Bella & Duke vs Nature's Menu: two raw brands compared

The short verdict

Choose Bella & Duke if you want complete raw meals delivered on a schedule, with portions worked out for your dog, and you’re a new household that can use a friend code. Choose Nature's Menu if you’d rather buy raw as you need it, including from a local pet shop, or you don’t want a subscription. Both are raw, so both need freezer space and careful handling.

We feed Bella & Duke and earn account credit if you use our friend code. We haven’t fed Nature's Menu, so we’ve stuck to what each brand says and flagged what we couldn’t confirm.

Bella & Duke vs Nature’s Menu at a glance

Bella & Duke’s figures come from its own pages; Nature's Menu’s from its site, checked 15 November 2026. Where our check couldn’t read a detail on Nature's Menu’s own page, it’s marked “reported” or “check their site”.

Subscription vs pet-shop availability

This is the biggest practical difference. Bella & Duke is a subscription: you set up a plan and a box of frozen food arrives on your chosen day. There’s no minimum order or period, and you can change or pause your plan as long as you do it more than 48 hours before delivery.

Nature's Menu is reported to be available by subscription or as one-off orders, and in pet shops. We couldn’t confirm the details on its own site, so check its stockist finder or ask your local pet shop. If it holds true, that’s a real advantage: you can top up when you run low without waiting for a courier.

With Bella & Duke, a new subscription can’t arrive instantly: it says the earliest it can usually deliver after you set one up is 48 hours. Once you’re on a regular plan, the deliveries keep coming, which suits owners who like not having to think about it.

Formats and range

Both brands sell raw food, but check what each format is and whether it’s a complete meal. Bella & Duke’s dog range covers Adult Premium Complete, Puppy, Senior, Working Dog, Working Puppy, Superfood and Pure Meat + Bone, and it describes its complete meals as at least 80% meat and 20% fruit, veg and healthy fats. Pure Meat + Bone is the exception: All About Dog Food lists it as a complementary food rather than a complete meal. Bella & Duke also sells chews and treats such as Venison Snack, Beef Trachea, Salmon Bites, Lamb Bites and Turkey Sausages, plus bone broths.

Nature's Menu sells raw (frozen), plus dry food and treats. We haven’t verified its current recipes or pack formats, so on its site look for:

• Whether each product is labelled complete (a full diet on its own) or complementary (needs feeding alongside other food).
• What form the raw food comes in, and whether you can portion it easily for the size of your dog.
• Life-stage recipes, if you have a puppy or an older dog.
• Which proteins are available, if your dog needs to avoid one.

If you’re mixing brands or formats, ask your vet to check the overall diet is balanced, particularly for puppies.

New-customer offers

Bella & Duke’s best-known discount is a friend code; Nature's Menu advertises subscription discounts, but our check couldn’t read the current figure. Our friend code gives 40% off your first two boxes, then 20% off the third, with a cap on each box:

Nature's Menu: Subscription discounts are advertised (reported; check their site). A subscription discount that carries on may be worth more over a year than a bigger discount on your first few boxes, so check whether Nature's Menu’s applies to every order or only the first.

The friend code is for households that have never had a Bella & Duke account or delivery, covers frozen food on your first three orders only, and it cannot be combined with any other offer. The full details are on our Bella & Duke discount code page, and other brands’ current deals are on our raw dog food offers page.

Price signals

We can’t tell you which is cheaper, because we couldn’t verify a per-day price for Nature's Menu. Bella & Duke advertises prices from £1.18 a day, based on a 5–10 kg, 4-year-old dog on Adult Premium Complete with an 8 kg delivery. All About Dog Food, which rates dog foods independently, works out £2.02 a day for Adult Premium Complete for its own reference dog.

To compare fairly, work out the price per day for your dog on a complete meal from each brand. Price per pack or per kilo can mislead if the recommended daily amounts differ. Our raw feeding calculator gives you a starting daily amount, and our Bella & Duke price guide explains what pushes the cost up. Feeding amounts are a starting point: ask your vet before changing your dog’s diet.

Delivery and storage

Both are frozen raw food, so both need freezer space. Bella & Duke arrives in a double-insulated box with dry ice, designed to stay frozen over a two-day delivery. The smallest delivery is 4 kg, sent by DPD, free to the UK mainland, with surcharges for Northern Ireland, the Highlands and the islands. You choose the day but not a time slot.

Buying Nature's Menu from a shop, if that suits you, could mean keeping less in the freezer at once, but you’d need to get it home frozen. Check its online delivery terms and minimum order too. Whichever you choose, Bella & Duke’s defrosting advice is a sound habit for any raw food: defrost in the fridge (it says around 24 hours) and use within up to four days. Our storing and defrosting guide covers the freezer maths.

Handling raw safely

The safety picture is the same for any raw brand. The Food Standards Agency tested 380 samples (277 dog, 103 cat) of raw pet food bought from March 2023 to February 2024 and found harmful bacteria in 35%, including Salmonella in 21%. The survey didn’t name brands, so it tells you nothing about either of these two specifically.

What it does tell you is to treat raw dog food like raw meat for people: defrost in the fridge, wash hands, bowls and surfaces, and keep it away from your own food. If very young, elderly, pregnant or vulnerable people share your kitchen, think carefully about raw at all. Our guide is raw dog food safe? has the full picture.

Who each suits

Where Nature’s Menu wins

Nature's Menu wins on flexibility, if its reported pet-shop availability holds where you live. Being able to buy raw locally could mean no waiting in for a courier, a smaller amount to make room for each time, and an easy top-up if you run short.

• Buy as you go. Reported one-off buying suits owners who don’t want a subscription.
• Local availability. A shop nearby can be a back-up when deliveries go wrong.
• A wider product mix. Nature's Menu lists dry food as well as raw and treats, which may suit owners who mix feeding styles.

What to check on Nature’s Menu’s site

Before deciding, check these on Nature's Menu’s own site and compare them with Bella & Duke’s answers in the table above:

1. Which products are complete meals, and which are complementary.
2. The current subscription discount, and whether it applies to every order.
3. Delivery charges, minimum order and how the food is kept frozen in transit.
4. Stockists near you, if pet-shop buying is the draw.
5. The recommended daily amount for your dog, so you can compare the price per day.

Our experience

We haven’t fed Nature's Menu, so we can’t tell you how dogs get on with it. For how Bella & Duke has worked for us, read our Bella & Duke review, and for the wider field see the best raw dog food in the UK.