Advice for tiny freezers

I've been contemplating making cat food for a couple years, and now that I'm living in Germany and my feeding options are even more limited I think I'm going to finally start. The problem is, my refrigerator is slightly larger than a dorm mini-fridge, with a teeny tiny freezer. It could fit maybe two to two and a half six packs. How many days of food could fit into that space? If I were to pressure can most of the cat food (or use store bought canned), and freeze a "supplement" batch with the stuff that's heat sensitive, what ingredients would be the best to go in the frozen vs canned portion? (Taurine, organ meats, vitamins?)

My plan is to base the diet on rabbit and maybe pork and stay away from fish and chicken (which were the dominant proteins she's been eating most of her life). As a side note, if a cat has fish allergies, will fish oil trigger the allergy?

my cat is allergic to fish and she reacts to fish oil. Usually there´s some residues of the fish protein left in the oil, and that can be enough for the cat to react. So I avoid the fish oil, and feed a lot of beef, organic raised meat and venison/boar. That covers the need of omega 3 and 6 for her. 

I would avoid it if the cat is allergic to fish. 

You can dry liver in the oven- keep the temp as low as possible, and if it is completely dry you can keep it in an air-tight container. But since the water is removed vitamin A is much more concentrated- so you have to feed less. 

You probably have to do small batches very often. But it should be possible. I have a full size freezer, and I only have one compartment for my food..... the rest is for the cat!

is it at all possible to get a boxed freezer (for used ones, try local newspaper in the ads part, maybe you can even get one for free)? That way you could get things when they are on sale and save tons of money.
 

If not, you'll just have to run to your trusted butcher/ supermarket every day and fill that tiny fridge of yours on Saturdays. 

Yeah, getting a dedicated freezer is out of the question for now. My partner thinks it's crazy enough that I want to make my own cat food, and besides there isn't space (and who knows, more electronics will probably blow the century old wiring). So you think about a week's worth would fit in that little space?

I was also wondering about the getting meat on sale tactic I've seen a lot of people mentioning. Isn't the sale meat usually the "use or freeze by tomorrow" stuff that was cut like a week ago? Wouldn't that increase the chance of bringing home Salmonella/E. coli/whatever gross stuff that might be hanging out?

Thanks, cicoccabim, for sharing your experience with fish oil. Maybe I'll try krill.

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Sunpentown-1.1-cu-ft-Compact-Freezer-Stainless-Steel/16816285
can find this somewhere in Germany? It's a full freezer and very small/compact

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Igloo-3.6-cu.-ft.-Chest-Freezer/15162426
there is this too. It is bigger and an upright freezer.

I have an upright freezer. There's gotta be some space right? Maybe sacrifice a piece of furniture or something. I used to live in a small studio, no bedrooms, but I had a walk-in closet. I put it in there. Worked great.

i use ziplock quart bags.  i put 10oz in each bag (that's enough for one day's feedings for my three cats), flatten them out a bit, fold and seal them.  each bag ends up being a rectangle approximately 6x3 inches, maybe 1/2" thick.  i stack them up in my freezer.  if you only have one cat to feed, perhaps making food once a week would be possible without using all of the freezer space?  a week's worth of the food packaged that way shouldn't take up more than 6x3x4" of space - plenty of room in your freezer.  maybe you could try making a small batch to start and see how much room you really have?  i end up making food every one to two weeks depending on how much chicken i can find that i like.

dr. pierson has some great info on making homemade cat food... http://www.catinfo.org/?link=makingcatfood.  she links to this article http://tcfeline.com/2010/08/20/home-canning-meat-for-your-cat/  for info on canning.  the TCFeline page states to can the meat alone and add the supplements later; dr. pierson says she cans the food after it's all mixed together and is unsure of nutrient loss.  the main ingredients that i've seen many people concerned about with heat/freezing nutrient loss are taurine and fish oil. 

Thanks for your description of how much space your food takes up, it helps me picture how my freezer would look a lot better.

Plastic bags are good. If you use plastic containers, you save space if all of them are the same shape and size, i.e., don't mix round and square ones.

I feed prey model raw (not ground). I routinely buy meat reduced 30 to 50% because it is at its "sell by" date. Only once has Ritz turned up her nose after smelling the meat; since cats smeller is much better than humans, I trust her judgment.
I do immediately freeze the meat, I don't leave it in the refrigerator section.
I bought my freezer at a garage sale for $50. Perfect size.

and, should (against all probability) you actually put your own food in there, too, be sure to label it as such