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As the second vet explained to me:
Cats are carnivores, but they still need vitamins and minerals.
The base ingredient is chicken or oily fish.
A normal healthy cat needs 80% meat and 20% veggies.
A cat with Kidney disease (my cat) needs a ratio of 65% meat and 35% veggies.
I cook the food because both my cats are not used to raw food.
Ingredients
Chicken legs
Beans (green or yellow String Beans)
Cauliflower (spelling)
Brocolli (spelling)
Carrots
Parsley (Cats need chlorphyl in their diet hence why you see them eating grass)
Peas
Fish Oil (cod liver oil)
Egg
Essentially you are making Chicken or Fish soup.
I take the chicken legs and add the veggies and boil it till the chicken is done. Boil everything together so that it all tastes like chicken.
Once cooked, everything goes in a food processor (no bones obviously) and I puree it into a pulp.
Add a little broth and a few egg yolks in a big tupperware bowl and mix it all up into a paste.
Store it in the fridge in the tupperware.
To the daily serving I add a wee bit of Cod liver oil.
Because of the kidney disease that my cat has, she gets a bit of concentrated cranberry powder and calcium citrate available at the local pharmacy in capsul form which I pull apart and add to the food on a daily basis. About 100 mg. of each.
Both of my cats like this mix. They like it more when I have cooked the veggies with the chicken. Initially I had them separate but neither was as enthusiastic. (Probably because they could taste the veggies.) Cooking it all together makes it all taste like chicken.
To the one cat's food I add a bit of tuna because she loves it so much and the vet said that tuna is good too, as are sardines and mackeral.
That's it.
You know what went into the cat's food, it's good quality, and if you are hungry at night you can make yourself a sandwich too.
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