Well, it's just as expensive, but EVO from Nutrio (sp) I've found is a pretty good food. Almost solid protien with some veggies mixed in. I read the back and could read the first ~15 ingredients. Problem is, it's pretty expensive.

My lab is 16 years old, and she does much better on the food that I make for her than on any commercial food I have found. She had a supposedly incurable immune disorder, and according to the vet she is in full remission. He told me a few years ago that she was in her last year. She is still doing fine with no health issues other than being old, and some arthritis.

I take the following and run all of it through an electric food grinder. Brown Rice, whatever meat I can find cheaply (usually from 99 Ranch or a mexican butcher where they have a lot of cheap meat and organ meat), vegetables (sometimes fresh, sometimes frozen. i always include plenty of green stuff, especially spinach. okra and zucchini are food too). I vary it a bit from week to week. For example, sometimes I will add beans if I am using them for something else anyway on the people food side of things.

I prefer to cook it for her, because it would be dangerous to trigger an immune reaction from fighting off bacteria. So, I cook the meat, vege and rice mixture. Once it has cooled down I stir in plain nonfat yogurt and nonfat cottage cheese. Dogs need calcium in their diets.

She also gets the same multi vitamin and multi mineral that I take daily dosage adjusted for her weight.

Mine is on a low protein and lowfat diet, which seems to be the best for a urinary incontinence problem she has had for years. According to her vet, it comes from being a pound puppy. She was only 8 weeks old when she was spayed. It is common for dogs spayed at an early age to be incontinent as adults. There is medication to help, but I find that the right diet helps just as much.

There are a few things that you should NOT feed a dog: onions, garlic, chocolate, large amounts of liver, tomato, potato, yeast. I understand that some dogs are lactose intolerant, in which case you would not want to use the cottage cheese or yogurt.