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Cooked Mixtures (5)

My cockatiels are particularly fond of any soft, cooked mixtures. If you cannot find exactly the same ingredients or if you're birds have particular likes or dislikes, feel free to alter these recipes accordingly.

Quaker Delight

1/4 c. pinto beans
1/4 c. kidney beans
1/4 c. split peas
1/4 c. lentils
1/4 c. navy beans
1 c. cooked brown rice
1 c. cooked white rice
1 carrot (chopped)
1 c. frozen corn (thawed)

Soak beans overnight. Add carrots and cook with beans for one hour. Add corn and rice and cook till warm. Cool and serve.

Store excess in leak proof containers.

Fifteen Bean Soup

1 pkg. 15 bean soup
1 bag frozen corn

Soak beans overnight. Cook for one hour or until done. Add corn 50 minutes after you started beans cooking. Drain water and serve. Store excess in leakproof containers.

Millet and Rice

1 part c. cooked hulled millet
1 part c. white rice, cooked
1 part c. brown rice, cooked

Soak millet in water for 20 minutes prior to cooking. Mix together with rice and serve warmed.

Birdie cereal

1/2 c. cooked white or brown rice
1/4 c. dry monkey chow, ground in a blender
1/4 c. Sun Maid Fruit Bits, soaked overnight
2 tbl.s Bag O' Bugs

Mix ingredients together and serve immediately. Change at least twice a day to make sure your birds doesn't digest any soured foods. You can replace the Bag O' Bugs with live insects.

Eight Grain Cereal

1 part oats
1 part brown rice
1 part corn
1 part soybeans
1 part hulled millet
1 part barley
1 part sunflower
1 part flaxseed
Avian vitamins

Mix all grains together. Heat three cups boiling water and add one cup mixture. Cook until the consistency of oatmeal.

This can be added to some of your corn bread recipes! Sprinkle avian vitamins over cereal.

Contributed by A. Waterman
A Waterman@eworld.com is a recipe Kleptomaniac and the preceeding are only some of the evidence : )

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