Does anyone have any recipes for make it yourself dogfood? Good ingredients, vs not so good ingredients?

Seems like dry dog food is about $1 to $2 per pound. I can get chicken breast for $1.99 per pound, and other cuts of meat for cheaper, so it appears at least at face value that I could serve much better quality food making it myself for not much more money.

What grains and vegetables to add?

Dog is a chocolate lab with occasional ear yeast issues if that makes a difference.

My old vet gave us a recipe for home-made dog food, very gentle for following treatment for heartworms.

1 cup dried brown rice,
1# ground beef 70/30
8 oz bag frozen peas and carrots

dump everything into the pot and add water per directions on bag of brown rice (usually add about 1/4 cup more water than recommended).

My dog eats a cup for breakfast, and a cup for dinner. On alternating days, I'll add either 5 drops salmon oil, or vitamin E oil.

If feeding it for an extended period, you'd need to consult your vet to ensure that all nutritional requirements are being met.

It usually ends up costing a lot more making your own balanced diet. There are lots of ingredients in a balanced diet. If you go this route you might want to add a multivitamin.

See if you can find Victor Beef dog food. It's all he needs and is about $1 a pound.

I used recipes from Dr. Pitcairn's Complete Guide to Natural Health for Dogs & Cats when I was trying to figure out my dog's allergies and sensitivities. You can view some of the recipes for free here. (Scroll down to the Contents section)

I found it to be a lot of trouble, as I don't like to cook, at all, but it was very helpful to be able to change out ingredients and see problems resolve. For example, I learned my dog simply does not digest grains well.

I think the recipe I settled on included sweet potatoes, but allowed legumes to be substituted. I found lentils easier to prepare so I would do use them instead, or use half lentils and half sweet potatoes. I used canned mackerel as the meat.

Most of the recipes in the book call for raw meat, but you can cook it if you're not comfortable feeding raw. I always only fed cooked meat.

We had an adult female fixed GSD. For the last several years of her life she absolutely thrived on a diet consisting wholly of raw meats, fish, and eggs. I had an arrangement with the manager of the meat counter at a local grocer. When they had meat go past date they'd throw it in a box in their freezer for me. They'd let me know when a box was full and they'd sell it to me for $20/box. Each box was probably 40-50lbs of anything and everything.

I'd make sure she had about 2lbs a day and was sure to include at least a couple chunks of something boney like chicken quarters, drumsticks, turkey backs/necks.

She'd also eat while trout I'd catch from the mountains and a few eggs over the top of every meal. Her coat was incredible and her mood and energy improved. Perhaps best of all: I didn't have to clean up after her. Her excrements didntbrealy stink and would basically vanish within a 3-4 days.