Unlocking the Canine Ancestral Diet by Steve Brown

Author:Steve Brown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dogwise Publishing

Recipe #1: Ruminant beef

4 pounds, 90–93% lean ground beef

¾ pound ground beef heart, preferably grass-fed

¼ pound beef liver, preferably organic or grass-fed

1 pound spinach, lightly cooked or finely ground raw

½ pound broccoli stalks or other vegetable, lightly cooked or finely ground raw

1 can (3.75 oz) of sardines, in water (no salt added)

1½ ounces human-grade bonemeal

4 teaspoons (16 g) hempseed oil

2 teaspoons (8 g) iodized salt

This 4,000 kcal recipe will feed a typical 25-pound adult dog for one week and a typical 45-pound dog for four days. It is about 16 oz of food a day for a 25 pound dog; 27 oz a day for a 40 pound dog.

Step 1: Choose lean meat

• Four pounds of 90–93% lean ground beef.

• ¾ pound ground beef hearts and ¼ pound beef liver (preferably organic).

In the analyses below I use two pounds of 90% lean and two pounds 93% lean ground beef. If you’re feeding pregnant or lactating bitches, or puppies, it’s best to use only 93% lean. You can substitute lean ground lamb, bison, or venison if you want.

One pound of organs is 20% of the meat content and 15% of this recipe. Hearts, as discussed in the ABC day, provide an excellent source of protein, minerals, and other nutrients. Liver is a good source of trace minerals—including copper, iron, manganese, iodine, and zinc—and a reliable source of vitamin D. Liver should be no more than 7.5% of a dog’s overall diet, otherwise the diet may contain too much vitamin A. Filtering organs, such as livers, kidneys, and spleens, remove toxins from the blood and into the urine or intestines to be excreted. I think it’s best, but certainly not essential, to feed naturally raised or organic sources for all filtering organs.

Step 2: Balance fats, add complete range of fatty acids

• Four teaspoons hempseed oil or 1 ½ oz of freshly ground hempseeds. Or as an alternative, four teaspoons of walnut oil or eight teaspoons of canola oil.

• One can of sardines (3.75 oz), in water, no salt added.

As discussed above, the best oils to add to beef, bison, and other ruminant-based foods are hempseed, walnut, and canola. These oils provide LA, short-chain omega-6s, and ALA, short-chain omega-3s. For this recipe, we’re adding four teaspoons (16 grams) of hempseed oil or 1 ¼ ounces of freshly ground hempseeds. If you can’t find hempseeds or oil, add 4 teaspoons of walnut oil or 8 teaspoons of canola oil.

The can of sardines adds highly usable forms of EPA and DHA, making the fatty acid balance acceptable (as shown in Table 6.1), and we can move on to finish the recipe. We’ll check the fat balance again after we add the vegetables and other mineral-rich foods.

Table 6.1 Good fat balance: 4 lbs beef meat and organs with 4 tsp hempseed oil and one (3.75 oz) can of sardines, g/1000 kcal

Ancestral diet Recipe

Total fat 49 50

Saturated fats 15-20 19

Monounsaturated fats 15-25 19

Polyunsaturated fats 5-1 56

LA, omega-6 3.5-12 4.2

ALA, omega-3 1-4 1

LA/ALA 2:1 to 7.1 4.2:1

EPA + DHA 0.

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