Hegehog! ...Online! - Hedge Diet Info

I do all my hedgie food shopping through www.pawprintonline.com, and I love it. I get the hedgie value pack, and in that is: Select Diet, Zoo Fare, and pretty pets, along with chicken treats and freeze dried crickets (all this for under $30!!!).
When I get the order, I mix together 2 cups of Select diet, 1 cup of zoo fare and 1 cup of pretty pets in a ziplock bag, date it, and put it in the freezer. One order makes about 5 ziplocks, and I double up on the zip lock to avoid frost-bite. The Zoo fare and select diet are slightly soft, and get softer with age and exposure to air, but pretty pets is pretty hard. The chicken treats are hard also, but they gobble them right up.
I also feed baby food, but unfortunetly, it can go bad quickly... until someone gave some great advice! When I get baby food, I line a pan with wax paper and put dollops of baby food on the tray. I can do up to 3 jars at a time. I place the pan in the freezer for a few hours, then I remove the frozen dollops and place them in seperate zip locks with the lable saying what flavor and the date. This way the baby food lasts so long, and all I have to do it let it thaw a few hours before giving it to the kids.
I also use apples, mealworms, cooked chicken, eggs, carrots, peas and corn.
*CaliKat09 from Chins-n-Quills > 2 hedgies*

By no means am I an expert on this subject, but I will tell you what I have been doing since I got my little girl.
In the morning, I give her Ultra Blend Select Hedgehog food. I also hide a couple of pieces in her cage as well. In the evening, I give her some sort of quick type mash. Since Urchin is new to me, I'm still trying to figure out her likes and dislikes. All the mashes start with the dry hedgie food soaked in either chicken or beef broth (to get them soggy). Them I'll add things like baby food, low-fat cottage cheese, eggs, baby food meat sticks, chicken, applesause, grapes, and sometimes beef. (I don't use all of these at once. Like I said, I'm still experimenting.) I usually make enough to put into a small baby food jar. It is enough for a couple of days.
For treats, I use mealies. I have not gotten into crickets yet, but I'm thinking about doing so.
*Urchin from Chins-n-Quills > 1 hedgie*

I use a fairly unconventional method for treatin my hedgies right , I take a single short carrot and slice it very thinly then plop it in their cage. Then they pick them up and shove them around in their quills It's the strangest thing, after say 5 minutes they usually pull them out and eat them...

Tip for storing baby food or other pasty stuff (tomato paste!) glob it into a ice cube tray them freeze it, then you have easy to use pre-measured cubes!
*Uthren from Chins-n-Quills > 2 hedgies*

I give Straws 8 in 1 Advanced Nutrition Diet, along with graduates meat sticks, mashed up veggies (carrots and peas mostly), eggs, grilled or baked chicken, lean hamburger, whole veggies (depends on what is in the house), 8 in 1 treats, yogurt drops, and the tiny pieces of vitakraft mixed with mashed banana altogether; but I only use a comination of three in one night and I always include 8 in 1 AND.
*Christina from Hedgehog! ...Online! & Chins-n-Quills > 2 hedgies*

I feed my girls boiled chicken(with a little garlic salt), cheese(I buy the pre-shredded cheddar, keep in the freezer, then pull a few pieces out at a time-thaws in seconds), par-boiled pasta(thick noodles), rice, corn, green beans, and baby food. I also take the water from the boiled chicken, reduce it down and thicken it. It makes a great gravy to go over their crunchy kibble. I know-my girls are spoiled rotten-I will try just about anything.
*meihee from Chins-n-Quills > 2 hedgies*

I feed Iggy pretty pets food. He doesn't seem to like much else. He'll eat little pieces of cooked chicken (only plain, not with anything on it) some baby food and some cheese. His favorite is bacon, which makes him annoint, but I don't want to give it to him too often, I'm sure it's not good for him. I'll keep trying new things, but so far he's a picky eater.
*Klitzig from Chins-n-Quills > 1 hedgie*

Nutmeg gets a mix of Zoofare (soft) and 8-in-1 (hard). She will never eat chicken, no matter how plain or flavorful it is. He favorite treat, and a rare one at that, is steak. She simply inhales the stuff. She's only been with me for about 2 wks now so we are still experimenting, but she seems to like what I give her now. And I was amazed because when I got her she had been catfood and until my food came in the mail she continued to have a mix of catfood and "vitacrap" which I had to tediously pick through. She had no problems what-so-ever switching over to the Zoofare and 8-in-1!!!
*Kinkajou4 from Chins-n-Quills > 1 hedgie*