Cheap kidney friendly food for diabetics?

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melody24

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My cat Loki is almost 15 and is on a controlled diet, receiving 3 cans of Fancy Feast Pate a day (7 am, 12 pm, 7 pm). The vet recommended he go on a diet for his kidneys (he's been peeing a lot despite having normal blood sugar), and I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for low-carb, kidney-friendly food that won't break the bank. I've read that a lot of "diabetes friendly" cat food recommended by vets is a scam, so I don't want to go down that route again. Thank you all so much!
 
Copying and pasting from another thread, although Weruva is not the cheapest:

weruva has low carb and low phospherous wet food
With weruva foods
You want the metabolizable energy profile percentage of carbs to be less than 10%, and the phosphorus which Weruva lists in Minerals to be less than 250 mg per 100 cals. So you have to look at two different places in the Weruva charts.
https://weruva.com


For diabetic cats and cats that have elevated kidney values
You want to feed low phosphorous wet food

When you go to the weruva site and click on one of the pics of the food , click on Detailed Nutrition information that is under guaranteed analysis to the left
YOU WANT CARBS UNDER 10% AND PHOSPHORUS IDEALLY LOW 200's OR LESS

Here is a list that one of our members posted ,if Bear likes pates

I don't know if the BFF play weruva pate is on the list your looking at or not. I wrote down the protein carbs & phosphorus #s in a notebook.
BFF play chicken Checkmate
Protein 31%
Carbs 5%
Phosphorus 129%
BFF play chicken & turkey topsy turvy
Protein 32%
Carbs 5%
Phosphorus 129%
BFF play chicken cherish
Protein 31%
Carbs 5%
Phosphorus 135%
BFF chicken & turkey tiptoe
Protein 31%
Carbs 5%
Phosphorus 136%
BFF chicken duck & turkey take a chance
Protein 32%
Carbs 5%
Phosphorus 149%
BFF play chicken & lamb laugh out loud
Protein 31%
Carbs 5%
Phosphorus 154%
BFF play chicken & duck destiny
Protein 32%
Carbs 5%
Phosphorus 165%
BFF play chicken & beef best buds
Protein 33%
Carbs 5%
Phosphorus 171%
Don't know if your kitty likes pate but here is the list of the BFF line.
 
I just put in an order for the chicken checkmate- does anyone have advice on how to integrate this into his diet to avoid a freakout? Thinking I will start with half/half then go from there
 
I'm glad you found one that suits both of you, with diabetic cats that also have chronic kidney desease, what you have to have in mind is to always go for low carb and as low phosphorus as possible, and the reason most ( if not all ) the comercial kidney diets are not suitable for diabetics is that manufacturers to manage a low phosphorus food they get lots and lots of carbs in the food which is going to cause a lot of problems for his diabetes so unless your cat is really in the last stages of chronic kidney desease you probably want to avoid them
 
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