re: Anyone make their own dog food?

i would be interested in making my own dog food, but i doubt that it's somethign that can be left out for hours. My terrier mix would probably destroy it in a few seconds, but the Husky eats when he feels like it. He'll go 36 hours sometimes without eating. I only feed them once a day, but it's not often he eats all of his food in one sitting.

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You say 8-10 frozen greenbeans, is that 8-10 green beans only?

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8-10 of the .88 cent bags at WalMart
They have bigger bags but they aren’t cut

I freeze it in Rubbermaid containers, mostly 1 day but I do make some bigger bowls
Takes a day or 2 to thaw so I keep 4 bowls rotating

She won’t eat anything else now, honestly it’s a pain in the arse & takes awhile to do (for a big dog)
Once she’s gone & I have another dog I’ll buy their food

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Zero chance this dog would eat raw meat or especially raw vegetables.

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We had a dog that would steal cucumbers from the garden & take them in the house & gnaw like a bone

There was some big study a year or two ago that came out and it was revealed a lot of the high end dog foods were "worse" (by whatever metrics they used) and I think actually Purina was one of the highest rated ones. I remember it being a big thread here because people who buy $100 food were pissed

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Why the vegetables?

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Not sure really. We just looked up a diet for French bull dogs with skin allergies and that’s what it included. Ground beef, veggies, rice or potatoes, and yogurt.

I just started making home cooked fresh food here about 2 weeks ago.. talked to the vet and tweaked some of the online recipes.
Boil protein of choice (allergic to chicken, and avoid pork so I've been using beef or turkey), with dog safe veggies and brown rice.
Cook it all on the weekend,cool and a quick spin in the food processor, portion out individual servings for about 5 days- putting a small spoonful of Greek yogurt and pumpkin on top with a piece of water packed sardine- and freeze the rest.
Coat is so much softer and smoother, and skin irritation and itching (foot licking) essentially stopped.

We raise rabbits. Skin and gut, add a couple pieces to commercial food. Raw, bones and all.