Cat food experiment, the first

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First try at making cat food.

I bought a whole roasting chicken for about $9. Put the whole thing, including unwrapped giblets, into the Instantpot with two cups of water and cooked it on high pressure for an hour. After it was cooked, I set the inner pot in a sink full of ice water until the chicken was cool enough to handle.

I picked apart the chicken and separated out all the larger bones, leaving in the tiny ones that had softened. I also took out some white meat to make chicken salad for me. Then I put the rest of the chicken through a meat grinder. I made a thin gravy by cooking the broth with a spoonful of potato starch and a teaspoon of iodized salt. I mixed the gravy, a small mashed cooked sweet potato, and a large spoonful of nutritional yeast into the ground chicken.

The cats loved it. It’s not a complete diet yet, but it’s a start, and certainly nutritious enough that I have no qualms about supplementing their diet with it.