Adult cat will not eat wet food, what can I do?

My cat is 6 and she has always preferred dry food. She looks at me like I'm the meanest person in the world if I even put a dish of wet food near her dry food bowl. I want her to eat wet food at least once a week for her health but have never been successful at this and it's expensive to keep wasting it, hoping she will finally try it. I've tried all the healthy brands but I just can't get her to even take one taste of it. 

I didn't care so much before, and she does drink plenty of water everyday, but now I think it would be best for her digestion if she would eat some wet food occasionally. Her stool has been very hard in the past couple months and from everything I am reading this would most likely help the problem. Also, the more I read the more I realize that some wet food is essential to her diet!!

Please send tips and tricks to get my kitty eating wet food!

Thank you!!!

Try mixing it with dry. Starting with just a little. You could also start adding a bit of water to the dry so that it's softer. Give her a few meals that way so she gets used to the softer texture (just don't let it sit out very long, as bacteria can begin to grow), then start adding in a little wet. As she gets used to that start adding a bit more wet, less dry. Just keep increasing it gradually until you're giving only wet. 

But yes, the more wet meals, the better. 

I can empathize, as although I know I have to keep Mouse on a dry prescription diet I have been trying everything to introduce a small percentage of wet food for improved protein intake and as an added method of giving medication as and when required.  He has taken the odd teaspoon of one or two things but if I try to give him more the next day his nose turns like I've offered him poison!

He will turn 3 this week and hasn't had regular wet food since he was around 8 months old, at which point he wasn't picky but then he developed a lot of mouth problems and once healed went on to the prescription food.  When I tried to re-introduce tastes of wet food last year I didn't expect the refusal but to date not managed to make any headway. He loves his TD dry food, and he loves his 100% freeze dried Thrive fish snacks but anything else is a nose up....

He did eat about a table spoon of Thrive canned chicken (which looked and smelled like a human would do well to eat it, and was priced for a king to buy) but the next time I put it down he licked the water and left the meat. I bought another can a month or two later and he didn't eat the first spoon full.  

I've had the same reaction with cans of little sardines in spring water: he ate about half a sardine then no more.

I've heard pilchards in tomato sauce are tempting but I haven't been to a supermarket for a while so not tried them yet.  You have to make sure there is no onion or garlic in sauce if you buy any 'human' food, and I also avoid tuna and salmon but go for fish lower on the food chain due to toxins the higher species tend to contain these days.

I'm wary of adding water to dry food, if you do - leave it for only a very short time before lifting it again as believe it can be bad for bacteria developing.  

I'm never sure if the change from crunch to soft texture is an issue as Mouse does lick things, and will lick the gravy or water from wet food, he just doesn't lift the food even if it's got a bite to it. Some cats find wet food more appealing if it is warmed a little as well.

Bizarre as it might seem, if he shows any interest in your food you could try eating something like the pilchards or sardines and then let him 'steel' some or offer as a treat?  I'm sure once they get over that change thing most cats can make the transition.

One thing you can do to try and cut down on waste if he will eat tiny amounts is to give him maybe a spoonful and freeze the rest in similar size portions.  De-frost and warm slightly before feeding again.