Cat Diet

Ingredients
Kitchenaid meat grinder attachment: $25.00
+ calcium supplements
Or
Tasin TS-108 meat grinder $160.00
Ice Cube Trays
Ziploc Bags

Recipe

2 2.25 lbs of whole carcass ground rabbit $12.00

1 lbs of boneless chicken or turkey meat/skin/fat $3.00
1 cup water
2 eggs (soft boiled for 3-4 minutes, remove shell) $0.50
5 10 g fish oil $0.50
400 IU (268 mg) Vitamin E $0.07
50 mg Vitamin B-complex $0.09
2 g taurine (powdered) $0.06
1/2 tsp Morton Lite salt with iodine
Liver (if no rabbit) $1.10
2 tsp bone meal $0.32

OPTION 1: 2/3 rabbit, 1/3 poultry, grinder attachment, and bone meal
Price: $25.00(once) + $16.54/week
OPTION 2: 2/3 rabbit, 1/3 poultry, and meat grinder
Price: $160.00(once) + $16.22/week
At this rate, purchasing the grinder wouldnt pay off (in a strictly financial sense) for 8 years. It is worth
noting that not utilising the bones is depriving the cats of the marrow found in bones and not in meal
and is also a waste of resources.

OPTION 3: wholly poultry, grinder attachment, and bone meal

Price: $25.00(once) + $12.28
OPTION 4 wholly poultry and meat grinder
Price: $160.00(once) + $11.32/week
With the all poultry recipe, the meat grinder will pay off in 2.7 years. It would also be my strong opinion
that if we optioned for the less expensive all poultry diet, we invest in the meat grinder as we would be
losing the valuable contribution of real bone provided by the ground rabbit meat.

My opinion is that we choose either OPTION 1 or OPTION 4

Option 1 offers more variety but less bone marrow. The calcium is equitable due to the meal.
The cost is an initial investment of $25.00 with a weekly cost of $16.54, monthly cost of $66.16, and a
yearly cost of $860.08. The investment of time and energy will be considerably greater due to the less
advanced machine being used.

Option 4 offers more marrow but less variety. Omission of the rabbit also adds an extra ingredient (liver)
and another necessary step. The cost is an initial investment of $160 with a weekly cost of $11.32, a
monthly cost of $45.28, and a yearly cost of $588.64.

Option 4 (all poultry + grinder) saves $271.44 annually. Subtracting the cost of the initial investment (a
difference of $135) it would still be $136.44 dollars cheaper the first year than Option 1.

Yields: 15-4oz servings (1 week of Isis and ViVi food)

Instructions:

Thaw rabbit

Par-bake chicken and turkey with skin on and bones intact

Cut off 1/3 of meat and chunk

Grind the remaining meat, skin, and bones using 4mm plate

(If using all poultry recipe) Grind liver using 4mm plate

Finely process eggs in food processor

Mix rabbit, chicken, turkey, (liver), and eggs together

Add all of the supplements to the water (hot) and make a slurry. When dissolved add to meat/egg
mixture

Mix well and portion into ice cube trays (1 cube ~ 1 oz)

Freeze and store in Ziploc bags