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Originally Posted by rachelanne820  I know Champion is good food it is just so darn expensive. Can it be mixed with something? Like vegetables or something to cut down on costs? I've tried raw and it didn't work out. Wonder if freeze dried would be any more cost efficient?
I do want the best for the pups but I just don't know if I can afford Champion. |
How many dogs are you feeding? Two little dogs, right? Acana is really not THAT expensive. Around here, a 5.5lb bag of Acana Prairie Harvest is $13.99 and the Grasslands is $14.99. A 5.5lb bag lasts me, oh, almost two months, I want to say. Feeding 1/2 - 3/4 cup per day. A 15lb bag is like $30, I think, and that would last me probably 3-4 months. I've found other food to be a LOT more pricey. For example, when I was feeding NV Instinct, it was $18 for a 4.4lb bag of it, so I was paying $4 more for 1 pound less than what I'm getting now with the Acana. A few foods in Petsmart I've found are sooo much more expensive, like Blue Buffalo. I'm a 20 year old college student who goes to school and is a dogsitter and other side jobs so I definitely am not rich!
Freeze-dried is going to cost you WAY more. I always find the freeze-dried things to be marked up a lot. I just 2 days ago purchased Stella and Chewy's raw pre-made food but it was the frozen kind and it was $8 for 12 patties (my dog would need 5 patties per day). The freeze dried ones were double that, I think. I can't afford to feed raw every day and I wouldn't want to just because I'm totally lazy, and I forget to thaw it out the night before, etc. lol. So I'm doing it sort of as breakfast some mornings in replacement of a meal, just for a nice 'treat'.
I think I posted this in another thread, but some great cheaper foods are Taste of the Wild (
Taste of the Wild : Dealer Locator) Check their site for dealers located near you. Here, Pet Valu sells it and it's like $10 for a 5-6lb bag. Merrick's Whole Earth Farms is also reallllyy cost efficient, it has grains but it's a really good food. In my local store, Fromm was pretty cheap, $10 for a 4lb bag.