New kittens food advice

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Hello,
We were lucky enough to get two kittens from a local rescue today. They are approximately 14 weeks old and have settled in amazingly well already. I’ve always had cats but never kittens and I’m a bit confused about how much to feed them.
At the rescue, they were fed Whiskas junior (which I know isn’t the best quality food) and Purina One dry food. The Whiskas box says to feed them 3-4 pouches a day - is this accurate alongside a complete dry food?
Can any more experienced kitten owners please give me some idea on how much to feed and some better options for them? If they’re having 3-4 pouches a day each, it’s going to cost more than our food shop each week 😅
Photo of my lovely girls hopefully attached.

Congratulations on your kittens 😸.
I would be inclined to try them on 1 pouch each twice a day alongside the dry food first just to see how much they eat. If necessary, then increase this as you go along.
It is suck it and see for the first few weeks.
Good luck 👍

I’d get them off the Whiskas and stay away from anything Purina too.
A friend has just taken on a kitten who too was on Whiskas. She moved him into Blink and he’s put on weight much better and eats less pouches because they’re not full of shit.

4 pouches a day plus dry food for 14 week old kittens - no way - they'll explode!!

My kitten at the same age was also on dry kitten food (available to her all the time) plus 3 meals a day of wet food but she eats probably less than a third of a pouch each time. She leaves it if given more.

Our kitten is currently on Whiskas kitten food while he settles in - he has two pouches a day split over four meals as well as a constant supply of dry food.

What a lovely pair of black panthers!

I'd be getting them off the whiskas as soon as possible, but make sure you do it gradually as rapid changes can upset their stomach - add a teaspoon of the new food to start with then up to a quarter of their ration then half then 3/4 etc. Probably take about 2 weeks

We use Applaws pouches and lily's kitchen dry however our BSH is having quite bad upset stomach lately so not sure if theyve tweaked the recipe recently.

They have half a pouch each in the am and half in the pm then if someone is home they get about 1/2 a blue measuring scoop for lunch and half when they go to bed

I'd want a food with a high meat content not full of processed c*

Thanks for the advice. I will have a look at food suggestions today. They are hungry little things - they shared a pouch at 6pm, then asked for more when I went in at 8pm and wolfed it down. Hopefully a higher meat content will satisfy them. I guess rescues have to buy so much food that they can’t really go for the more expensive brands but I’m happy to buy what’s best for them.
Thanks again!

Hard to overfeed a kitten with wet food, they're growing so much at this age they need lots of calories. Recommending Blink also. Try Thrive for dry food or Catit Nuna, but don't free feed it - get them used to having set mealtimes, if that makes sense.