Tasty Tuesday 4-9-13
We are late with our Tasty Tuesday post for our friend Golden Sugar Woofs, but here’s a favorite pose around our house. Jack & Maggie waiting for some tasty morsels to drop off of dad’s plate into...
View ArticleTasty Tuesday 4-16-13
Our friend, Sugar over at Golden Woofs has a great collection of Tasty Treats and sponsors a weekly Tasty Tuesday Blog Hop along with Kol’s Notes. We try to join each week to share our thoughts on food...
View ArticleTop 5 Healthy Snacks for your Dog
Slimdoggy’s mom is not much of a cook, but that doesn’t mean we don’t have Tasty Treats As long as they are good for us. Here’s SlimDoggy Jack’s TOP FIVE HEALTHY snacks (in no particular order)...
View ArticleDog Food Ingredients Overview
Dog Food Ingredients – an Introduction Today, we are embarking on a long series of posts on dog food and dog food labels. We kick-off with an overview of our dog food criteria (and why). We thought...
View ArticleDog Food Protein, Why Should I Care? Pt 1
Tasty Tuesday is about celebrating ‘good food’. Good food can mean many different things. To SlimDoggy, our goal is to help our friends understand the essentials of quality food, food you want to feed...
View ArticleWhat KIND of protein is best for my dog? (Part 2)
Here we are again, joining the Tasty Tuesday Blog Hop. Tasty Tuesday is about celebrating ‘good food’ and to us good food also means healthy food. We continue our discussion about Dog Food Proteins....
View ArticleWhy Fat is Important for Your Dog
After our last two Tasty Tuesday posts, we all know that protein is an important ingredient in a dog’s diet and what kinds of protein sources we should look for in our dog’s food. Today we will focus...
View ArticleSources of Fat in Dog Food
Just as protein is a crucial component to a dog’s diet, so too is fat, which provides many health benefits as we discussed last week. Talking about fat may not be too “Tasty”, but it is important. So,...
View ArticleAre Carbs Good or Bad for Dogs?
We have already established that dog’s need a diet high in protein and with adequate fat. But what about carbohydrates- is this macro-nutrient essential to a dog’s diet? To answer this question,...
View ArticleIs My Dog Food Low in Carbs?
Last week we talked about the role of carbohydrates in a dog’s diet, their benefits and sources. Today we will show you how to determine the carbohydrate amount in your dog’s food so that you can...
View ArticleCelery ?!?
We have several farms in our neighborhood that grow different crops at different times of the year. The one right at the end of our street usually grows hot red peppers (I think they are ‘Fresno’...
View ArticleIngredient Label Tricks – Ingredient Splitting
Looking at the ingredient list on a dog food label is tricky. In many cases, the lists are long and contain names of ingredients that we are not familiar with. Today we begin a multi-part series that...
View ArticleIngredient Labels, Grains, and Some Data
Last week we wrote about ingredient splitting and used our data to show that about 17% of all foods and treats have multiple forms of the “fillers” rice, corn, or wheat. We then asked a related...
View ArticleProtein & Fats & Carbs, Oh My!
This week we continue our analysis of dog food data so that we can provide you with some benchmarks with which to judge the merits of your dog food choices. We closed last week’s post by posing a...
View ArticleDog Food Ingredients: Looking Past the First 5 Ingredients
Rule of 5 There is an old saying that you can assess a dog food’s quality by looking at the first five ingredients in the list. The rationale for this rule is that once you get past the first five,...
View ArticleHow Many Ingredients are in Dog Food?
Today we begin a multi-part series on dog food ingredients that are typically secondary to the protein, fat, and carbohydrates. We are going to parse out some of these and explain why they are...
View ArticleFruits and Vegetables in your Dog’s Food
In recent posts, we have written about the importance and sources of the macro nutrients – protein, fat, and carbohydrates—in dog food. Today we continue our analysis of some of the other key...
View ArticlePreservatives in Dog Food – The Good and the Bad
For this week’s Tasty Tuesday post, we will discuss the use of preservatives in commercial dog food. Let me say up front that I wish that preservatives were not even needed—our belief is that you want...
View ArticleFruits Can Make a Treat Sweet- Cloud Star Dynamos
We are helping to celebrate the two year anniversary of TT this week! Kol and Sugar, the cohosts, have created an “Iron Chef” type of contest and asked for participants to share recipes or product...
View ArticleSweeteners in Dog Food: What to Look For
Two weeks ago we wrote about the use of preservatives in dog food and hopefully, we were able to shed some light on preservative alternatives. This week, we will discuss the use of sweeteners in dog...
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