Best affordable cat food

happysaz133

Butchers Classic is decent enough for the price, mine enjoy it too!

Personally I feed mostly dry food, usually Applaws or Vets Kitchen but sometimes Burns or Purely. They get a pouch of wet food per cat per night.

scoobie

happysaz133 wrote: »

Butchers Classic is decent enough for the price, mine enjoy it too!

Personally I feed mostly dry food, usually Applaws or Vets Kitchen but sometimes Burns or Purely. They get a pouch of wet food per cat per night.

Looking at the ingredients it seems no different from the rest - mainly meat derivatives.

pinkteapot

Angelicdevil wrote: »

I've been getting this for my two cats (5kg and 4kg) and they love it!

http://www.zooplus.co.uk/shop/cats/canned_cat_food_pouches/cosma/thai/315767

I give them 100g each in the morning of the above and then in the evening put down 60g each of the turkey or the duck below:

http://www.zooplus.co.uk/shop/cats/dry_cat_food/greenwoods/459401

Costs c£30 a month for the two of them and both foods are very high quality.

Plus with Zooplus you get reward points and there is a discount scheme to sign up to as well that saves you money every time you shop.

The first link above is a supplementary food, not a complete.

What percentage of their daily calories need to come from complete foods? That's what I've never understood and why I've never bothered with supplementary foods...

Laz123

Tinned pilchards are cheaper than tuna.

Angelicdevil

arbroath_lass wrote: »

Mine love the Cosma Thai too but it is complementary, not complete.

pinkteapot wrote: »

The first link above is a supplementary food, not a complete.

What percentage of their daily calories need to come from complete foods? That's what I've never understood and why I've never bothered with supplementary foods...

That's why I top up with a complete, high quality dry food for their evening meals.

pinkteapot

I know, not saying there's anything wrong at all with your approach. I just don't understand how much to feed with supplementary foods.

We use supermarket wet and dry. Kitty gets 2 pouches and 20g of dry food a day, split into two meals (one pouch and 10g of dry, morning and evening). This is fractionally more than the box says (recommends 2 pouches and 15g dry for a mix of wet and dry). What we're giving him works out to about 250 calories a day, if I remember rightly.

This seems to be working - his weight is healthy and isn't going up or down on this amount of food, so we're happy.

What I'm not at all clear on with supplementary foods is how much of their daily calories can be supplementary. Is it OK for only half his required calories to come from complete foods, or does he still need his full calories (250) from complete food with supplementary foods on top? In the latter case, won't he get overweight?

Not sure if I'm making sense. Hope someone knows what I mean! With supermarket food, the feeding advice for quantities is clear. With supplementary foods, I've never seen clear instructions for how much complete food to give in addition. That's why I've never used supplementary foods...

scoobie

Aldi's got a new German pouch range, 8% named meat, 4% better than others. My cat likes it a lot.

scoobie

Trying my cat on some cooked frozen mince £3 for a kg. Jury's out at present though, after months on tinned cat food she didn't know what it was. Had to mix some aldi cat food into it to get her to look at it.

hp3

I like the idea of frozen mince - i presume that's good and ok for them to eat?? I have given mine raw mince before (reduced in the supermarket) and they seemed to really enjoy it. My local Tesco had lots of cat food reduced last week and it was the gourmet range and the tuna pouches which has 60% meat/fish so I stocked up on that. I have tried the value tins of fish (think it was sardines) with my two and they refused it so didn't bother again. They do like the frozen white fish fillets but they take ages to cool once microwaved and they can smell it a mile off and get really impatient.

scoobie

hp3 wrote: »

I like the idea of frozen mince - i presume that's good and ok for them to eat?? I have given mine raw mince before (reduced in the supermarket) and they seemed to really enjoy it. My local Tesco had lots of cat food reduced last week and it was the gourmet range and the tuna pouches which has 60% meat/fish so I stocked up on that. I have tried the value tins of fish (think it was sardines) with my two and they refused it so didn't bother again. They do like the frozen white fish fillets but they take ages to cool once microwaved and they can smell it a mile off and get really impatient.

I'm not an expert but be careful feeding raw food. Its been through all sorts of processing so although they eat raw food wild, raw food from a supermarket isn't an equivalent.

Tinned fish also may miss out stuff cats need.