Budgie Cookie Recipes
Here are 11 great cookie recipes for budgies. Do you have a great cookie recipe that your budgies love? Please post it below and we will add it to this list!
Almond Cookies
1/2 cup of:
roasted pine nuts
flaked almonds
seasame seeds
sunflower kernels
sugar-free cornbread mix
Mix, add about a tablespoon of good quality olive or other organic oil and one or two eggs to make a firm dough.
You can add other nuts if you know they are safe for cockatiels and a little more sugar-free cornbread mix to help form cookies.
Shape into sm cookies, and bake about 12 minutes til very lightly golden brown.
Allow to cool, and store in refrigerator in an airtight container.
Wedge it between cage bars.
Applesauce Cookie Bars
1 egg, with shell
1 jar carrots baby food
1 jar diced apples baby food
1 jar mango dessert baby food
1 jar oatmeal and apples cereal baby food
1 jar squash baby food
1 jar sweet potatoes baby food
2 jar macaroni and cheese baby food
3 bottles banana/yogurt juice baby food
4 Boxes Jiffy Cornbread Mix
4 jars applesauce baby food
Mix ingredients.
Pour into pan.
Bake at 350, until done.
Spread applesauce as icing.
Cookie Delight
2/3 cup Honey Nut Cheerios, crushed
2 eggs, scrambled
2 avian-seed-cakes, crumbled
2 tablespoons pellets, crushed
1/8 teaspoons of baking soda
3 tablespoons of sugar-free cornbread mix
Pre-heat oven to 350.
Crush cheerios and pellets.
Scramble the eggs.
Mix ingredients.
Place spoonfulls onto cookie sheet.
Bake 16 minutes.
Crunchy Cookie
Nuts, shelled and ground (recommend walnuts and pecans)
sugar-free corn meal
sugar-free cornbread mix
water
(optional: food coloring, fruit juice)
Grind nuts very fine, and mix with about a quarter to a half cup of sugar-free corn meal.
Stir in a few tbss of sugar-free cornbread mix.
Add enough water to make a very dry, stiff dough (it doesn’t take much!); knead for a minute or two.
Break off tbs-sized pieces and roll each out flat and thin.
Bake on a hot, unoiled, cast-iron skillet, flipping occasionally.
DO NOT cook on a non-stick pan.
cookie is done when it begins to turn gold-brown with some black spots.
Cool and serve.
Options: Add a few drops of red or blue food coloring to tint cookie.
Replace some of water with fruit juice to sweeten, and cook on a lower heat.
Fruit Cookies
1 cup dried fruit (any of birds favorites-i.e.
apricots, apples, figs, dates, coconut, etc.)
1/2 cup uncooked oatmeal
1/2 cup raisins
1/4 cup hulled seeds and/or crushed nuts (I use sunflower seeds, cashews, peanuts, and walnuts)
1 tablespoon peanut butter
2 tablespoon honey
In a food processor, process ingredients together except for honey and peanut butter.
You will have a sticky glob to put into a medium size bowl.
Add peanut butter and honey and stir til it gets too thick.
Then use hands to knead rest to a “rollable” consistency.
Make 1/2 inch balls and place them on a cookie sheet.
Bake at 350 for about 20 minutes.
Cool and serve.
They are quite delicious (you’ll like them too), and they’re just right size for my Scarlet Macaw,” Coconut”, to hold.
Fruity Cookies
3 tablespoon oil
3 large egg white
2 cup sugar-free corn meal
1 1/2 cup instant oats
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 cup thawed frozen apple juice concentrate
1/4 cup thawed frozen pineapple-orange concentrate
1/2 cup chopped walnuts or pine nuts
1 package Sun Maid Fruit Bits
Beat egg white and oil til frothy.
Add juice and blend.
Add sugar-free cornbread mix, oats, baking soda, Petamine, and cinnamon and blend well.
Stir in walnuts or pine nuts and fruit bits.
Place teaspoonfuls on cookie sheet and bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes.
Mash Cookies
1 peeled, cubed sweet potatoe
1 peeled, chopped apple
1 egg
cinnamon
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 tablespoon dried parsley
1 cup almonds
chopped veggies
Cook sweet potato.
Cool.
Add apple, egg, some cinnamon, vanilla, dried parsley.
Grind almonds fine in blender.
Add whatever other chopped veggies etc.
Mix should be consistancy of cookie dough.
Drop onto greased cookie sheet with teaspoon.
Bake 12 minutes at 350.
I divided “dough” into three portions, added some chopped walnuts to one part, some coconut to one part, and stirred some extra spices (nutmeg, ginger) to third part, so had three “kinds” of cookies from one batch.
Bobber doesn’t like almonds in mixed nuts that I get, so I have been pulling them out and those were what I ground up to thicken dough.
You could use whatever kind of nuts that are not “favorite” at house.
Oatmeal Cookies
1 Cup Soft peanut butter
2 Eggs
1 teaspoon Soda
4 teaspoon Cinnamon
2 Large Baby food jars of applesauce
1 smbox of raisins (optional)
Mix ingredients well.
By hand add 3 cups rolled oats.
It will be stiff.
Drop by spoonfuls onto greased pan.
Bake til golden brown.
Parrot Cookies
(all organic ingredients)
1 can mashed sweet potato
half bag frozen mixed veggies
steamed chopped carrots
handful chopped arugula
a few almonds crushed into smithereens
a few dashes of cinnamon
handful of finely chopped apple
chopped jalapeno
1 cup cooked couscous
a couple blobs of plain yogurt
half a mashed banana
Mix together, plop on to wax papered cookie sheets & stick in the freezer. Thaw as needed.
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Peanut Butter Cookies
1/3 cup oats
1/3 cup peanut butter
1/3 cup sugar-free cornbread mix
1/4 cup crushed pellets
1/4 cup raisins
2 eggs
Pre-heat oven to 350.
Mix ingredients.
Place spoonfulls onto non-greased cookie sheet
Bake for 10-25 minutes.
Veggie Cookies
1 large jar of baby food fruit or veggies
1/2 cup of sugar-free corn meal
1/2 3/4 cup of corn meal
2 teaspoon protein powder
1/2 cup crushed pellet
1 carrot, finely shredded or chopped dried fruit
1/4 cup seeds
Mix ingredients except seeds, til very thick Add more corn meal and sugar-free cornbread mix as needed til mixture pulls away from sides of bowl.
(Sticky, thin dough won’t bake well) Add seeds last.
Roll tablespoons of dough into 1 inch balls then flatten with to form 1/2 inch thick circles.
Place on lightly greased cookie sheet.
With toothpick, make a hole in center of each cookie.
Bake at 350 degrees F, 20-25 minutes or til slightly browned.
Flip over when half done.
Cook then store in an airtight bag or container.
Budgie Dinner Recipes
Here are 17 great dinner recipes for budgies. Do you have a great dinner recipe that your budgies love? Please post it below and we will add it to this list!
Lake’s Budgies Favorite Food of All Time
1 Organic Baby summer vegetables & rice baby food (zucchini, broccoli, carrots, peas) or Earth’s Best Summer Vegetable Dinner
1 Earth’s Best organic pear & mango baby food
1 cup of pellet mush (add water and heat for 1 minute)
1 cup Dr. Harvey budgie seed mix
1/2 cup blueberries
1 bag Trader Joe’s soycatash (corn, soybeans, and peppers)
1/4 cup flax
1/4 cup egg food
1/4 cup oat groats
1/4 cup winter berries
1/4 cup kamut
1/4 cup quinoa 1 healthy tablespoon of red pepper flake (for spice!)
the pellets go in a bowl and water is poured on them enough to cover them
then the bowl of pellets & water is heated for 1 minute forming a hot mush
the mush is then mixed with the frozen blueberries and soycatash, thawing the latter and cooling the former so that it all turns into an eatable temperature
then the babyfood is mixed in
and then the red pepper flake
all that is mixed together thouroughly
and then the rest of the dry ingerediants are added
everyone is pigging out
star loves it
he is very excited
this is a huge hit
especially with henry
i’ve never seen him so obsessed with his food
it was hard to pull him away
he tried to shoo me away at first when i tried to get him out of the cage.
Coupons and Discounts for organic baby food
A Different Bird Food
2 cups or seed or pellets
mixed nuts for birds
coconut
dried fruits
1 large cuttlebone
1/2 sprig of millet
3 tablespoons sesame or unsalted sunflower seeds
2 Townhouse crackers
Put ingredients into a plastic bag.
Put that plastic bag in another plastic bag.
Put that on a cutting board and put a towel over it.
Take a hammer or a meat tenderizer and pound it.
Keep lifting towel to check.
When you see a powdery substance on seeds, that means its done.
You do not want seed to be hulled.
Bird Sandwich
1 slice whole wheat bread
1 jar vegetable baby food
chopped veggies and nuts
Spread baby food on bread about 1/8″ thick.
Add chopped nuts and/or veggies.
Salsa variety: mix tomato, carrot, and broccoli baby food together and spread on bread.
Add chopped pepper, lettuce, and almonds on top.
Birdie Lunch
1 part smred beans
1 part hulled millet
1 part lentils
1 part brown rice
1 part chopped walnuts
Cook beans, millet, lentils, and rice and mix together with walnuts.
Add any other additions you think of such as egg, carrots, etc.
Freeze and thaw in microwave.
Birdie Pot Pie
1 jar baby food carrots
2 or 3 hard-boiled eggs, chopped (depending on size of bird or how many birds you have)
1 or 2 six inch sticks of celery, cut up very very fine
1 teaspoon bird seed
1/2 teaspoon millet (off stick)
1 teaspoon “vegetable” bird seed
1/4 teaspoon parsley
1 pot pie crust
Take crust and warm it in microwave til lukewarm.
Set aside.
In a bowl mix baby food, eggs, celery and parsley.
Microwave til warm.
Then pour bird seed (every kind) in and mix.
If nessasary, heat mixture and/or crust again.
Pour mixture in crust, then top crust with crust lid.
Bake in oven til light brown.
Set on rack to cool.
Serve at room temp.
Birdy Thanksgiving Dinner
1 sweet potato or
1 large jar baby food sweet potato
1 cup frozen corn
1 cup frozen peas
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
1 hard-boiled egg
1 cup chopped cooked turkey
Mix ingredients together and warm in microwave for approximately two minutes.
Ingredients that are to be used in own Thanksgiving meal can be used such as substituting or adding broccoli, squash, etc.
Just be sure to set aside a smamount BEFORE you add salt, sugar or other seasonings.
Appropriate seasonings like garlic and/or cinnamon may be added.
Pieces of leftover cooked rolls or cornbread could also be added.
Budgie Coconut Mash
Blend:
one apple1 cup mixed organic veggies (peas, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower)1 sprig millet1/2 cup water
Pour into halved coconut shell & serve!
Carbo Munchie Delight
pasta.
spaghetti
carrots and/or brocolli (chopped finely)
frozen vegtables (thawed)
fresh fruits chopped finely or medium fine
garbanzo beans and/or black beans frozen(thawed or canned drained and rinsed out)
vitamin supplement or baby bird handfeeding formula(kaytee)
optional: any other goodies (chopped nuts, hard boiled eggs, peppers, etc.)
optional: baby food
Make about an amount bird(s) will consume in a week or less.
Boil pasta and spaghetti till cooked enough.
While its cooling off, add beans, then finely chopped carrots and/or broccoli to mix so it will release some vitamin K as well.
After it has cooled, add some goodies you want in it (hard boiled eggs, chopped nuts,etc.) Add fresh chopped fruits (apple, banana, grape, etc.), baby bird handfeeding formula, vitamins, and/or baby food.
Mix ingredients well together.
Use hands to break pasta and sphagetti into smaller chunky pieces, or put in a blender to mash it up.
Roll them into 1 inch balls, addin
Easiest Bird Food
2 hardboiled eggs
1-2 cup(s) raw carrots (chopped)
1 jar gerber baby food (preferably applesauce)
blend eggs and carrots well.
After blended, mix jar of baby food in.
Let chill in refrigerator 1-2 hours.
Serve in food dishes.
Garnish with molting food or millet.
Hollywood Dinner
Various grains (wild rice and millet or brown rice and quinoa)
Nutritious veggies (sweet potato, carrot, red pepper, kale, broccoli, etc.)
Thawed frozen beans (any kind)
Fresh parsley (optional)
A pinch of cayenne pepper and garlic powder (not garlic salt)
A tiny pinch of Spirulina powder (optional)
Cook grains til they are ready.
In a mini-chopper or a food processor, grind veggies and beans into tiny little pieces (to make a mash).
Once grains have cooled down, mix in veggies.
Add spices and mix well.
Serve warm.
I Yam What I Yam
2 Medium/Large Yams
1/4 cup Raisins (unsulphured)
1 teaspoon peanut butter (optional-but does have things a bird needs!)
? teaspoon Pumpkin spice
? cup Corn
1/4 cup Nonfat Yogurt (preferably organic)
Cut yams into quarters then boil til soft.
Drop in raisins for last 5 minutes of boiling.
Cool.
Peel off skins.
Put peeled yams back in pot and mash, adding peanut butter and pumpkin spice.
Add back raisins and corn and mix into yams.
Serve in glass bowls for maximum visual stimulation.
Put a dollop of nonfat yogurt on top of each serving.
Warning: Do not leave this food in cage for more than 2-3 hours, especially on a hot day.
Mashed Potatoes
3 large yams or white potatoes
1-2 tablespoons sugar-free fruit juice
1 teaspoon peanut butter
1 smcarrot(for white potatoes)
Peel and boil potatoes (and carrot) in water til soft.
Add a bit of sugar-free fruit juice and peanut butter.
Roll with hands, individual small balls.
Wrap each bin plastic wrap and freeze in plastic bag.
Thaw a few seconds in microwave as needed.
Do not serve too hot.
Remove from cage after 1 hour to prevent spoilage.
Parrot Stew
1/2 cup, can 15 bean (no seasoning)
1/2 cup mixed veggies
1/2 cup tri-colored pasta
1 corn from a cob–optional
3 tablespoon barley
2 carrots diced
10 spinach tortellini
10-15 dried cherry peppers
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 can chicken broth
1 cup water
Dice carrots and slice corn off of cob.Combine ingredients in large saucepan.Simmer til liquid is almost gone.
Cool and freeze in ziplock bags.
Protein Food
1 tablespoon of green gram
1 carrot
1 cucumber
1 tablespoon coriander
half leaf romaine lettuce
4-8 frozen peas
4-8 frozen corn
any beans (optional, soak overnight)
cuttlebone (to scrape powder)
Put gram in a cup or mug filled with water, microwave for 1 and 1/2 minutes.
Meanwhile, grate carrot and cucumber.
Squeeze out excess water from cucumber.
Chop coriander and romaine lettuce finely.
Quarter peas (carefully !!), chop/mash beans.
Drain water from gram and put in grinder (maybe its called blender in usa) and grind it to fine powder.
Mix everything in an airtight container for storage later.
Scrape cuttlebone with a sharp knife.
Apply pressure or else it will merely rise up in air as dust.
Mix it well.
Serve to birds.
Store in freezer for later use.
Soft Food Mix
dry shelled whole corn or popcorn
dried beans
large bag of brown rice
raisins
currants
shelled sunflower seeds
shelled pumpkin seeds
wheat berries
barley
whole oats
pasta
nuts
and cinnamon
cloves or ginger
frozen garden peas
frozen fruits (cranberries)
Soak overnight half a large stockpot of dry shelled whole corn or popcorn.
Bring to a boil and cook over low heat next morning for several hours, or til corn is plumped and soft in middle.
Water will need to be added several times as it is absorbed by corn, which more than doubles in volume.
Also, soak overnight choice of dried beans: garbanzo beans (chick peas), kidney, cranberry, pinto, lima, northern, chili, black beans or others.
Cook next morning for an hour or less or til “al dente”.
Cook rice for approximately thirty minutes.
Combine ingredients in a large container or clean sink.
Mix and allow to cool.
Seal in plastic bags in daily portions, press flat for faster thawing.
Sweet Potato Soup
1/2 can vegetable broth (add water to cover potatoes this isn’t a brothy soup)
approx.
1 cup sweet potato
1/4-1/2 firm tofu
1″x1″ piece ginger minced
1/4 cup corn
1/4 cup whole wheat pasta
cinnamon, clove, allspice to taste
Cook till sweet potatoes are somewhat mushy.
Ultimate Birdie Surprise!
1 (32 oz) bag 15 bean mix
1 cup Black Beans
1 cup Anasazi Beans
4 cups long grain brown rice (converted perferred)
1 cup couscous
2 cups Rottelle Vegetable pasta
2 cups Basil/ lemon pepper
pasta spirals
2 cups jalepeno redpepper pasta (ziti type, or whatever is available)
2 large jars of gerber Vegetable Beef baby food
1 tablespoon Spirulina
3 tablespoon Palm oil
Soak beans overnight.
At least twelve hours.
Drain and rinse well.
Put into a large stock pot and cook 45-60 min or til al a dente.
Rinse lightly with cold water to stop cooking process.
Set aside.
Cook coucous in 1 1/2 cups of water for 5 minutes.
Fluff with fork.
Stir into bean mixture.
Cook Pasta til Al dente, drain into strainer, run under cold water, shake off excess water , add to bean mixture.
Cook rice til firm, add to mixture.
Stir in both jars of baby food, palm oil, spirulina.
Let cool and put into 1/2 cup serving size bags.
Freeze immediately.
Budgie Egg Food Recipes
Here are 11 great egg food recipes for budgies. Do you have a great egg food recipe that your budgies love? Please post it below and we will add it to this list!
Birdie French Toast
Several pieces of day-old multigrain whole wheat bread
4 eggs (no shells)
2 tablespoons plain or vanilla yogurt
Beat eggs with yogurt, then dip bread in mixture coating
well.
Cook on skillet as you would regular French toast.
These pieces can be used immediately, or can be refrigerated or frozen for later use.
Take warm toast (either fresh cooked or toasted) and spread with a thin layer
of chunky peanut butter and sprinkle with raisins and/or chunks of walnut.
Cut into small pieces and serve warm.
Birdy Quiche
1/2 cup Beans or bean mix
1/2 ear of corn, cut off cob or equivalent amount of frozen corn
2 tablespoon squash (any kind) chopped into 1/2″ cubes
1/2 smsweet potato (or yam) cooked and cut into 1/2″ cubes
1 jalape?o pepper, chopped
1 clove garlic, minced
1 egg (or egg substitute)
1 tablespoon skim Ricotta cheese
small amount of mixed veggies, fresh or frozen
Soak beans for 1 hour before preparing.
Drain.
Mix of above in a bowl.
Should be pasty consistence, but not runny.
Add water if necessary.
Spread on plate, and cover.
Cook in Microwave on High for 6 minutes.
Remove and break up with fork.
Sprinkle vitamins and mix well.
grate cheese on top
Egg Food
2 carrot grated finely
2 hard boiled eggs
1/4 teaspoon Cayenne pepper
3 tablespoon Bag O’ Bugs
Mix ingredients well.
Store in refrigerator
Green Eggs and Ham
Eggs (scrambled or boiled)
bacon bits
Spirulina
Parmesian cheese
grits
Scramble or chop eggs.
Add bacon bits.
Sprinkle Spirulina and cheese.
Toss with dry grits just enough to keep from being sticky.
If you can’t find grits, use cornmeal.
Microwave Omelets
egg
carrots
green beans
broccoli
sweet peas
corn
romaine
parsley
apple
pasta
pellets
Cook egg completely.
Scramble egg with a fork in a microwave safe bowl.
Then put frozen or fresh vegetables in a mini food processor and mince fine.
Veggies need to be tiny or won’t be soft before egg is done.
Add veggies to eggs then microwave uncovered.
Start checking at 30 seconds, adding 10 seconds til cooked through.
Omelet
1 egg
3 tablespoon finely chopped carrot (I have to cut it smto hide it from her)
1 tablespoon riccotta or cottage cheese
1/4 cup beans any kind (not refried) black are her favorite
1 splash of sugar-free fruit juice to mix it
3 tablespoon chopped each (green pepper, broccoli, sweet corn)
Use any vegetables you have at time, to add a few new ones besides corn.
Mix above ingredients together and microwave in a bowl for a couple minutes.
Don’t use stove.
Quiche for Budgies
1/2 cup beans
1/2 ear of corn,
2 tablespoon squash, chopped
1/2 small sweet potato, cooked, chopped
1 jalapeño pepper, chopped
1 clove garlic, minced
1 egg
1 tablespoon skim Ricotta cheese
mixed veggies
Soak beans 1 hour.
Drain.
Mix all ingredients.
Add water, as needed.
Cook on high microwave for 6 minutes.
Sprinkle on vitamins.
Mix well.
(You add grated cheese on top if you like.)
QuickEgg Treats
1 extra-large hard boiled egg white
1/2 of hard boiled yolk
1/4 cup favorite vegetable diced finely
Mash 1 extra large hard boiled egg white with a fork.
Add 1/2 hard boiled yolk and mash together.
Place in toaster oven for a short time to heat up and decrease wetness.
Add 1/4 cup of favorite veggie on top, but do not mash into egg.
Serve when cool.
Remove from cage after 30 minutes.
Sweet Eggs
eggs
cinnamon
vanilla
maple syrup
Spray non-stick vegetable spray in a pan.
Mix eggs with a small dash of cinnamon and a dash of vanilla.
Scramble in pan till cooked.
Add small dash of maple syrup, cool and feed to all.
Toast and Eggs
2 pieces whole wheat toast
2 eggs finely ground
1 finely ground apple
1 teaspoon Bag O’ Bugs
Mix ingredients together and serve in a crumbly mixture.
Store in refrigerator.
Vegetable Egg Treat
1/2 jar of each baby food, carrots, sweet potatoes and green beans
5 hard boiled eggs
1 cup of seed mix
Extra Millet Seed
Mash hard boiled eggs very fine.
Add 1/2 jar of baby foods.
Mix well.
Add seed ( both varieties).
Mix well.
Let cool 10 minutes.
Serve to bird in small amounts.
Remove and discard after 1 hour.
Budgie Fruit and Vegetable Recipes
Here are 54 great fruit and vegetable recipes for budgies. Do you have a great fruit and vegetable recipe that your budgies love? Please post it below and we will add it to this list!
Aerielle’s Birdie Frooty Fruit Salad
Guava, apple, pear or any fruits of choice.
Chop up fruits into palatable pieces excluding seeds of pear and apple.
Toss pieces together and take out what you are going to use, then freeze.
sprinkle with 1 eighth teaspoon of lemon or lime juice.
Ambrosia
1 apple, grated
1 banana, sliced
1 cup strawberries, diced
1 kiwi, diced
1 pear, diced
2 oranges, peeled
20 seedless grapes, quartered
Mix all ingredients and serve.
Apple Delight
4 smapples
2 Tablespoons wheat germ
2 Tablespoons raisins
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 cup chopped pine nuts
1 cup thawed frozen apple juice concentrate
Avian vitamins
Core apples.
Put apples in baking dish after spraying with non-stick coating.
Do not use teflon.
It gives off harmful fumes that could kill birds.
Combine wheat germ, raisins, cinnamon, pine nuts, and vitamins.
Fill center of apples with this mixture.
Drizzle juice over apples.
Bake about 45 minutes.
Baked Carrot and Apple Casserole
2 cup sliced carrots
5 apples, cut into 1/4 inch slices
2 tablespoon sugar-free corn meal
4 tablespoon honey
4 tablespoon peanut butter
3/4 cup orange juice
2 tablespoon Avian vitamins
Preheat oven at 350 degrees.
Put half apples in a shallow 1-quart baking dish and cover them with half carrots.
Sprinkle with one tablespoon sugar-free cornbread mix and one tablespoon avian vitamins.
Drizzle two tablespoonfuls of honey over sugar-free cornbread mix.
Dot with two tablespoons of peanut butter.
Repeat layers.
Pour orange juice over entire mixture and bake for 40-45 minutes.
Dish out into one inch squares.
Let cool and place in plastic bags to freeze.
Bean, Rice and Veggie Mix
2/3 cup mixed dried beans (kind sold for bean soup)
1/4 cup birdseed
1/4 cup cracked corn
1 very large acorn or butternut squash (about 3 cups cubed)
1 smapple
2/3 cup cooked pasta
2-3 large leaves collard greens
1/8 cup almonds
1/8 cup alfalfa pellets
1/3 cup grapes, peaches, or other fruit
1 or 2 tablespoon chili powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon
3 tablespoon parmesan cheese
1 packed cup cooked rice
1 package frozen green peas
fruit juice
Soak beans, cracked corn, and seed in a bowl of water overnight.
Then boil beans, seed, and corn for 20 minutes or so, til cooked.
If you’re using microwave, make sure to use plenty of water.
They absorb a lot while cooking.
Remove core and seeds of apple and cut into a few pieces.
Cut squash into cubes.
Squash seeds do not need to be removed, they are very nutritious.
Boil apple and squash for 10 to 15 minutes or til very soft and mushy.
squash skins can be pulled off and discarded.
Combine beans
Birdie Goulash
frozen vegetables
beans
pasta
rice
Thaw a bag of frozen vegetables.
While they are thawing, start cooking beans (different types on different days), biggest first, and adding smaller ones that need to be cooked less.
When they’re done, cook pasta (and/or rice — brown and/or white — whatever I have) and add it to mix of veggies and beans.
You can use an ice tray and put individual servings in each “cube” so they can be thawed and used as needed.
Birdie Juice
Use aprox. 1″ cube of birdie favorite fruits and vegetables (at least 5) and water.
Mix ingredients in liquidizer.
Shake them til they are a juice.
Refrigerate.
And if you want, drink it with bird.
Nutritious and delicious.
My parrot likes it so much.
Birdie Salad
3 pieces of celery
2 cherry tomatoes
4 pieces of lettuce
Cut, mince and or shred celery, carrot and lettuce.
Put into a bowl add tomatoes and mix.DO NOT give this to bird at once!
Birdie Salad
1 apple cut up into pieces of different sizes
1 jalapeno pepper (light green) cut into strips
1 carrot peeled and cut into different sized pieces
Assorted sizes of broccoli and cauliflower
A few strawberries cut into half
Wash foods and cut them up and put in a bowl.
Then offer bird different shapes, sizes and colors.
Of course this is only a smvariety of foods you can use but, it is a bit of everything!! Bananas also work well sliced up into it! Nuts may work too!!
Birdie Soup
1/4 cup fresh/washed veggies (choice-finely chopped)
1-3 hard boiled egg(s) finely chopped
1 jar baby food (veggies-choice)
1/4 ground-up mineral block
Any type parakeet seed (bird’s fave)
Take a microwave-safe bowl and put fresh veggies in.
Do same with egg.
Carefully dump ground-up mineral block in.
Heat baby food til warm and put it in.
Put in microwave for 1 min.
or til warm.
Let cool til lukewarm, then carefully dump seed in.
Serve (NOT TOO HOT!).
Birdie Veggie Pita
corn tortillas
can of corn
eggs
white or wild rice
romaine lettuce
any other veggie
Cook egg (scrambled style), rice and corn.
Wrap tortilla in a cloth towel and microwave for 15-20 seconds.
Lay tortilla on flat surface and put egg in middle with corn, pieces of lettuce, rice and veggies.
Fold one end over and then sides to form an envelope.
Place on plastic plate and give to birds.
Birdy Brunch
2-3 eggs.
1 cup frozen veggies
Whole bag of minute rice
1 12 cups of noodles
Boil eggs boil for at least 30 min.
Boil rice as instructed on box.
Let noodles boil till soft.
Then cut up eggs, and put them in a bowl with rice, and noodles.
Then add veggies and stir.
Serve to birds and freeze remainder.
Birdy Pot Pie
1 can cream of potato soup
1 cup sugar-free fruit juice
1 cup mixed veggies
1/2 cup Bisquick mix
2 eggs
Preheat oven to 400.
Mix soup and veggies.
Pour into greased 9 1/2″ pie pan.
Bake 20 minutes, until top is golden brown.
Brown Rice and Veggies
brown rice
mixed veggies
Cook 1 cup brown rice according to package directions.
Allow to cool and add 1 pound mixed veggies.
Toss and freeze in plastic bags.
I double recipe and use 1 pound regular mixed vegetables (peas, green beans, corn, limas, carrots) and 1 pound of stir-fry vegetables (asparagus, brocolli, cauliflower, sugar snap peas, bell pepper greater variety, better).
I have smbirds as well as large birds, so I use a heavy knife and chopping board and break frozen veggie pieces into smaller ones before I mix them in.
Brown rice is eaten by pickiest of birds, and if you have trouble getting veggies into bird, you can process frozen vegetables almost to a puree and mix with rice.
If they like rice, they generally will not turn it down because of vegetable flavor.
Carrot and Apple Bake
2 cup chopped carrots
5 apples, cut into slices
2 Tablespoons sugar-free corn meal
4 Tablespoons honey
4 Tablespoons peanut butter
3/4 cup orange juice
Avian Vitamins
Put apples in a 1-quart baking dish and cover them with carrots.
Sprinkle vitamins over apples and carrots.
Drizzle with honey.
Pour orange juice over entire dish and bake at 350 degrees for 40-45 minutes.
Carrot Salad
1/2 cup pine nuts, chopped
1/2 pound carrots cut into chunks
1/2 cup raisins
Avian vitamins
Mix ingredients together.
Sprinkle with vitamins.
This can be stored in refrigerator for further use.
Celery Crunch
Green leafy vegetables
1/4 cup of puffed rice
1/4 cup cornflakes
3-4 tablespoons of honey
1/8 cup minced celery
15 nuts (optional)
Add rice, cornflakes, honey and nuts mix well til moist but not dripping.
Knead into small balls and wrap 2 leaves around mixture leaves are to make introducing fresh vegetables easier.
Suggested green leafy vegetables, Romaine lettuce, kale, spinach leaves.
Cranapple Cookies
3 tablespoons vegetable oil
3 large egg whites
2 cups sugar-free cornbread mix
1-1/2 cups quick cooking oats
1 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 cup apple juice concentrate
1/4 cup cranberry juice
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
2 cups chopped dried apples
1/2 cup enriched bird seed
Beat egg white and oil til frothy.
Add thawed apple juice concentrate and cranberry juice, blending well.
Gradually add sugar-free cornbread mix, oats and baking soda.
Mix til well blended.
Stir in walnuts, dried apples and bird seed.
Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls on to cookie sheet.
Bake for 10 minutes and cool on a wire rack.
Refrigerate in Ziplocs or freeze and thaw as needed.
Cranberry Apple Drops
3T Oil
3 large Egg Whites
2 cup sugar-free cornbread mix
1-1/2 cup quick cooking Oats
1 teaspoon. Baking Soda
3/4 cup Apple Juice Concentrate, thawed
1/4 cup Cranberry Juice Cocktail
1/2 cup chopped Walnuts
2 cup chopped Dried Apples
Preheat oven to 350.
Beat egg white till frothy.
Add juices, blend.
Add sugar-free cornbread mix, oats and baking soda.
Mix til well blended.
Stir in walnuts and dried apples.
Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls onto cookie sheet.
Bake for 10 minutes.
when cool freeze or store in airtight container in fridge.
Dried Apples
3 5 smDelicious apples, cored but unpeeled
3 t.
lemon juice
2 cup water
Cut apples into 1/8″ thick pieces (keep thickness at 1/8″ but you can vary size of piece depending on size of bird).
Combine lemon juice and water.
Pour over mixture over apples.
Stir so sides of slices are well coated.
Drain slices.
Lightly sprinkle millet on both sides of apple slices.
Place apple slices on wire racks that sit on cookie sheets or baking pans (to catch drips.)
Bake at 200 degrees F. for 3 1/2 4 hrs.
Start watching them after about 3 hrs.
You want them leathery, not crispy.
Leaving apples in oven, turn off oven and leave overnight or about 8 hrs.
Store in ziplock bags til needed.
Frooty Fruit Salad
Guava
apple
pear
any fruits of choice
Chop up fruits into palatable pieces excluding seeds of pear and apple.
Toss pieces together and take out what you are going to use, then freeze.
I find that my budgies like guava, apple, and pear recipe best.
Budgies will chow down on a salad of about 1 litre of salad sprinkled with 1 eighth teaspoon of lemon or lime juice.
Frozen Fruit Surprise
1. birds favorite fruits.
2. A blender.
3. An ice cube shaper thing, and a freezer
Okay, so now you take birds favorite fruits, say, banana and apple with a little cranberry.
Take about 1/4 of fruit and put it aside for now.
Put rest in a blender, and blend til smooth.
If it doesn’t smooth out as much as you want, you may even add water.
Put it in ice cube shapers, and drop some small, chopped pieces of fruit you saved into each “cuber”.
Freeze til frozen.
When frozen, take them out and give them to bird, so they can have a frozen fruity treat with some surprise pieces of fruit inside!
Fruit Ambrosia for Birds
2 medium oranges peeled
1 smbanana
20-30 seedless grapes
1 cup strawberries
1 smapple
Wash, scrub and rinse fruit well to remove pesticides and chemical fertilizers.
Cut pieces into sizes appropriate for bird.
Gently mix together.
Sprinkle with some coconut or walnuts.
May be frozen and thawed as needed
Fruit and Nut Bar
2 Large eggs
1/4 cup walnuts
1/4 cup raisins
18 ounce Box corn bread
1/3 cup cranberry juice
1/4 cup applesauce
1/2 cup mixed vegetables, defrosted, and chopped fine
1/2 cup chopped broccoli
Preheat oven to 400*
In a large bowl, stir together, eggs, applesauce, cranberry juice, mixed vegetables and broccoli.
Add corn bread mix a little at a time.
Stir til well combined.
Stir in raisins and walnuts.
Pour batter into well greased 8×8″ pan.
Bake for 20 minutes.
When cool, cut into squares and store in an airtight container in refrigerator.
Fruit and Nut Cake for Birds
2 eggs
1/4 cup chopped walnuts
1/4 cup raisins
18 ounce box cornbread mix
1/3 cup cranberry juice
1/4 cup applesauce
1/2 finely chopped carrots
1/2 cup chopped broccoli
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Stir together eggs, applesauce, cranberry juice and vegetables.Add cornbread mix and stir til well blended.
Stir in raisins and walnuts.
Pour into well greased 8×8″ pan.
Bake 20 minutes.
When cool, cut into squares.
Store in Ziplocs bags in refrigerator or freeze and defrost as needed.
Fruit and Veggie Popsicles
1 apple
1 carrot
1 orange
several grapes
1 tomato
1 green pepper
Any other fruits and veggie bird might eat
Put ingredients on a cutting board and dice them finely (except for orange).
Place ingrdients in a bowl.
Cut orange and squeeze (over bowl) til it is out of juice.
Pack ingredients into a band stick in a wooden popsicle stick.
Wrap with wax paper and put in freezer.
Let it sit for an hour.
Fruit and Veggies Sauce
Baby food with bananas (Bananasauce)
Baby food with apples (Applesauce)
Baby food with potatoes (Potatosauce)
Baby food with carrots (carrotsauce)
Dried and wet fresh fruits and vegetables like bananas, coconut, carrots etc., .(any fruits and veggies that are NOT toxic to birds).
Nuts and seeds (Not toxic to birds)
You can use any of those baby foods listed.
You can combine baby food or just use one.
No cooking involved.
Do not cook.
Put baby food into a bowl and mix it with fruits, veggies, seeds and nuts and it is ready to serve.
Make sure you don’t leave it out for more than an hour because it will spoil (This happens with fresh fruits and veggies and baby food).
Fruit Smoothies
birdies favorite fruit
Dice into small pieces and remove any toxic seeds (apple, pear, cherry pits etc).
Put into blender or food processor and mix til almost liquid but some chunks still remain.
Put mixture into ice cube trays (for smaller birds you can buy smice cube trays) and put into freezer til frozen.
Fruit Smoothies
your birdies favorite fruits, diced/grated
Blend in blender or food processor until nearly liquid.
Pour into ice cube trays and freeze.
Fruit Sorbet
1 cup strawberries
1 apple, peeled, cored and chopped
1 orange, peeled, seeds removed
1 banana, peeled
Put ingredients in a blender or food processor.
Blend til pureed.
Spoon into ice cube trays and freeze.
Serve frozen fruit cubes to bird as a treat.
Fruit Toast
toast
egg biscuits
sunflower seeds
loose millet seeds
banana
Cut up dry toast into tiny pieces.
Crumble up egg biscuits and add a few sunflower or loose millet seeds.
Mash up half a banana and mix together.
You can add any fruit or vegetable to this and it can be served warm if bird prefers.
Fruity Cupcakes
1 -1/2 cups sugar-free cornbread mix
1 teaspoon Baking soda
1 teaspoon Cinnamon
2 Egg whites — whipped
1/2 cup sugar-free juice — packed
1/4 cup Applesauce — room temp
1 teaspoon Vanilla
3/4 cup Apples; peel — chop finely
3/4 cup Cranberries — chopped
Preheat oven at 350 F.
Prepare 12 muffin pans with cooking spray and sugar-free cornbread mix.
In a mixing bowl, combine sugar-free cornbread mix, baking soda, and cinnamon.
In another mixing bowl, combine egg whites, sugar-free juice, applesauce, vanilla, apples, and cranberries.
Mix dry ingredients with wet ingredients just til moistened.
Use an ice cream scoop to fill muffin tins 2/3 full.
Bake 20 to 30 minutes, or til lightly browned.
Yield: 12 servings.
Freeze muffins and defrost as needed.
Fruity Ice
several types of fresh fruits, any combination, diced into pieces.
Puree fruits in blender or food processor til smooth and mixed.
Pour into ice cube trays, and freeze til solid.
Keep frozen, stored in freezer containers or plastic bags.
To serve, remove 1-2 cubes per bird, thaw slightly.
Fruity Ice Smoothie
3 handfuls any type of fruit bird likes(can be a mixture of fruits, my bird likes apples, raspberries, and strawberries)
1 cup fruit juice
Put fruit juice and fruit in a blender and blend completely on high.
Freeze half of mixture in an ice cube tray-put other half in a container and keep in refrigerator.
When first half of mixture is frozen, crush in either a slushy maker or wrap it in a towel and bash it with a rolling pin.
Put crushed portion into a dish or cub, and add refrigerated portion.
Mix and serve to bird!!!
Fruity Summer Treat
Fruit juice
Apples
Mango
Pear
Carrot
Freeze fruit juice.
In mean time, cut fruits into smpieces.
Take out fruit juice when it is 70% frozen.
Put fruits into juice.
(There should be more fruits than juice).
Serve.
Grains, Pasta, and Veggie Mix
1 cup several different grains.
Cook separately so there will be many flavors.
1 cup cooked pasta (orzo) roughly chop several hot peppers into cooking water.
1 cup brown rice cook with 1 tablespoon of cinnamon.
1-2 chopped onions boil a couple of minutes drain
Add several of following:
broccoli steamed lightly and chopped
small bag of frozen sweet peas don’t thaw
small bag frozen sweet corn don’t thaw
toasted sunflower kernels
chopped nuts
dried cranberries, blueberries, cherries
mango, papaya or other dried fruits chopped
variety of beans cooked separately, seasoned with a head of garlic chopped or a handful of green or red hot peppers roughly chopped
Package into baggies in 3 day portions, about maximum time it is safe in refrigerator.
Remaining baggies can be stored frozen for an indefinite period.
Hawaiian Sweet Potato Polenta
sweet potatoe
1 cup pineapple-orange juice
2 cups water
1 cup corn meal
? cup tabouleh (cracked bulgar wheat ? optional)
Bake, boil or microwave an 8 ounce
sweet potato; cool enough to handle, peel and mash, but don’t puree.
Bring to a rapid boil pineapple-orange juice and water.
While stirring, gradually pour in corn meal.
Reduce heat to low and stir til it thickens.
Remove from heat and stir in tabouleh) and sweet potato.
Mix thoroughly.
Pour into glass baking dish (9″ Pyrex pie plate) and refrigerate til set firm.
Cut into squares and freeze.
Honey Fruit Treats
1 cup seed mixture or millet seeds
1-1/2 cups natural pellets
(Small or large depending on bird)
Seeds and pellets are optional use one, other, or both.
1/2 cup dried cranberries
1/4 cup shredded coconut
2 tablespoons walnuts
chopped for size of bird
*1 tablespoon almonds
honey as needed
sugar-free cornbread mix as needed
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Combine seeds and pellets in a medium bowl.
Chop cranberries, coconut and walnuts in food processor for smto medium pieces.
Add fruit and nut mixture to seeds and combine in a larger bowl.
Add honey, 1 tablespoon and increase by 1 teaspoon til firm.
Sprinkle 1 tablespoon sugar-free cornbread mix on mixture and.
knead, adding more sugar-free cornbread mix as needed.
Roll out flat on lightly greased cookie sheet or put in muffin tins.
Bake five minutes.
Cool til room temperature.
Serve with fresh fruit and veggies for a lovely birdie meal! May be frozen and defrosted as needed.
Juicy Fruit
1/2 cantaloupe
1 bunch seedless grapes
1 large orange
Cut cantaloupe into pieces birds can handle.
Peel orange and cut into pieces.
Mix together with grapes.
This mixture can be frozen in bags and served daily.
Multi-Salad
spinach
pasta (spaghetti or macaroni type)
rice
coriander
Any and every kind of fruit bird likes
dill
frozen corn (boil 2 minutes)
Frozen Peas (boil 2 minutes)
mushrooms
celery
carrots
broccoli
beans (soaked over night)
anything else that seems healthy for birds!
Slice above to thin, smpieces (you can also use a food processor to cut these pieces).
Then boil rice, pasta, beans, peas and corn for a few minutes.
Let these cool and add to salad.
Nutriberries
1 cup dried fruits of choice
2 tablespoon Coconut
1/2 cup Old fashioned Oatmeal, uncooked
1/4 cup any seed mix of choice
1/4 cup pellets of choice
2-3 Tablespoon creamy peanut butter
2 lge. tablespoon honey or Molasses
Blend or put in food processor 1st 3 ingredients and blend well.
Add rest of ingredients—it will be sticky.
Roll into various size balls of preference…and uses wet hands, it makes it easier to roll balls together.
Bake at 325 degrees for 15-20 min.
depending on oven.
Check at sooner time to make sure they do not brown, just set.
put them on parchment paper on cookie sheets instead of greasing them.
Cool and put in airtight jars.
Papaya Crunch
1 cup dried papaya pieces
1 cup uncooked oats
2 tablespoon honey
Place above items in food processor til you have coarse pea-sized crumbs.
Mix enough of favorite seed mix, dried fruits, nuts, etc., to make it stick together.
Flatten mixture onto a cookie sheet.
Bake on 200 for 1 1/2 hours.
Cut into squares (serving size) and loosen from pan.
Cool then seal in a ziploc bag.
These treats get hard and crunchy and my tiels like them MORE than store bought cruchy treats.
Parrot Stew
1 corn cob, slice niblets off
1 cup water
1/2 cup 15 bean soup (no seasoning)
1/2 cup mixed veggies
1/2 cup tri-colored pasta
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
10 spinach tortellini
10-15 dried cherry peppers
2 carrots, diced
3 tablespoon barley
Mix all ingredients.
Simmer in pan until liquid almost gone.
Peanut Apple Bombs
3 tablespoon peanut butter
4 tablespoon oats OR
birds favorite seeds
Raisins
Dried apricots
1 apple
Spread oats or seeds on a smplate and mix with raisins and apricots.
Peel and core apple.
Cut 1 slice then chop apple.
Mix chopped apples with oats/seeds.
Mix in peanut butter well then shape into a ball.
Put apple slice in center then sprinkle with more oats/seeds till not sticky.
Seed-Banana
1/4 to 1/2 banana
bird’s favourite seeds
(optional) any fruits/veggies.
1.cut 1/4 to 1/2 banana.
2.cover banana with seeds(it doesn’t matter if it doesn’t stick on banana, as long as there’s some seed on it then it’s ok).
3.(optional)add different pieces of fruits/veggies.
Spinach Salad
fresh spinach, rinsed and dry well
bird seed
14 cup honey
!4 cup plain or vanilla yogurt
fresh fruit or veggies
nuts
Chop spinach, fruit, veggies and nuts very finely and put into a bowl.
Next add hunny, yogart, and seeds.
Then mix ingrediants together and bake at 500 degrees F for 15 min.
Finally take out and enjoy!
Strawberry Ice Cream
1 cup strawberry puree
1 pouch Gelatine
1/4 cup water
Pour 1 pouch gelatine over puree.
Add 1/4 cup boiling water and stir constantly til completely dissolved.
Pour into ice cube container and put in frig til set.
Serve…..
Sweet Potato Puffs
sweet potato
1/3 ripe banana
jar of baby fruit
jar of baby vegetable
1 cup frozen peas or corn
1/3 cup of natural peanut butter
cinnamon
grape nuts cereal
Cook one large sweet potato in microwave on high for 8 to 10 minutes or til very soft.
Split skin, and scoop out flesh.
Mash it up well in a large bowl.
Add very soft, ripe banana, being sure not to use any part of banana that has brown spots.
Add jar of any baby fruit and jar of any baby vegetable.
Add frozen peas or corn.
Add natural peanut butter.
Add a little cinnamon.
Mix it up well.
It will be a sticky mess at this point, but it will roll up into balls, or you can also use an ice cream scoop.
Pour out some Grape Nuts cereal onto waxed paper, then roll each bin cereal til it is well covered.
Put them into a container and then into freezer.
put three at a time in microwave, set it on defrost for about 45 seconds to one minute.
Be sure that they are warm clear through, as swee
Tango Mango Fruit
1/2 cup fruit
1/2 cup on another fruit
1/2 cup of a 3rd fruit
Put three fruits in a blender or food processer.
Mix til it’s soft.
Drain mixture til you have of chunks of fruit out.
Tropical Fruit Dish
1 slice kiwi
1 cut cube watermelon
1 sliced grapes
? egg hard-boiled egg
? egg shell
Mix ingredients (look at chart below) except egg shell together in a food bowl.
Chop egg shell very finely with a fork.
Sprinkle egg shell on top of fruit mix.
Veggie and Egg Mix
1 large egg
2 tablespoon low fat ricotta cheese
1/2-1 cup bean mix (cooked up previously, mix of beans, rice, pasta, etc)
1/2 cup of some or of following: diced fresh zucchini, diced yellow squash, diced turnip, diced parsnip, cooked sweet potato, chopped spinach, fresh corn, chopped green pepper.
also, in season, a whole jalapeno pepper, chopped.
if lacking fresh veggies, use frozen corn, lima beans, peas, etc.
if we have leftover pasta, that goes in, too, and finally one large clove garlic, chopped.
Mix in a bowl, then spread on a large plate, covered, and microwave for 7-8 minutes (8 if using frozen veggies).
egg holds it together.
Then I usually grate a LITTLE Monterey Jack Cheese on it, and serve (smaller guys get 1 to 1 1/2 tbs.)
Veggie Couscous
1 2/3 cup water
1 cup cous-cous
1 medium tomato (or a handful of cherry/grape tomatoes)
1 smonion (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 cob)
2 cloves garlic
1 1/2 teaspoon pepper
1 1/2 teaspoon basil, oregano, or Italian seasoning
1 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper
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 olive oil, if necessary).
When cous-cous has soaked up water, combine with veggies, stir, and serve to feathered friend according to size.
Freezes well and may be served hot or cold.
Veggie Macaroni
macaroni
mixed veggies
Cook any macaroni shapes 3 sm(dixie bathroom size) cups.
While cooking, add 2 “cups” frozen mixed vegetables.
Cook til done, drain, add 1/4 teaspoon margarine and a few shakes of parmesan cheese.
Let cool.
change macaroni shapes often.
Refrigerate leftovers for next meal.
Warm Veggie Food
1/2 cup split peas
1/2 cup lentils
1/2 cup long grain brown rice
1 package (16 oz) shoepeg corn
Boil these ingredients covered for 20 minutes, drain thoroughly.
Add 1/2 to 3/4 cups couscous, stir in and let sit covered 20 minutes.
This will cook couscous.
This is a crumbly mixture and good for birds who love their warm meal.
you can double it when you make it, then freeze it into portions of enough for about 3 or 4 days of feeding.
warm it in microwave, one portion at a time.
Budgie Hand-Feeding Recipes
Here are 7 great hand-feeding recipes for budgies. Do you have a great hand-feeding recipe that your baby budgies loved? Please post it below and we will add it to this list!
Apricot Pellet Baby Mix
1/8 cup pellets
1 tablespoon Gerber apricot baby food
Chop pellets in coffee grinder.
Mix with warm water.
Baby Formula
1 cup powdered sugar-free fruit juice
1 cup quick-cooking oatmeal (not “instant”)
1 tablespoon corn oil
1/2 cup raw wheat germ
2 cups sunflower meal (or raw hulled sunflowers kernels, grinded in blender)
2 slices very dry whole wheat bread
5 cups water
Mix oatmeal, corn oil, wheat germ and water.
Cook on stove for 5 minutes.
Remove from stove.
Add one 4 1/2 ounce jar of baby veggies (peas, carrots, spinach)
Grind sunflower meal/kernels and bread in blender.
Mix all ingredients together.
Formula Mix
2 parts Roudybush hand feeding formula
3 parts Exact hand feeding formula
1 part Gerber baby food
water to desired consistency
Mix ingredients.
Hand-Feeding Forumla
1 cup all natural apple sauce
1 quart All natural apple juice
1/2 tube Nutrical (high calorie supplement for cats and dogs)
2 jars each of Gerber baby food (spinach, garden vegetable, carrots, sweet potatoes, squash, green beans)
3 tablespoons Jif low sodium peanut butter
4 cups Kaytee Handfeeding formula
4 cups Water
Mix Kaytee formula, water, juice, applesauce, babyfood.
Stir until powder completely blended.
Add peanut butter and Nutrical.
Microwave on high for 8 minutes.
Stir then microwave again for 8 minutes.
Stir then microwave again for 8 minutes.
Divide in to 1 cup servings and freeze in containers.
Thaw: microwave 4 minutes, stir, heat 25 seconds or until warm.
Food will last in refrigerator for 2 days.
Nestling/Rearing Food
1 cup dry Kaytee hand rearing food
4 cups Gerber mixed baby cereal
powdered bird vitamins/per directions
Store in airtight container.
When ready to use:
Finely shred 1 cup of hard boiled egg.
Mix 1/2 cup of ingredients with 1 cup egg.
Oatmeal Mix
1 hardboiled egg (no shell)
1 jar Gerber mixed vegetables
1 part instant oatmeal
1 part monkey chow
1/2 banana
avian vitamins
water for desired consistency
Mix ingredients in blender.
Store in refrigerator.
Veggie Peanut Butter Forumla
1 jar Gerber vegetables
1 tablespoon peanut butter
1/4 cup Gerber high protein cereal
1/4 cup monkey chow
water for desired consistency
Mix ingredients in blender.
Store in refrigerator.
