How much variety to cats want or need

[cooncatbob]

Since Samantha passed away 3 months ago I've been been feeding Chiquita better food but finding flavors that she likes has been rather difficult.
I had been buying a weeks worth of canned food and listing how well she liked each one and have some trend.
She likes chicken by far above all other types and doesn't like turkey she indifferent to beef and fish.
She had been liking Merrick's Chicken before grain and their Grammy's Pot Pie.
The other day she didn't eat all her Chicken and today ate most of her breakfast of Grammy's Pot Pie.
I'm reluctant to feed her the same flavor everyday, I'm concern she'll tire of it and not eat it at all and I'll be stuck with cans of food she won't eat.
Best case I'd like to have at least 3 different can foods I could rotate to keep he interested.

[Nan]

Try some Wellness chicken. Wellness now makes canned food in slices and minced chunks in addition to the originial pate type.

I don't think its the flavors they tired of but they get used to the same kind and get picky. At least that happened with Sophie. She would get fixated on a food (She was on Evo 95% chicken/turkey) and if the batch changed slightly (which it would) then she wouldn't eat it because it was "different" and I would have to drive across town to find a different batch of the Evo that she would eat.

[Auntie Crazy]

Nan is right. The more flavors you feed them on a regular basis, the less inclined to become picky or fixated on any one food.

You want to feed them as many flavors as you can find that meet your quality standards, both so they don't become fixated AND so that any quality control issues are diluted by the number of different brands and flavors. Before I transitioned to raw, I was offering my cats 21 different flavors of food; they never ate the same product more than once in any given week.

AC

[saitenyo]

I try to incorporate as much variety as possible since Apollo has a habit of randomly turning his nose up at a food he's eaten happily for a long time, especially if he gets that one food too often.