anyone in Canada using President's Choice extra meaty pate canned food?

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Anita and Stewie

Anita and Stewie

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I'm still trying to find the healthiest but affordable food for Stewie and my civvie Sammy. I am feeding Nature's Variety Instinct (not the raw, but they do make one) Chicken, and also the President's Choice "Extra Meaty" pate in chicken or turkey. The different in price, $2.69 for the former, 69 cents for the latter, for 5.5 oz cans.
With the cheaper food, I see that they might have guar gum, salt, egg up there in the ingredients list. The Nature's Variety has ground flaxseed, montmorillonite clay listed (I'm guessing both are for fiber?), besides the meat. Hmmm. Kind of weird to have clay in cat food? Does anyone have opinions/knowlege on this?

Ideally, I would like to feed them organic, no steroid/antibiotic food, but that would mean making it myself as raw and it would be expensive. Already, the Nature's Variety is costing me a lot. I haven't found a no steroid/antiobiotic canned cat food that doesn't have peas/potato/corn/rice. Sigh. The cheaper foods sometimes have sodium nitrate as an ingredient, which is a carcinogenic and is in lunch meat and hot dogs, so I've taken those off of my list. I guess my main question is if anyone thinks the President's Choice is a good food or not?
 
Thanks so much, Red & Rover! This is really helpful. I see that the food uses carrageenan as an additive, and the article in the spreadsheet says that carageenan leads to glucose intolerance and insulin resistance. I wonder, since Stewie is in remission, if it now matters if there is carageenan in his food? Hmmm. Probably not good to give it to him, which is a shame. None of these cheaper foods are purrfect. sigh.
 
Noah eats the President's Choice "Extra Meaty" pate. It's like having a kid who will only eat at McDonalds. The more the food costs and the better it is the less likely he is to eat it and he can be very stubborn about what he eats. I just have this aversion to supermarket pet foods, it smells and looks like it was made from an old pair of boots but it's the ONLY thing he we always eat after his shots and it keeps his weight where it should be. I've gone through this before with his brother Nigel.
Thank you @Anita and Stewie , I did not know that about carrageenan. Just one more reason to keep a magnifying glass handy. Our cupboards are full of yummy "good for you" cat food that are headed for the local shelter. Very frustrating but it keeps him going. We've come a long way since the days there were no Pet O' Marts and no such thing as clumping litter.
 
Hi,

I've spend lots of time studying cat food before setting up my little brothers on President Choice. I only give
them the ''paté'' ones, small cans. The Turkey and giblet one has a difference in ingredient between the medium
and small cans (gum I think). Don't worry about chem stuff, they are for preservation and nutriments you dont find
in raw meat. When I was making my own raw food I was adding the same type of ingredient but with different names.
What you want to stay away from is gum, liver as first ingredient and all vegetable or wheat ingredient.

Also, look at the fat level, PC is good for GL but deadly on fat. There is nothing such as a free meal, you got
to pay somewhere. That's the only problem I find with this food, I stay sconservative on quantity cause Small Kitty
as a well garnished belly. Luckily he pass all summer outside and this helps.

PC food can be found everywhere : Maxi, Loblaws and Provigo, another reason why I choose this food.

Hope this helps.
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That's good news for Noah. He needs major dental work but won't survive the surgery so he can't grasp the chunks in giblets, paté only. Thanks.
 
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