Saving money on pet food

Today just a super quick post about saving  money on pet food. Our pets just like us do much better with health when fed a nutrient dense diet, filled with a wide variety of foods to give them lots of different nutrients.

Today while grocery shopping I purchased around $20 worth of organ meat (livers, hearts), chicken giblets, and pet mince. Collectively, around 10kg. I also gathered the veggies from the fridge that were past their best and some lentils and rice and some eggs that I couldn't sell. 

I used the Thermomix steaming basket to cook up brown rice, white rice, green lentils and red lentils.  I cut up the chicken hearts and liver, and minced the giblets and the lamb hearts and diced the veggies.  I even threw the egg shells into the Thermomix to crush the eggshells.  

I packaged the pet food into used food containers to go in the freezer. I got around about a months supply of food for the dog and the cat (as we also use dry food)

We used to buy our pet food from a the local dog store where our dog does puppy classes, at a cost of $15 per week (which was only for the dog). The cost to produce a month supply in the Thermomix was around $25. A monthly saving for us of around $40 - and we know exactly what is going into the dog (and cat's) belly!

We love our furry friends as much as we love our kids, so of course they should Just Eat Real Food too!!