Cat Food Recipes - Ingredients to Consider
If you have a finicky cat or you just can't find cat food available on the market that meets your quality standards perhaps you have been considering making your own cat food. There are plenty of recipes to choose from. Make sure you focus on cat food recipes that are healthy for your cat and not just the recipes that sound tasty.
Food Items That Might be Harmful for Cats
Check with your veterinarian to find out which food items might be harmful to your cat or too fattening. There does seem to be different thoughts concerning what food items can be harmful to your cat. Some experts, for example, believe chocolate, onions, raw eggs and pork products should not be given to your cat. Also, most experts recommend that you do not provide dog food to your cat. For one reason, cats need approximately five times more protein than dogs. It is recommended that you search for recipes that include high levels of protein and do not feed your cat a vegetarian diet.
Liver is popular in cat food recipes but some experts suggest you limit the amount of liver you provide to your cat. If you are supplying your cat a supplement of vitamin A you should avoid giving him liver because too much vitamin A is considered to be toxic to cats. Your cat may love eating tuna but you might want to limit the quantity of tuna you feed your cat due to tuna containing mercury. Also it is recommended that you cook all meats that you provide to your cat. Some experts suggest you add some flavor to the recipes by adding kelp powder to them.
Tasty and Healthy Cat Food Recipes
Add about four ounces of cook meat such as chicken, add two whole eggs that have been cooked, one tablespoon of carrots, toss in a table spoon of cottage cheese and add one tablespoon of sunflower oil.
See if your cat will enjoy a meal consisting of one tablespoon of nonfat dry milk, three tablespoons of cottage cheese, three cooked eggs and toss in two tablespoons of grated vegetables. You will want to mix the nonfat dry milk with some water.
If you want to make something a little fancy for your cat you might want to try a cat food recipe that includes a whole chicken, that does not include hormones or antibiotics, two cups of brown rice, about six celery stalks, one small broccoli crown, about a handful of green beans, eight carrots and leave the peel on them, three yellow squash and three zucchinis. Cook all the ingredients in a large pot. Make sure you eliminate all the chicken bones. After the cooking process is finished put the stew into a blender and turn the stew into a course substance.
There is a wide variety of cat food recipes available for free on the internet and there are numerous books available that will provide you with tasty cat food recipes too.
