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Seed & Honey Stuffers

A super simple and versatile home-made treat for all parrots! It is also a perfect recipe to sneak in those vitamins!

Ingredients:

  • 4 tbsp seeds or seed mix
  • 2 tbsp small pellets (finch or parakeet size work best)
  • 2 tbsp wheat flour
  • 2 tbsp water
  • 2 tsp honey
  • add additional vitamins according to individual directions
  • *You will need some pasta shells to fill, but if you don’t have any, you can roll the dough into balls, or disks with holes to string them on toys!

    • Directions:

    1. Preheat your oven to 350′ F.

    2. In a small mixing bowl, combine all ingredients: seeds, pellets, flour, water, honey, and vitamins. If the dough is too dry, add small amounts of water.

    3. Grab a handful of uncooked pasta shells to fill- mezzi riggitoni and medium shells work well!

    4. After mixing the dough thoroughly, put it into a ziplock bag, and cut the corner off a bottom end so you can pipe the dough into the pasta pieces, or into shapes on a parchment-lined baking pan.

    Alternate: Roll the dough into balls about the size of a dime or penny. If you want treats to hang, flatten the balls into disks and use a straw to punch holes into the center.

    5. Bake items for 10 minutes, cool, and serve!

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    Macaw-roni Salad

    Ingredients:

  • 1/4 cup garbanzo beans
  • 1 cup dry pasta*
  • 1 sm crown of broccoli
  • 1/2 carrot
  • 1 stalk of celery
  • 5 grape tomatoes

    • Directions:

    1. Open a can of garbanzo beans. Drain and wash under running water.
    2. Bring a pot of water to a boil. Add 1/4 cup of garbanzo beans and 1 cup dry pasta. Cook as long as indicated on pasta package, then drain and put into a mixing bowl. Place in refrigerator to chill.
    3. Wash broccoli well and cut into small chunks. Include the nutritious stem pieces as well!
    4. Wash the carrot well and grate into shreds.
    5. Wash and peel the celery. Cut into medium pieces.
    6. Wash tomatoes well, and cut into halves, and each half into halves or quarters. Never feed tomato stems or leaves to your birds.
    7. Remove the chilled bowl with the beans and pasta from the refrigerator. Add the rest of the ingredients. Mix well and serve.

    * For small parrots like parakeets to conures, try small pasta shapes like stars, alphabets, or small shells and elbows. For conures to macaws, use spirals or large shells and elbows.

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    Healthy Parrot Pasta

    This is a fast, easy recipe that has a lot of color, flavor, and different textures to encourage birds to eat healthy.

    It is also very flexible; the ratios of beans to vegetables to pasta can be changed to accommodate individual tastes. Pictured below is equal parts beans to vegetables and a third part pasta. Keep in mind, 2-3 cans of beans will make a very large batch, but is only recommended to add more variety to the mix. One can of a single type of bean is great too.

      Ingredients

    •1-3 cans of various beans (red kidney, garbanzo, white cannellini, black beans, pinto beans, black eyed peas)
    •1 bag frozen vegetable mix (may include corn, carrot, peas, green beans, lima beans, bell peppers, and more)
    •Pasta of choice (wheat pasta or vegetable pastas are great for this recipe)
    •Tomato marinara optional

      Directions

    1. Begin by bringing a pot of water to a boil. (One large enough to accommodate all ingredients.)

    2. Add in dry pasta, it will require the longest cooking time. Usually 9-13 minutes depending on the type.

    3. Measure the frozen vegetable mix into a strainer and briefly run hot water over it before adding it into the boiling pasta to keep the cooking time minimal. The frozen vegetables usually require 6-8 minutes to be fully soft.

    4. Open the beans and pour them into a strainer and thoroughly rinse them. Add them to the cooking pasta and vegetables. They will only need about 3-5 minutes of boiling, enough to heat them up as canned beans are already fully cooked.

    5. Added in this order, everything should be done by the time the pasta has completely cooked. Strain the cooked mixture, let cool, and serve! Freeze leftovers for an easy, quick treat later that takes only a minute or two to re-warm.

    Optional: Place the cooled serving into a sealable container. Add a 1-2 teaspoons of tomato marinara and close the lid tightly. Shake for a light, even coating of marinara over the whole mixture. Sometime this can encourage picky eaters to eat their vegetables.