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Weekly Drool Recipe: 1-Ingredient Sweet Potato Treats
This week, Best Bully Sticks brings you a no-fuss recipe: 1-Ingredient Sweet Potato Treats. These yummy, healthy and easy dog snacks come from Sharon at Perfect Parties.com. Sharon began whipping up dog treats because when she adopted her Cane Corso, Avalanche's Cinizia Juniper Belle, or Cinzia for short.
When Cinzia became the newest member of our family, I began baking treats for her. I love baking homemade dog treats because I know exactly what ingredients are going into Cinzia’s treats. I can add the flavors she enjoys and since they are homemade, the ingredients are fresh and preservative free. One of her favorite snacks is the Sweet Potato Treats.
Here is Sharon & Cinzia’s 1-Ingredient Sweet Potato Treats recipe!
Ingredients
3 Large Sweet Potatoes: washed and dried about the same shape/size works best
Directions
1. Preheat oven to 250 degrees
2. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
3. Cut your sweet potato in half lengthwise.
4. Place flat side of halved potato onto your cutting board and slice into 1/3 inch lengthwise pieces. Do not cut thinner than 1/4 inch.
5. Place them on the prepared baking sheet.
6. Bake for 3 hours turning over halfway through.
7. Cool completely on a wire rack.
Storage
Keep refrigerated up to two weeks. Store the additional in the freezer up to 4 months.
A BIG thank you to Sharon at Perfect Parties.com and her dog Cinzia for sharing this wonderful recipe with us!
For more recipe ideas and recipes, check out all of BBS's Weekly Drool Recipes! We've got a ton of great Fall recipes coming your way for the next few months! Get excited! It's almost Fall!
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will have to give these a try no more store bought doggie treats for my babies
May have to try these for our AJ.
They are great treats – and healthy – NOT from China!
Chloe LOVES sweet potato treats, they can get pricey! Thought of digging out my dehydrator but this is much easier, the potatoes are just so hard to slice! Will definitely give this a try, thanks for sharing.
Our dogs love them too… They love when i eat them too. I was thinking of cooking them whole in microwave, then when they get soft , slice, cook in microwave longer till hard.
A while back I started baking the pumpkin dog biscuits that you posted the recipe for — I check with my vet and got the okay to add some variety — substitute 1/2 cup all natural, no sugar added apple sauce. I have a 4 year old keeshond and his 13 week old son — they both love the pumpkin and/or applesauce biscuits ang gladly sit and give their paw for them…even the baby started giving his paw 2 weeks ago for the applesauce treats…try them….easy to make and your doggies will love them…also safer and so inexpensive compared to commercial dog biscuits.
Plan to make these today…
I've been doing this for my boys lately, but cutting them too thin. will try them a little thinker next time. None-the-less, my guys love them!!!
can I get this recipie from someone??? Thanks!
I roll mine in chopped garlic! Garlic is good for dogs!
In the oven now. Thanks for sharing, would love more ideas. Making bisquick cheese and chicken biscuits for them later.
I was always told Garlic is bad for dogs so I looked it up after I saw your post. This is one I found. I found it to be interesting. My big dog got a piece of steak that was seasoned with steak seasoning and had garlic in it and he got sick. So we just tend to not allow him to have Garlic. Hope you find this informative.
You may have heard of the health benefits of garlic for pets, but are not exactly sure whether it is really safe to give garlic to your dog because there is a lot of information and misinformation available on the internet about the use of garlic in food and supplements for dogs and cats.
In this page, you will find well-researched information on garlic for dogs which I hope will help clear up some of the confusion you may have about garlic.
In particular, this page looks at the following topics:
Is garlic safe for dogs?
How much garlic should we feed to our dogs?
What are the health benefits of garlic for dogs?
Which form of garlic should be used?
Garlic for Dogs – Is Garlic Safe for Dogs
Garlic for Dogs
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Garlic has long been used as a safe medicinal plant in holistic medicine for people and pets as well. However, recently, the safety of garlic on dogs (and cats) has come under close scrutiny due to its properties as a member of the Allium genus, a branch of the lily family, along with onions and shallots.
A compound found in onions (and in lesser amount in garlic) called n-propyldisulfide can, in large doses, cause oxidative damage to red blood cells, creating Heinz bodies and triggering the body to reject these cells from the bloodstream. If large doses of this compound are ingested on a regular basis, the process can lead to Heinz-body anemia and even death.
Does that mean garlic is unsafe for dogs? Not quite. The key to safe use of garlic on dogs is the dosage level and frequency of use. For a dog to develop Heinz-body anemia, he would have to eat over 0.5% of his body weight in onions to even begin the oxidative process. It means a healthy 60-pound dog would have to eat a whole 5-oz onion, or several cloves of garlic, to start the Heinz-body process. Since red blood cells are constantly regenerated from the bone marrow, a dog would likely need to ingest this much amount of onion or garlic on a repeated basis to cause permanent harm.
However, garlic should NOT be fed to pets with a pre-existing anemic condition or to those scheduled for surgery. Also, young puppies before six to eight weeks of age should NOT be given garlic because they do not begin reproducing new blood cells until after 6-8 weeks.
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Garlic for Dogs – How Much and How Often?
According to Gregory Tilford, (author of All You Ever Wanted to Know About Herbs for Pets), dogs can quite safely consume 1/8 teaspoon of garlic powder per pound of food 3 to 4 times a week.
Dr. Martin Goldstein (author of The Nature of Animal Healing) recommends adding garlic to home-made pet food and he himself feeds garlic to his own cats and dogs on a regular basis.
Dr. Pitcairn (author of The Complete Guide to Natural Health for Dogs and Cats) recommends the following amount of fresh garlic for dogs, according to their size:
10 to 15 pounds – half a clove
20 to 40 pounds – 1 clove
45 to 70 pounds – 2 cloves
75 to 90 pounds – 2 and a half cloves
100 pounds and over – 3 cloves
Dr. Messonnier (author of The Natural Vet's Guide to Preventing and Treating Cancer in Dogs) recommends one clove of fresh garlic per 10 to 30 pounds of weight a day to boost the immune system and cancer prevention.
As with most herbs, at least one to two days off per week or a periodic week off from garlic is a good idea.