Lily's Kitchen

Lily's Kitchen Trays Adult: Cottage Pie review

Name: Lily's Kitchen Trays Adult: Cottage Pie
Brand: Lily's Kitchen

78.4/100Excellent

WetAdult

Flavour

The brand's recipes in a sealed 150g tray, which does away with the tin opener and the half tin in the fridge. Every species is named, down to herring and salmon at 15% apiece in the Fishy Fish Pie. Three trays sit in our Excellent band; Lamb Hotpot and the Great British Breakfast reach Outstanding.

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Our view

Likely to suit

One dog fed a measured portion: each tray is a sealed 150g serving
Owners who want species spelled out, venison to herring
A dog that likes variety, with red meat, poultry, fish and game across five trays
Dogs that take most of their water from dinner
Weekends away. A tray travels without an opener

Worth watching

Ham in the Great British Breakfast means pork
Fish alongside meat or poultry in Fishy Fish Pie and Wild Campfire Stew
A large dog gets through several trays a meal

Written by our editorial team. Independent guidance, not veterinary advice.

How this scores

How we score

78.4/100Excellent

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. At 150g a tray, work out how many a day your dog's weight means before ordering.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

Lamb Hotpot 80.6
Great British Breakfast 80.1
Cottage Pie 78.4
Fishy Fish Pie 76.1
Wild Campfire Stew 75.4

Five recipes across Outstanding and Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

Lamb Hotpot is the strongest tray, and the Great British Breakfast gets close by a different route through ham and egg.

What's in it

Fresh beef60%The only animal.
Potatoes3%Mainly starch, a carrier.
Carrots3%
Apples, broccoli, green beans
Vitamins and chelated minerals
FlaxseedPlant omega 3 and 6, the added fat.
Golden rod, nettle, aniseed, rosehips, milk thistle and other herbs and botanicalsThe brand's herb tail.

Declared as vitamins and chelated minerals, with no doses printed.

Named ingredients

Fresh Beef (60%); Potatoes (3%); Carrots (3%) Apples, Broccoli, Green Beans, Vitamins & Chelated Minerals, Flaxseed (Source of Omega 3 & 6) Herbs & botanicals: Golden Rod, Nettle, Aniseed, Celery Seed, Rosehips, Marigold Petals, Cleavers, Seaweed, Alfalfa, Milk Thistle, Dandelion Root, Burdock Root.

Against the range

Meat: Beef, 60%; Lamb, a fish and turkey mix, or venison with ham or game on the others.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 27.8%; Highest of the five; Fishy Fish Pie is 8.2%.
Energy: 125 kcal per 100g; Second richest, behind the Lamb Hotpot.

A single-meat beef tray, and the starchiest of the five.

Five recipes in single-serve 150g trays. Four share their recipes and percentages with the brand's tins, so only the format changes; the Great British Breakfast is tray-only. Each opens with a named animal or two at 60% between them, then a short plant run of potatoes, squash and orchard fruit, then the herb tail.

Moisture runs 73% to 79%. Carbohydrate spreads from 8.2% of dry matter on Fishy Fish Pie to 27.8% on Cottage Pie, depending on the potato. The added fat is flaxseed or hemp oil, and the mineral declaration varies from chelated minerals to none at all.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

125 kcal/100g

Protein

9.8%

Fat

6.9%

Fibre

0.4%

Ash

1.7%

Moisture

74%

Dry weight

Protein

37.7%

Fat

26.5%

Fibre

1.5%

Ash

6.5%

Carbs

27.8%

As-fed composition

Estimated breakdown of the finished product by ingredient category, from the declared ingredient list and ingoing weights. These are estimates, not measurements.

Meat

60%

Added water

24%

Carbs

5.7%

Veg

8.1%

Other

2.2%

Pricing & size