To tell the truth since my past and present puppies all had a little or lot of Lab in them, none of them are very picky about food. Keeping them from eating anything and everything is more of a problem!

If you are confident the food is of a high quality, then put it in the doggy bowl dry, and let puppy decide when it's hungry enough to eat it. I started all of my dogs off with free choice as pups, and ended up going to a scheduled feeding after they made pigs out of themselves.

The brand I picked many many years ago for my previous dog was the Propet line. Originally "Big Red" but renamed after Carnation bought up the food brand. They guarantee your dog will not refuse to eat it, else your money back. The reason I picked it was the 30/15% protein to fat in the performance formula, compared to Science diet and Iams which typically goes up to 28% protein. Plus it was 1/2 the price per pound as the more advertised brands. My dogs have thrived on it without any allergy or other digestive problems. As always the caveat that probably any high quality dog food should yield like results.

P.S. No human food until puppy eats the dog food!