My dogs are all fed raw, and one in particular will not touch any kind of kibble.
My girl is a few days away from having her first litter, so to make it easier to feed her after whelping, I have been adding Lily's Kitchen tinned food to her diet forthe last 2 weeks to get her used to wet/tinned. She loves it, but it is very expensive at £2.50ish a tin (I have 56 cans left), has anyone on here used it, then found a good/cheaper substitute?
Thanks

Why not stick with the raw? If it's convenience you're after, you could use Natural Instinct which, although fairly expensive, will certainly be cheaper than Lily's Kitchen.

I would stick with raw for definate but if you PM LucyDogs on here, she has the queen of fussy girls who liked lily's kitchen food so she may have found a cheaper alternative?

What about Lukullas ?, it is dear but a bit cheaper than Lilly's kitchen, http://www.zooplus.co.uk/shop/dogs/wet_dog_food/lukullus/lukullus_gourmet/212869

Arden Grange do a ncie tinned food.

Thanks for your replies.
I do feed all of them raw, no veg, and have done for 4 years,I have a great deal with my butcher, and my chickens help by laying all through the winter,but just to make sure she is getting nice food that will be gentle on her mouth (if it gets sore from cleaning pups) she will be getting tinned additionally to her raw diet.
She does like this, but I am wanting to find a decent cheaper alternative.

I use wainwrights trays as a back up if I forget to get the raw out of the freezer or have ran out.  Dogs love it.  £8.65 for 12 trays I think with various varieties

Naturediet, Nature's Menu are decent foods or my preferred for that type would be Natures Harvest. All are cheaper than Lily's Kitchen.

Just had a litter and raised them on raw and naturesdiet (it's packed not tinned). They and mum have done well with it. I did a mix of raw and wet food as when new owners take them home they might not want to raw feed and naturesdiet is readily available and easy of use... :-)

I don't feed raw- really can't afford it but I do buy this stuff and give some as treats and my crew love it.

http://www.thehonestkitchen.com/

I just picked up some of this, Green tripe: http://www.k9natural.com/

I'm thinking on grabbing some of this: http://www.ziwipeak.com/zpintl/nzl/cuisinefamily.shtml

I find feeding raw is cheaper than feeding a good quality kibble.  I was surprised as I expected it to be more expensive.  The main downsides is that it requires a bit more planning and a lot more freezer space!!  But fewer poo bags . . . and the cost saved on de-scaling teeth (hopefully).

I don't really have the freezer space- The lady at the Petstore told me that raw feeding would cost me alot more. But I do try to buy some dehydrated raw food and they also get our food as well. If we have chicken I give them some ect...

i only have a small freezer in my house but i work in the same street as a butcher so i just call in once a week, get enough to do me a week then call in again, if i havent meat there then she gets tinned sardines till i make it to the butchers the next day. i know its daunting to start with but it does get much easier, ive a large akita and its costing me about £30 a month to feed raw. she gets lamb shanks, lamb necks, cows heart, calfs liver, lambs liver, ox tail, large chicken legs, green tripe, sardines, and occasionally some leftovers of spaghetti bolognese and such, her coat is really glossy and her teeth are pure white, also she has no doggy odour and seems alot more content and enjoys each meal now. try it, the rewards are fantastic.

> try it, the rewards are fantastic.

Dollface is in Canada, it may not be the same setup there... but I would be surprised if there were no dog meat suppliers like we have (Albion, TPMS, DAF etc). Or perhaps the huge distances in her country make a difference?

Maybe there are different regulations? I would think most areas have some kind of an abbatoir but maybe there are laws to forbid selling meat direct, especially not-for-human-consumption.

I have just found another local source from another butcher in my town, plenty of lamb ribs, beef bones and pigs trotters, tails etc. My problem also is freezer space and the fact that there is a limit to how much bone you can feed... it needs to be balanced out with the meat, and with what your dog can comfortably digest.

Def much harder here. The petstore I buy from does sell raw as well. Since that is costly for me I do try to add some dehydrated raw food in their diet.
They love the K9 natural Green Tripe which I offer as treats and this Wysong Hamburger stuff, Honest Kitchen is only a hit with 2 of my dogs- Junior
not to fond of it. They all really like the Cani Source. I also give them Veggies/fruit and meat that we have but the meats cooked.

i use a butcher, because since im in northern ireland i cant source raw for dogs as the companies charge £30-£40 delivery alone. i was simply putting my point across showing how it can be done using a simple high street butcher

Lava, I use a butcher too. They have to pay for the waste to be taken away, so I get alot of the carcasses and bones free, I buy from the same butcher my chicken wings and offal, and the meat I use for my own consumption, way cheaper then the supermarket. I looked into using the ready prepared BARF and found it to be quite expensive.
I have a second hand chest freezer in the shed which is purely for the dogs, I wouldn't be able to feed the three of them (eight soon with the pup's) in the way I do if I didn't have it. Before having this freezer, my kitchen freezer was out of bounds for hubby, as he never could quite work out what was ours, and what was for the dogs!!!