Homemade meal suggestions for elderly lab

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In the last year our lab who is 12 has gone from dry kibble to soaked kibble to wet food. Each change has come about from suddenly refusing to eat whats in her bowl as though its poison 🙄 but up to then had thoroughly enjoyed it. This week the one wet food she loved and suited her she continually refused. We have now been giving her a boiled chicken breast each meal and introduced sweet potato and carrot with it(she doesn't seem able to eat rice). We would welcome some suggestions for a balanced meal for her that is cheaper than the fiver plus we are spending a day.

Possibly worth a vet check if their appetite is changing as they are aging.

Tbh some of the wet food really is pretty similar to home cooked food.

Forthglade
Lilys Kitchen
Butternut etc

Would be cheaper than a £5.00 a day you are paying at the minute.

Our go pretty feral for the life stage wet food (which looks fantastic if you read the ingredients… comparable with forthglade etc) and for fussy eaters I just add something smelly like salmon oil/the liquid Billy no mates is pretty smelly, a sardine or a few sprats

There's a recipe in the lily's kitchen book - meat loaf - basically grated carrot and (peeled) potatoes mixed in with liver and beef mince, baked in a loaf tin.
My dog LOVES it. Probably cheaper than chicken?

I would second all of @IngGenius 's suggestions. My mum's elderly dog went off her usual kibble and would only eat small amounts of kibble that were hand fed or small portions of the wetfood brands mentioned above. Do get her seen by a vet.

Mine love a stew I make for them. Brown some beef mince, add chopped carrot, celery, a few green beans add water & a stock cube, cook for half an hour. Thicken with a spoonful of beef gravy granules. I make enough to last for a couple of days & store in the fridge after the first day.
They also love tinned sardines, scrambled eggs & the occasional fish finger.

I bulk buy chicken drumsticks or thighs (currently drumsticks £1 per pack of five/six in Morrisons fresh; or sometimes frozen ones from farmfoods etc, just whatever is on offer) and cook several packs just barely covered in water with teaspoon of salt and a couple of large carrots in my instapot (or pressure cook for an hour and a quarter) when cooled strip meat and shred, discard skin and bones, cut up carrot. I keep in fridge covered with the liquid stock and serve a couple of tablespoons over dried kibble for my 7kg Jack russell. She loves it and doesn't waste any - ongoing issue with wet food, most gets thrown away in my house. Sometimes do cheap frozen plain mince the same way, with an oxo cube in it for added flavour. Prep is two mins, cooking is no hassle and no horrid smell. The shredding takes five mins tops. I find it much better value than buying and chucking out wet dog food for fussy dog.