Bean/Grain/Pasta Mix

2 cups unpopped popcorn

1 cup 15 (or 16) bean soup mix

1/2 cup lentils(mixture of yellow,orange & green)

1/2 ming beans (small green color bean)

1/2 cup soy beans

1/2 cup azuki beans (small redish color bean)

1 can of chopped green chili peppers (can also add dryed red

peppers or flake peppers)

1 tab cayenne pepper

1/2 cup brown rice (or any rice other than white),rye

berries

pearl barley, or mixed rice and barley, etc.

1/2 cup pasta of your birds choice (I use the organic Orzo

or small elbow macroni in different colors.)

1 cup diced fresh carrots

1 package of frozen peas

1 package of frozen corn

2 sweet potatoes or yams , baked & mashed

Soak popcorn two days, and beans and peas for one day,

changing the soak water every eight hours.

Cook popcorn for one hour in LOTS of water in a big covered

pot.

Add beans and peas,chopped green chili peppers, & cayenne

pepper cook for 15 minutes.

Add rice/barley, cook for ten minutes

Add pasta and carrots, cook for five minutes.

Drain,then add a package of frozen peas and a bag of frozen

corn.

Add cooked mashed sweet potato

cool, bag (I put in 10 ice cube trays,freeze then put in zip

loc bags in freezer.

Everything stays sort of semi-hard.

To serve:

I heat 3 cubes in the microwave for 120 seconds. Mix in 1/4

cup of Harrison's Adult Lifetime fine grin pellets.Then add

2 Tab. babyfood

sweetpotatoes, squash, or carrots (for vit. A) and divide

between my 5 fids.

My favorite store is Whole Foods. I just love the bins of

different beans, grains,etc.

Bonnie Bruhn

BEANS…18 mix

1 Box Manischewitz 18 Bean Soup mix

Follow instructions on box, but use 3 c. water instead of seven, celery seed

instead of celery, and Cayenne Pepper or Chili Pepper instead of the salt

and pepper. -- Esther

BIRDIE BISCOTTI

1 cup ground bird pellets

1/2 cup corn meal

1/2 cup whole wheat flour

1 cup ground almonds, or your birds favorite nuts (even if they don't

like nuts)

Mix together.

Add

2 T. flax seeds

4 eggs

2Tbsp of powedered eggshells

1 jar of babyfood carrots

enough unsweetened fruit juice or vegie juice to mix into firm dough

Roll into small balls, 3/4" in diameter

place on lightly greased cookie sheet and bake at 325 for 20-30 mins.

makes about 90-100 balls, that can be frozen. ***again, ice cube trays

work great, then bag***

Keep refigeratored.

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Sue S.,

Boiled Popcorn Recipe (microwave)

Measure 2 cups of yellow unpopped popcorn in a tall glass bowl. Cover

popcorn over with water. Cover with saran wrap, vented. Microwave on high

for 30 minutes making sure the popcorn does not run dry of water. Then

seal tight and let it stand 30 minutes. Then vent it, add more water to

cover popcorn and microwave again 30 minutes. Then seal again and let it

stand 30 minutes more. Then test it with your fingernail, you should be

able to push your nail easily into the kernel. If not, repeat another

round of cooking. When cooled, serve to parrots.

Refrigerate or freeze unused portions.

Linda M

BUTTERNUT SQUASH

This is quick and easy and all the birds love it.

Cut a butternut squash in half and nuke until soft. Scoop out insides and

mix squash, squash seeds, chopped apples, raisins, and soy sausage. (I'm a

vegetarian, but I'm sure you could use something else) Put back in shell and

microwave about five minutes. Cool, slice, and serve.

Judy C

Cheese and Toasted Tortillas

In a skillet wiped on the bottom with olive oil, place flour tortilla. On

top place some pepper jack cheese, a thin slice, and top with another

flour tortilla. Heat until bottom tortilla gets a little crispy, then

turn it over and cook until the top torilla is crispy also. Remove from

heat, cut into pie shaped pieces and serve. Birds love this and I serve

them for the humans with bland things like tomato soup or scrambled eggs.

Linda M

Chili Rice with Vegetables

(for humans and birds)

One bag Success Rice boil n bag cooked

One package chili seasoning

About a cup and a half of Frozen vegetables, corn, peas, and bell

peppers

(pick out the onions and toss them)

Combine all three ingredients and blend. Put in the microwave 10

minutes covered with saran wrap vented. (heat until vegetables are

thawed and the chili flavor is blended.)

CORN PUDDING

Mix some finely ground corn meal in water, and microwave approx 1-2

minutes, until it is pudding like.

You can add peices of corn, and/or other vegies to it. You could also

add pumpkin puree, apple sauce or baby foods/fruits.

Leftovers can be frozen.

*hint*

I freeze in my ice cube trays (sprayed with a hint of pam) and remove to

a bag once frozen.

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Sue S

DALLAS FAVORITE HOMEMADE APPLE SAUCE

I made this up last Fall when apples started coming in so delicious to the

store.

Peel and cut into wedges about 4 large eating apples (red delicious,

jonathan, macantosh, etc.) Then put in a tall microwave safe bowl. Cover

completely with water. Cover the dish with saran wrap and vent the wrap.

Cook 17 minutes on high in the microwave and then seal the bowl tightly

with saran wrap and let stand 10 minutes on the counter.

Remove wrap and pour off the water, reserving some. With a mixer or

potato masher, smash the cooked apples. Add a dash of cinnamon. Stir.

If the mixture is too thick, thin with the reserved water. Heat in the

microwave on high about 3 minutes and serve warm, but not hot, to the

birds. (And you will like this too!)

Linda M

 EGG/VEGIE MIX

1 Large Egg - raw

2 T low fat Ricotta Cheese

1/2 - 1 cup Cooked beans, or rice, or pasta, or mix of the 3

3 1/2 cups of your birds favorite vegetables such as

fresh diced zucchini, yellow squash, turnips, sweet potatoes,

spinach, corn, and green peppers

OR use the frozen vegetables

1 whole jalapeno pepper, optional

1 large garlic clove finely chopped

Mix up all in a bowl, and spread on a large microwave safe plate. Cook

7-8 minutes (based on your microwave) The egg will hold everything

together.

You can grate Monterey Jack or Cheddar cheese over the top while warm.

Cut into servings.

Leftovers can be frozen.

Sue S.

FILLED WAFFLES

Using any sticky foods like Oatmeal, thick Cream of Wheat, rice/veggie

mixtures, sweet potatoes. white potatoes etc, use a knife to spread the

mixture into the holes in a frozen waffle on both sides. Freeze again.

Cut up into squares while frozen. Thaw before serving. Note: You can

also fill with peanutbutter mixed with seeds and eliminate the freezing

part.

From cHerYL :),

Fresh Cranberry Relish

chopped cranberries

chopped nuts

chopped celery

chopped oranges

chopped raisins

Stir all together and add a dash of lemon juice.

. I use mandarin canned oranges in mine. Enjoy. Dallas

loves this! Just use whatever proportions you like, and omit any

ingredient you don't like. <vbg>

Linda M

HILDYS VEGIE FRITTERS

Very thin pancakes

Two eggs; 1/2 cup of milk; 1/2 cup of all purpose flour; Olive Oil; a

dash of salt and 3/4 cup nuked fresh, frozen mixed veggies (the small

pieces as seen in picture below). Place a package of the frozen veggies

into a microwavable dish with 1/4 cup of water and nuke on full strength

for about 7 minutes. My fids like the fritters better if the veggies are

pre cooked. ~~ Beat the eggs and the milk slightly, then add the salt

and flour and whisk till all lumps are dissolved then fold in the nuked

veggies. (should be thin mix)

In a ten inch skillet heat a tiny bit of olive oil, place a 1/2

cup ladel full of this batter in the pan and cover for a few minutes.

When there are bubbles in the batter and the underside is brown, turn

the fritter over and fry a minute or so till golden brown.

You can substitute the veggies with just corn

niblets.(I use Green Giant). If you soften some thin apple slices in a

saute pan with a little butter and then fold them into this batter, they

would be a hit with every body. There are endless variations to this

batter. The plain pancakes are great too and we use them instead of

noodles. Some restaurants in Germany even hang them up after they cut

them like noodles and serve them in soups. I have been at places where

these dry pancake sticks are literally in a tall glass as a center piece

on the tables. The difference is that the plain batter usually is fried

with sweet butter and you can taste the difference in the soups etc.

Your fids would love to hold one of these dried pancake sticks to munch

on.

Home Made Nutriberries

1 cup of dried fruit

2 tablespoon of coconut

1/2 cup of uncooked oatmeal

1/2 cup of raisins

1/4 cup of seeds and /or crushed nuts

2 Tablespoons of peanut butter

1 Tablespoon of honey or molasses

I blend all the dry ingredients in a food processor until chopped finely.

Place mixture into a bowl , add peanut butter and honey or molasses. Mix

very well and the mixture is sticky. Roll mixture into small 1/2 ball and

placeon a cookie sheet. Bake at 325 for about 20 minutes. Cool and serve.

They are very good and my kids even like them. If you use molasses they

are very dark in color but taste great.

I spent $7.00 at the health food store on all the ingredients. I did the

recipe by four and ended up with over ninety large size balls.

'Kitchen Sink Fritatta'

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.

In a very lightly greased baking dish put some cooked rice and

assortment of veggies (I use frozen mixed veggies, thawed) add some

shredded sweet potato. Top this with 6 to 8 whole eggs, whipped in the

blender with the shells. (Shells can be left out) Pour the eggs over

the rice/veggies mixture, mix to distribute the eggs and the

rice/veggies evenly. Bake in a 350 degree oven until the eggs are set

and golden brown. Make sure the eggs are completely cooked. You can

substitute just about anything for anything in this recipe except the

eggs. I have made it with pasta instead of rice, you can add cooked

beans, left over baked potato is good in it too. My bird love this

one.

 Kim E

SWEET POTATOE BALLS

1 large sweet potatoe, microwave until its soft

1/2 cup raisins optional

1 mashed banana optional

1 cup diced mixed vegetables (fresh or frozen)

1 cup diced apples * I nuke them first, so they are sorta baked

apples....

1 1/2 cups uncooked oatmeal

corn flakes or granola cereal

fruit or vegetable juice

Mix all but the juice together.

Add enough juice to form small balls

Freeze individually, defrost and serve.

***hint****

I roll the balls and place them in ice cube trays until frozen, then

place them in a freezer safe bag.

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Sue S.

SWEET POTATOE FRENCH TOAST

1/2 a jar of sweet potatoe baby food

4 slices of whole wheat bread

Mix the eggs and sweet potatoes together. Dip bread into the mixture and

cook both sides in a frying pan lightly coated in olive oil, until

golden brown. Cut into small pieces.

Optional....spinkle sliced almonds or cinnamon on top.

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