Commercial Food Pre-Mixes ‘There are a number of dog food pre-mixes on the market that are designed to be added to meat, eggs, and other healthy foods tocreate a complete diet (see “Mixing It Up,” July 2004). Oth- ers are nutritionally “complete and balanced” alone, but are formulated to permit the inclusion of fresh foods. ‘Super-preminm examples of the latter are The Honest Kitchen’s dehydrated diets, several of which are grain-free. ‘Though these diets are complete, The Honest Kitchen recom- mends (and offers detailed directions for) mixing %4 to 1 cup of fresh food to each cup of rehydrated mix. Solid Gold’s Holistique Blendz “was created to be used as the nutritionally balanced base, to which additional raw (or cooked) meat, vegetables, Buckaroo Beef (the company’s freeze-dried beef patties), or canned food can be added.” Other companies who offer pre-mixes include Timberwolf (Organie’s Black Forest Canid Formula, Urban Wolf (grain- free), Essex Cottage Farms, and Sojourner Farms (offers a grain-free variety). PHD sells Wendy Volhard’s NDF (Natural Diet Foundation) that “supplies the supplements and grains of her original homemade Natural Diet in a dehydrated version,” to which you add meat, yogurt, and vegetables. As with every diet, variety is better than feeding the same pre-mix, or the same added foods, all the time. Essex Cottage Farms cefarms.ce, (866) 530-0322 The Honest Kitchen thehonestkitchen.cam (886) 437-9729 Sojourner Farms 's0j08.com, (888) 867-6567 Solid Gold's Holistique Blond solidgolchealth.com, (800) 364-4863, ‘Timberwolf Organic’s Black Forest Canid Formula timberworforganics.com, (407) 877-8779 Urban Wolf ‘urbanwolt.ce ‘Wendy Volhard's NDF from PHD Products pphdproducts.com, (800) 749-1602