Lily's Kitchen

Lily's Kitchen Trays Adult: Lamb Hotpot review

Name: Lily's Kitchen Trays Adult: Lamb Hotpot
Brand: Lily's Kitchen

80.6/100Outstanding

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

80.6/100Outstanding

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueOutstanding

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

Lamb

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 lamb60%The only animal.
Potatoes3%
Squash2%
Apples, carrotsCarrots 1%
Blueberries, broccoli, peas
Flaxseed0.1%The added fat, a plant omega 3.
Golden rod, nettle, aniseed, rosehips, milk thistle and other herbs and botanicalsThe brand's herb tail.

No mineral entry appears on this list at all, which looks like a gap on the label, not in the recipe.

No vitamin or mineral entry on the label.

Named ingredients

Fresh Lamb (60%); Potatoes (3%); Squash (2%); Apples, Carrots (1%), Blueberries, Broccoli, Peas, Flaxseed (0.1%) Herbs & botanicals: Golden Rod, Nettle, Aniseed, Celery Seed, Rosehips, Marigold Petals, Cleavers, Seaweed, Alfalfa, Milk Thistle, Dandelion Root, Burdock Root

Against the range

Fat, dry matter: 32.6%; The richest tray.
Energy: 137 kcal per 100g; 104 to 125 on the others.
Band: Outstanding; Shared with the Great British Breakfast.

The strongest tray here, and the smallest portions 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

137 kcal/100g

Protein

10.4%

Fat

8.8%

Fibre

0.5%

Ash

1.6%

Moisture

73%

Dry weight

Protein

38.5%

Fat

32.6%

Fibre

1.9%

Ash

5.9%

Carbs

21.1%

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

23.3%

Carbs

3.7%

Veg

Other

Pricing & size