Most premium dog food arrives frozen, on a schedule, in an insulated box you have to be home for. There is a version that does not.
This page is written for owners in San Diego — Premium Delivery weighing up freeze-dried raw. The nutrition below holds wherever you live — what changes locally is delivery, not diet — so we would rather give you the substance than pad it with things we cannot actually verify about your city.
Working out what to order
Order size follows from the feeding chart rather than guesswork. A 14 oz bag is about 7.8 cups; a 50 lb dog fed a quarter bowl uses a little under a cup a day, so a bag runs roughly eight days.
Set the interval from that, then adjust once after the first cycle.
The quarter-bowl answer
Feed Loyal Saints as about 25% of the bowl, replacing a quarter of the existing food rather than adding on top. Because the food is concentrated rather than diluted, a quarter still puts real freeze-dried raw into every meal.
At Halo Club pricing that is about $4.04 a day for a 50 lb dog and $5.48 for a 75 lb dog.
Storing it properly
Sealed and dry, an opened bag keeps for several weeks. Roll the top closed and keep it out of humidity — moisture is the only thing that shortens its life, which is the flip side of why it is shelf-stable at all.
Do not decant into a container that has held oily kibble; residue goes rancid and taints what you put on top of it.
What you are actually paying to ship
Fresh refrigerated food is roughly three-quarters water by weight. That water is portioned, chilled, packed with single-use coolant and driven to your door, then occupies your freezer until you use it.
Cold chain logistics is one of the most expensive ways to move anything, which is why it is normally reserved for medicine and seafood.
Why our Chicken needs more cups
Chicken is 200 calories per cup against 230 for Beef and Turkey with Salmon, because chicken is leaner and fat carries roughly nine calories per gram against four for protein.
Fewer calories in the same volume means more cups for the same energy. It is on our own panel and we would rather point at it than hope nobody checks.
Reading a label without being misled
Guaranteed analysis is printed “as fed”, so it includes the food's moisture. A dry food and a wet food cannot have their protein percentages compared directly.
Convert to dry matter first: divide the protein percentage by the dry matter percentage, where dry matter is 100 minus moisture. A canned food at 10% protein and 75% moisture is 40% protein on a dry basis — higher than a kibble showing 30%.
Why the scoop looks small
A cup of Loyal Saints weighs 50.9 g and carries 230 calories. A cup of a typical adult kibble weighs 101 g. Same cup, roughly twice the food by weight.
Per gram, Loyal Saints carries about 29% more energy. That inversion is why the correct portion looks stingy in the bowl, and why most people overfeed in the first week.
Before you order
Work the portion out from the printed chart first, then choose a delivery interval from it. Guessing the interval is how people end up with either a cupboard full of bags or a gap mid-week.
Common questions
How do I choose an interval?
Work it from the feeding chart, then adjust once after the first cycle.
Is there a subscriber discount?
Halo Club members hold 20% off every order, not just the first.
What if my delivery is delayed?
Nothing spoils. That is the practical advantage of shelf-stable over frozen.
