where can I find the cheapest cat food - I want to stock up

trinidadone

hello all,

with food prices ever rising, I am looking at the best way to purchase cat food for my moggy. She only eats wet food (tins, pouches, trays etc..) is the supermarkets the only place to buy cheap cat food????

Any suggestions please, especially purchasing on, online sites????

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age of your cat might be helpful here - as kittens will eat different food to adult cats.

also, is she fussy about her food? I know some cats (like our neighbours cat) wont touch certain unbranded products! if not you might be best to head for the pound shops or similar.

eta: T's do own brand small tins for 25p and pouches for 29p, A's do a 12 pack of "Smudge" for £2.24 (about 19p a pouch) according to online searches.

HappyMJ

Personally, I'd avoid supermarkets for cat food....but that's up to you. I would spend a little more per can and feed less. Tinned food is mostly water so the higher quality products with more meat are actually cheaper when you only need to feed half a can instead of a whole can per day.

Tin's are much cheaper than pouches so buy tins and store it in the fridge between feeds.

Pet foods won't change much in price..it's all waste meat anyway which is virtually thrown out by abattoirs...it's sold at pennies per kg to pet food processors who process it and add back the essential nutrients needed for a balanced diet.

Fire_Fox

trinidadone wrote: »

hello all,

with food prices ever rising, I am looking at the best way to purchase cat food for my moggy. She only eats wet food (tins, pouches, trays etc..) is the supermarkets the only place to buy cheap cat food????

Any suggestions please, especially purchasing on, online sites????

Read the ingredients, you might be shocked to see what is in some foods - some are as low as 4% meat. Bear in mind a cat is an obligate carnivore (must eat meat/ animal products, no requirement for grains/ cereals or plant matter). Also a higher quality food is more nutrient dense so you can actually feed less and a pack can last longer. :money:

Often recommended on the Pets board here and other cat forums as best value for money
- Butchers Classic chunks in jelly canned from supermarkets, additive/ cereal free and cheap as chips
- Bozita pate or chunks in gravy in tetrapacks from Zooplus and elsewhere, very high meat content, cereal free and similar price to many pouches
- Porta 21 Sensible variant dry food also from Zooplus, very high meat content, cereal free, similar price to many supermarket dry.

Final option is to add some raw meat into the diet - raw heart, kidney, a little liver, bone in meat like chicken wings or meaty carcasses, turkey necks - sometimes butchers will give stuff away for free. Many cats go wild for it, and raw bones clean their teeth so potential saving on vets bills.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Funny enough I was thinking about this yesturday too,

Also I was thinking about the price of cat litter too, as this is jumping up in price:eek::eek: £1.99 in Mr T, and £1.60 in mr A,

We have a coal fire, and I was thinking of saving the ash etc to use as cat litter, to save some pennies, as we go through alot of cat litter with 3 indoor cats.

Chris25

must just mention.............raw chicken bones are fine but cooked bones can splinter & could be dangerous to cats.

zzzLazyDaisy

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

We have a coal fire, and I was thinking of saving the ash etc to use as cat litter, to save some pennies, as we go through alot of cat litter with 3 indoor cats.

Please don't do this, ash is caustic when wet.

Fire_Fox

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

Funny enough I was thinking about this yesturday too,

Also I was thinking about the price of cat litter too, as this is jumping up in price:eek::eek: £1.99 in Mr T, and £1.60 in mr A,

We have a coal fire, and I was thinking of saving the ash etc to use as cat litter, to save some pennies, as we go through alot of cat litter with 3 indoor cats.

Are you using a clumping litter? If so I found worthwhile to use a jumbo tray (one is a cheapo underbed storage box! ), deep filled and scoop frequently. I actually don't clean the entire tray out very often so don't throw much unused litter away, just when it gets dusty.

The poops and pees never touch the base of the tray due to the deep fill, and the type of product I use clumps and absorbs well (wood crumb, much more absorbent than wood pellet or clay). I would clean all the lid and rim with an antibacterial wipe regularly.

With one indoor cat I was using <£1 a week with my old litter (OkoPlus) but it must be less since I switched (Tigerino from Zooplus). The impression I was getting from my friend who uses Value clay litter, just a small amount and cleans the tray regularly was that she spent more than I do. And honestly her flat smells of cat bog even tho she is actually a more hygiene conscious person than I am.

A lot of people really rate chick crumb (food for baby chickens!) which you can get from farm shops or online. It's the same basic 'ingredients' as pricey World's Best cat litter. Can't tell you what people use per week, you'd have to read around/ ask on the Pets forum but last time there was a thread on that it varied widely, depending on people's scooping and cleaning habits perhaps more than the actual product.

HTH.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

thanks for the heads up for using the ashes:beer::o

I use the cheap supermarket brand clay litter.

I find by the time i get home from work, I need to clean the trays out completely.

Good idea abotu the under bed storage, will go and see if they got them in pound stretcher after work

seriously chick crumbs for cat litter?????

seems such a waste:rotfl:

sorry for hi-jacking the thread....about the cat litter...:cool:

trinidadone

Fire_Fox wrote: »

Read the ingredients, you might be shocked to see what is in some foods - some are as low as 4% meat. Bear in mind a cat is an obligate carnivore (must eat meat/ animal products, no requirement for grains/ cereals or plant matter). Also a higher quality food is more nutrient dense so you can actually feed less and a pack can last longer. :money:

Often recommended on the Pets board here and other cat forums as best value for money
- Butchers Classic chunks in jelly canned from supermarkets, additive/ cereal free and cheap as chips
- Bozita pate or chunks in gravy in tetrapacks from Zooplus and elsewhere, very high meat content, cereal free and similar price to many pouches
- Porta 21 Sensible variant dry food also from Zooplus, very high meat content, cereal free, similar price to many supermarket dry.

Final option is to add some raw meat into the diet - raw heart, kidney, a little liver, bone in meat like chicken wings or meaty carcasses, turkey necks - sometimes butchers will give stuff away for free. Many cats go wild for it, and raw bones clean their teeth so potential saving on vets bills.

I have clicked on the link above, i see these prices are not cheap.

following your message, i have looked at some of the packaging in my cat food cupboard -

Asda Tiger Chicken in Jelly 400g - (min of 4% chicken)

it makes you wonder!!!

katep23

My cats really like feline fayre which is about 70% fish.

Home Bargains have this on offer at the moment at £14.28 for 48 tins (170g) - about 30p a tin so costs between the price of a sachet (around 25 - 30p for 85g - 100g) and the price of a 400g tin but much better fish content. Hope this helps:

http://www.homebargains.co.uk/products/6612-feline-fayre-simply-tuna-in-jelly-48-x-170g-tins.aspx