Green is good.

If you have ever squeezed your own vegetable juice, you know that behind every gorgeous glass of nutrient-rich liquid, there is a pile of pulp and veggie shreds.

We’ve faced a lot of those pulp piles since the household food fascination gave way from meat preserving to juicing. The waste created by a juicer has always bugged me. Although I understand that most of the nutrients have been stripped of the pulp that remains after a good, hard pressing by Jack Lalanne, I couldn’t help feeling guilty every time I dumped out a bucket of veggie scraps.

Luckily, I know some dogs who like vegetables.

Carrots, peppers, chard, spinach, celery and ginger stuff.

However, even our willing-to-veg-out canines aren’t that enthused if you just plop a pile of raw pulp in front of them. So, I devised a way to make veggie scraps more exciting.

It’s easy.

Just add canned dog food.

Lamb – the perfect complement to veggie scraps.

In all honesty, I didn’t know what I was going to do with this concoction when I started out. After mixing the vegetables and canned food evenly, I thought I might bake it all into a meatloaf.

Meat veggie pate, anyone?

Once cooked, the vegetables could be easier for the dogs to digest. But, frankly, it was 9 p.m. and I didn’t feel like baking. Plus, I figured the meat-based canned food didn’t really need to be cooked a second time.

And so, with a little help from Zach, I rolled that gooey meat and veggie batter into a couple dozen homemade treatballs.

Then, just like my famous no-bake sweet potato dog treats, I tossed those treatballs in the freezer. The dogs now each get a couple every day.

Om nom nom.

Wanna make your dog some Treatballs?

Ingredients:

Vegetable scraps – as many as you got. (Just be sure all of the veggies you have are OK for dogs to eat.)

1 can of your pup’s favorite wet food

Directions:

1. Stir up the vegetables or, if you prefer a smoother Treatball, put them in a food processor.

2. Mix the veggies and canned food by hand in a large bowl.

3. When satisfied that the mixture is even, roll it into bite sized Treatballs.

4. Store Treatballs in a covered container in the freezer.

More Treatballs please!

Do you think your dogs would like Treatballs? Let me know what you think of this super easy recipe in the comments!