Hi,
Salt is a doggy danger and all human processed foods have huge amounts of it!
My Retriever is a tomato stealer although he is so sly when he does it it took me several weeks to realise why the ones that were nearly ripe yesterday had dissapeared today! I have had him for five years and have only caught him once. This year my plants were the best I've ever grown and I managed to rescue four fruits the whole summer!
We used to feed our Greyhounds a high carbohydrate mixer biscuit, minced cooked chicken, carrots, cabbage, broccoli, egg, pearl barley, greens - in fact just about any vegetable going and garlic. All this, except the biscuit, was put through a mincer. (We varied the meat too.) One of our dogs, Whisky, always carried his full dinner bowl up onto his bed platform to eat and always, always managed to leave the tiny bits of minced carrot in the bottom of the bowl!
Splitting a dogs daily food into two meals makes sense, especially for larger and older dogs. Karen, try feeding Cody only a third of his normal ration one afternoon and offer the rest in the morning. If this works you can then split it equally.
I have had some success with fussy eaters by giving up to four or five tiny meals a day. A few morsels are sometimes taken more readily than a dish full. Try adding minced fruit and fresh minced garlic. Small pieces of raw hamburger mince for a change. Try not to offer the same food on two consecutive feeds and this helps to create anticipation in the dog. Take a long time preparing the food to stimulate interest. Try not to fuss or encourage the dog to eat. Simply pick the food up after ten minutes if it has not been eaten. As you are feeding so often it is not too long between meals for an ill dog.