Pedigree Complete Adult Chicken & Rice Dog Food (3Kg) £3 at ASDA

Lugh_Chronain

Pedigree Adult Light Chicken & Rice was £5.92 now £3 at ASDA

This is £6.84 in other stores and £5 in Tesco.

Not sure when this offer ends though.

Official insert from MoneySavingExpert.com:

You can find the Pedigree Adult Light Chicken & Rice, Meat Medley & Vegetables and Original Beeg & Veg online here. The offer's in sotres as well and finishes on Mon 17 May. Thanks to Lugh_Chronain for the great tip!

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Lugh_Chronain

Other Pedigree products reduced to £3 at ASDA are:

Pedigree Favourites Adult Pouch Selection (8x300g)

Pedigree Adult Pouch Selection Real Meals (8x300g)

Pedigree Complete Adult Dog Beef & Vegetable Dog Food (3Kg)

pstuart

Feeding Pedigree products to your dog in the summer months is OK as you can have the windows open.
We have tried these products in the winter but the house smelt like a Taliban cave.

Lugh_Chronain

Yeah, I remember the dog we had used to eat Pedigree Chum and her farts did really smell foul alright! :rotfl:

zebedee01

You can choke on my dogs farts and she doesn't eat pedigree :rotfl:

However i will be off to asda to pick some of this up as its a great price! Thanks OP!

N20Y1D

Awful stuff, have a look at the list of ingredients.

Ground yellow corn, meat and bone meal, corn gluten meal, chicken by-product meal, animal fat (preserved with bha/bht), wheat mill run, natural poultry flavor, rice, salt, potassium chloride, caramel color, wheat flour, wheat gluten, vegetable oil, vitamins (choline chloride, dl-alpha tocopherol acetate [source of vitamin e], l-ascorbyl-2-polyphosphate [source of vitamin c*], vitamin a supplement, thiamine mononitrate [vitamin b1], biotin, d-calcium pantothenate, riboflavin supplement [vitamin b2], vitamin d3 supplement, vitamin b12 supplement), trace minerals (zinc sulfate, copper sulfate, potassium iodide).

Dog Food Analysis:
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This food receives a 1 star rating simply because there is nothing lower.


The primary ingredients in the food are grains (it should be meat!). Corn is a problematic grain that is difficult for dogs to digest and thought to be the cause of a great many allergy and yeast infection problems. We prefer not to see this used in dog food.


Meat and bone meal is a low quality meat product for which it is impossible to determine the source.


Corn appears a second time as corn gluten meal. The AAFCO definition of corn gluten meal is “the dried residue from corn after the removal of the larger part of the starch and germ, and the separation of the bran by the process employed in the wet milling manufacture of corn starch or syrup, or by enzymatic treatment of the endosperm”. In plain English, that which remains after all the nutritious bits have been removed.


The next ingredient is by-products. It is impossible to ascertain the quality of by-products and these are usually products that are of such low quality as to be rejected for use in the human food chain, or else are those parts that have so little value that they cannot be used elsewhere in either the human or pet food industries. The AAFCO definition of chicken by-product meal is “a meal consisting of the ground, rendered, clean parts of the carcass of slaughtered chicken, such as necks, feet, undeveloped eggs and intestines, exclusive of feathers, except in such amounts as might occur unavoidable in good processing practice.”


Animal fat is a further low quality ingredient and is impossible to determine the source. Unidentified ingredients are usually very low quality. AAFCO define this as "obtained from the tissues of mammals and/or poultry in the commercial processes of rendering or extracting. It consists predominantly of glyceride esters of fatty acids and contains no additions of free fatty acids. If an antioxidant is used, the common name or names must be indicated, followed by the words "used as a preservative".


This food uses chemical preservatives (BHA, BHT) which is believed to be carcinogenic, and is banned from use in human food. It also uses artificial colourants.


The 6th and 12th ingredients are fragments of wheat. The use of wheat is a significant negative: wheat is believed to be the number one cause of allergy problems in dog food. This is another ingredient we prefer not to see used at all in dog food.

Lugh_Chronain

What are the alternatives to Pedigree? And bearing in mind that people on here are money savers and that some may not be able to, for example, afford organic products. You could include organic products as well though.

Rev

Lugh_Chronain wrote: »

What are the alternatives to Pedigree? And bearing in mind that people on here are money savers and that some may not be able to, for example, afford organic products. You could include organic products as well though.

Even five minutes looking around will tell you pedigree is crap or the highest order. It's hugely over priced considering there's very little actual dog food in it.

Plenty of much, much better dog foods are cheaper than pedigree, since you're not paying for the pedigree name.

I feed skinners hypo-allergenic duck and rice, cost me £19 a 15kg bag from vet uk, as opposed to pedigree which is £25 per bag. Unless of course it's the better by nature, which contains a whole 4% animal derivatives, then its £32.

Arden Grange is £24 a bag at vet UK

CSJ do a whole range of foods, price varies from £10 per 15kg sack right up to £30, all better than pedigree.

The list is endless.

And take into account the fact that since better food has a higher meat content you feed less of it, so it works out much cheaper in the long run.

Pedigree is a complete joke as far as dog food goes. I wouldn't feed it to my dogs if it were free.

Sorry for the rant, but it just shocks me that people actually pay for this crap and that pedigree sell it as being decent stuff.

Lugh_Chronain

You’re right to rant Rev.

The problem here is that people don’t actually know what they are buying with regards to quality and contents. It’s good to be informed about this and to know what the alternatives are. I wouldn’t have posted this if I knew it was poor quality food. If I still had a dog I definitely wouldn’t feed it this after reading what you and N20Y1D have written, I didn’t honestly know that.

The prices you’ve mentioned for the alternatives look pretty good too, just have to wait and see what others think [if any] as well.

Thanks to both of you for this information.

Rev

Lugh_Chronain wrote: »

You’re right to rant Rev.

The problem here is that people don’t actually know what they are buying with regards to quality and contents. It’s good to be informed about this and to know what the alternatives are. I wouldn’t have posted this if I knew it was poor quality food. If I still had a dog I definitely wouldn’t feed it this after reading what you and N20Y1D have written, I didn’t honestly know that.

The prices you’ve mentioned for the alternatives look pretty good too, just have to wait and see what others think [if any] as well.

Thanks to both of you for this information.

Thanks.

It just irks me that pedigree is advertised as being great for dogs. People think it's top quality and pay for the name when in actual fact you really can't get much worse.
The alternatives are often equally priced or cheaper, yet people continue to feed their dog crap like pedigree because they believe the hype.

That said we were all in the 'clueless' position once, I was this time a year ago and was horrified to see the truth about what I'd been feeding my pet.

Quickly swapped him over to hypo-allergenic foods and honestly couldn't believe the difference.

Victoria_Meldrew

You would think that the name Pedigree meant it was good stuff, but like so many of the other brands around it's filled with rubbish. I make a point of reading the ingredients and the best (and most cost-effective) I've found is Pets at Home own label dry dog food.