Basic Home-cooked Cat Food Recipe

This is a recommended home-cooked cat food recipe using easily sourced ingredients. The recipe comes from The Encyclopedia Of The Cat by Dr Bruce Fogle DVM, MRCVS.

Basic home-cooked cat food recipe and ingredients
Basic home-cooked cat food ingredients

The Recipe

  • cook the rice, bonemeal, salt and corn oil in twice their combined volume of water for 20 minutes;
  • stir in the chicken and the liver;
  • leave to simmer for a further 10 minutes;
  • blend it thoroughly and refrigerate.

It should feed an average sized domestic cat for three days. The chicken is medium-fat but could be leaner if the cat is being dieted.

See raw food diet for a cat articles of various kinds.

8 thoughts on “Basic Home-cooked Cat Food Recipe”

  1. Probably because it contains a lot of good stuff 😉 LOL. Not a very accurate answer.

    Nutritional value per 100 g (3.5 oz) (from Wikipedia)

    Energy 1,527 kJ (365 kcal)
    Carbohydrates 80 g
    – Sugars 0.12 g
    – Dietary fiber 1.3 g
    Fat 0.66 g
    Protein 7.13 g
    Water 11.61 g
    Thiamine (vit. B1) 0.0701 mg (6%)
    Riboflavin (vit. B2) 0.0149 mg (1%)
    Niacin (vit. B3) 1.62 mg (11%)
    Pantothenic acid (B5) 1.014 mg (20%)
    Vitamin B6 0.164 mg (13%)
    Calcium 28 mg (3%)
    Iron 0.80 mg (6%)
    Magnesium 25 mg (7%)
    Manganese 1.088 mg (52%)
    Phosphorus 115 mg (16%)
    Potassium 115 mg (2%)
    Zinc 1.09 mg (11%)

    Wild cats do eat the contents of the stomach of animals that are herbivores and mice consume any kind of fruit or grain from plants. Perhaps this is a factor in its inclusion.

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