We were feeding them Science Diet kibble. And we didn't have any problems with it, per se. Both the SD formulas (dog and cat) we bought listed "chicken, organ meat" as the first ingredient, but I became concerned about the corn (second ingredient), and the fact that the new SD formulas list corn first, and no longer specify "organ meat" for the chicken. I figured it was only a matter of time until the formulas we bought changed, so we started looking around. I'd heard good things about Nutro, so we researched and are now using that. No chicken by-products, etc., and I like the fact that the Nutro dog and cat foods have supplements in them, like glucosamine, in addition to the regular vitamins and minerals (and I think SD should be adding those things to their foods, too). Check it out: http://www.nutroproducts.com/default.asp. We bought the NC complete indoor adult for the cats. It costs about the same as SD, and frankly, I don't know why anyone would buy
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I'll tell you how -- because there's no real recipe. Even I only guess at how much of most everything. If I want a nice, big bowl of spicy, peppery egg salad, I boil 12 fresh, organic eggs, and let them sit in ice water to cool (or fridge overnight), and then peel and chop up and add slightly more than 1/4 c. of reduced-fat mayo (I hate mayo; I use as little as possible, and this is literally the only thing I ever use it for). Stir. Add a dollop of lite sour cream. Stir. Squirt in some good spicy brown mustard -- probably about 2 tablespoons. And some garlic powder, probably 1/4 teaspoon, or maybe almost 1/2 teaspoon. And olives -- green olives with pimento, about one for each egg, chop up fine and throw in (but I was thinking today that the olives stuffed with garlic would be good, too, since I add garlic to almost everything, anyway -- I'm a little afraid that fresh garlic would be too strong for this, though, and I love garlic -- but I might try this next time). And some salt -- some Kosher and some ground sea salt, and a
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I get nervous when people try stuff I recommend, because I worry they won't like it! But I love this, and I want you to love it, too. Just taste it, and you might find that you need to add more of something -- example: I think I do put a little more onion/relish in than that, but I don't remember how much exactly, because I always just taste it to see.
Oh, I'm so glad you like it! I know my "recipe" was pretty general, but I hoped it would be hard to screw up. (I think a lot of people make it with yellow mustard, but that just doesn't do it for me.)
PS -- Chris calls it my "Kick Ass Egg Salad." He inserts "kick ass" into the title of almost everything I make.
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PS -- Chris calls it my "Kick Ass Egg Salad." He inserts "kick ass" into the title of almost everything I make.
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