Begin in one room, with everything familiar
A moved cat is processing a whole house of new smells, sounds and hiding places. Asking her to find a new feeding station in the middle of that — possibly past boxes, strangers' footsteps and a hallway she has not yet claimed — is asking too much on day one. Set her up instead in a single quiet room: litter tray at one end, food and water at the other, her own bowls from the old house, and the same food she was eating before the move.
Feed her at her old mealtimes, even if the household around her is eating takeaway on the floor at odd hours. Her clock staying put while the geography changes is the single most reassuring signal you can send.
Expect a cautious appetite, and do not chase it
Many cats eat little, or only at night when the house goes quiet, for the first day or two after a move. Serve small portions of her familiar food, leave her in peace with them, and lift uneaten food after a while rather than letting it stale. Do not try to tempt her back to the bowl with a parade of new flavours, rich extras or hand-feeding campaigns — a stressed cat offered constant novelty often retreats further, and an abrupt food change on top of a move adds stomach upset to disorientation.
Sit in the room at mealtimes doing something calm of your own. Presence without pressure — an owner reading quietly nearby, not staring at her — is how cautious cats decide a feeding spot is safe.
Expanding the territory at her pace
Once she is eating confidently in her starter room and beginning to explore when the house is quiet, you can migrate the feeding station toward its permanent home in stages: move the bowls a little each day, or set the permanent station up and let her discover it while keeping the room station running until she has switched herself. Keep water available in more than one place during the transition, because a cat still mapping a house drinks where she feels safe, not necessarily where the bowl officially lives.
Keep her routine's other anchors steady too — play, a familiar blanket, the evening lap if she is a lap cat. Feeding recovery is part of whole-routine recovery.
When post-move appetite loss needs a vet
A day of picking is common; a cat who eats nothing at all for more than a day, or who is still barely eating after a few days in a calm house, should be discussed with your vet — cats should not go long stretches without food, and appetite loss can occasionally be the first visible sign of something the move merely coincided with. The same applies if she stops drinking, hides continuously and cannot be coaxed out at all, or shows vomiting or diarrhoea that persists. Note when she last ate a proper meal; that timeline is the first thing the vet will ask for.
The old schedule, running in the new house
Write her pre-move plan down before the boxes swallow it. KinsLe Care Teams carries that exact schedule into the new home — her feeds assigned and timestamped from the first evening — so the routine she trusted at the old address keeps running at the new one without a gap.