That's a good deal on the chicken thighs. I like the meat to bone ratio on thighs and that is what I was feeding mostly. And canned mackerel when I got it cheap, deer meat when we had it, cooked eggs, etc.

A suggestion on the multi vitamin pill, some of those come as a gel cap and you could open it and put the powdered vitamins on their food. I have done this with other pills and I had some human prenatal vitamins in gel caps that I would open and use part of on my old dog's food. She was one to spit out any pill.

I would add coconut oil and salmon oil to any diet, both are excellent oils and do different things. And some soil based probiotics are good, I found these for a low price on Amazon --

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...ilpage_o01_s00

Bee pollen is a helpful thing to add, start with a little and gradually increase it. Apple cider vinegar with the mother in it is also a good supplement. Also plain full fat yogurt or kefir are worth adding.

And I would add some cooked chopped veggies here and there, all my dogs liked kale, sweet potatoes, and butternut squash. Cooked carrots and cooked broccoli stalks are fed too on occasion.

I've fed raw, and raw with kibble before. Thinking about it, the econo version of raw uses cooked rice, would a high quality kibble be a better "filler" than the cooked rice?

Now the kibble would be more processed of course, but it would have more meat and vitamins in it, i.e. more nutrition than just cooked rice. Cooked rice as filler, would brown rice be a better choice than regular long grain white rice?