Go here for some home made cat (and dog) food recipes

they are from a holistic vet and you’ll find there also a hypo-allergenic diet recipe which can be handy for cats suffering chronic diarrhea and itchy skin in absence of parasites (fleas, worms)

And here another good site for practical info on making home made cat food:

We used to just give them those tuna and salmon cans!

Try summit. My girls eat it and so far its not in any of the recalls.

whats on recall is all the soft food including iams. I’m not sure if any of it is in the hard food not that i have heard of. but yeah i hear you can give cats tuna, egg, yogurt. >^.^

I would get an organic or real natural cat food, usually available on the internet, health food stores or pet boutiques and some chain pet stores.

I get Bench & Field at Trader Joe’s. It’s pretty good, mostly organic ingredients and free range chicken. I contacted the company and they do not use rendered products. If your kitty is sensitive to grains though, I would look elsewhere, this is a bit grain-heavy, but it’s still better than Purina, Iams, Nutro, etc. B&F do not make wet food and have no connection to Menu Foods. However, I have just discovered that some high-end foods I though were trustworthy could be made by Menu including Wellness, Pinnacle cat, Avoderm cat, Newman’s Own Organics & Wysong.

You could find a holisitc vet in your area to help you with recipes for raw and cooked cat food. Or you can buy prepared raw food at boutique pet stores and some health food stores. I would not make a cat eat vegan food, cats are carnivores and need meat. Many cats are allergic to grain, corn and soy, so protein from these sources may not work.

I will never, ever feed my cats commercial cat food again. When this crisis first happened, I did some research and found out all kinds of horrifying things about the way cat food is made. Did you know euthanized cats and dogs are made into pet food? Or that the animal byproducts are not fresh and are spoiled and maggot-infested? Or that fast-food grease is used flavor pet food? The plastic wrappings and containers of spoiled grocery meats, bags of euthanized animals and hormone patches of farm animals are all cooked with the “food”.

You just have to do a lot of research unfortunately. I found a brand that looks promising and they will send you a free sample for a small shipping cost.

One last thing to remember is that even though these better foods may cost more, your cat will eat less of them because these foods are more nutrtious and your cat will feel satisfied faster.

fish or chicken and a small amount of carrots you can boil them and adding some of the liquid chop and blend it into small bite sized pieces.I have heard milk is bad for a cat I have saw pet milk in the stores but like you I’m afraid of any pet food now especially with the recall on dry Hills science diet the pet food companies obviously have not checked all brands both dry and wet or they would have found this brand when they found the others it’s sad that these same companies admit that don’t investigate the food unless a pet dies I wonder if that’s how the FDA treats human food too it happened with the peanut butter all foods pet and human should be checked before it ever goes on the market to be sold

You can cook if you like, but remember that a cat is a true carnivore and cannot utilize much of the nutrition in cooked meat. Precious enzymes are destroyed. Commerical foods are a mockery of cat food. Your cat should be eating raw meats, including a certain amount of raw meaty bones, raw fat and raw organ. She will not—repeat not—get food poisoning. A carnivore’s stomach is made for raw meats and is full of strong acids to deal with bacteria. Plus they have a short digestive tract. Skip the commerical foods, be brave and feed your cat what she needs to eat to stay healthy. Meats, bone and organ, all raw. For proper porportions, types of meats and bones, and appropriate sources visit rawfedcats.org. I feed mine raw and they are beautiful, with clean white teeth and fresh-smelling fur and breath, slender and muscular, even though they are neutered. This used to be the way to feed until just a few decades ago with the fad of dry and canned. Forget the commericals and pick up an encyclopedia if the vet gives you nonsense.

appart form the obvious , fish , chicken, rabbit. Try boiled rice..
raw mince is good full of protein . add fibre by sprinkling on weetabix ..
Tuna is too rich could give the runs. cats are lactose intolerant so no diary products.

I’ve been using Purina dry cat-food since way before the recall.
The recall was all wet food, except for one dry food that was recalled to be safe. I use Purina Complete Formula.

You could try buying organic pet food. I’ve seen a few articles on this the past few days. Apparently it costs about twice as much as the “regular” pet food, but it is supposed to be safer.

There is a web site that I can’t remember has things that you can cook for you cat.