Confused about choosing best supplements for home-cooked

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 After roasting a chicken and a roast beef for myself (on different occasions of course) and ending up with more meat then I needed from both so the dog and cats got some too  I suddenly realized that wow why don't I share mine with them as a meal instead of the canned stuff ! I have two cats and one dog

(a little chi). Thought I would start with the cats - a 14 yo and a 21/2 yo so came here to figure out how to do it.

    I have read the post from mschauer and have downloaded her or his recipe PDFs {thankyou so much!!!}. Then looked up some of the supplements others were using for cooked meat meals. I am kind of between EZ-complete and U-stew. Are these more cost- effective then buying the needed supplements separately? The EZ-complete seems to have the option of sprinkling on individual servings so I could e.g cut a piece of beef off for them and do it rare and mine more medium rare. Not really into total raw feeding-tried a chicken wing once and no one was interested in it.

  Any how need input on this and how people are using them. Thanks.
 
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caro123 said:
 
 After roasting a chicken and a roast beef for myself (on different occasions of course) and ending up with more meat then I needed from both so the dog and cats got some too  I suddenly realized that wow why don't I share mine with them as a meal instead of the canned stuff ! I have two cats and one dog

(a little chi). Thought I would start with the cats - a 14 yo and a 21/2 yo so came here to figure out how to do it.

    I have read the post from mschauer and have downloaded her or his recipe PDFs {thankyou so much!!!}. Then looked up some of the supplements others were using for cooked meat meals. I am kind of between EZ-complete and U-stew. Are these more cost- effective then buying the needed supplements separately? The EZ-complete seems to have the option of sprinkling on individual servings so I could e.g cut a piece of beef off for them and do it rare and mine more medium rare. Not really into total raw feeding-tried a chicken wing once and no one was interested in it.

  Any how need input on this and how people are using them. Thanks.
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I'd go with EZ Complete vs UStew, I've used both and my pref (or my cats preference) was EZ.  I like also that EZ offers itself as a sprinkle on, just make sure you have a digital scale so you can measure the portions and get an accurate portion serving for EZ.  If you were doing raw with organs / bone, then individual supplements might be more cost effective and few supps, however, with home cooked, IMO, I'd stick with a premix.   You could do your own supps also according to mschauer, I just think EZ is easier, esp for a individual servings.
 
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  Thanks for reply. Hmm-don't have a digital scale just the kind with a metal dish on top that was off 1oz when I weighed a ramen noodle pkg on and way off on

a 5 lb bag of flour. Will need to look into a digital.

   For $35.50 (not incl. shipping} they are saying a 130 servings for one cat so for two would be 65servings but the serving amount they are stating is a lot less then  what they are currently eating but that might be if raw and not cooked meat. About how much are you giving as a serving ? Mine are eating 1 -2 cans of  either friskiest or 9-lives each of the 5.5 oz. Know not the best so I try to throw in a better quality as much as I can but that is pricey also which is why I'm thinking of this alternative.
 
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I've tried Alnutrin, EZ Complete & Call of the Wild. Sometimes my cats eat the meat with the stuff, sometimes they don't, you're just gonna have to start with one & hopefully your cats will take to it. I wasn't interested in the U-Stew because it has whey in it, I don't want my cats to have dairy.
 
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Thanks for reply. It  is just as confusing on what to feed the pets as it is to figure out what to feed ourselves.
 
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