Dina's Doggie Meatball Recipes

Dina’s Doggy Meatballs

Four Real-Food Recipes—with a Surprise in Every Center! 🐾❤️

Give your dog something truly special: a homemade meatball made with real meat, nutrient-rich organ meats, fresh fruits and vegetables—and a delicious surprise tucked inside.

For more than 30 years, dogs have been my life. Long before feeding fresh food became popular, I was preparing real food for my own dogs because I wanted to recognize and understand what was going into their bowls.

That eventually led to something wonderfully simple:

Meatballs. Lots and lots of meatballs.

They are easy to prepare, easy to portion, freezer-friendly and absolutely irresistible to dogs. Once I began adding a little surprise in the center, Dina’s Doggy Meatballs were born.

Inside this beautifully designed, eight-page digital recipe collection, you’ll learn how to make four of my favorite meatballs:

🐾 The Chicken Foot Original

Beef + Blueberry

A hearty beef meatball made with beef heart, chicken gizzards, liver, kidney, blueberries, spinach, chia and flax—with a raw chicken-foot surprise in the center.

🐟 The Sardine Surprise

Beef + Pumpkin

A savory beef meatball with pumpkin, lightly steamed broccoli, chia and flax—wrapped around a whole sardine or an appropriately sized sardine portion.

🥚 The Golden Quail Egg

Turkey + Cranberry

A lighter turkey meatball with heart, gizzards, organs, cranberries and steamed zucchini—with a whole quail egg hiding inside. I prefer to leave the shell on for the added calcium and the fun little crunch once your dog discovers what it is!

⭐ The Superfood Meatball

Chicken + Sweet Potato + Greek Yogurt

A colorful chicken meatball with spinach, blueberries, chia and flax—filled with a frozen sweet-potato-and-plain-Greek-yogurt surprise.

What You’ll Learn

This isn’t simply a list of ingredients. I’ll walk you through the entire process, including:

• Exact ingredient measurements in easy-to-use ounces
• Our approximately 80/10/10-inspired meat and organ framework
• Why heart and gizzards belong in the muscle-meat portion
• How to prepare the ingredients smooth or chunky
• Raw and cooked preparation options
• Whole-bone, ground-bone and calcium-supplement choices
• How to create each surprise center
• One-, two-, three- and four-ounce meatball sizing
• Individual freezing, refrigerator thawing and storage
• How to introduce the meatballs gradually to your dog
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Make them small. Make them large. Serve a little as a topper or portion them according to your dog’s needs and normal diet.

You choose the size. Your dog gets the surprise.

Meet Dina

I’m Dina Zaphiris—a professional dog trainer, author, scent-detection trainer, television host and lifelong animal lover.

My work has included search and rescue, service-dog education, pioneering canine cancer-detection research, hosting Animal Planet’s Pet Finder and serving as the resident animal expert on NBC’s The Bonnie Hunt Show.

But at home, I’m simply a woman who loves her animals and believes that fresh, recognizable ingredients can bring something wonderful to a dog’s bowl.

An Important Note

These recipes are intended as supplemental foods, special additions or meal toppers. They are not represented as complete-and-balanced diets.

Introduce new foods gradually and consult your veterinarian or a qualified canine nutrition professional if your dog has a medical condition, food allergy, digestive sensitivity or specialized dietary needs.

Always supervise your dog when feeding whole eggs, sardines, chicken feet or other raw meaty-bone ingredients. Whole bone should never be cooked; the booklet includes safe cooked-version alternatives.

Real food. Real ingredients. Really happy dogs.

Because feeding your dog something wonderful doesn’t have to be complicated.

Sometimes you just have to roll it into a meatball. ❤️

—Dina

Instagram: @dinadog1

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