Looking for some feedings/chop/recipes/etc.

So I'll be getting Jardy later this month and as a start I'll be switching her from her dyed zupreem fruit pellets to Goldenfeast's Goldn’obles I as well as some of their other mixes (I have their Veggie Crisp Delite and South American Preservation Blend I on order right now) and of course fresh fruits and veggies daily.

The main thing is, the only place I have to shop around here is Walmart (ew) and Safeway (pretty decent since they have an organic section and they also have a stand full of nuts... but idk if they're just plane or salted/etc. i didn't ask). I know a lot of people have whole food stores, etc. in there area, of which I don't.

What I'm looking for with this thread is to ask you guys your feeding schedules (you feed fresh foods morning and night? or just one or the other?) and anything else related around that. How MUCH should I be putting in her bowl? (I don't want to waste too much of this food since it is expensive, but I know it's bound to get on the cage floor in the end anyways, but I also don't want to feed too much and have half the bowl for example go to waste)

I'd like recipes as well for things like chop and the such. I've read a few threads here about chop but they all seem HUGE! Like... HUGE huge, I only have one bird... lol. Yes I have a deep-freeze but at the size of all those ingredients I don't think i'd ever be able to go through it all. So small recipes fit to feed one bird for say... a month max I think would be nice. (I hope I made sense there.. lol)

and of course anything else you guys can think of to help a new bird owner out with feedings She's been on the Zupreme fruit pellets her whole life and I know dyes aren't good so I want to switch her off of that as soon as possible.


I was shopping around on the My Safe Bird Store for toys awhile back and saw they had their own little mix of food, similiar to Goldenfeast but... it didn't look as extensive in ingredients as Goldenfeast. True? Despite the price could there be other food out there better than Goldenfeast in terms of their pellets? I know harrison's is a popular choice too but when I look at the ingredients between the two Goldenfeast seems the best... Harrisons (idk if it differs between all the types) but the one I viewed had ground peanuts and corn... while Goldenfeast doesn't have either of them. Seems corn is in every darn thing now... it's frustrating. And I hear peanuts should be used in moderation because of some kind of risk associated with them?

Should I stick with my original plan to go with Goldenfeast? Don't think I've yet to read any bad reviews on it

I actually used very little of each veggie in my chop, I just used like twenty-five veggies, potatoes, beans, rice, and grain and it turned out HUGE!!! I am sure you can make smaller batches by picking out maybe four or five veggies and adding less beans, grain, and rice. You can save extra dry goods for the next month. I will try to find the link to the PDF I used to make my chop. If you just pick a few veggies instead of almost all of them the batch should be a lot smaller. No matter what though it's going to be a lot for one small bird. I feed Sammy about one and a half tablespoon of pellets in the morning with a little bit of Chop and about two tablespoons of chop in the evening with about one tablespoon of pellets. He doesn't eat every bite of the chop and I have to throw some out at the end of the week. I figured out how much to feed him by putting in 40 pellets and counting how many were left after he ate. I did that for several days then started feeding him a few pellets less than the amount he ate on his own since the vet declared him overweight. I don't leave food all day in the bowl but I put some in foraging toys. He gets millet during training sessions. I don't know how other people figured out their birds diets but that's what I did after being warned by the vet not to leave food for him all day to pig out on since Quakers are prone to FLD and he doesn't get a ton of exercise since he can't fly.