10 Easy Homemade Dog Food Recipes Your Dog Will Love  (Vet-Inspired & Healthy)

My dog Max started refusing his kibble about two years ago. Just flat-out walking away from his bowl. I’d bought the “premium” bag — the one with the golden retriever on the front and the fancy words like superfood blend — and he wanted nothing to do with it.

I thought something was wrong with him. Took him to the vet. She poked around, ran a quick check, then looked at me and said, “He’s perfectly healthy. He might just be bored of his food.”

And honestly? That hit differently than I expected. I’d been eating the same thing every day for my dog and never once thought about whether he actually enjoyed it.

That was the beginning of my homemade dog food journey — and I’ll be honest, the first batch I made smelled so good my roommate thought I was cooking dinner for guests.

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10 Easy Homemade Cat Food Recipes Your Cat Will Love (Vet-Inspired & Healthy)

My cat Miso rejected seventeen different commercial cat foods before I finally gave up and started making her food myself.

Not seventeen brands. Seventeen individual products. Pâtés, shreds, gravies, grain-free, high-protein, senior formula, kitten formula even though she’s four — she turned her nose up at all of it. The vet said she was healthy. She said she was bored. I said a lot of things I can’t repeat here.

The switch to homemade food wasn’t something I planned. I fell into it out of desperation one Tuesday night when I realized she’d eaten maybe four bites of food in two days and I was genuinely panicking. I cooked some plain chicken, shredded it, and put it in her bowl.

She ate the whole thing in under two minutes. Then looked at me like I’d been holding out on her this whole time.

That was eighteen months ago. I’ve since learned a lot — through research, trial and error, one call to my vet, and a few recipes that flopped spectacularly (RIP the salmon-sweet potato experiment). These ten recipes are the ones that have consistently worked for Miso and that I feel genuinely good about feeding her.

Before we get into the recipes, a few important things I wish someone had told me at the start.

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