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VIX - brilliant result Hope they don't go off them!

Hintof - yes Aldi has pouches and tin foil containers, they seem to like both.
Every time I cook anything with chicken breasts, I keep the horrible sinewy and end bits and simmer them until cooked for the fussier of my cats - sometimes it is enough for two little meals for her. The other likes any type of Aldi food, so she gets those.

Ok update, just been and bought the pouches from aldi and tiger from asda ones. Put both down, both cats even the fussiest cat you will ever meet, both dived straight on the aldi one, the tiger 1 hasnt been touched!

Im thinking i may have found a winner but i expect as usual they will love it for a few weeks then go off it and i have to hunt around again!

12 pouches were £1.99 so 48 would be £8, already saving me £5 a week £260 a year - carol voderman eat your heart out

My cat has Asda Tiger pouches (£8 for 40). He generally eats 3 pouches a day, occasionally 4 if I have to get up early and he ends up having a longer day . The gravy pouches seem smaller than the jelly portions. The information on the side of the box suggests 3 - 4 pouches per day.

He is a very large cat - weighs about 7.5kg and the vet says she thinks he may have a little more catching up to do (he was starving and skeletal when we took him in).

In general a box lasts about 12 days, so it works out to be quite reasonable. I guess with 2 cats you'd need to buy 5 boxes per month, which would be £40.

Our vet actually said you should mix wet and dry food as a diet for cats. So only one or the other.
As long as not too old or sick they recommend only dry food. ( worked there myself a few years)

Our three have Butchers Classic, cheap as chips from Asda or Sainsburys. One tin a day between all three plus 4 handfuls of dry a day (Royal Canin).

Whiskas and Felix must have MSG in them as when fed these my kitties always wanted more.

Aldi pouches also went down well but isn't a convenient shop for us.

op - if your cat's old and is constantly hungry what's their weight like? our cat was similar and has been diagnosed with thyroid problems.

fussy mine have problems like that, really pukey because of hairballs, they've been alright on Aldi so far and it's formulated to help with furballs.

Some cats are just prone to urine infections, as long as there is plenty of water available it shouldn't be a problem. I adm trying the Aldi dry food in a bag at the moment 750g for £1.99 it has the same ingredients as Purina proplan housecat.

One of our cats has had some intermitent vomitting issues and has been prescribed Hills i/d which the vet supplied at £20 a bag - she loves it and it's working really well. We were running low so checked on line and got it for about £12 a bag so bought it direct. emsyj where on line does your multi bag offer come from?

The vet told me that a dried food only diet can lead to urine infections

My cat is 10 in August & eats pretty much anything. I have found Sainsbury's basics cat food to be the cheapest & he likes it.

Also, if we are having fish, I give my cat the skin, as well as any fatty/sinewy bits of meat that we are having.

My mother used to boil up the giblets from chicken/turkey to give our cats. They also enjoyed liver, kidneys, heart etc

Everlong, my cat has eaten dried food for all 8 years of his life so far and hasn't got ill. It's just been the supermarket own brand food as well.

The B&M near me do a range of good quality fish pouches at 5 for £1. Mine currently can't get enough of them...

Otherwise, Tescos own brand food is quite good, and Aldi's is very acceptable according to my two little princesses.

Hang on, so all wet food is McDonalds?
You can't just feed them dried though they get ill.

What are you supposed to do? Fresh chicken and fish?
Okaaaaay then.

I bloody hate cat food.
It stinks the house out.

Didn't realise that pouches were shite.
Does that mean I have to have stinking half opened tins lying around now then!

Our 4yr old girl cat gets urine infections which the vet thinks is linked to feeding dry food only (used to feed Iams). They now get aldi tins (jelly not gravy) with aldi 99p biscuit and no further infections. Apparently cats aren't designed to eat dry foot only and obtain most of their fluid intake from their food

I have also heard (from my cat-sitter, not a vet) that the wet foods are cat McDonald's - I was recommended Hill's Science Plan, which is actually probably no more expensive than the supermarket stuff when you consider how little of it they eat for a meal (presumably because it's more nutritious and filling??) You can often buy it on offer online for 3 giant bags for the price of 2. Must order some actually, have rather lapsed lately due to being disorganised and busy, but it does last for ever and the cats love it.

Our cat was at least 20 when she passed away. She was fed on a diet of pouches and biscuits, a mixture sometimes Felix, sometimes Asda Tiger and sometimes the Sainsbury's one. Before she got very old she had biscuits too but didn't have enough teeth to crunch them at the end. She was happy enough and died of old age, she wasn't at all tubby so a McDonalds diet didn't harm her too much! I think the vets do promote certain foods, ours was always trying to sell us a big bag of stuff at a ridiculous price...

Our elderly lady (16) has Aldi tinned tuna chunks (a small can does her 3 or 4 meals) and about 1/3 cup of good quality biscuits twice a day. She spends most of her time curled up asleep these days so obviously doesn't burn it off the way a kitten would.

I know an independent pet shop owner who has done a lot of research on pet food and won't feed their pets on most of them - especially the big brand pouches and tins, because they're mostly water and don't provide enough 'food'.

Our cat would probably eat a whole ham if given the chance - she loves ham!

I buy sainsburys tins for my can and he seems to enjoy them.

I buy tesco own brand tins in jelly and tesco own brand biscuits and my two seem to like them.

My cats like the Aldi biscuits and the Lidl equivalent. They don't have wet food.

I'm off to try Aldi

My cat has asda tiger pouches. He won't eat Tins of even luxury stuff, but will eat the cheapest of pouches. He is also a greedy bugger.