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Can I make cheap, non-refrigerated homemade food for my pets?

Updated On September 23rd, 2025

Pet's info: Dog | Mixed Breed | Female | spayed

Hi! We have non profit organization and almost 100 dogs and 30 cats. The biggest problem for us is food. Can you give me any recepie for homemade, cheap food? Also, we don't have freezer or fridge, so is there any recepie for non spoiling food?

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Answered By David Elbeze, DVM, MRCVS

Veterinarian

Published on September 9th, 2017

Any recipe anyone could give you will be more expensive than cheap dry food and will either require refrigeration or having to make it every day. if you want to reduce the cost of food, although far from ideal, add boiled rice to dry kibbles, this will bulk up the food but will reduce change the balance between ingredient and could cause some vitamin and protein deficiency long run.

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