Does a whole food diet for your dog sound like a great idea? The dog food industry is a jungle, and it is hard to find out which foods are good for your dog, and not just some fancy language for a poor food. Mom gets a lot of information before we ever try a food, and sometimes even I read up before tasting. Today, we are going to tell you about a new food we tried recently.
My GBGV Life received the Chi Dog Food in this post to review. My GBGV Life receives no additional benefits for barking about Chi Dog products or the company. The opinions in this review are the honest opinion of My GBGV Life. Chi Dog is not responsible for the contents of this post.
Our boxes of Chi Dog arrived at our house in December, and of course, they need to be kept frozen. This time of year, freezer space is not a problem for us, as we kept the food on our deck. It was very practical. Don’t worry, the boxes are big, but the food only takes up a portion of each box.
What is Chi Dog?
Chi Dog recipes are based on your dog’s chi. Chi is the life giving, vital energy that unites body, mind and spirit. The five types of chi come from Eastern Medicine. Chi Dog uses the chi principals to tailor diets to give dogs the right balance and to heal them. The five elements are:
- The Wood Dog – athlete
- The Fire Dog – socialite
- The Earth Dog – best friend
- The Metal Dog – scholar
- The Water Dog – shy one
What element is your dog? When you order your food, there is a short questionnaire for the human to fill out to determine the correct element. Both Bailie and I came up as Earth Dogs, but Mom says it is not really correct as we are truly 50/50 Earth/Fire dogs. The meals are totally different for the two elements, but we went with Earth dog meals.
How to serve Chi Dog?
As with any new food for your dog, the transition should be gradual. We switch foods a lot, so we transitioned in two days with no side effects, but seven days is recommended. Take a package out of the freezer to defrost in the refrigerator for a couple days, and then it is ready to serve. Defrosting in the microwave is also an option. Those first transition days we simply had less of our normal kibble, and added our Earth Dog food to it.
The packages we received were more than enough for one meal for both of us, so the practical plastic cover to keep the rest of the food fresh in the refrigerator was super helpful. An opened package can be stored in the refrigerator for up to seven days, but ours were always eaten within a day at our next meal.
If you have guests at your house, make sure they know the food in the refrigerator is for your dog. It seriously looks like Chinese leftovers in the fridge! Looking at Bailie’s portion of food for one meal in her bowl, you have to admit, it looks wonderful! Earth Dog meals are made of eggs, tofu, sweet potato, peas, spinach, and mushrooms. The food is made of fresh human grade ingredients, and was developed by veterinarians.
Bailie had no trouble digging into her bowl of food. She actually pushed her bowl around the floor while attempting to get every last crumb out of it.
I’m the family food snob, but Chi Dog had me counter surfing every meal. I can barely get my nose as high as the counter, but I love the smell of the food, and don’t want to wait to eat it.
Our Chi Dog Conclusions?
If you are looking for a good, whole food diet for your dog, but you don’t want to feed raw, or kibble, Chi Dog is a great option. We have tried other similar options, but this is the best one we have tried. What do we like or not like about Chi Dog meals?
- The Green Cell Foam refrigerant liner is the most eco-friendly packaging available. Green Cell is made from corn, is water dissolvable and non-toxic, is compostable and biodegradable. We just put it in the sink and it dissolved completely within minutes!
- PETE #1 food trays are BPA free and recyclable. They also stack well to save on space.
- The containers, and the covers made it super easy to serve and store, and the rectangular size packages are easy to stack.
- It’s an easy way to feed a whole food diet without having to do any cooking yourself.
- If you have real young, or senior dogs, the meals are much easier for them to eat and digest than a raw diet.
- Our “output” was the same, but Mom says it was lightweight, which was something new.
- Meals are truly tasty, but we found we needed larger portions than what was suggested. This could be because we don’t think we are true Earth Dogs because we are quite active.
- Cost of feeding is a bit high. It would be about $120 every two weeks for each of us.
- When we start traveling a lot again for sports, it would be a hassle to try to keep the food refrigerated.
Would you like to try Chi Dog?
Simply visit the Chi Dog website, and find your dog’s element. Don’t worry, it is free to do. Once you have the element, there will be several more questions, and the price for your dog’s food will pop up. Save 50% on your first order using the promo code chi50
Bone Appetit!
WOW, now that’s impressive, it looks good, tastes good and has good stuff in it!
We had a guest, human, who thought it was leftover Chinese, fur real!
Oh my but that looks yummy and sounds so healthy!
It is both super tasty and healthy.
That’s pretty fancy dancy, the way people feed dogs has changed so much.
We furry ones have really had big improvements in our entire lifestyles.
Interesting. It does look good, but that’s a bit out of our budget.
It is expensive, but for some it would work, or if you only have one small dog. We could give up sports and put the money towards it, but we won’t do that.
EEEEEKKK!! Is there GREEN in that food? BLEE! Most green foods I will not eat. I should have been named Sam I am! BTW, Madison, you are a tiny bit larger than me. Your nose reaches a tiny bit higher on the counter than mine, and I am so jealous! XOXO Sparkle
I’m just tall enough for my nose to get into troubles! I don’t usually eat veggies, but this stuff is super yummy.
we would like to try it!!! specially the mama after da second package of Toffifee… that is interesting what you wrote about the elements… they are much more important than we think…
We do think there is truth to the elements, but we are truly a mix of two, so that is tough for us to figure out which one wins.
What a fascinating way to figure a dog’s dietary needs. Maybe you should order earth for one of you and fire for the other, and mix them.
I think if we were going to switch to this food 100%, we would mix and match because we are really a combination of two.
wow! what an interesting product. Mom is intrigued! Have a good day Madison. your friend Lilly
It is very interesting, and something Mom could see herself almost eating, but she did not try it.
Looks & sounds Pawsitively Wooftastic for those who don’t have the time to create a whole food diet but want to feed their good dog one?
Now I have to go find out what element am I?
?nose nudges?
Happy element searching! It is very good food.
YUMMY! Since its frozen,could you put it in the mailbox or on a sled and send me some ? I want to try it
Elbe
We are short on snow, so we can’t sled it to you, and besides, we ate it all. Very tasty!
We did food transition with Little Bit very gradually. Better than making them sick. I would have loved to try this with her. She was such a good eater and healthy food is key.
Have a woof woof day. My best to your peeps. ♥
We switch food pretty easily, but that is not the case for every dog. I think if you eat good food, switching to another good quality food is easier. A complete switch from bad to good is much harder.
That is a very interesting way to select food for your pup. It looks yummy!
There is something for everyone, and there is something to that whole energy thing, at least we think so.
Interesting! We will check it out.
A whole new kind of food and way of determining your own diet.
We wish Mama would let us try different foods again(we’re sticking to our regular food for Arty’s sake), this looks real nommy!
xoxo,
Rosy, Jakey & Arty
Thankfully we don’t have food issues, so we can try just about anything.
What an interesting concept! It’s great that there are more and more companies offering fresh food now. Maybe one day all the competition will bring the prices down, which is our only issue. We already spend more than we want on our current food, and this is more. The quality does look great though!
This one is really nice and has the best packaging and ease of serving of all we have tried, but it is expensive.
I was curious so i did the quiz. It says Merlin’s a wood dog when i know he’s more of a fire dog. sounds like a good meal, but seems a bit pricey.
It is a very good food, but it is also not on the cheap side. As for the quiz, we didn’t come out exactly right either.