I need a new winter food

[felisdomesticus]

to feed the redhead.

She is getting rice/beans, sprouts, cranberries, kiwi, extra firm tofu, hardboiled eggs, and whatever else is in the fridge.

I'm bored with what I'm feeding her so I'm sure she's bored too!

I feed her all sorts of greens, veggies in season, etc. I just need something new to offer.

Any ideas?

[rio]

seeds

[TooLover]

This redhead (myself) loves to eat in the winter! LOL
No suggestions, just thought I would chime in and be a smartie pants!
I didn't know that birds ate tofu...

[cfulhage]

I don't quite know what you mean by "winter food" (i'm not very chef savvy), but Ollie LOVES pomegranate. I think she would eat it until she exploded if I'd let her...

[felisdomesticus]

Originally Posted by cfulhage

I don't quite know what you mean by "winter food" (i'm not very chef savvy), but Ollie LOVES pomegranate. I think she would eat it until she exploded if I'd let her...

Yes she loves it too. I got the loudest "hello!!!" while walking past her room thi safternoon. I gave her a fresh slice of pomegranate after not buying it for probably over a month due to price and poor quality. We paid a lot for them today but Scarlett made it clear she appreciated it!

I guess I'm just looking for something new and off the beaten path.

[cfulhage]

Hmm, I don't know...I guess Ollie gets pretty boring food too- repetitious (is that a word??) anyways. Let's see...Ollie loves sweet potato, pumpkin, canteloupe, celery with peanut butter, oatmeal, squash, tomato, cilantro...those are a few you didn't mention...

Sorry I'm not much help!

[The Outlaw]

How about adapting some cookie recipes for birds and cutting the dough out with cookie cutters. It might be a fun project. You could add strained carrots, pumpkin or sweet potatoes for the orange cookies, strained spinach for the green ones and cranberries or pomegranites for the red ones. You could also make some with applesauce or maybe bananas. I think it would be pretty darn easy to do. In fact, I might play around with this tomorrow.

You could even bake a "fruit cake" using nuts and berries instead of the candied crappola. Maybe some dried apricots, apples, soaked and drained raisins, walnuts or almonds, and a little ginger and cinammon. Replace the liquids with apple juice and the reduce the oil by 1/2 and substitute mashed bananas instead. Make sure to leave the eggshells in there too. You are only limited by your imagination. Might make fun gifts for bird buddies, too.

[Freedomoflight]

I posted a bird safe carrot cake on here that might be worth a go....
what about mixing up a batch of birdie bread,buying some yams, pomegrantes, pinapple, strawberries, mango, papaya......
what about getting a bag of dried mixed fruit and letting her go at it? I do it for my fids, and throw in a couple pieces a couple times a week when I am in a hurry- they love it. I also hunt down trail mixes that are chocolate free, and then maybe add some cheerios, chex, etc and put a little in their food bowl once or twice a week. They go nuts. I always try to have 3 different bird treats in the freezer to heat up, even if its two different flavors of bird muffins and one different type of treat- gives the fids variety.

[Alika]

I once added wet parrot pellets (soaked) to cornbread muffin mix and baked them up in a muffin tin with cupcake papers. Once they cooled, I frosted them with peanut butter and dusted them with a seed mix.

We did this for Cami's birthday, and the birds all loved it! You could get really creative and add grated carrot, corn kernals, and other veggies to it.

I have to warn you, though... it kind of made the house smell funky :)