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hey guys it's Kristin so in today's
video I'm gonna show you how you can
very easily and quickly make your own
pill pockets for your dog we've been
buying pill pockets very often at Costco
so we're buying like a 2 pack and I
think we're spending like 16 or 17
dollars on a 2 pack and we're going
through them really fast because
unfortunately our older dog is having a
lot of health issues so she's on like 4
pills a day we weren't doing peanut
butter and stuff like that but it's just
got really messy and annoying so we were
we bought pill pockets but now it's just
costing a lot so I was like there has to
be a way for me to like make a pill
pocket or do something different so that
it's a lot cheaper for us and I found a
recipe that's very easy so I want to
share that with you guys before we jump
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this you just need peanut butter some
flour I usually use wheat flour but I
ran out and then milk some people like
to use whole milk instead of 1% but
really just need peanut butter flour
milk and then you also just need a
tablespoon you also need a straw so I'm
gonna do two tablespoons of flour now
we're gonna do 1 tablespoon of peanut
butter so this will get a tiny bit messy
and 1 tablespoon of milk so now I'm
going to mix this all together so I'm
gonna get a little bit of the flour
mixed with the milk first just so the
flour doesn't go everywhere and now I'm
going to start mixing in the peanut
butter so really we're just making this
into like a dough almost okay so once it
gets to like this point where it's not
really sticking anymore then you can
touch it it's just you don't really want
to touch it before that because it'll
get all over your hands so once it's all
enough that you can take it out of the
bowl now I'm just going to kind of knead
it a little bit and you can see where
there's like little it's a little
lighter in spots that's because it's not
fully mixed so I'm just gonna kind of
keep squishing it and this is actually
really fun it feels almost like play-doh
or like not slime because it's not that
gushy
but like play-doh it feels
good the peanut butter oil is gonna get
a little bit on your hands that's okay
but just keep mixing it until it pretty
much looks consistent across and you
don't see like darker chunks in one area
and lighter chunks in another now when
you're determining what size these are
gonna be you want to think of a couple
things the size of your dog and also how
many pills or the size of the pills so
for our dog she's taking four pills and
they're all kind of big so and she's
also a 90 something pound lab so I do
need to make these a lot bigger if you
have like a little chihuahua that's
taking a tiny baby pill you can do these
like probably half or even a quarter of
the size that I'm doing so just kind of
keep that in your mind when you're
making them like how big they need to be
just you know factor in the size your
dog and the size of the pills all right
so I'm gonna kind of roll this out this
is just so we can make even cuts and
it's just a lot easier to break it into
chunks so you can either just break it
off or cut it but so I'm gonna just keep
doing everything in half so there's half
and then I'll do another half okay now
for my dog I'm probably gonna need to do
this size for pill pockets because she's
taking four pills a day so you can kind
of see like if I marked put it in a ball
so you can kind of see for example if I
make this more into an oval shape you
can kind of see they're almost the same
size if I hold it like this so it just
depends on like I said your dog and the
pills now at this point while you're
working with these you can either shape
them while they're still warm or you can
throw them in the fridge and then wait
about 15 minutes and then shape them I
did both ways and I did actually find
that if you shape them while they're
still warm it's just a lot easier but
you definitely need to keep them in the
fridge and store them in the fridge
because they are too mushy when they're
like at room temperature or when they're
warm so it's a lot easier to put the
pill in and form them and use them when
they are a little bit chilled but so I'm
going to roll this into a ball and then
I'm gonna place this on my hand because
I want it to get kind of flat on the
bottom so it's gonna go on my hand like
this and then I'm going to take my straw
and I'm just gonna put it right in the
middle and you want to go down until
you're almost at the bottom but not
completely and then we're just gonna
start mushing this up and around the
straw okay so I'm kind of going up the
straw and you can all do it sideways so
you can kind of see but I'm just going
like this and I'm just making it like
taller so it's kind of going up the
straw and then as I squish it I mean
rounded out again okay and once you get
it pretty good you don't really need to
hold the bottom anymore
or you can put it down on the table
that's easier so once you take that out
you'll notice we pretty much have a pill
pocket that's that's all you have to do
and then the pill will fit right in
there and what's nice is when you put
this in vs. the other ones like this
pill pocket is really really hard I
cannot really close this that well
whereas this one will just literally
just smush together and close now if you
really want to get like fancy with it
and make them look really good this is
the way you'll want to do it so I put it
on the table and put the straw in the
middle and then I literally just take
the bottom of my fingers and I just keep
rolling it like this and if you keep
rolling it it'll work its way up the
side of the straw but it also makes the
the top not like crack or anything like
that and it makes them almost look like
you bought them from a store and I'm
just like twisting it in my hand as I
keep going and then they eventually can
kind of see like the top looks really
nice like it's not cracked or anything
and like here's another one that I did
like that you can see look it looks
really good so it's a lot easier faster
it's also cheaper to do it this way I
think we got a bunch of these at Costco
but it was like $15 and I it's a
fraction of that to make them yourself
and I think this is probably tastier for
them and it's also a lot easier to use
for you alright guys that's it for
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