Rice is one of the easy foods to feed dogs for everything from stomach upset to weight maintenance.  It's a "whole" food, it's natural, it tastes good to dogs, and it's mild.

I cook rice like nobody's business.  I'm "good" at cooking rice.

I HATE feeding it.  Why?  It takes about a half hour to cook rice.  Leftover rice sticks (making it hard to measure out) up and if you leave it out, it rots.  Up until now, I haven't found a good way to prepare a lot of rice, then store it in a way that's easy to feed.  It doesn't take any extra effort to cook one cup or ten cups of rice.

I had about an hour in the truck to think about feeding rice (we are actually trying to put some weight on some of the dogs).  Here's what I came up with:

First you cook the rice:

• One part rice, two parts water, some oil on the top.
• Bring to a boil. 
• OK, for this, you want to make it sticky, so bring it to a high boil for a couple of minutes.  Sticky rice seems a little easier for handling in the next step.  (If you don't want sticky rice do not allow it to ever come to a violent boil.)
• Cover and reduce the heat to low for 20-25 minutes.

Now you have sticky cooked rice.

• Get out your muffin pans (Rice Cube trays, which is really the stroke of genius in this scheme).  If you started with two cups of rice, you will make about 18 muffin cups of rice, which works out to about half-cup servings.  The new silicone pans work great, but any one will do.
• Spray them with some non-stick spray.
• Fill the muffins with rice.
• Add water to each cup and let cool to room temperature.
• Freeze your Rice Cubes over night.

Now you  have to decide how fast you will use your rice.

• If your rice will be used quickly and you don't need the freezer space, you can leave it in the tray.
• If your rice will be used quickly and you need to make room in the freezer, put the rice cubes in a bag and put them back.  You will have to break apart your rice cubes.
• If your rice will last a while (more than a week), wrap each cube in plastic wrap then you can bag them.  The plastic wrap will keep them from permanently freezing solid.

Feeding rice cubes.  You can either feed them frozen, thawed, or warmed.

• My dogs eat ice all the time, they really like it, so I add a frozen rice cube to their dinner.
• You can also take one out of the freezer and it will thaw to room temperature in a few hours.
• You may also microwave the rice cube either to "thaw" or even serve a warm meal, some dogs who won't eat rice at room temperature find a hot meal more appealing.