I have made my own catfood and dogfood for the past 4 years. My cat has gotten pickier with age. (She's 18 now.) The only thing she really likes now is chicken so that is mostly what I feed her, with tuna occasionally for variety. She used to also like ground beef, liver, ground lamb, eggs and all sorts of other meats. All my dogs and cats grow pickier as they enter old age, so I feed them what they like in their geriatric years.

My recipe for catfood is simple. I use cooked meat, cut or ground very finely and stir in the following:

calcium carbonate powder or baked, ground eggshell
digestive enzymes
taurine
vitamin/mineral supplement

I buy powdered calcium carbonate here:
http://www.americannutrition.com/store/now_foods/NF1245.html
and I also save eggshells in a dish in the fridge, then grind them with a small electric coffee grinder that I bought specifically for this purpose, and store the ground eggshell powder in another dish in the fridge. (Ground eggshell is 90 something percent calcium carbonate.) I add about one and 1/2 teaspoons of calcium to a 6 cup dish of catfood. Calcium is the most important supplement because it substitutes for the bones that a cat would normally eat as part of its carnivore diet.

I buy digestive enzyme capsules at GNC, but any vitamin/supplement store probably carries them. I open two capsules and empty the powder into the same 6 cup container described above.

I buy taurine here:
http://www.americannutrition.com/store/amino_acids_taurine.html I don't think taurine is actually needed but I add about 1/3 teaspoon to the mix anyways. Taurine is found in meat. It is added to commercial petfoods because they contain more filler than meat and the meat that is in commercial food has been boiled to death, losing much of the taurine.

I purchase my vitamin/mineral capsules here: http://www.natrol.com/prod_vitamins.aspx?prod=20
I empty two of these capsules into the mix. This is a vitamin for human use but note it contains no iron. Beware of giving human vitamins with iron to a pet because they contain far too much iron and can place strain on the liver.

Cats and dogs are carnivores and their natural diet is meat and bones. Because a cat is a little animal this diet is affordable (substituting ground calcium for the bones of course.) To my DOG food I add filler (rice, potatoes, oatmeal, or macaroni) but this is an economic measure because with 100 lbs of dog I couldn't afford to feed only meat. Now that my sheltie is no longer with us, I use much less filler in my collie's food, and someday when he is gone and I have just a small dog I will eliminate all filler from my dogfood.

A raw diet allows for the feeding of bones because they do not splinter like cooked bones and are not likely to perforate the intestines as I understand. While I do not feed raw food to my pets, all of my cats have been hunters during their young years and have consumed much of their prey. I attribute this portion of their diet to their good health and longevity (all but one have lived into their 20s), although there are hazards associated with being indoor/outdoor cats.

Sorry this is long. I hope it helps.

Oh I forgot to mention that if you have a pressure cooker you can cook whole chickens, bones and all, long enough to render the bones to a mushy consistency so they are safe to eat. Then you don't need to add calcium. I've never done this but I may in the future.