Home dog food done right

Cook for your dog. We make it complete.

Simmer it, bake it, or build your own bowl from the foods in your kitchen. WellyChef VMsure adds the vitamins and minerals, so a simple recipe meets every AAFCO Healthy Adult target. Made in USA.

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Example day · 45 lb adult · 1,080 kcal
Chicken thigh, skinless (raw)460 g
Brown rice, cooked320 g
Carrots, cooked200 g
Sunflower oil, linoleic5 g
WellyChef VMsure19 g
Fish oil, 18 EPA : 12 DHA1 g

Grade A+, 28 of 28 targets met. Amounts are from the Bowl Builder for this example dog; yours will differ.

Three ways to cook

Base mix

Easy Simmer

Simmer your meat in water for a few minutes, stir in the base mix, cool and portion. Vegetables, fruit, oils and VMsure are already in the mix.

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Base mix

Oven Bake

Mix with your meat, bake a tray, slice and freeze. Oats, lentils and vegetables with joint support and probiotics built in.

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Build your own

Your foods + VMsure

Pick the meat, starch, vegetables and oil you cook with. The Bowl Builder works out the grams and the VMsure dose, then grades the bowl.

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How the Bowl Builder works

  1. Tell us about your dog. Weight, age and activity set the day's calories.
  2. Pick your foods. Proteins, starches, vegetables and an essential fat for omega-6. VMsure and fish oil go in every bowl.
  3. Get the grams. The builder sizes each food to the calorie target and sets the VMsure dose, then checks all 28 targets against AAFCO Healthy Adult, with NRC where AAFCO has none.
  4. Cook, shop, switch. Preparation steps, a shopping list with your prices, a 10-day transition plan and a summary for your vet.
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Check it in Recipe Checker

Type your foods and grams, add VMsure, and see every nutrient against its minimum. It tells you exactly how much more VMsure or fish oil closes each gap, and when a food change is needed instead.

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The supplement

WellyChef VMsure

A vitamin and mineral premix made in the USA for homemade adult dog food. One scoop supplies the calcium, trace minerals, vitamins, taurine and choline that meat, rice and vegetables leave short.

10–20 gper 1,000 kcal, set by the Bowl Builder
28 / 28targets met in the starter bowls
Made in USAsold in the US, Canada and beyond
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Pair it with fish oil

VMsure covers vitamins and minerals. Plant oils cover omega-6. Dogs also need long-chain omega-3, EPA and DHA, from a marine source, so every WellyChef bowl adds a fish oil standardized to 18% EPA and 12% DHA. The builder sets that dose too.

Starter bowls

Three recipes that grade A+ with VMsure and fish oil. Open one in the builder, enter your dog, and it sizes the amounts for you.

Beef & sweet potato

Lean ground beef, baked sweet potato, green beans, sunflower oil.

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Why cook for your dog

You choose every ingredient. Whole foods from your own store, with every USDA record linked in the builder.

Made fresh in your kitchen. Nothing shipped frozen, thawed on a doorstep or refrozen. Cook a batch, portion it, freeze what you need.

Complete, with two supplements. VMsure for vitamins and minerals, fish oil for marine omega-3. A simple recipe meets every target.

Protein-forward and adjustable. See the share of calories from protein, fat and carbohydrate, and change foods or amounts any time.

You know the cost. The shopping list shows the price per day with your grocery prices, next to your current food.

Nutrient standards: AAFCO Healthy Adult, with NRC filling the gapsRecipes are checked against the AAFCO Dog Food Nutrient Profiles for Adult Maintenance, per 1,000 kcal. Where AAFCO sets no value, such as EPA + DHA, the NRC (2006) recommendation is used instead. Every nutrient row in the builder shows which standard it uses. Read the full method.