Stella & Chewy's FreshMade Chick-A-Lick'n Gently Cooked Dog Food

❄️ FROZEN ITEM — local pickup and delivery only. This cannot be shipped.

Stella & Chewy's FreshMade Chick-A-Lick'n Gently Cooked Dog Food

Sous-vide cooked, then flash frozen in a 16 oz pouch. Cage-free chicken led, and the gentlest recipe in the FreshMade line on both fat and calories.

Read this before you buy: it lives in the freezer

FreshMade is frozen, not refrigerated and not shelf-stable. Stella's instructions:

• Store in the freezer
• Thaw in the refrigerator, in the original pouch
• Allow 24 to 36 hours to thaw completely
• Use within 5 days of thawing

You can't decide at dinnertime to feed this... you pull a pouch the day before. If that doesn't suit your routine, Stella's freeze-dried patties sit in the cupboard and rehydrate in minutes.

Because it's frozen, it's pickup or local delivery only. We can't ship it.

The lightest of the six

4% fat and 458 calories a pouch, both the lowest in the FreshMade line:

Less than half the fat of Meat-A-Palooza. If your dog is on a vet-recommended low-fat diet, or has a pancreatitis history, this is the FreshMade recipe to ask your vet about. Stella's Gobblin' Good turkey recipe matches it on fat with two more points of protein, if turkey suits you better.

Being lighter means you feed more of it: a 30 lb dog takes up to 1⅓ pouches a day here against 1 pouch of the beef. Worth factoring into cost.

It's the only FreshMade with no added salt

We read all six lists. Five of them contain salt. This one doesn't.

We're reporting it as a composition fact rather than making a claim about it. If sodium is something your vet has asked you to watch, it's worth knowing and worth mentioning to them.

"Single protein recipe" doesn't quite survive the ingredient list

Stella's bullet says single protein recipe, cage-free chicken is #1 ingredient. The chicken part is true: chicken, chicken bone broth and chicken liver are the only meats.

But salmon oil is in the list, near the end. Salmon is a second species.

For most dogs that's irrelevant. If you're running an elimination diet or your dog reacts to fish, "single protein" on this bag is not a claim you can rely on. Stella prints that bullet on three FreshMade recipes and all three contain salmon oil.

Grain and legume free, and this one holds up

No grain, no peas, no lentils, no chickpeas, no potato. The carbohydrate comes from organic carrots, butternut squash, kale and apples. Worth noting because Stella's Beefy-Licious recipe contains peas and quietly drops the legume-free claim.

10% protein is not what it looks like

This is 77% moisture. Take the water out and the 10% protein becomes roughly 43% on a dry-matter basis, in line with a good kibble. Frozen and wet foods always read low against dry food because of the water.

Adult dogs only, as a complete meal

Stella's wording: serve as a complete and balanced meal for adult dogs, or topper for all dogs. A puppy can have it on top of a complete puppy food. Their Pork & Quinoa and Beef, Barley & Turkey are the two FreshMade recipes described for all life stages.

What "gently cooked" means here

Stella's own description: packed in BPA-free pouches, gently sous-vide cooked, then flash frozen. Sous vide means sealed and cooked slowly at a controlled low temperature.

It sits between raw and kibble: cooked, so not raw, but minimally processed and never extruded into a dry pellet. Stella states FreshMade is reviewed by a board-certified veterinary nutritionist.

Full ingredient list

Cage-Free Chicken, Organic Carrots, Butternut Squash, Kale, Chicken Bone Broth, Chicken Liver, Apples, Ground Flaxseed, Calcium Carbonate, Sunflower Oil (Preserved with Mixed Tocopherols), Thiamine Mononitrate, Vitamin E Supplement, Niacin Supplement, D-calcium Pantothenate, Riboflavin Supplement, Vitamin A Supplement, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Folic Acid, Zinc Proteinate, Iron Proteinate, Copper Proteinate, Manganese Proteinate, Sodium Selenite, Dried Kelp, Dried Chicory Root (source of Inulin), Taurine, Choline Chloride, Salmon Oil (Preserved with Mixed Tocopherols), Turmeric, Ginger.

Reproduced exactly as Stella & Chewy's publishes it. Also on the label: 100% human grade whole foods, 60% nutrient-rich poultry and organ meats, grain and legume free.

Guaranteed analysis

• Crude Protein (min) ... 10%
• Crude Fat (min) ... 4%
• Crude Fiber (max) ... 2%
• Moisture (max) ... 77%

Calorie content

458 kcal per 16 oz pouch ... 1,009 kcal/kg

Feeding guidelines, adult dogs

As a topper: Stella's rate is ¾ oz, about 1½ tablespoons, per 10 lbs of body weight per day. Take those calories off the food underneath. Stella adds that puppies may need up to twice the adult amount.

Size

16 oz BPA-free pouch.

On the label statement

Stella describes this as complete and balanced for adult dogs and says it's reviewed by a board-certified veterinary nutritionist, but publishes no AAFCO nutritional adequacy statement and names no life stage in AAFCO terms on their page. We checked twice. Ask us and we'll read it off the pouch.

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