Meal prep, part two

On Thursday we had a rather spontanious trip to the city, and when we were there we of course took the opportunity to go to City Gross, sort of a paradise for Swedish raw feeders (or for me at least). They have a lot of fun meat parts so I couldn't resist buying some, which also resulted in a meal prep later in the evening. And to call it a huge meal prep is maybe an exaggeration, it felt like a lot and I also planned to do some of the unprepared meat in the freezers, but that will wait to another time. The pictures may be blurry or dark, but it was starting to get dark and the kitchen lamp isn't the brightest one.

Everything prepared on the table. Today it's pork liver, pork tails, pork flat bones, pork cartilage bones, whole chicken x2, and a piece of ox heart. As this is from a store it's relatively easy to cut, so I only use a pair of scissors, a big and a small knife. Two cuttingboards, a small kitchen scale to the right. And I'm using coloured plastic bags to put the meat in, usually one colour for each meat, but sometimes I mix different species in the same meal/bag.

Liver is approx 5% of the give for a PMR diet (80/10/5/5). Brownie has 10-15 grams of liver a day, and I put them in ice cubes trays to easily take up one by one. Sometimes I feed it frozen, sometimes thawed. And i most often give one piece every day, but sometimes I skip one day so he gets two the next day.

Lots of liver for Brownie :D

Then put in a bag like this, but this is lamb kidney, the other 5% of organs he gets.

I very seldom put a complete meal in the same bag, as he eats twice a day (well 1-3 times, most often two times). But here I decided to put meaty bones and meat in the same bag. It's pork flatbone and ox heart. Heart is technically an organ, but counted as muscle meat in dog food. Brownie eats ~200 grams a day, 3-4% of his body weight. The usual recommendation is 2% but Brownie needs more as he is active. So he gets 150 grams in the main meal in the evening, and 50-70 grams in the morning. Sometimes he gets the meaty bone in a seperate meal in the afternoon.

Bags of flat bones and heart.

Ready for the freezer, featuring Brownie the Sneaky Pooch

The pig tails is cut in half and then wrapped in food wrap to freeze seperately so that we can use it as a snack. 

Yummy snack package!

We also bought some cartilage bones. I do the same as with the pig tails, the difference is that cartilage doesn't count as real bones, it doesn't contain enough calcium. So it's only used as breakfast/snack and then I add another calcium source in the main meal (edible bones, bone meal or eggshell powder).

Put back in the same package we bought it in, makes it easy to know what it is when the label is still there.

For chicken it's pink bags! And the bottles in the window sills are for my allergies and vitamin B12 (a)
But I'm thinking of writing a blog post about Brownie's supplements too.

As mentioned many times before, Brownie isn't very picky with bone percentage, he tolerates more than most dogs, I believe. The bone percentage for wing is 46% and 21% for chicken thigh/drumstick. Then he gets more meat (offal, etc) in the morning meal. And oh, do you see Brownie McSneakySneak at the left? ;)

Everything done in the freezer. This will be enough for some time (y)