base meal 10oz or 280g

• 10oz piece of lamb breast

Thursday: Complete meal with supplements 10oz or 280g

• 8oz minced beef with liver
• Half can of sardines
• ¼ tsp of super greens powder
• ½ tsp coconut oil
• Medium pinch of Himalayan pink salt

Friday: Base meal 10oz or 280g

• 7oz green tripe
• 1 whole egg (minus shell)
• Large pinch of fine chopped parsley

Saturday: Complete meal with supplements 10oz or 280g

• 8oz Chopped lamb heart
• Half can of sardines
• ¼ tsp of super greens powder
• ½ tsp coconut oil
• Medium pinch of Himalayan pink salt

Sunday: Fast Day

• Fresh filtered water only and lots of exercise

Menu Planner for week 2: 2​​​​0lb dog at 3% of lean body weight

Monday: Base meal 10oz or 280g

• 6oz lean ground beef
• 4oz chopped beef heart & liver
• 1/2 oz fine grated/mashed/liquidized or pureed broccoli

Tuesday: Complete meal with supplements 10oz or 280g

• 6oz minced turkey meat
• Half can of sardines
• ¼ tsp of super greens powder
• 1 whole egg (minus shell)
• ½ tsp coconut oil
• Medium pinch of Himalayan pink salt

Wednesday: Base meal 10oz or 280g

• 2x  5oz chicken quarters or legs

Thursday: Complete meal with supplements 10oz or 280g

• 8oz green tripe
• Half can of sardines
• ¼ tsp of super greens powder
• ½ tsp coconut oil
• Medium pinch of Himalayan pink salt

Friday: Base meal 10oz or 280g

• 7oz minced (bone in) chicken
• 1 whole egg (minus shell)
• Large pinch of fine chopped spinach

Saturday: Complete meal with supplements 10oz or 280g

• 4oz minced beef
• 4oz Chopped lamb heart
• Half can of sardines
• ¼ tsp of super greens powder
• ½ tsp coconut oil
• Medium pinch of Himalayan pink salt

Sunday: Fast Day

• Fresh filtered water only and lots of exercise

Menu Planner for week 3: 20lb dog at 3% lean of body weight per day Menu

Monday: Base meal 10oz or 280g

• 6oz pork chunks or ground pork
• 2oz pork liver
• 1 whole egg (minus shell)

Tuesday: Complete meal with supplements 10oz or 280g

• 8 oz green tripe
• Half can of sardines
• ¼ tsp of super greens powder
• ½ tsp coconut oil
• Medium pinch of Himalayan pink salt

Wednesday: Base meal 10oz or 280g

• 8oz beef tongue
• 2oz beef liver
• Large pinch of fine chopped and mashed kale leaf

Thursday: Complete meal with supplements 10oz or 280g

• 7oz chopped beef heart
• Half can of sardines
• ¼ tsp of super greens powder
• ½ tsp coconut oil
• Medium pinch of Himalayan pink salt

Friday: Base meal 10oz or 280g

• 3x 2oz chicken wings
• 4oz chicken breast
• Large pinch of fine grated zucchini

Saturday: Complete meal with supplements 10oz or 280g

• 7oz minced lamb
• Half can of sardines
• ¼ tsp of super greens powder
• ½ tsp coconut oil
• Medium pinch of Himalayan pink salt

Sunday: Fast Day

• Fresh filtered water only and lots of exercise

Menu Planner for week 4: 20lb dog at 3% lean of body weight per day Menu

Monday: Base meal 10oz or 280g

• Small lamb neck (7oz)
• 3oz lamb kidney

Tuesday: Complete meal with supplements 10oz or 280g

• 6oz Minced pork meat
• Half can of sardines
• ¼ tsp of super greens powder
• ½ tsp coconut oil
• Medium pinch of Himalayan pink salt

Wednesday: Base meal 10oz or 280g

• 1 whole Chicken frame 8oz
• Large pinch of finely chopped basil

Thursday: Complete meal with supplements 10oz or 280g

• 8oz green tripe
• Half can of sardines
• ¼ tsp of super greens powder
• ½ tsp coconut oil
• Medium pinch of Himalayan pink salt

Friday: Base meal 10oz or 280g

• 10oz lamb meaty lamb ribs

Saturday: Complete meal with supplements 10oz or 280g

• 7oz minced beef, heart, tongue and trachea (pre-made commercial raw meal)
• Half can of sardines
• ¼ tsp of super greens powder
• ½ tsp coconut oil
• Medium pinch of Himalayan pink salt

Sunday: Fast day

• Fresh filtered water only and lots of exercise

You can rotate these weekly meals through the month. You can also rotate through all the poultry, beef, pork and lamb meats and meaty bones through the month as per what’s available to you either locally or online. Feel free to substitute the vegetables for those listed too.

You can easily make up bulk amounts of the muscle meat meals, including organs meats, egg and vegetables and any of the complete meals with supplements. Just portion off daily feeds, that way you lessen the meal preparation considerably over the week or month ahead.

Supplements Feeding Guide:

Coconut oil:

• Small dog- 1/2 tsp
• Medium dog – 1 tsp
• Large dog – 2 tsp

Super Greens Powder:

• Small dog – 1 large pinch by hand
• Medium dog – 1/3 of supplied scoop
• large dog – 2/3 of supplied scoop

Sardines:

• Small dog – 1 to 2 sardines from a 4oz (100g) can
• Medium Dog – 1 whole 4oz (100g) can
• Large dog – 1 to 2 whole 4oz (100g) cans

Himalayan pink salt:

• Small dog – small pinch
• Medium dog – medium pinch
• Large dog – large pinch