Moving on from Felix pouches (6m kitten)

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My 6m old male kitten came to us eating Felix As good as it looks pouches. They don’t seem great in terms of nutrition but he does eat about 1.5 a day. Seems not very keen though!. Often he licks off the jelly/gravy stuff and leaves the spongy lumps.
He gets a bit of cooked meat or fish regularly too and is very keen on this.
I tried him on Scrumbles kitten dry food and he seems to love it. I am aware he should mostly have wet food but he does drink lots of water.
I thought it would be easy to find a quality high meat wet food but it’s so confusing. Anyone moved on from Felix AGAIL and what did you try?
Thanks

Cat tax

Oh that's such a cute kitty! Completely adorable.

No help with the kitten food I'm afraid, my cats have always liked whiskers.

I've largely given up on kitten pouches now - kitlet was eating my older cat's dry food, she was waiting until he got distracted from his bowl, then scarfing the pouch...

There's plenty of good quality brands, Felix and Whiskas are like feeding Mcdonalds every day! Untamed is suitable for kittens and adult cats. Blink has a great kitten selection. Pets at Home's Seriously Good brand is excellent and the kitten recipes are lovely. Lily's Kitchen is owned by Purina now so declining in quality but it's still not bad. Some of the better brands need to be ordered as an online subscription but you can get Blink at Pets at Home too.

Blink do a trial box for £1!

Feringa (available from Zooplus) is a good wet food with a v high % of meat. Applaws dry food is good too.
Both come in kitten varieties.

Be prepared to try loads of different brands and for your cat/kitten not to like any of them 🙄

We tried to get ours off Felix but couldn't find a single brand that they would all eat with any kind of regularity. They hate pâté style foods or anything in gravy so it needs to be in jelly. Then they'll only eat certain flavours as well 🙈

I also have one who has urinary issues and needs a wet diet, so just feeding a good quality dry food isn't really an option either. Eventually we gave up and stuck with Felix - they do get good quality biscuits too but they love their wet food. They only get a small amount (one pouch a day split over two meals) so it could be worse!

Have you tried the Felix tasty shreds? My elderly cat and kitten both love them I buy in bulk thought the purina website. If you use this link you can get 15% off your first order.

direct.purina.co.uk/referrals.list?applyCode=LAUREN-R2K

Or if you have a blue light card you can get 20% off

Thanks very much all. I will try all those suggestions.
I should have said I did try some pate type mini tins but all were rejected. Looks like it will be trial and error with the quality brands listed here. Hoping the Pets at Home own brand works as it’s less pricey than some of the others and I am two minutes from a branch!

Our 5mo kitten came to us at 11 weeks "eating anything". He also was actually just licking the jelly/gravy off, and only eating the chucks if starving. He also had super stinky farts despite immediately feeding him good quality biscuits (something we had only read about before! I have never noticed our older cat farting in 13yrs!). We have tried out a few different brands now. Sadly nothing makes a difference to his stinky bum, but he is definitely eating better on other stuff. He'll eat the German high meat content tinned stuff from Zooplus, but only with slightly more enthusiasm than the spongy pouch chunks, which is probably due to the lack of jelly. His favourite wolf-straight-down food is the stuff in little tins that looks like purely shredded chicken from Pets At Home (although it's actually a complete food) - "Seriously Good" and seriously expensive 🙄

Definitely recommend the blink trial box. My cat is picky about wet food and he will happily eat this
He also likes thrive which I get off Amazon

My cat also came as a kitten supposedly eating Felix but just licked the jelly off. We gave her Blink, which she was OK about for a bit and then refused. She then got Untamed, which she loved and still gets. You can get a trial pack online. She also now gets The Cool Cat Club food and adores their trays. Again you can get her a trail pack. So forget the Felix, try online or buy a couple of tins from Pets at Home. She also had Purina One dry kitten food until she was one and now has Iams dry too. She is very spoilt!

My cat is really fussy and I think we must of tried just about every brand! she really enjoys Applaws wet food twice a day alongside Purina complete dry food (Applaws is a complimentary feed)

If you sign up to pets at home VIP club on the app and create a profile for your kitten you'll get two vouchers one gives you 50% off some brands of kitten food and the other 75%, we've had wainwright's , blink and seriously good. Also lovely man in PAH told me if you create a new pet profile (takes seconds) you get more vouchers, he actually did it for me in store and often the single use vouchers will multi scan so if they don't go into your past vouchers saying redeemed you can keep using them. It's a good way to try different brands to find one your kitten will like.
Ours came to us eating go cat biscuits and Felix, we moved gradually but straight away to the above wet foods (I try and rotate a selection so he doesn't end up too fussy like our last cat...) and royal canin dry food

Thanks again for the recent posts. Finding the right thing seems to be a common problem! Have noted all recommendations and will see how we get on.
I envisaged just buying something decent from the supermarket along with my weekly shop but it seems a bit more complicated than that.
Really appreciate all the suggestions - especially the PAH discounts. The staff seem so lovely there. I am happy to support them for the next 20 years buying whatever this boy decides he wants!