For a first-time sitter, the feeding section is the whole job in miniature, and its standard is simple: detailed enough that the sitter never guesses. An experienced sitter can improvise around a vague note; a first-timer reads your words literally, worries about them privately, and fills every gap with a guess you would not have made. The detail that feels excessive to you is exactly what lets a newcomer serve it once, correctly, while you are unreachable.
What the Section Must Spell Out
Name the exact food, not a category. The food's full name as it appears on the pouch or bag, where it is kept, and what to do if that food runs out, because a sitter facing an empty cupboard will substitute something unless the instruction says plainly not to. Then give the amount as you yourself serve it: your cat's own established portion, stated the way you measure it, a weighed amount, a pouch count, a scoop filled to a line you describe. The instruction carries the cat's own amount from your kitchen; there is no standard portion to look up, and the sitter should never be sent looking for one.
Give the mealtimes as clock times, not as morning and evening, and say how much slack around them is fine. State where the bowl goes, the exact spot, because cats eat more readily in their accustomed place and a sitter will otherwise put the bowl somewhere sensible and wrong.
Leftovers, Treats, and Water
Leftovers need an instruction, because a first-timer will not know whether an unfinished bowl means a sick cat, a full cat, or a wrong guess at the portion. Say what you do at home: how long a wet meal stays down before it is cleared away, whether dry food may stay out, and where leftovers go. Precision here prevents a sitter topping up a bowl all day until the cat has eaten double without anyone noticing.
Treats get their own line, with the limit you set stated as a number of treats or a clear occasion, after play, at bedtime, rather than as a general permission to be generous. Water is the simplest line and the one most often forgotten: refreshed daily, the bowl washed and refilled, and the sitter told where the bowl lives if the cat has more than one drinking spot.
The Photograph and the Refused Meal
Add a photograph of the measured portion in the bowl the cat actually eats from. For a first-timer, that single picture settles what the amount looks like more reliably than any unit can. Keep it with the feeding page, taken from above in decent light.
Then write the escalation for a refused meal, so a worried sitter has a route instead of a spiral. The routing stays the same every time it is written: note it, and a cat eating nothing for a day or more means a prompt call to the owner and the veterinarian. A single skipped meal gets noted with the time and left at that; the notes matter because a pattern of refusals, recorded plainly, is what lets you and the veterinarian judge the situation from wherever you are.
The Page That Lives in the Packet
Write this section once, carefully, and keep it where it will be handed over rather than rewritten from memory before every trip. The feeding page lives in the Pet Passport on KinsLe, inside the cat's records packet with the contacts, the habits, and the authorization note, so the packet a first-time sitter receives already contains the detail in your words and your measures. When the food or the portion changes, update the page once, in the packet, and the next sitter inherits the current version instead of an outdated copy.
Because the packet is what changes hands, the detailed feeding page travels with the Pet Passport in KinsLe to whoever sits next, updated by you rather than rewritten from memory.