Reviewed by a licensed veterinarian
Home-cooked food for dogs and cats, written the way a formulation is written and not the way a blog post is: cooked gram weights, calories per line, and the nutrient minimums each recipe was built to meet.
How it works
The problem with home-cooked pet food was never the cooking. It is that “a cup of rice” is not a measurement, and nothing on the page tells you what ends up in the bowl. Both books fix that the same three ways.
Every ingredient is given as a cooked gram weight with the ounce equivalent beside it. All you need is a digital kitchen scale — no cups, no handfuls, no deciding what a “medium” sweet potato weighs.
Every dog recipe makes about 2,000 calories and every cat recipe about 1,000. That one decision turns your vet's daily calorie number into grams in the bowl with the same arithmetic every time, for every recipe in both books.
Each page prints the AAFCO adult-maintenance minimums per 1,000 calories the recipe was built against, and names the supplements needed to reach them. You are not asked to take anyone's word for it — including ours.
Volume Two
Pick a condition to see the clinical targets its formulations are built around. Every one is a starting point written to be handed to the veterinarian treating your animal — not a treatment to begin on your own.
Plus six more conditions inside: chronic gut disease, copper-associated liver disease, weight loss, calcium oxalate and struvite stones, and heart failure
The dietary lever with the strongest evidence behind it is phosphorus, not protein — and getting it low enough means going below the AAFCO adult minimum on purpose. That is precisely the sort of decision that belongs to the veterinarian holding your animal's bloodwork, which is why the book hands it to them rather than around them.
Fat is the number that decides this diet, and “low fat” written on a website is not a number. Every formulation here states its fat two ways, so your veterinarian can hold it against whichever threshold they actually use.
Insulin is dosed against a meal. If the meal drifts, the dose is wrong — so the point of these formulations is less what is in them than the fact that they are the same, in grams, every single day.
This is the one place where home cooking genuinely beats a tin, because you control every gram that enters the animal. It is also the one that fails most often — and it almost never fails on the recipe. It fails on the biscuit somebody gave the dog in week three.
These are dietary targets, not treatments, and nothing in this book cures anything. What it gives your veterinarian is a complete starting formulation — ingredients, gram weights, calories and targets already worked out — so the appointment can be spent adjusting and approving it instead of building it from nothing.
Free sample
These are four of the twenty-four everyday recipes in Volume One, exactly as they appear in the book — same ingredients, same gram weights, same calorie totals. Cook one tonight. If the numbers turn out not to be the thing you were missing, do not buy the book.
Canine · adult maintenance
Canine · adult maintenance
Feline · adult maintenance
Feline · adult maintenance
The supplements are not optional and they are not garnish. Meat, a starch and vegetables is reliably short on calcium and several trace minerals, and in cats on taurine — leaving them out does not make the diet lighter, it makes it deficient, and calcium deficiency damages bone. The book gives the amounts, the products and the arithmetic. These four are for healthy adult animals; if yours has a diagnosis, that is Volume Two, and it is written to be read with your vet.
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No subscription, no app, no upsell after checkout. You get PDFs you own, that open on a phone and print on ordinary paper — which matters, because Volume Two is built to be printed and handed across an exam table.
Volume One
$27
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Both books
$59
$74 one-time
Volume Two
$47
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It is knowing what went into the bowl, being able to put the actual numbers in front of your veterinarian, and not having to guess again at the next appointment.
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Both books together are $59 instead of $74, and they download the moment you check out. Read them tonight, buy a scale tomorrow, and take Volume Two to your next appointment.
Educational material. Not a diagnosis and not a prescription. Nothing in these books replaces veterinary care for your own animal, and Volume Two is written to be completed by your veterinarian.
