Yeah, it's better to cook meat on the bone. But realistically, meals made from canned turkey, chicken or roast beef can be easy, fast, high in protein and low in saturated fats. Here are recipes to make these quick meals so tasty you'll skip fatty fast food for these homemade dishes.

Her Dogs, Clients Love The Special Prepackaged Food, Despite Some Vets' Warnings - Tchetchet began to research the nutritional needs of dogs and to experiment with different recipes using fresh, raw meats, vegetables, herbs and bone meal.

Meat that we don't want for ourselves, for the most part. Packaged pet food often contains ingredients like "meat byproducts" or "chicken meal," which come from animal parts that Americans rarely consume—heads, bones, blood, and organs. It might also contain parts from sick or dying animals.

Meat and bone meal (MBM) is a product of the rendering industry. It is typically about 50% protein, 35% ash, 8-12% fat, and 4-7% moisture. It is primarily used in the formulation of animal feed to improve the amino acid profile of the feed. Feeding of MBM to cattle is thought to have been responsible for the spread of BSE (mad cow disease). In most parts of the world, MBM is no longer allowed in feed for ruminant animals. However, in some areas, including the US, MBM is still used to feed monogastric animals. It is widely used in the United States as a low-cost meat in dog food and cat food. In Europe, some MBM is used as ingredients in petfood but the vast majority is now used as a fossil-fuel replacement for renewable energy generation, as a fuel in cement kilns, landfilling or incineration.Meat and bone meal has around two thirds the energy value of fossil fuels such as coal; the UK in particular widely uses meat and bone meal for the generation of renewable electricity. This was particularly prominent after many cattle had to be slaughtered during the Mad Cow Disease crisis.Meat and bone meal is increasingly used in cement kilns as an environmentally sustainable replacement for coal. ReferencesAdedokun, S. A. and L. Adeola. 2005. Metabolizable energy value of meat and bone meal for pigs. J. Anim. Sci. 83(11): 2519-2526.Fernando, T. 1992. Blood meal, meat and bone meal and tallow. In Inedible meat by-products, Essex, England: Elsevier Science Publishers Ltd., 81-112.Hendriks, W. H., C. A. Butts, D. V. Thomas, K. A. C. James, P. C. A. Morel and M. W. A. Verstegen. 2002. Nutritional quality and variation of meat and bone meal. Asian Austral. J. Anim. 15(10): 1507-1516.Pearl, G. G. 2004. Meat and bone meal usage in modern swine diets. Render 33(2): 50-53,57.Taylor, D. M. and S. L. Woodgate. 2003. Rendering practices and inactivation of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy agents. Rev. Sci. Tech. OIE 22(1): 297-310. See alsoGlanford Power Station