#29583 - 08/19/04 10:06 PM
Re: Sharing Recipies........
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I make a huge pan of chopped potatoes, sweet potatoes, bok choy, broc, carrots, sweetcorn chunks, squash, parsnips, rutabagas, turnips, peas, green beans, garbanzos, navy beans, pasta - cook it all and freeze in ziploc bags then mic it every morning for breakfast - saves time. My birds all love toast esp the Cheese bread sold by Kash n Karry in FL. db
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#29585 - 08/20/04 12:37 PM
Re: Sharing Recipies........
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One thing I have learned, that was also posted somewhere on this site, is try using smaller portions and make sure your bird can see the bottem of the serving plate, bowl or whatever. When I first got Gil (U2), he ate only sunflower seeds, and at 9 yrs old, that is a bad habit to break. He was very thin and had no down feathers at all. I tried every trick to try to get him to eat healthy, nothing seemed to work. One day, I took a small white salsa dish, and put about 1 1/2 tablespoons of veggies in the dish, and to my amazement, he ate everything out of the dish. I now use the same small white dish for all veggies, fruits or whatever. Sometimes I use a saucer and put the saucer on top of the seed cup, never left unattended as it is some kind of pottery, but he loves to eat off the saucer also.
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#29587 - 08/21/04 05:55 PM
Re: Sharing Recipies........
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Mary Jones - Arfy's Mom
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I also discovered that Arfy eats much better if only presented with small portions. On a daily basis he always has his veggie pot, fruit pot and nutty pot in his cage, readilly available for when he feels a bit peckish, but he eats better at the same time as us.
Breakfast - I soak some weetabix in warm water and he has it on a saucer ontop of his cage. Lunch - I take some of the fruit and veg from his dishes, put on a saucer ontop his cage and he clears the lot. Dinner - he usually has a healthy assotrment of whatever we are eating, again, on his saucer ontop of his cage.
I have found that making him his own little meal to eat at the same time as us, makes meal times a lot quieter for us. Before, he would scream his little head off for a bit of whatever we were eating, now, he just goes about eating his own meal and lets us eat ours in peace. If what we are eating is not suitable for him, I just boil up some frozen mixed veg with a little garlic puree and he thinks he has got the same as us! Visitors to our house find it really amusing to see me dishing up a little dinner for my 'Too.
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#29589 - 08/24/04 12:56 AM
Re: Sharing Recipies........
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This has nothng to do with bird food, I can't cook for s**t! But, I had a good chuckle at cburb's last post: the clerk was amazed at the Healthy selection of foods I picked My grocery cart is usually loaded with lots of heathy veges. I have to tell the clerks what each one is: kale, sugar snap peas, oriental pea pods, baby bock choy, etc. Then I get the question: how do you fix all these? I don't, I give them to my birds. Then I get the "oh yeah, wacky bird woman alert" look. Fortunately, I've been shopping at this same market since it opened (15 years ago) and they know me real well <img border="0" alt="[laughing]" title="" src="graemlins/laugh[1].gif" /> <img border="0" alt="[laughing]" title="" src="graemlins/laugh[1].gif" />
"The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind" - Carly Simon
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#29590 - 08/24/04 01:25 AM
Re: Sharing Recipies........
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I am also aware of the funny look routine when out shopping for 'The Kids' (M2, 3 cats & 1 dog)
I get most of my fresh fruit and veg from our local little corner store, been shopping there for 6 years. We (me and other half) will stand in the middle of the shop and say things like 'Ooh, don't forget Arthurs grapes' and 'Shall we get Ted (teddy Bear the cat) some fresh peas this week?' (yeah a cat that loooooves peas!)
After about a year of shopping there, the lady who owns the shop asked us which care home we worked in (residential home for the elderly). I looked at her blank, I really didn't know what she was talking about. Well, she said, we know that Arthurs favourite are grapes, but only green ones and Ted likes his peas and Chloe is just happy with whatever she is given. Henry is partial to corn-on-the-cob and your latest resident, Betsy, hasn't really shown any favourites yet.
Well, Jarrod and myself just fell about the place howling, we had to explain that Arthur (AKA Arfy) is an M2, Henry is a dog and Chloe, Ted and Betsy (AKA Booby) are cats.
Boy, were our ears burning when we left the store! We still shop there now, but the lady who owns it always reminds us if we have forgotten anyone <img border="0" alt="[laughing]" title="" src="graemlins/laugh[1].gif" />
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