15/04/2026
This is a standard breakfast for us.
I like to eat well and have treats when appropriate, and I give my dogs the same.
Generally they eat one meal a day. Sometimes they get two smaller meals, and around once a week they fast. I eat 2-3 meals a day and fast when I feel itās necessary, generally basing each of these around my cycle.
My morning meal is more simple than their meal, but itās not uncommon for us to eat the same ingredients.
Foods I like to share with my dogs:
š„© Kangaroo - I often buy lean human grade kangaroo for myself and the dogs. For me, it gives less of a histamine reaction than ground beef but is still nutritionally dense, versatile, affordable, clean, wild caught and flavourful. I mix with salt and herbs to make burgers, and my dogs get it raw.
š Pumpkin - Iāve been cooking this for my little boy HervĆØ as heās been struggling with constipation recently. We all love pumpkin but I rarely take the time to prepare it for myself, so itās nice to be able to share this with him.
š„ Tahini - We avoid peanut butter in this house. Not because of allergies, but because of nutrition. Unhulled tahini, made from sesame seeds is high in calcium, vitamin E, fatty acids and antioxidants and doesnāt come with the mould and aflatoxins that peanut butter does. I find unhulled more palatable than hulled, and add it to vegan style deserts or yoghurt. The dogs get a couple small serves a week whenever I have a jar in the house.
š« Organic Berries - I stopped buying regular frozen berries a long time ago as I eat so many of them. Much to their disgust, they get a share of mine 1-2 times a week.
š¶ Natural Greek Yoghurt - We all love full fat, natural, thick, tart, Greek style yoghurt. I rarely buy sweetened Greek yoghurt for myself as I enjoy it more when itās extra tangy! This is added to most of my dogās meals when I have it in the house.
š§ Grass Fed Butter - Itās not uncommon for my dogs to have a thin slice of butter as a treat throughout the day. Sometimes I have one myself.
š Sardines - I donāt really like fish canned in aluminium, but occasionally Iāll buy a tin of sardines for my dogs and have a small serve myself with ACV. More often than not, my dogs will have whole raw sardines over canned.
š„ Shredded Vegetables - Raw veggies donāt digest very well, however I will occasionally sprinkle some on top of HervĆØ and Sheidowās meal for something different. This morning they had a sprinkle of the shredded veg I was preparing for lunch - broccoli stalks, carrots and beetroot.
š„ Avocado - Full of healthy fats and vitamin E, avocado is a more recent addition to my dogās meals which they are loving. They had the other half of the avo I prepared for my lunch.
š„© Organ Meats - Occasionally youāll catch me frying some heart, liver or kidney for myself. Usually I reserve these for the dogs as they enjoy them more than I do.
š Bone Broth - When I make fresh bone broth for the dogs using human grade bones, Iāll often have a little for myself. I tend to use kangaroo or lamb as they induce less of a histamine reaction for me than beef.
šæ Herbs & Supplements - Sometimes Iāll share supplements with the dogs. At the moment weāre both taking the same vitamin E supplement, olive oil, cod liver oil and h**p seed oil. I also have some of the milk thistle seed, slippery elm and psyllium I originally bought for my dogs. Always be mindful of additional ingredients (labeled and unlabelled) and dosage when using human supplements for dogs.
š§ Spring Water - I drink spring water, I cook with spring water, make tea with spring water and my dogs get the same. The only time they drink anything else is if weāre out on a walk and I havenāt prepared an alternative.
Buying foods that we all eat has made shopping simpler. It also encourages me to eat foods I wouldnāt usually take the time to prepare for myself, but would happily prepare for the dogs. They get more variety and we all eat healthy, wholesome, home made meals together.
Side note. From a training perspective, I never feed my dogs off my own plate, never let them lick my plate clean or give them my leftovers unless itās added directly to their meal. This is purely because I donāt like them begging. I enjoy being able to sit, relax and eat with them whilst they respect my space, as I do for them whilst they eat.
