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Aromagirl
08-12-2005, 02:38 PM
Hi, I'm posting and asking this while fresh in my mind b4 I forget. I have TVP tiny soy pieces that I'm ready to cook in water to make mock chicken for my dear Frisky kitty. I have several good seasonings and good ingredients like nutritional yeast and brewer's yeast and Bragg Liquid Aminos to season it well and make the mixture good, yummi, moist, and mock chickeny-like.

My dilemma is that I don't know the right or best measurements and best blends, you know which ingredients blend best with what. I'm searching for a good recipe in yahoo and goodle, but I still haven't found a good recipe yet. I need to feed this to my dear sweet Frisky so he'll get stronger and gain some weight, as he is ill. But I can't elaborate on his illness condition right this moment. I shall again tnite when I have more time. I don't have a natural soy sauce right now so I can only use my Bragg. Can someone please help me here?

This is urgent and I need to "master" for lack of better words a good recipe so the chicken smell and flavor will be so pungent and strong he'll devour it and eat it. Okay, thank you for your help and for listening.




ariix
08-13-2005, 07:09 AM
You still didn't say what you're feeding him now...
Here is an idea adapted from a recipe i saw:
1 1/4 c TVP granules
1 1/4 c water
2 tsp "chicken-flavor" bouillon powder
1/4 tsp poultry seasoning (? i don't know if cats like this or if it should be just left out)
1 1/2 tsp Vegecat or Vegecat pH powder
2 tsp canola oil
Bring water, bouillon, and poultry seasoning to a boil. Turn off heat and add TVP. Let stand 15-20 minutes. Drain any excess liquid. Heat the oil in a frying pan and brown the soaked TVP. Remove from heat and sprinkle on the Vegecat and mix in.
You might want to sprinkle it with nutritional yeast (or better yet Vegeyeast made by the same company as Vegecat since it's got a better pH for cats) before serving.

I wouldn't feed this long term or anything, I'm no feline nutritionist so I don't know if the protein/fat/carbs are well balanced for a cat, and it may very well be too salty to be healthy with that bouillon powder... But if you just used it as a snack or meal supplement might be ok.. If he really won't eat anything/enough veg then I would really go buy some regular old grocery-store cat food at least temporarily...
Actual properly balanced recipes can be found here (http://www.vegepet.com/literature.html) .
Please post back with what food he's getting and what his illness/diagnosis is!