I hate these dog food questions (no offense to the one who started it) for exactly the reason that you all have seen in this thread. Even the author didn't ask for your opinion, just what kind of food you feed.

We've read here that people are feeding Purina Brands, Alpo, Chicken Soup, Flint River Ranch, Eukanuba, Science Diet, etc. The big issue with many people is the allergies that the dogs get from the corn meal that is a filler in these foods. My puppies ate Purina Puppy Chow for the first year of their lives. I had a Cocker Spaniel that lived almost 13 years, and I bought Alpo for her. I didn't have the money or the information to do anything different. In fact, my vet (who is well educated and very experienced and trusted) told me that he fed his own dogs Purina brand because of their commitment to research and the pet industry. I know now that veterinarians do not study nutrition very much, but I do know that my dogs were perfectly healthy all the time that they were on these products.

My stance has always been to get the best food you can afford for your dog, and love them to pieces and make sure they get veterinary attention when they need it. A lot of dogs have done just fine on grocery store brand foods for a lot of years. That's for sure! In a pinch, I have bought Purina Beneful, by the way, and my dogs LOVED it!!!!!

To answer the question you asked, KayKay, all four of my dogs are currently eating Flint River Ranch Senior Plus food, and the main reason I changed to that food, versus the California Natural Lamb and Rice that they were eating was availability and the fact that it is delivered to my door once per month. With 4 big dogs, we go through about 20 pounds per week and I was always forgetting to put my order in for the Cal. Nat. in time to get it and had to make a 30 minute drive to pick it up (across town). Now the UPS man does all the work for me and I am on an automatic shipment.

My friend, Missy, has a website with lots of comparisons on dog food, if it would interest you or anyone, and you can get updates from her as she adds new brands as well as request a nutritional study on one if she hasn't done it. (She has also done cat food) The website is www.greatgoldens.com (not just for Golden Retrievers......it's just called that because that's the kind of dogs she has).