Favorite Foods.

[bekfreak]

Just building up my fiances before actually getting my TAG. I'm excited and can't wait for that day to come. So what's the popular ediables for everyone's Greys? My tiel had a thing for pasta and it had to have tomato gravy on it. No white sause, no plain pasta...it needed the gravy. Potatoes, sweet, baked, boiled, or mashed were another. I sware he must of been a hawk in one past life...He seemed to enjoy chicken too. I think he was a pasta-protineaholic. I never gave him beef. A little salmon, turkey, and when we had it pork.

Also are some of the soy 'dairy' type products safe for birds for the calcium intake? Yogart and the cheeses more so than the milk. I've considered trying them for myself. Us girls need those strong bones when we get older too. :) I may have to get those Morningstar garden burgers, but they may have too much sodium in'em. I haven't bought those in awhile, so I'll check the food store next time i'm in it.

[greyburd]

You just got "For The Love of Greys", there's an excellent section dedicated to foods. Bobbi breaks it down into what's good for proteins and calcium as well as vitamin A, which is important.

Spencer really enjoys scrambled eggs or oatmeal for breakfast. When he has oatmeal, that's usually all he'll eat. But, when I serve him eggs, I mix in fruit (apples, oranges, black berries or raspberries). For dinner, he gets "Lissa's Kitchen Sink rice and bean mix" (look it up in the recipe section). He also gets Sweet Potatoes, yellow squash, red peppers, jalopeno peppers, mixed veggies, brown rice &/or broccoli. TAGs generally eat anything, especially if you start them out on lots of different foods right off. Until recently, there was more food in my house for Spencer than there was for me. Can you imagine when I got 2?

[bekfreak]

I just gave my tiel what we had for dinner. I eat fairly healthy lots of veggies, and I would from time to time give him the naughty snack foods. Almonds were a good treat, and the poor guy gave one one heck of a bite. Gigi got his beak stuck in it, and got a cheerio looped in there too. The little guy liked the peppers from the chili I had brought home from lunch and the chili bean too. I wonder if though he got too much protine in his diet after reading that bit...Eh then I figure these guys aren't gonna be too picky in the wild if they find a tasty spider or three to munch on. He had a good eye on finding spider eggs and had a taste for the tiny guys.

I was reading that too. I have sweat potatoes in the house alot, and of course my office is next door to a food store. It doesn't have many organic veggies or fruits. It's an old blue collar neighborhood, but I can find some good stuff there. Most of the high calcium and A food stuffs listed I eat regularly myself. I still need to give cuscus a shot. I don't use salt in my pasta, and put olive oil in the water instead. No onions or mushrooms in the gravy either.