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Ingredients
1/2 cup cooked
white or brown rice
1/4 cup dry monkey chow, ground in a blender
1/4 cup Sun Maid Fruit Bits, soaked overnight
2 tablespoons Bag O’Bugs
Directions
Mix ingredients together
and serve immediately. Change at least twice a day to make sure your birds
don’t digest any soured foods. You can replace the Bag O’
bugs with live insects.
Birdie
Corn Bread
Ingredients
1 box Jiffy Corn
Bread Mix
1 egg (you can include the shell)
1/3 cup milk
1 cup vegetables
Directions
Heat oven to 400
and grease 8" x 8" baking pan or muffin tin. Mix the corn bread
mix, egg, and milk in a bowl. Next mix in the vegetables. Pour into baking
pan or muffin tins. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes (until light golden brown).
Freeze unused bread in a zip lock bag and microwave to reheat.
You can vary this
recipe by substituting the vegetables with your birds favorite food, peppers,
crushed red pepper, etc.
Canary
Nestling Food
by
Frank Giorno
Ingredients
1 cup Oatmeal baby
cereal
1 cup Mixed cereals baby food
1 cup Petamine
1/2 cup Frosted Flakes cereal, crushed very small
1 tsp Vionate for pets (vitamins)
2 tsp poppy seeds (optional)
2 shreaded carrots
2 hard-boiled eggs
Directions
Mix all dry ingredients
together and store in tightly covered glass container. Refrigerate all
ingredients. When feeding babies, mix all dry ingredients with hard-boiled
eggs and carrots. If too dry, add very little water.
Cous-Cous
With Veggies
Posted
by: Jessica - kusine@yahoo.com - May 24, 1999 on www.BirdsnWay.com
Ingredients
1 2/3 cup water
1 cup cous-cous
1 medium tomato (or a handful of cherry/grape tomatoes)
1 small onion (or 4-5 spring onions, if you prefer)
1/2 green pepper
1/2 sweet red pepper
1/2 cup corn (frozen or fresh off the cob)
2 cloves garlic
1/2 tsp salt
1 1/2 tsp pepper
1 1/2 tsp basil, oregano, or Italian seasoning
1 1/2 tsp crushed red pepper
Directions
First, boil water.
When water boils, stir in cous-cous, cover, and *remove from heat*. Allow
to sit for five minutes. While cous-cous soaks, dice tomatoes, onion, and
peppers. Combine with remaining ingredients and saute lightly (adding a
little butter, margarine, or olive oil, if necessary). When cous-cous has
soaked up all water, combine with veggies, stir, and serve to your feathered
friend according to size. Freezes well and may be served hot or cold.
Parrot
Pasta
Ingredients
1 small package shell
or elbow noodles
1 can Hot Chili Beans
Directions
Cook noodles as directed
on package. Drain noodles and return to pan. Add chili beans and warm
up. I freeze the remaining portion in an ice cube tray, then move the
"cubes" to a freezer bag for future use. To heat frozen cubes,
place the amount necessary in a microwave safe dish and microwave on high
for 3 to 4 minutes.
You can substitue
veggies or other kinds of food for the beans.
Pasta
Rice Dish
Ingredients
1 cup rice, uncooked
1 cup small pasta (ie, shells, macaroni, wheels, bows), uncooked
2 cups mixed veggies or cooked beans, or mixture of both
Directions
Cook rice as directed
on box. Cook up pasta and drain. Mix the rice, pasta, and veggies/beans
in a bowl. I also season this with some crushed red pepper or cayenne
pepper.Serve to your birds. You can freeze the unused portion and warm
up to serve at a later time.
Pellet
Bread
The
recipe was submitted by Sandra Aker and it came from the TIEL-L mailing
list.
Ingredients
1 cup pellets
1 cup flour (whole wheat or half whole wheat/half unbleached)
5 tsp baking powder
1 egg
1/4 tsp salt
2 tbsp oil
1 1/4 cup water
2 tbsp honey
1/2 cup (or more) veggies
1/4 cup seed (hulled is better)
1-2 tbsp seed
Directions
Pulverize the pellets, egg (with shell), and about half
the water in a blender. Mix the rest of the ingredients except the 1-2
tablespoons of seed and add the blender's concoction. The rest of the
water is used to rinse out the blender. Once the ingredients have been
mixed, pour into a greased casserole dish. Sprinkle the remaining seeds
on top. Bake at 350 degrees F for about 40-50 minutes.
It is recommended that half be made at a time in a 9
by 9 dish. That way it is thinner (more birdy-sized!)
Toasted
Cheese Sandwich
by
Jeanne Sangster
Ingredients
2 pieces of bread
1 slice of cheese (American, Swiss, or your bird's choice)
Directions
Toast two pieces
of bread, a multigrain or whole wheat may be a favorite of your birds,
and put a slice of American, Swiss, or other flavor of cheese your birds
like, between the slices and let melt. Cut into little mini sandwiches
for your birds. If you have a toaster oven, you can put the cheese on
one of the slices of bread to melt in the toaster oven. My birds love
their cheese sandwiches!!
Editor's
Note: Since birds are lactose intolerant, you would not
want to give them too much cheese over several days. The cheese is a good
source of calcium.
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