Mac'n'mac

A change of pace meal for dogs who eat home cooking.

My Boxers, Emily and Lou, along with every other dog I've known, are crazy about fish. Three mornings a week, I serve them a dish that has come to be known as Mac'n'mac, mackerel and macaroni.

I cook three cups of macaroni (measured dry) at a time. That's enough for two meals. When it's been cooked and drained, I put half of it away in the refrigerator for a later serving Then I add the contents of a fifteen ounce can of mackerel to the macaroni in my Boxers' bowls, add the usual torn up bread and supplements, and voila! Mac'n'mac.

Since I wrote the previous paragraph I discovered that Emily has allergic reactions to grains of all sorts. I have had to remove all wheat products from her diet. Lou has no problem with grains, but it's convenient simply to eliminate grains from all the food I serve my dogs.

Macaroni is made from wheat flour and flour is a grain. That means no macaroni in mac'n'mac. These days when I would have served mac'n'mac, I simply give each Boxer a can of mackerel along with their usual supplements. They like mac'n'mac even better than before now that the second mac has been eliminated.