Best affordable cat food

A question about : Best affordable cat food

I know there is probably a thread already on this but I can't seem to find what I am looking for. I am wanting to buy in bulk my cats food but want something with a good meat content. The stuff in the supermarkets have only 4% meat (or whatever it is) I do sometimes buy them frozen fish fillets that I microwave and give them and tinned tuna so they are getting some goodness. I did find in bnm stores the gourmet cat food with 70% fish, however they don't always have it and now they have stared to bulk them out with spinach and carrots that one of my cats isn't keen on. I was just wondering if there are any shops/online pet shops that do good food at reasonable price. Only one of my cats eats dry food and he is happy on supermarket brands (tried more expensive and he won't eat it) so it's the wet food Im looking at - preferably tinned as it sometimes works out cheaper with both cats and I can top their bowls up if they're having a hungry day.
Thanks

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• I get all my cat food/litter from www.zooplus.co.uk and lots of people on here shop on that website too.
  Free deliver on orders over Ј29.00 and as I normally order once per month it makes sense.
• It's difficult! Gone are the days when cats were given a few fish'eads from the fishmonger!
  I buy dry food from Petfoodsdirect. I call at the local branch but they do free delivery. They stock the full quality range of dry food at good prices, also pouches and tinned food.
  My cats will eat Felix, Lidl, and Aldi tinned food - licking the jelly off first then returning later to eat the chunks when they have realised that I'm not made of money! They do seem to enjoy it and are very fit.
  I have a problem with the pouches because of the amount of non-recyclable plastic packaging ie the pouch.
  I want to know what is really in those bowls in the TV cat food ads when the cat runs in with a smile on its face then wolfs the lot!!!
• Butchers classic cat food from asda is grain free, reasonable meat content, and available if you've run out and need to nip to the shops.
  Alternatively Bozita is available in bulk from zoo+, relatively cheap, (most varieties) grain free, and reasonable meat content.
• I've been getting this for my two cats (5kg and 4kg) and they love it!
  https://www.zooplus.co.uk/shop/cats/c...ma/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:
  https://www.zooplus.co.uk/shop/cats/d...enwoods/459401
  Costs cЈ30 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.
• This reference is useful for understanding what you are buying https://messybeast.com/cat-food-industry.htm
• Has anyone ever seen anything decent in a supermarket that isn't in trays (which are terrible value normally)?
• I'm having a similar problem, Need a decent food on a budget that my lot like, they just don't seem keen on wet food except for stuff like thrive and cosma which seems to go straight through ed
  Whiskas/felix ect seem ok but they aren't the best quality although are complete.
  Bozita looks like whiskas/felix if you read into it, no cereals but still 4% named flavour the rest of the meat seems to be pork mainly.
  I'm going to give the happy kitty company a try, after a suggestion on here
  I suppose raw is the best way to go nutritionally but it's a heck of a lot of effort and mess tbh so not quite ready for that, especially as I get the feeling a lot would get wasted, but cats do seem to thrive on it, pretty sure Ed would love it, Mollys wouldn't be fussed and Olly, well he's a complete kibble addict so even junky felix doesn't tempt him into eating the wet stuff
• 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.
• Tinned pilchards are cheaper than tuna.
• 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...
• Aldi's got a new German pouch range, 8% named meat, 4% better than others. My cat likes it a lot.
• Trying my cat on some cooked frozen mince Ј3 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.
• 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.