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Homemade with Love? Exploring the trends of homemade and raw pet foods

Today more than ever, pet owners consider their pets to be members of the family. But are they so much a part of our families that we should be preparing their dinner plate side by side with our own? In recent years, personal stories have begun to circulate through the media over the advantages of feeding homemade diets. But do we, as pet owners, truly know how to balance our pets diets? To start, let's think about our own diets. How well do we keep track of our own nutrient intake throughout the day? Let's look at my meals for today: Breakfast: Coffee with sugar free creamer Vanilla unsweetened almond milk Special K protein cereal Lunch: 2 Ground turkey tacos with fat free cheese and low carb, high fiber tortillas Corn and black beans Snack: Grapes Dinner Chicken and green pepper kabob Green beans On first glance, this looks like a pretty well-balanced, healthy day. To really evaluate my meals, I plugged the my personal data as well as my meals in