How many people here make their own cat food?

Curious about how many people prepare their own homemade cat food. I have been reading alot about feline nutrition and am absolutely horrified by what I have read about dry food. I had no clue it was as bad as it is (and even I was feeding my cat the organic grain free variety). Anyway, it sounds like preparing your own food is a lot of work and definitely a process to get your cat adjusted to it. Anyone have experience with this or have any input?

There are several people here who make their own cat food.  There is a subforum in the nutrition forum just for it http://www.thecatsite.com/f/65/raw-home-cooked-cat-food.  There are stickies there that show how to do it and lots of threads with answers to questions about it.  Some people feed raw and some people feed homecooked.  It doesn't have to be difficult, there are premixes that can be added to meat to make it complete and balanced.  Some people feed whole prey model which involves some work calculating things and there are things between those two.

Mine (except Rascal) eat whole animals: Mice, rats, guinea pig, chicken, rabbit, quail. No calculating involved, I just thaw and cut them up some .

(They get other raw meat parts, too, because the poor frozen critters didn't have much real estate to thrive in, so I go for variety to get decent nutrition).

When I tried out raw I just used a premix because it was an easy way to find out if raw would work out. I got chicken thigh and deboned them, that was the hardest part. Then I put meat and skin and premix in a food processor, turned it on, and minutes later food came out.

Yes, you have to pay more because you're paying someone to collect all the supplements in the right dosage, but it was very easy.

I make my cats' food.  My cats were young when I started them on raw so they took to raw immediately.  It takes me a couple of hours to prepare 18 lbs of food, put it in individual servings, and clean up. 

I make home-cooked and supplement it with "Balance It". I offer this alongside premium canned. Since I do have the step of cooking, it is slightly more work than raw, but it is easy, as long as I stick to boneless meats that require very little trimming.That way I can just cut it into small cubes, mix the supplement in, and cook it.

I feed raw, and have tried my hand at home COOKED also.  I would say it's very easy to do the cooked food., and once it's done, I freeze it on snack size zip lock bags, but those smaller bags inside larger freezer bags for added protection and toss them in the freezer.  Voila.  Doesn't take much effort and I know EXACTLY what's in the food.  Takes much more effort checking each manufacturer's website to research what's in each can of food, then finding the food, etc. 

For the raw food, once every couple of weeks it might take me an hour or two to slice up some partially thawed roasts or chicken breasts or thighs or whatever into finger sized pieces and package them up into 4 oz packages (put those into the snack sized ziplock bags too...same as the cooked).   Then I add  the supplement to the RAW as I serve it up, unlike with the cooked, which have all the supplements added before freezing.

As far as getting your cats used to eating raw or homecooked, that's another story.   Some cats take right to it, others need a "learning curve" .  Every cat is different.  We've got tricks to help with that too though