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When making your birdie bread use jars of baby food vegetables. I like to use the mixed vegetable or garden medley along with squash or sweet potato (I also grate some veggies to add in but many do like to pick them out as well, LOL!). This makes a good source of vitamin A and other vitamins. I believe they are the "1st step or 2nd step" ones. They are pureed with added water and shouldn't have any added sugars or salts. When you mix them into the bread there is nothing for your birdie to pick out and any bite of bread he eats will be full of veggies.
We have had really good luck with the seven layer birdie salad and with the kitchen sink recipe listed on here before. After they get used to eating them it is a lot easier to get them to try more.
Except to keep trying offering fresh veggies in all different shapes, sizes, mixtures etc there aren't a lot of ways to get them to eat the veggies if they don't want them. Some seem to like large pieces of veggies on a skewer. Others like them almost pureed. Some like them grated in salads and some like them just diced on a dish. It seems like the budgies and lovebirds are the hardest to get to eat something new or "fresh" but their are picky birds in any species.
Lastly if you really can't get them to try the veggies any other way, take away their pellets/seeds etc for a couple hours a day only offering the veggies at that time and usually (not always) after a few days of this they will start checking out the other foods.
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