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[rbeau30]

You certainly could. Although I would want to add more seasonings. It only has garlic, so smells a bit strange (flat) but the dogs love it. We started doing this for a dog that had joint issues as a way to get more natural glucosamine and oils in the diet. All the good marrow nutrients. It made such a huge difference we began adding it to all the dogs meals.

if you had bad knees or something, it could certainly help. We make soup (for the two legged family members) with pork necks, ox tails and soup bones. Same kind of idea. Buying beef and pork by the side, you end up with all those parts that usually get pitched. Not many people know how to cook that stuff any more.

I wish I was older before my grandparents passed. They lived through the depression and ate all kinds of things (blood pudding, turtle soup, etc). I would have liked to have learned a lot of that. Instead, I get a reference to something in a book and have to go research it and try to find an oldster who remembers. My mom remembers her folks making some of it, and even more stories about it, but was too young to learn any of it. And of course, as the economy became more robust after WWII, those foods went out of common use and passing the skills on was not done. So my mom did not get the skills either.

Nothing gets wasted here. Scraps of the chicken, t-bone scraps, the leftover hamburger that none eats at the end of dinner. all go in the foodsaver in the freezer for stock making day!

I totally hear ya. I think that it is sad I don't have more knowledge from my family than I do. My mom's side of the family still operates a farm in Northern Wisconsin. My grandmother moved to the city and no one was interested in her knowledge. When I was a boy I observed as much as I could without seeming too disinterested with playing outside with my cousins.

It is a shame, a lot of things like my grandma used to say "I never had a gauge on my pressure cooker, you just know it was right by how it sounds." are now lost, you cannot get that knowledge from a book. And you never will.

The only recipe from the depression I got from my other grandparents is hot dog stew. Apparently my dad grew up on it and ran away from home because he didn't want it anymore. He risked life an limb because he could not stand it anymore. My kids cannot get enough of it. LOL