“I deserve a delicious treat for this.”
All of Petal’s hard work modeling for Valentine’s makes her deserving of a great treat, don’t you think? Petal certainly thinks so and I do too. One of her favorite treats is a KONG stuffed with yummy stuff. She loves to have a banana frozen in her KONG with a little bit of peanut butter. She loves to have yogurt, veggies, fruits, her regular meals and anything else I can think of in her KONG.
Last week I made her a KONG with the following:
- buckwheat
- bananas
- strawberries (sliced into small pieces)
- raspberries
I threw 4 ounces (somewhere around 350 calories worth (I worked it into Petal’s daily meal allowance, you may want to do the same)) of cooked organic white buckwheat into a bowl with 1 banana, about 3 or 4 cut up strawberries and a few raspberries. I mixed and mashed it all up and made a yummy grain-free snack.
Did you know buckwheat isn’t a grain? It’s a plant from the rhubarb family. I learned that from Kol’s Notes (thanks guys ;)). I would’ve assumed buckwheat to be, well, wheat. It is not.
I was able to stuff (completely full) 1 x-large KONG Classic (for Petal, though technically she should eat from a large size, but whatevs) and 1 large KONG Extreme (for Penny) and I still had a large spoonful left over.
Next time I’ll freeze it to make it more challenging. I didn’t this time because Petal hadn’t had breakfast yet (it was cooking in the oven) and I made this to hold her off.
Did it work?
“Mmm. Not bad. Not bad at all… “
“I’ll just be taking this. Thank you.”
Yes. Yes it did. It kept her happy, busy and her belly fed until her food was done cooking and cooling.
Do your dogs enjoy KONG treats? Do you freeze them or serve them unfrozen? What is your dogs favorite KONG stuffing recipe? We’d love to hear them in the comments!
Today we’re joining the Tasty Tuesday blog hop hosted by Kol’s Notes and Sugar the Golden Retriever. Go check them out for some super tasty recipes and details on the blog hop.
Yay to Bananas
PAWsome ingredients with the berries. Happy Tasty Tuesday. Golden Woofs
Golden Woofs: Sugar recently posted…Valentine Strawberry Hearts Frosty Treats
Yes, love those bananas! We love berries too.
Thanks for stopping by Sugar!
We mostly just put peanut butter and freeze it. We used to feed the retriever her kibble ONLY in the KONG Wobbler to keep her from eating too fast and gagging/choking herself. We have now moved on to the slow feeder bowls from……ugh! Can’t remember the vendor! One looks flower shaped and one is spiral……
Can’t go wrong with tasty peanut butter! 😉
I had a KONG Wobbler for a little while. I loved it, but with all the other treat/food puzzles we have we just didn’t use it much. I ended up giving it to my Aunt for her extremely overweight and food-scarfing Beagle, they love it.
Oh! Flower shaped! Sounds like maybe its from Kyjen? Petal loves their treat puzzles!
Who knew buckwheat isn’t a wheat? Turns out you can teach an old human new tricks! Love this recipe. My humans are pretty lame when it comes to Kong stuffing. I expect them to step up their game now.
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Yum! We’ll have to try this.
DM
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I did’t know buckwheat wasn’t, well, wheat! I was really concerned you were using it raw until I read that! Niles used to have a Kong but it was a puppy sized one. After she outgrew it I never got her another one. I have been meaning to get her an adult sized one but just haven’t gotten around to it yet!
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What a great recipe…and much better that just the peanut butter I’ve been putting in our pack’s kongs!
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Mom is obviously not as creative as you: I only get peanut butter and snacks in my Kong! I gotta get her on this, good thing I made her read it to me, now she knows how this dog owner thing is supposed to work – btw, that looks and sounds amazing!
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Sounds tasty!
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Definitely need to try this recipe. Though Jeffie doesn’t like bananas, Rosie and Rudy would love this.
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Teach would love this recipe. Like so many others I have just gone the peanut butter/treat route. Thanks for sharing. And who knew that buckwheat wasn’t a grain … interesting!
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YUM YUM YUM mashed fruit. Great idea. Do you have any tips on sterilizing the kong? My sapien boiled them to get the residuals off but then it leaves the kong smelling like rubber. Not sure how safe that is?!
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I should prepare this treat for my dogs then.
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