Supplemental (tinned) food - anything wrong with this one?

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    Supplemental (tinned) food - anything wrong with this one?

     On the site that I order Ben's food from, I've come across what I think is a very nice looking tinned food.  I put "toppers" on Ben's food, often, but these would offer a little more variety.  Here are the ingredients of the ones I'd be most likely to give him:

    Turkey with Potatoes, Vegetables and Pears:
    Fresh turkey muscle meat, turkey hearts, carrots, potatoes (10%), pear, broccoli, millet (3%), whey, wheat germ oil, linseed, parsley, basil, spirulina algae, organic eggshells, drinking water (meat 50%). gluten-free

    Venison with Pumpkin, Cowberries and Spelt:
    Deer muscle meat, pumpkin, zucchini, carrots, beetroot, root celery, spelt flakes, oat flakes, low-fat yogurt, wheat germ oil, cowberries, chives, Chlorella algae, organic eggshells, sesame, drinking water (meat 45 %).

    Rabbit with Wholemeal Pasta, Wheat Bran and Wood Garlic:
    Rabbit heart, lungs and liver, rabbit muscle meat, whole meal pasta (10%), tomatoes, zucchini, black salsify, rape oil, fresh wild garlic, fresh chives, linseed, mineral soil (healing earth), organic eggshells, Andean salt, drinking water (meat 50%).

    Bear in mind this would be a once or twice-weekly thing, not his daily diet.   Any reasons not to feed this, from you nutrition gurus who are far more knowledgeable than I?  He has no allergies that I've ever been able to discern except that raw celery makes him vomit.  (Cooked and pureed does not so I think it must be that the stringiness makes him gag.)

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     They look really good. I'd feed them to my non-allergic dog. Emma couldn't eat them, but Emma can't eat anything...

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    Those look like fun.  My feeling on canned foods is just that it's so much cheaper, if you are just using them as toppers, to crockpot a stew for your dogs and then you can put in whatever you want.  Of course, I don't know how easy it is to get venison and rabbit in the stores, there.  Sometimes I used canned food for Ben because of his allergies.  I could get stuff like rabbit and beaver in the cans for less than I could get it in the stores.  Okay, we can't get beaver at all.

    Anyway, but it's a nice food.  Pay no attention to the cheapskate behind the curtain.  ;) 

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     Great, thanks both of you.

    Becca it probably would be cheaper, technically, to buy the ingredients and crock pot a stew if I could find some of the more exotic forms of meat, but I can only find certain things at certain times of year, even then it's a bit of a crapshoot as to what is available.  I definitely couldn't find beaver LOL.  Rabbits I do see occasionally but generally not in the grocery stores I have access to, venison I see sometimes as well, but game meats tend to command a premium price.  Farmer's markets are a better bet, but I guess I feel like if I am going to go to that much effort, I may as well do the thing properly and homecook.  That's probably on the horizon for the future, and given what I pay for kibble likely wouldn't be too much more expensive, but other constraints such as time to do the research prevent that at the moment. 

    I'll order some of those tins the next time I need to get his kibble.  Shipping is free so the weight doesn't matter LOL. 

    And I happen to like that cheapskate behind the curtain of whom you speak. ;)