In my continuing endeavor to not waste food and to make yummy, healthy snacks for my dogs, tonight I "created" the macaroni, cheese, and apples bake. I had leftover homemade macaroni and cheese in the freezer. When I say homemade, I mean I cooked the noodles, shredded the cheese, added an egg and milk and baked it. No preservatives, no extra junk in it. I also had some other leftover pasta in the freezer saved from a night when we made too much. The small Fuji apples on the counter were a bit past their prime and not really something a human would want to crunch into but not spoiled.
Cut the apples, skins on, into small pieces, the smaller the better.
Defrost any pasta or macaroni and cheese in the microwave. Cut the pasta into small pieces if it is a larger type.
Mix the pasta, mac and cheese, and apples in a large bowl. The ratio is somewhere around 4 small apples to 2 cups mac and cheese and 1 cup cut up pasta.
Add 2-3 tablespoons honey and mix.
Add 3-5 heaping tablespoons flour.
Add 1-2 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil. This will help everything stick together, adds a bit of good oil for healthy skin and coat, and is heart friendly.
If available, you may add an egg as binder. I didn't have any so I didn't add one.
"Grease" a glass baking dish with a good swipe of extra virgin olive oil.
Add the mix to the dish.
Put ~4 tablespoons peanut butter into a cup and microwave for ~30 sec to liquify.
Use a knife to drizzle the peanut butter over the top of the mix in the dish.
Bake at 300F for ~45 mins, until the apples appear largely cooked.
Let cool well. Serve by scooping out spoonfuls. (most dogs can and will eat off a spoon, reserve one for the dog's use if you don't like them eating off people utensils) This may be served as a treat or as an extra in their dinner. Just remember to cut their kibble a bit to compensate for the calories.
