February 2021 Review
Best Rated Healthy Dog Food
Want to improve the quality and longevity of your dog’s life but not pay human food prices? Freshly cooked human-grade dog food is the answer. Its surprisingly easy (and cost efficent) to give your dog the best.
We take an in-depth look a few of the most popular new health conscience dog foods available today.
1. Pet Plate – $1.50-$9 per day
2. Ollie – $6.57 + per day
3. Nom Nom – $7+ per day
After careful consideration, we found Pet Plate was the freshest & healthiest dog food of the three from $1.12 per day.
Lets look at each option below and why Pet Plate was rated the #1 choice.
# 1 Healthy Pet Food
WHY #1: Pet Plate is a custom dog food delivery service that brings your pup fresh, human-grade food free of by-products and artificial ingredients. All delivered in pre-portioned containers which we loved, it doesn’t keep you guessing about meal size.
WHAT WE LOVED
- Price – Pet Plate is competitively priced at between $1.50-$9 per day which was amazing value
- Recyclable – Containers are recyclable rather than single-use plastic, saving the environmental cost. This container also makes it easier to seal leftovers
- Topper Plan – This saves on cost and provides a happy medium cost-wise.
- Pre-portion packed meal sizes made things extremely convenient
Features: Pet Plate is made using only USDA-approved meats, fruits, and vegetables, and its prep facilities also pass the sniff test with the USDA.
Every batch is tested to ensure safety, and flash freezing makes delivering it to your home without spoiling simple.
The diet is designed by a trained veterinarian who specializes in nutrition, so you don’t have to worry about the soundness of the formula.
Simply enter your pup’s information, and Pet Plate will calculate his dietary needs.
Best Sellers
Barkin' Beef
PetPlate high-protein, grain-free beef recipe beats the competition by leaps and bounds. Perfectly crafted by our chefs to be nutritious and delicious, you’ll see why even the pickiest pups can’t stop barkin’ about how much they love this meal.
Starting at $1.11 a day for their
Topper Meal Plan
Chopin' Chicken
Finally, a high-protein, low-fat chicken dish fit for our furry friends! Grain-free and packed with whole food ingredients to help maintain a healthy weight without sacrificing flavor.
Starting at $1.11 a day for their
Topper Meal Plan
Tail Waggin' Turkey
Put some pep in their step with our high-protein, high-fiber turkey recipe. Made with lean protein, fresh veggies, and healthy grains, this meal is perfect for senior dogs and dogs with a sensitive stomach.
Starting at $1.11 a day for their
Topper Meal Plan
Lip Lickin' Lamb
Delicious, nutritious, and gentle as a lamb, this meal is perfect for pups that struggle with food sensitivities. Crafted with quinoa, an ancient grain rich in essential fatty acids and antioxidants, this recipe is lip lickin’ good!
Starting at $1.11 a day for their
Topper Meal Plan
Share your pup’s unique characteristics and we’ll craft the perfect meal plan for a healthy diet your dog will love.
Their meals are made with human-grade ingredients in a USDA kitchen. Every batch is hot-filled for safety and flash-frozen to lock in freshness.
No more shopping, cooking or cleaning. Our ready-to-eat meals are delivered straight to your door on your schedule.
2. Ollie
WHAT WE LIKED
- Transition Plan – Ollies offer a transition plan to help ease your dog onto the diet, which prevents gastric upset. This makes alot of sense.
- Sensitive to sensitive dogs – Ollie’s omission of corn, soy, and wheat is a huge benefit for allergy-prone doggies, and the mainly meat and organ ingredients lists are amazing quality.
- Price – not the cheapest but for such a specilized diet the price was not bad. Our dog was approximately $45.99 a week or $6.57 a day
WHAT WE DIDN’T
- SERVING – They include a scoop but feeding tends to get a little messy. Storing open packets between feedings.
- Price was, well, not the cheapest…
- Frozen packages not for everyone
About: Ollie is the best on the market by far.
Like the others, its a subscription-based service that provides frozen food
Features: Ollie’s have a VERY in-depth profile questionnaire. Once a plan is configured based on your answers, you can choose the protein source of your choice, as well as the portion size.
This is divided into feeding your dog in 3 distinct types of diet;
- A 100% Ollie diet
- A mostly Ollie diet with a bit of your regular food
- A small amount of an Ollie diet with mostly your food
Experts design the food like the others. Every formula is vet-designed, ensuring that your dog receives a well-rounded diet. It’s human-grade dog food made with no fillers or artificial flavors,
Popular Recipes:
- Beef
- Chicken
- Lamb
- Turkey
Protein Content for turkey variety: 20% (high!)
3. Nom Nom
WHAT WE LIKED
The single-meal-sized bags make feeding clean and easy, eliminating the need to scoop and store messy leftovers. Most reviewers liked how much their pups loved the taste.
WHAT WE DIDN’T LIKE
- If we’re honest, there isn’t alot of customization compared with the competition. Some of our other reviewed brands offer far more.
- Also, the price is quite high, especially compared to Pet Plate.
- Finally, fresh food is great but we prefer frozen or dry so as to not take up room in our fridge.
About: Offering prepackaged, single-size meals, Nom Nom sources restaurant-quality ingredients to create fresh food for your pup.
The food is never frozen which made storage harder to be honest. But this meant it wasn’t produced on a mass scale, which meant its freshness was there, but you need to make sure you use it (or you’ll literally lose it!)
No surprise here, again Nom Nom have experts watching over their work. Each Nom Nom formula is designed by a veterinary nutritionist. And again, every formula meets AAFCO standards, and Nom Nom produce the food exclusively at their own facilities.
Price: Obviously this varies by your doggie size, etc. But we found 2 weeks of food was to $89 for Maya or $7 per day.
HOW IT WORKS
Their customized plans are not as long as other customized dog food companies, but they do ask some usual questions like your dog’s breed, weight, and body condition to ensure a proper feeding amount.
If you’re seeking a very specific dog food we don’t recommend this Nom Nom, they don’t get super granular on their recipes.
Popular Recipe Options:
- Heartland Beef Mash
- Tasty Turkey Fare
- Chicken Chow-Wow
- Porkalicious Potluck
Protein Content (Turkey): 10% min
Customization Requirements:
- Dog’s name
- Dog’s sex
- Dog’s breed
- Dog’s weight
- Dog’s age
- Dog’s body condition (underweight, ideal, overweight)
- Select if you want to try one of the meals or mix and match
- If you’re like full portions (for a complete fresh diet) or half portions for mixing in your current food
Want even more info? Read our full Nom Nom dog food review for all the details!
Our Conclusion
We love Pet Plate’s customized dog food it’s not only fresh and ready-to-serve meals it is also healthy for your dog and they deliver right to your doorstep every 1-4 weeks. Some others we surveyed have you paying more than human food but Pet Plate was the most value for money in the market with fresh, convenient pet food at a price we loved
We found Pet Plate the best value with human grade personalized food for your furry friends.