Sweet Potato Treats

 You got it! Slice them up thin, and brush them with oil, season to taste (my dogs love cinnamon), and bake them at the lowest temp til they're the consistency you want.

My Teddi LOVES sweet potato treatst! Cloud Star are her favorite. We bought some of the chewy ones, she likes those but they are hard to feed as treats because even the smallest piece (I cut them up) she has to chew forever!

If you make your own, sliced really thin, are the super chewy? Or can you break them in pieces easily. It might be worth my trying to do if they are not too chewy. How long is a "really long time" I don't cook much.

 You can make them crunchy, or chewy, depending on how long you cook them. I'm not sure how long I cook them for. I just check them every 30 min or so, after the first hour.

Thanks! I will def. try to make them...they are just too darned expensive to buy all the time...lol

 My pups are on sweet potato and salmon food for allergy issues and have been for a couple of years now (Natural Balance brand), and they mostly just get dehydrated sweet potatoes as treats. They LOVE them. And yes, you can make them yourself--MUCH CHEAPER than buying them. Just dehydrate them as you've been suggested here to do. Sorta like making jerky, only with sweet potatoes instead of meat. You can also use a dehydrator, but the oven at the lowest setting works well. Fix up a batch the first time when you have time to see how long it takes in your oven and in your climate. It varies. A humid climate will require more time dehydrating than a dry climate, so it's hard to generalize.

 I wish the dog treat people would catch on that dogs love sweet potato treats and that they are much less expensive to produce than meat-based treats. Then perhaps we could buy sweet potato treats without auctioning off a piece of land or something. It's just plain silly how much they chatge for them in pet stores. Sweet potatoes are CHEAP. At least they are here where I live in the South.

My situation is similar to yours in that I have a dog who eats fish/sweet potato food because of allergies.  I just boil sweet potatoes and dole them out as treats. (I keep them refrigerated.)  It's a lot cheaper than buying an $8 bag of "Sams Yams" bichon fries treats!!

 I boil and mash sweet potato, spoon in in an empty marrow bone and freeze it. Sometimes I throw a handful of kibble in with it. Cheap and yummy!