Review: Coles Smart Buy Cat Food

Usually, Mr Underfoot gets chicken necks and chopped-up late-dated meat, with the occasional tin of whiskas for his dinner.

But today, he agreed that it’s about time he began to do his bit to save money in our household, especially since Friday’s surgery.

We began by taste-testing some cheaper tinned cat food.

Although I did have a sniff, I am merely translating Mr Underfoot’s review of the product in question. Seriously.

The product:

Cole’s “smart buy” brand cat food is 79c a tin, as opposed to $1.38 for whiskas (at least those were the prices here last week).

Well worth trying for the potential savings, since we go through up to five cans a week.

We tried… erm, he tried the “fish cocktail” flavour.

The smell:

Jane: I usually heave if I get a lung-full of cat food, but when I accidentally did with this one, it wasn’t so bad.

Mr Underfoot: For once, a cat food that actually smells like fish. I was almost tripping Jane over!

The look:

Jane: Good sized pieces of fish, not too runny, the jelly was kind of firm & orange coloured.
Not sure why it was orange, maybe to look like fish roe?

Mr Underfoot: Who looks?

The taste:

Jane: No comment.

Mr Underfoot: *slurp*  good  *gobble*  taste  *gulp*

The result:

From the way Mr Underfoot gobbled down his meal, I would say we have success.

That’s another $2.95 we’ll be saving each week from now on.

Next week, I’ll be looking at tinned diced tomatoes, and comparing the store brands of Coles, Woollies & Aldi.

Introducing Weekly Grocery Reviews

Since we’ve been on a budget (well, since before that really), I’ve found a huge number of store-brand products that rival the quality of brand-name products.

We’ve saved heaps by trying cheaper products that we would not have previously touched, merely because we were set in our ways.

I began thinking that there must be a lot of Australian households out there like ours, who could benefit from the knowledge gained by our trial-and-error-style-purchasing.

Beginning this Thursday, I will be writing a weekly feature about a store-brand product that we have found to be great quality and fab value.

I will be as impartial as possible, comparing the cheaper product to whatever similar product we already use.

And there will be no cash changing hands here, people. This is my own personal opinion you’ll be reading and it’s up to you to take it or leave it.

How do you know I’m qualified?

Well as a mum of two in a household on a budget, this is what I do every week anyway.

Plus I’m a Libran, so who better to weigh things up for you?