Beef, Pork & Salmon Meal

A red-meat meal with no chicken in it, and salmon on the plate. Beef chuck leads, lean pork shoulder comes second, and beef heart, skin-on salmon, egg, a little beef liver, and butternut squash complete it. It is the meal for cats that never took to chicken, or have to avoid it: every meat and organ here is beef or pork. The beef brings the rich, satisfying chew and the pork a leaner, milder counterpoint, so the meal tastes of red meat without being heavy, and the salmon turns it into a feast. It is the more indulgent of our two chicken-free meals; the Beef & Lamb Meal is the other, with no fish on the plate. Rotating the two keeps a chicken-free cat on variety without ever going back to poultry. The salmon brings the omega-3 fats and vitamin D that red meat carries little of, so this recipe needs no fish oil and no vitamin D drops. Most of the nutrition comes from the whole foods; supplements only complete what they cannot cover. It follows the proportions of a prey diet, mostly muscle meat with a little organ and a calcium source, and meets the FEDIAF, AAFCO, and NRC profiles for both variations.

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FEDIAF is the European pet food industry federation. Its 2025 nutritional guidelines set the minimum — and, where defined, maximum — nutrient levels for a complete cat food.

Values per 1000 kcal of metabolisable energy (ME). Meet? shows whether the recipe value falls within the FEDIAF min–max range. Balance shows where the value sits within the safe range.

legal — a regulatory maximum, enforced at this recipe’s dry-matter basis because the recipe includes a supplement for that nutrient.