I thought this may be a good sticky for those who would like to see what foods we use and the prices we pay in case we can share any discounts etc

I use:

Dry Complete
Orijen Complete 13.5kg bag for £51.99 PetPlanet or Fish4Dogs 12kg £32.08 VetUk

Wet Complete
Naturediet 18 trays £13.28 (VetUk)

Dry:
CSJ Natural Champ Adult 15 kg £9.75 (that's the website price, can't remember if ours is different as we collect)http://www.csjk9.com
CSJ Old Champ 15 kg £12.80

Wet:
Nature Diet 18 trays is around £9 inc. VAT from Batleys (but not everyone can get a card so a bit immaterial really..)
Raw meat and bones from local butchers, £5 for enough meat to feed a large dog approx. 80 meals. :) (Worked that out per meal, in reality I feed 8 large dogs for at least a fortnight; Mon-Fri seven of them get one meal meat one meal CSJ, the eighth two meals meat, weekends all get two meals meat each.)

Orijen dry food 7.5kg £32.00 a bag from our local pet shop.

Dry complete:

Burns Lamb, Chicken or Fish with Maize 15kg £39.99 free next day delivery if orders placed online through Burns website before 11am.

I don't feed moist but sometimes cook my own moist food as special treat for them. - Brown rice, Chicken, mixed seasonal vegetable, some seeds and kelp powder.

> Nature Diet 18 trays is around £9 inc. VAT from Batleys

Marianne, your Batleys does naturediet? They don;t sell it in the Edinburgh branch, but now I know they can I'll order it :-)

Yes I never buy it anywhere else :) All my Paps are fed on it.

> Nature Diet 18 trays is around £9 inc. VAT from Batleys

Someone was selling these at Southern Counties today for £10 per tray.  I feed raw normally but I like this for travelling.  I completely forgot to go back to the stand on my way out and this post has just reminded me - how annoying!!

I could possibly have asked a non showing friend to collect some for me but someone has recently posted that there is a £10 charge for car parking - not quite such good value if I have to stick that on top...

Orijen £44.15 a bag from breeder scheme, bought 2 bags of Acana fish as well, cheaper than Orijen fish.

Raw meat from butcher, great off cuts £1 a kilo!! Bones free.

We use 7.5kg Arden Grange Lamb and Rice we buy this every 2 weeks and then every other day I buy Chicken Breast (cant feed thighs one dog has IBD) and white fish this costs £10.00.

Dry

Arden Grange large breed- 15kg- £28.49 through the breeder club

Wet

Tripe: I pay about £50 for 100lbs from Durham Anmal Feeds

Raw bones: I buy a big bag of bones from DAF for about £2.50 that lasts forever or go to my local butcher who gives away a few bones sometimes!

Dry - Arden Grange Lamb & Rice - 15kg sack currently £25.52 from VetUK (I tend to wait until they have min 10% discount as it happens quite frequently)

Raw - minced lamb, beef, chicken and tripe - 450g portions between 31p and 43p each dependant on type from TPMS

Bones -  big bones 30p each        Poultry Necks - £2.40 for 5.5lbs   both from TPMS

Chicken portions from any supermarket when I see them - usually no more than £2 for 4 quarters

Other - freebies from the butcher when I'm passing

Edited to add - Sardines 32p from Lidl

Dry - Burns pork & Potato - 15kg sack £38.99 delivered free to my door by local supplier. cheaper than burns website or any other site i have seen.
wet - whatever i pick up , jwb or nature diet/menu/harvest
sardines, egg etc - sainsburys

millibayhill pet shop.
online best price for royal canine giant, 2 X15 kg bags for 73.30 plus free deliverly.

I get 15kg bags Arden Grange Adult Lamb & Rice,2 for £52.50,free delivery from www.gjwtitmuss.co.uk

hello,
        i pay £25 for 15 kg of arden grange large breed puppy,£23 for 15 kg arden grange adult lamb and rice, i use two 15kg large breed puppy a month and i buy the 15 kg when ever my pug runs out and that takes a long time
jo

That's a good price, better than the breeder price from them direct, where do you get yours?

i have a breeders number,but i go to the horsebox in redruth cornwall,and i give them my breeders number and thats what they charge, i just hope it stays that way as stanley is eating me out of house and home !!
jo

I live round the corner from AG and still without delivery charges and also on breeder scheme its expensive. Love the prices you have Joanne.

I'm now onto CSJ - Fit 'n' Fast  - £19.40 for a 15kg bag from local pet shop.
All meat and bones comes from supermarket or butchers at varying prices.
All tripe i get delivered from Berriewoods. I got in bulk last time and had to purchase a new freezer to hold it all :-D

i know i am lucky,the used to just do horses,so when they got all the dog food in they were selling it for 15 kg for 19.99 as an introduction offer!!! i hope it does not go up,i am thinking of adding some fish or meat to stans food(newfie)i am just a bit worried he will get an iffy tum or start being fussy,what would you recomend
jo

I have 2 large breed dogs and they both have sardines, raw eggs(with shell), tripe, bones etc added to their diet, its not made the youngest fussy..
As for an iffy tum, if thats the case then i would stop feeding that particular food topper.
A lot of people on here do feed the above and more to their dogs, if you're not going to go the whole hog of a raw food diet then i can't see it being an issue as a topper to his AG!!..

Se what others think..

thanks suejaw, i was thinking along the lines of tripe,white fish etc,never thought of sardines and eggs though!!!i have bought him a humongous roasted bone but not given it to him yet,i was also thinking raw bones, stans going to think its christmas. i will introduce it slowly and see what he thinks, knowing stan, it wont touch the sides
jo

I would suggest avoiding any type of "cooked" bone, only feed raw- the best to give them if you have any close by are Buffalo Bones as they have a higher vitamin content.

Our dogs (9 Boxers, 1 Pharaoh Hound and a Rottie x Great Dane) get raw meaty bones (Buffalo, lamb ribs/necks, knuckles), chicken carcasses stuffed with tripe, apple and carrots (take the pips out of apples as they contain cianide), Bananas & natural yogurt with some honey, Chicken wings. The butcher we are fortunate to get all our bones from also gives us all his waste meat ie hearts (have you seen the size of a buffalo heart), liver, lungs, prime steak etc.

Our pups from when they start to chew are introduced to chicken wings and raw meats and meaty bones.

We used to find that some of our boxers when eating bagged food, and we did use some of the big names on the market, would suffer from bad stomachs quite frequently but since changing over to BARF our guys are very healthy and the pups we have reared from birth to adulthood that  have only had BARF are in much better condition, with greater muscle mass than the dogs we had on mixed diets.