Meals for Mutts is an Australian-owned brand cooking dry food for dogs, with a matching cat range sold as Meals for Meows. The whole catalogue is built on one idea: keep the ingredient list short and the protein list shorter, so an owner trying to work out what upsets their animal has fewer variables to test. Every recipe here is gluten free, and most are grain free as well.
Three decisions do most of the work when you pick a bag.
One meat protein, or two?
The Single Meat Protein line uses exactly one animal protein per bag: Chicken, Goat, Kangaroo and Lamb for dogs, Duck and Kangaroo for cats. That is what a vet means by an elimination diet, and it is the only part of the range that can give you a clean answer. Everything else pairs two proteins, such as Kangaroo & Lamb, Duck & Turkey or Salmon & Sardine. Those are good everyday diets but they are not diagnostic.
Grain free, or gluten free with rice?
MfM sells both and the labels are easy to confuse. The grain-free recipes swap cereal for chickpeas, sweet potato and lentils. The gluten-free ones are built on ground brown rice. Rice suits dogs that do poorly on legume-heavy food; the grain-free bags suit dogs that do not tolerate cereal. Neither is automatically the better diet, so start from what your dog has already done well on.
Kibble size
Salmon & Sardine and the Turkey & Chicken puppy recipe each come in a Larger Size Kibble version. That is the same formula in a bigger piece, for large-breed dogs that swallow standard kibble whole. It is not a different diet, so it is only worth choosing if jaw size is the problem you are solving.
Bag sizes run 2.5kg, 9kg, 14kg and 20kg, and no single recipe is made in all four. Check the size options on the product before you settle on a flavour, because the smaller single-protein recipes top out well below the family bags.
For more information, see the official Meals for Mutts website.
