Yes, petslave.

Sorry it took me so long to reply.

I do use the recipe on the site.
Very easy for me and cats were quite enthusiastic.

Small amounts of the cooked on top of canned are also okay, but never ever add the Alnutrin to canned food.

Please call these folks if you have any questions.  I got the Alnutrin info from 5CatMom and also spoke to Alnutrin.  Freezing does not have any destructive effect on the Alnutrin.

I encourage you to call with questions.  These folks are wonderful!!!

My 8 year old Cleo has been eating Alnutrin (plus a bit of commercial kibble) for over a year.

Just got her blood and urine test results, and she's "perfect" according to her new vet.

LOL, this is the second vet who seems surprised by normal test results.  I told him it was Mama's homemade food.

Cleo (left) with hair, and Tony (right) no hair, but with freckles.  They're littermates. 


5CM

You couldn't get two cats that look more like twins than these two -- except for the fur (or lack thereof). They are gorgeous!

Oh they are so cute!  Is Tony eating Alnutrin recipes too?  They could be the poster kitties for the product.

I'd like to see some more cooked recipes using Alnutrin.  I keep wanting to buy it, but last time I checked the site, they only had one that used cooked meat. 

The phosphorous level needs to be low for my CRF kitty too, so I have to do some calcs before I can use a recipe to make sure that's in the right range.

All six kitties (Cleo, Tony, Willie, Ben, Louie, Stubby) eat homemade using Alnutrin.

Here's Wildcat Willie helping with homemade food .  This batch of food made 27 containers,
one pound each.  

Now if that was my dogfood batch, you could just switch Wildcat Willie for my BF Tracy and it would look like MY kitchen!

Here's our Basic Raw Chicken Meat (meat only, no skin, no bone) recipe.  

http://www.knowwhatyoufeed.com/RecipeBasicnonmetric.htm

Step 1 "Create your recipe"

Water 14%
Raw Chicken Thighs, ground (skin and bone removed), 64%
Raw Chicken Liver* 4%
Raw Chicken Heart* 13%
Raw Egg Yolk 2%
Carrot, cooked very soft, 1%
Green peas, cooked very soft, 2%

Total 100%

* If organs not from local sources, I "flash boil" them.  Bring water to boil, add organs for approx. 30 to 60 seconds, remove.  Not trying to cook organs, but kill surface bacteria.

I also occasionally add:
1/4 cooked (very soft) brown rice per 2 kg meat (4.4 lbs)
2 500 mg Taurine caps per 2 kg meat
1 jar of Beechnut baby food, Chicken and gravy per 10 to 12 lbs of meat.  This seems to improve the smell and flavor.

Sometimes, I vary the %'s of last 3 ingredients.  For example, may use 1% raw egg yolks, 2% carrots, 2% peas.


Step 3 "Add the Supplement"

Enter "1.2"
This yields a Ca:P ratio of 1.23:1 (See box above where you entered "1.2")

Step 4 "Make your cat food"

For "Chicken thigh, raw", enter "20 lbs"



Not saying it's perfect, but it seems to work for us.  

The transition to homemade:  My adult kitties were kibble addicts.  Before they would accept homemade food, we offered small pieces of cooked chicken, scrambled egg, cheese - just to get them used to the idea and the smell of real food (smell is a big deal for kitties).  Then we placed the real food goodies on top of a small amount of homemade food.  That got 'em used to the smell of the homemade food.  After about a week, they ate homemade food without the goodies.

We don't feed "free choice", so the feeding schedule was important.  Homemade was offered for breakfast when the gang was hungry.  Lunch was combo of commercial wet and dry.  Dinner was homemade.  Snack before bedtime was kibble.  

OK, so what's everyone else doing?  

Hugs,

5CM

Louie after enjoying his homemade food

Bug,

If your kitties have a favorite canned food, or kibble, you might try that as a mix in or topper.

The kibble can be ground up in a food processor, or motar and pestle, and used to enhance the homemade until your kitties get used to the new smell.

LOL, I didn't think mine would eat homemade, but they did.  Put it down in the morning.  If they won't eat it, pick it up and wait 30 minutes. Then, put it down again. After you repeat the process a few times, they'll catch on.  If they won't even sniff it, rub a bit on the side of the mouth.

The new fur kids won't touch canned food - They've been eating homemade since we got them.

For me, the bottom line was:  Can I change the pet food industry, or can I teach the kitties to eat homemade food?

The amount of time required to keep up with the tricks and games of PFC's was crazy.  Having to worry about every bag or can that I opened - who needs that?

Finally got tired of the battle and the stress.  And even though the transition to homemade takes a bit of effort - it's worth it.  Good health and perfect lab results truly are priceless.

Bug, good luck to you and your kitties.  Please let us know how it goes.

Hugs,

5CM

Ben, Louie, Willie