my aunts dog has an alergy to wheat gluten and soya apparently and has been advised to stop feeding the dried food she feeds and start on a raw diet like natures diet nuggets.
she has a german shephard and is happy to change and ive been looking online with her today but i cannot find where to get it from in bulk because it works out at cheapest £2.59 1kg.
anyone any ideas??anyone use this food??

she isnt happy about going butchers and blending up veg ect so wants to get it all ready prepared.

I  tried them for my sheltie briefly and to be honest though they were expensive rubbish,they're mainly veg with little meat.My dog was just pooing as much as she ate and losing weight.The Banquet nuggets aren't quite as bad as they have a lot more meat-but poor quality meat.
If she wants to try a "complete" raw mix she would be better off with Natural Instinct.

This link might be what you are looking for - http://naturesmenu.co.uk/  I use a large quantity of their products and am completely satisfied. I have one dog who cannot eat anything but raw meat and she does really well on their raw beef and raw tripe chunks.

thanks ive had a look on the site and looks interesting although no prices??

shall see if its possible to call them

> This link might be what you are looking for - [url=http://naturesmenu.co.uk/" rel=nofollow]http://naturesmenu.co.uk/[/url]  I use a large quantity of their products and am completely satisfied. I have one dog who cannot eat anything but raw meat and she does really well on their raw beef and raw tripe chunks.

I haven't had a problem with any of their other products-I still feed the beef and tripe chunks,(although a few people I have spoken to think don't think their minces are very good) its just the Nuggets which seem to be so awful.On the plus side they're great if you have a dog that needs to lose weight-and don't mind lots of poo.

I find their delivery service very reliable, never been let down once. Also I have never yet had to complain about the one thing I eventually found unacceptable with all my previous frozen meat suppliers and that's the addition of extra fat and water.

Does anyone know where it's possible to buy large bags (15K or more in size) of uncooked pasta at reasonable prices?

I use Durham Animal Feed for frozen raw products. Handy 1LB packs and a good variety of foods. Check out their website for delivery areas.

she isnt happy about going butchers and blending up veg ect so wants to get it all ready prepared.

I have one dog that ONLY can tolerate raw meat, nothing else. All he gets is meat offcuts and bones from the butcher, nothing else whatsoever. He's in absolutely sparkling condition. He's a Malinois so a big dog too and was fed this way from 6 months of age when he still had a lot of growing to do. He's the one of my dogs with the best coat as well, the one that moults much less than the rest. The other dogs get one meal meat, one meal complete a day and they don't look quite as good. (But I can't stomach feeding more than one dog raw meat, I nearly throw up -then again I nearly throw up by walking past supermarket aisles with meat in!-, being a vegetarian, so as I have to feed one of their meals when hubby is at work, I use complete for the rest.)

Oh and I buy frozen mince from Natures Menu each month for the cats and the Papillons and Cavalier (again one meal of this, one meal complete except in this case it's complete wet food, not dried), very pleased with them!

I also use the 1kg bags of frozen nuggets as well as their tripe squares. I get the bags for about £1.50 with my breeder discount. If you click on their website and go to 'place an order' you should get all the prices up?

I think they are fantastic. I place my order once a month normally on a Thursday, they deliver to my area on Monday's. They are always here between 8.30-9am I cant fault them. Our dogs love the food and have never had any problems at all, but I do give AG with the raw.

I  tried them for my sheltie briefly and to be honest though they were expensive rubbish,they're mainly veg with little meat.My dog was just pooing as much as she ate and losing weight.The Banquet nuggets aren't quite as bad as they have a lot more meat-but poor quality meat.

That just isnt the case, the meat and rice takes up more in the majority of them than the vege and if you go for the banquet ones then there is 74% meat so they aren't predominantly veg.  In the banquet ones the first three ingredients listed are named meat sources so not rubbish meat either.  My guys have the banquet ones because two of them are allergic to rice  and they do fantastic on it.  I'm sure there are dog that it doesn't suit and clearly yours was one of them but that does not make it a rubbish food.  It contains less carbs than lots of diets so maybe the weight loss was down to that or maybe three was something in it that didn't agree with her but like I say it certainly isn't a rubbish food.

Karen,I think the problem was that she wasn't digesting any of the veg(and apart from the Banquet nuggets veg makes up nearly 50%)-if I pulverise veg for her at home though she is fine with it.Most of the nuggets only contain about 35% meat so she wasn't really getting much nutrition from them.The Banquet nuggets do contain a lot more meat admittedly but even with those I was having to feed twice as much as when I fed the Back to Nature minces-so it worked out very expensive.I did wonder why the Banquet nuggets are described as being a complimentary food not a complete food like the other nuggets-I just wonder what else you are supposed to feed to make them complete?
Anyway,as you say,what suits one dog won't suit another and if it suits your dogs thats great-it just didn't suit mine at all.

I didn't realise the banquet one wasn't sold as a complete, though I don't use it as such.  Maybe because most people assume that dogs need carbs in another form than vege, I really don't know.  I have to say though mine do do fab on it, it isn't used as a complete so maybe things would be different if it was, I do know that it would be very expensive to feed my three and usually have a foster as well so four on it if that was all I was feeding though :-)

I do agree with the vege though it could do with being more pulped as some of it doesn't get digested properly.