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Oz is participating in a Chewy.com 30-day food challenge. I received Stella & Chewy’s raw diets for dogs for free but I received no other compensation. Chewy.com and Stella & Chewy’s are not responsible for the content of this article.

Stella & Chewy’s freeze dried raw dinners have been in Oz’s meal rotation for some time. It has been especially good for traveling and camping when I cannot safely provide Oz with his fresh-frozen raw dinners. This month, Oz has been eating Stella’s Super Beef freeze-dried dinner patties as part of his 30-day challenge.

Oz has always enjoyed Stella & Chewy’s freeze dried dinners. I really like Stella & Chewy’s because it is minimally-processed food that is made with premium ingredients like cage-free, grass-fed, wild-caught or farm-raised proteins. Stella & Chewy’s also uses 100% organic fruits and vegetables and their dinners never contain any grains, gluten, fillers, added hormones or antibiotics. Just look how the ingredient list for Stella’s Super Beef is so healthy, complete and balanced:

Stella’s Super Beef Ingredients

Beef, Beef Liver, Beef Kidney, Beef Heart, Beef Tripe, Beef Bone, Pumpkin Seed, Potassium Chloride, Organic Cranberries, Organic Spinach, Organic Broccoli, Organic Beets, Sodium Phosphate Monobasic, Organic Carrots, Organic Squash, Organic Apples, Organic Blueberries, Choline Chloride, Dried Pediococcus Acidilactici Fermentation Product, Dried Lactobacillus Acidophilus Fermentation Product, Dried Bifidobacterium Longum Fermentation Product, Taurine, Tocopherols (Preservative), Zinc Proteinate, Zinc Sulfate, Iron Sulfate, Iron Proteinate, Vitamin E Supplement, Niacin, Copper Sulfate, Copper Proteinate, Manganese Sulfate, Sodium Selenite, Manganese Proteinate, Thiamin Mononitrate, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Folic Acid, Calcium Iodate, Vitamin B12 Supplement

As you can see from the ingredient list, Stella & Chewy’s raw dinners are BARF (Biologically Appropriate Raw Food) style meals because they contain fruits and vegetables. The dinners also contain the correct ratios of protein, offal (organ meat) and bone to make a complete meal for your dog. The dinners are also fortified with added vitamins and minerals and enhanced with probiotics and antioxidants.

Now, I know some of you told us on our last Stella & Chewy’s post that the one thing you didn’t like was waiting for the freeze dried patties to rehydrate. I can only guess that comes from our kibble-fed friends and yes, freeze dried raw does take a bit longer to prepare than kibble. But, we can honestly say that in our experience with several brands of freeze dried dinners for dogs, Stella & Chewy’s patties take the least amount of time to prepare!

To quicken the prep time, make sure you crumble the patties into bite sized pieces before adding warm water. And yes, with Stella & Chewy’s you can add tepid or warm water (some other brands recommend cold water which takes longer) which we find speeds up the preparation. As soon as I add the warm water, I stir and press the patty pieces into the water to hasten the rehydration process. It takes me less than 5 minutes so Oz never has to wait long for his Stella’s Super Beef.

We still have another week to go in our 30-day Stella & Chewy’s challenge. I know Oz is looking forward to more delicious, healthy meals of Stella’s Super Beef. Be sure to check in with us in early July for our challenge wrap up post.

Oz the Terrier is happy to co-host the Chewy.com blog hop with good friend Sugar the Golden Retriever.