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Customers say
Customers find the pet food to be a great, well-rounded meal for their dogs. They are confident that their dogs are getting healthy nutritious food, not fillers. Many customers find it worth the money and say it saves them money on vet bills. The food is easy to prepare, just add water and meat. Customers appreciate the human-grade ingredients and whole foods.
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Dabbled in home cooking, but don’t love the prep work? This Grain Free Fruit & Veggie Dog Food Base Mix is a delicious mix of antioxidant-rich fruits and veggies that eliminates the prep work associated with home cooking. Simply add warm water, your own source of protein and voila! A homemade meal that you and your pets will love. It’s a winner for raw feeders and homecookers who want to be sure their dog is getting all of their essential nutrients, and a great choice for adult and senior dogs dealing with meat sensitivities. It’s also 100% human grade, meaning we use the same whole foods you’d recognize in your own kitchen, and make this recipe in a human food facility for the highest quality and safety standards. ABOUT THE HONEST KITCHEN Founded in 2002 as the first human grade food for pets, we believe that real, whole foods provide pets with the best nutrition possible. That’s why all our foods are made with the same quality and safety standards as people food (and with ingredients you can find in your kitchen). It’s what we call The Honest Difference, and we can’t wait for you to see the difference it makes!
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
Product Dimensions : 8.5 x 7.5 x 4.5 inches; 3.25 Pounds
Manufacturer recommended age : 1 month and up
Item model number : PR3
Department : dog-dry-food
Date First Available : September 21, 2010
Manufacturer : The Honest Kitchen
ASIN : B00A8O8NWU
Country of Origin : USA
GRAIN FREE BASE MIX: This fruit & veggie base mix recipe is made with dehydrated ingredients and allows for versatile, easy home cooking or raw feeding.
GREAT FOR RAW FEEDERS & HOME COOKERS: Tired of chopping up veggies? This recipe does all the prep work by creating a healthy base for your own creations. Simply add your own meat or fish to make the perfect meal. Suitable for adult & senior dogs.
ADD YOUR OWN PROTEIN: This recipe is designed to be mixed with meat or fish, based on your dog’s protein restrictions or preference.
HUMAN GRADE: Unlike most pet food, this recipe is 100% human grade – made with human grade ingredients & produced in a human food facility. That means higher quality ingredients & more safety standards, just like you’d expect from your own food.
WE SAY NO TO: This recipe contains no preservatives, by-products, fillers, GMO ingredients, corn, wheat or soy.
NATURAL & MADE IN THE USA: This natural dog food is made with ingredients you’d recognize from your own kitchen, and made in the USA with trusted sources from around the world.
Preference is our grain-free base mix, which allows you to customize your pet’s diet with the meat of your choice
It’s perfect for raw dog food feeders
Preference is intended for supplemental feeding only
This diet contains a custom vitamin-mineral premix with balanced calcium, phosphorus ratios
Includes 3-pound per box
Vicrob –
My Dogs Love It … And, I’m Saving Money
Have been feeding 100% raw for 5+ years. Decided to look for other sources when Darwins increased their prices. My local pet stores either can’t keep the quantity I need in stock, or, have problems keeping their freezers running, so I started researching “home made” raw food diets. I now purchase beef, chicken, turkey and sometimes pork, from the grocery store, use my Kitchenaid stand mixer/attachment to grind, and mix with the Honest Kitchen. my dogs LOVE it. A few points:1. I use THK grain free varieties only. The base version (Preference) when serving fresh beef or pork. My dogs won’t eat raw chicken so that is the only cooked meat I serve. I boil a few pounds of boneless chicken breasts, then run through a food grinder on pulse. I boil enough for two or three days and store in the refrigerator. It takes only 7 mins prepare their meals – which I appreciate on busy mornings.2. I supplement THK Beef, Chicken and Turkey mixes with additional fresh meat. Can’t tell you why, I’m just not convinced there is enough meat in the mix alone. My dogs do seem to prefer the consistency of the meat varieties over the base mix, as evidenced by how long it takes them to finish their meals.3. For all of the mixes, I find that I have to feed my two Boxers more than the amounts recommended on the package. For example, for my 60 lb. female, the Preference guidelines suggest 1 cup of meat per day. I feed her one cup of meat mixed with one cup of Preference TWICE a day. She actually dropped a couple of pounds initially – so I monitor her and feed slightly more on the days when she has been more active than usual. My 80 lb. male – similar- feeding twice the recommended meat. He is older, less active and also dropped a few pounds…which is a good thing ; )3. I’ve noticed some variance in the consistency of the dry mix from box to box. My last box of Preference was predominantly green and finely ground – like oregano. My current box is full of large chunks of orange and yellow – like the consistency of dehydrated chunky vegetable soup mix. When mixed with water, the chunks remain large enough for my boy to spit out (onto the floor) the pieces he doesn’t like. I contacted the company and learned that they source their ingredients from different suppliers and so the size of the products vary. The Honest Kitchen mills the food for the same length of time regardless of the starting size of the food – so start small, end with fine. Start large, end with course. Either way, the company states the same amount/ratio of food is in each box.4. I find that I am actually saving money feeding The Honest Kitchen compared to prepared raw. Darwins and Nature’s Variety cost me $4.20 – $5 per pound — and my two dogs were eating 4lbs of Darwins supplemented with grain free canned food, or 2.5 lbs of Nature’s Variety, supplemented with canned, per day. Yup – $400+ per month to feed two dogs. Now, I buy meet from the grocery store on sale ($1.89 lb – $3.49 lb), and no longer need to supplement with canned food (though I do still keep canned in their diet on rotation). I stock up on THK whenever it is on sale.5. The last point worth mentioning is that feeding THK is much easier than frozen prepackaged raw. There is a noticeably ‘gamey’ smell to prepackaged raw that isn’t present with fresh meat from the grocery store. I’m vegetarian and it has been a tough 5 years. The Honest Kitchen smells like dehydrated food, and when mixed with fresh meat – it really does not smell like dog food. Also clean up is a breeze compared to prepackaged raw – which would quickly begin to stink, and leave a fatty film in the bowls, requiring a soak in dawn dishwashing liquid to clean. Now, their bowls rinse clean – and when there are leftovers, there is no unpleasant smell.Highly recommend. I’m saving over $100 per month….AND feel much more confident that my dogs are eating wholesome, healthy, safe, fresh food.
Reva –
Dalmatian favorite
I have been comparing different brands of dehydrated, raw fruits, and vegetables to add to my dogs meal. I add my own protein. This is the three Dalmatian’s favorite of all the raw vegetable and fruit blends. It hydrates up to the consistency of oatmeal, and smells fragrantly of coconut. This blend, which is their favorite is also a very good price and considering that I have three big dogs it’s affordable when I add my own protein to it. So I highly recommend that this be your choice of dehydrated, raw fruits, and vegetables with vitamins. Very healthy Has coconut oil and the dogs love it.
Suzanne –
This food is A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!! THANK YOU HONEST KITCHEN FOR THE AMAZING PRODUCT!!
Why I switched: My dogs are both youngish, 4-5 years old, boxer mixes between 70 and 80 lbs. They both seemed healthy and fine eating the normal kibble, I used to rotate between Taste of the Wild varieties, so a good brand, but kibble none the less. They ate it, without any issues. Every time I went to the vet she cautioned me to keep their weight down, so we would limit their food and they would be miserable. Then I started seeing these commercials on how they make dog food in high pressure cookers and it turns it into those brown pellets, thinking that can’t leave many nutrients left. And I always see and hear about dogs getting cancer, having skin issues, being overweight, etc. etc. etc. I started looking at alternatives, but something relatively easy to make. My previous two dogs, one died from cancer, and another had two TPLO surgeries (basically town knee ligaments), and eventually died suddenly from something neurological at 8 years old. My goal is to give my current dogs the best, healthiest life for as long as possible.Results: It has been about 6 months on this diet. After about 3-4 months I noticed their skin is softer, they both have even more energy than before (they always ran and jumped, but now they run and jump even higher.) Overall they seem happier, sleep better, poop more regularly. And the best part was when we weighed them this week, both have lost between 5 & 10 pounds and look strong and athletic. I couldn’t believe they lost so much weight without us limiting their food at all! I can’t wait to take them back to the vet in another 6 months. Side note, I currently don’t give them any other supplements or vitamins.How we make it: for 2 large dogs (now between 60 and 70lbs), we go through about 1-2 boxes a month, I rotate the two base mix recipes. We do supplement their diet a little bit with treats, human food (I know, I know, but hey, they still lost weight and look and act really healthy). We usually get organic chicken breasts (when they are BOGO I stock up), or Ground Bison from Costco. Sometimes if I have extra fish I will mix in that. With the chicken, we use an Insta-Pot and that has been a god-send. We also have a large Kitchen-Aid mixer we use to mix everything together. We don’t measure anymore, maybe 4 chicken breasts with 4-6 cups of dried food maybe? Add water and mix. Then we store it in mason jars in the fridge. We make batches 2-3 times a week, feed them 2x a day. Now that they lost so much weight, I will probably rotate in a organic or grass fed ground beef, or maybe add a small amount of healthy fat. I give the scent 5 stars (not for me, but definitely dog approved).Overall, switching to this has been the best thing I have done for my dogs. It has not been to hard on the pocketbook, I was already spending $100 a month on kibble, I probably spend $150 a month now. But the money I hope to save in the future with healthy dogs, less skin problems, vet visits, etc. will make this well worth.THANK YOU HONEST KITCHEN FOR MAKING THIS AMAZING PRODUCT!!!!!!!
AceFlyer –
Dog loves it. Nutritious food
This product was recommended by our veterinarian. It provides a nutritious meal supplement for our dog. We feed it approximately 1/3 wet food, 1/3 dry food and 1/3 of this veggie mix. When we put it in a bowl, the dog heads for this first.Have you ever tasted the food will you feed your dog? Why not? This is actually food and it has a great taste. I tried tasting other things we give our dog such as dog biscuits from a well-known brand. It tastes like sawdust. This product is our first step in making sure our dog gets healthy nutritious food, not fillers.
Conchita –
My dog has a sensitive stomache and this has done wonders for it. She has had normal bowel movements several times a day with alot of energy, and have seen a huge difference when switching back to her normal food…though I do think we need to add more protein than than the recommend dose on the box since it doesn’t seem to be enough food for my dog..but I guess it’ll be different for every dog. I use bone broth instead of water, Love how easy it is to prepare she just gobbles it all up!
ガブガブ –
12歳のウエルシュコーギーが食べています。アメリカに住んでいたのでWhole Foods で購入していました。日本で買うとびっくりするほど高いですが、食べ慣れているし、アメリカ製の方がペットフードの安全性が高いので安心して与えています。
Kelly L. –
I’ve been feeding my two four year old cats (one male and one female) Prowl from The Honest Kitchen for almost 3 years now. Before this, they were fed high quality dry kibble. Every month or so, they would become bored with their flavour of dry kibble and walk away from their bowls. I continued to buy different varieties until I literally ran out of high quality dry food options. I then bought the trial size of the Prowl food and both cats went crazy while I was mixing it up for them, they have never been so vocal! Almost 3 years later and they are still incredibly vocal and excited to eat their Prowl meal and never walk away from their bowls before licking them clean.
DanaB –
My Golden Retriever just turned 8 years old. I’ve been feeding her HK Preference base mix and adding meat (80% meat/10% bone/10% offal mix) for over a year now. She gobbles it up. She doesn’t suffer as many hot spots as before and she has lost about 18 lbs. Full and regular health check from vet ensures she is getting the right nutrients and all is as it should be for a dog of her age. proof is in her coat.While not always convenient (ESP when camping/boarding) I can always switch to the protien added version. Change up the proteins by adding fish, eggs… Turkey or lamb are favourites.Texture may be a big thing with your dog. So try different amounts of water to get a texture that works for you. Just remember to have lots of fresh water on hand!UPDATE September 1: While I still love this product, there is no longer a cost savings in purchasing it on Amazon. The price, up until recently, was $65.99 now it’s $86.99. At par with my local pet shop. Buying at the pet shop also means a frequent buyers program which helps soften the blow. Online purchases do not qualify — unless you are in the US and buy from HK themselves. Amazon – make it worth the online purchase and I’ll be back.
Amazon Customer –
This is a great product. Very simple, just need to add meat and water. The product is always consistent unlike some similar products where it looks different every time.One thing that isn’t consistent however is the price. I bought a 7-lb bag for about $69 and then when that one was finished I went to buy another but the price was $535! The product is good, but not $535 good. It’s too bad as I’d like to continue purchasing the same product over and over.