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.