Freezing Dry Dog Food
September 21, 2010 by Paris Permenter and John Bigley
Filed under Tips
Where do you store your dog’s dry food? In a plastic bin? In its sack?
What about in the freezer?
We store our extra dry dog food (and cat food) in the freezer. Since we feed our dogs a diet of half premium dog food and half homemade dog food, we take longer than just a few days to go through a sack of kibble.
Freezing dry dog food has two big advantages:
- It kills eggs and larvae of insects that may be present in the dog food. Have you ever opened your cupboards to find tiny moths flying around the kibble sack? These can hatch out of the dry dog food; often they are Indian meal moths, a small moth whose females can lay 200 eggs each, usually in cereal products like kibble. You can put the entire bag of dog food in the freezer to kill any insects and eggs that may have made it through the manufacturing process.
- It preserves the food. We like to buy our dogs different types of kibble, changing the variety every few days to keep it interesting for the dogs. (We wouldn’t want to eat the same thing day in, day out, so why would the dogs?!) By dividing the kibble into smaller packages and freezing, we can package two or three days worth of kibble in a zippered plastic bag and pop it into the freezer until it’s needed. It’s also economical since it allows us to purchase larger bags of food. One suggestion: always make a note on the freezer bag as to what is in each bag along with the lot number, just in case of a recall.
When it’s time to grab some kibble from the freezer, take it out the night before to allow it to reach room temperature before serving it to your dog.
About Paris Permenter and John Bigley
DogTipper publishers Paris Permenter and John Bigley are a husband-wife team of full-time writers. The couple has authored over two dozen books and 2,500+ magazine articles.
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