Baby food ??

[KatherineI]

So, I've seen a few posts where members mention using jarred baby food in their birdie recipes, particularly in muffins. So I'm curious; is this because your bird won't eat certain foods? Do you go with the organic jarred stuff as opposed to making your own baby food and then incorporating that into your recipe?

I'm just trying to figure out ways to get my two to eat things that are good for them, but that they insist on just tossing instead. The only thing I can get Loki to eat with any consistency is green grapes, cut in half, and chopped up apple. Sugar will only eat watermelon :31: I made a batch of muffins like I used to for my Grey's, and they didn't touch them. I'm starting to get slightly desperate

 

[MaraWentz]

i do because its simple and cheap. But I find if warmed up birds tend to lilke it alot becasue perhaps it reminds them of thier tasty formulas they were given while hand fed

 

[Mayden]

I use baby food sometimes. Currently got some HiPP Rice pudding Apple/Pear, he loves it, especially after it's been in the fridge when it's a warm day.

I usually only give him baby food once a month or something to keep his syringe training up incase he gets sick and need meds. I'd say give it a whirl, try heated, try cold. He does love it though, we try a ton of different flavours.

Maybe don't try the syringe feeding, just put some in a dish and see if they take? Mush/Liquid is much harder to throw around

 

[KatherineI]

I use baby food sometimes. Currently got some HiPP Rice pudding Apple/Pear, he loves it, especially after it's been in the fridge when it's a warm day.

I usually only give him baby food once a month or something to keep his syringe training up incase he gets sick and need meds. I'd say give it a whirl, try heated, try cold. He does love it though, we try a ton of different flavours.

Maybe don't try the syringe feeding, just put some in a dish and see if they take? Mush/Liquid is much harder to throw around

You haven't met Loki!!! That boy has flung yogurt clear across the room, and in large chunks!

I was thinking of mixing it in to muffins, or maybe with steel cut oats occasionally. Not really sure. I need to try something to get these two to eat their fruits and veggies... it's not that I lack the patience, it's that I hate wasting food and that seems to be what we're doing these days

 

[greycloud]

I sometimes use organic baby food in my birdie bread. I try to stick with fresh foods. Mashed sweet potato, honey, cinnamon, apples, papaya, mango. I usually make two batches at once. A fruit and a veggie.

 

[aliray]

I made a birdie bread using a corn muffin mix.Jiffy Plus 2 eggs beaten 1 peeled chopped gala apple, 1 jar baby food carrots one half cup zupreem fruit pellets disolved in the food processer with one half cup water and some cinnomen. I mixed and chooped the apple in their also. I cooked it in a quish dish following the temp on the mix but takes a little more time because of the extra egg. Both my canary and quaker parrot love it. Mix any frruit or veg you want. Cut into 1 inch cubes and freeze till needed Alison and sweetie pie

 

[greycloud]

Alison, that is a good recipe except I do not recommend using jiffy. It has many ingredients that are not good for our birds. For example,sodium, sugar, niacin and regular baking powder.Try and buy just plain corn meal and brown rice flour. Add 1/2 cup of rice flour and 1 1/2 cups corn meal. Add 1 teaspoon of aluminum free baking powder.Follow the rest of your recipe. I only add one egg and 1/4 cup canola oil too.

 

[KatherineI]

I've tried making muffins with fresh ingredients in them, it's not like I haven't. I know how to make muffins, I was just more curious about those who use jarred baby food.

I made my own baby food for my daughter and am thinking of doing that for them as well, to include in their muffins since the chunk fresh stuff in them just doesn't seem to work. It's just really involved to do.

 

[aliray]

if you want to add any fruit or veg just pulse in the food processor into smaller bits and i had usedtwoo eggs on pupose and the jarred carrots to eliminate any oil or insyead of carrots you could use a jar of any baby food fruit or veg. making the basic batter from scratch would be a liitle healthier. alison and sweetie pie

 

[amysaviary]

I use jars of baby food to get the birds to eat things they normally wouldn't but also because it is cheap and EZ. I use the jars of bananas a lot because I don't normally have very ripe bananas laying around. So I use a jar in recipes that call for bananas when I don't have fresh. I also put jars in oatmeal and muffins anything really.

 

[KatherineI]

I use jars of baby food to get the birds to eat things they normally wouldn't but also because it is cheap and EZ. I use the jars of bananas a lot because I don't normally have very ripe bananas laying around. So I use a jar in recipes that call for bananas when I don't have fresh. I also put jars in oatmeal and muffins anything really.

Do you have a brand you prefer? I was thinking about checking out the labels of baby food Whole Foods carries, since I'm more likely to find organic ones there.

 

[amysaviary]

I do the Organic kind but I use whichever is on sale or cheap.

 

[Spiritbird]

I used baby foods mixed with corn bread when my bird was in her first 6 months. Now she will not eat raw veggies at all. I invested in a food processor and make veggie mashes with really healthy ingredients. So I guess my starting her out on the soft cooked foods ended up with her not eating the raw ones.

 

[KatherineI]

I used baby foods mixed with corn bread when my bird was in her first 6 months. Now she will not eat raw veggies at all. I invested in a food processor and make veggie mashes with really healthy ingredients. So I guess my starting her out on the soft cooked foods ended up with her not eating the raw ones.

Hmm... good point. My guys are both over 1 now, but I can only consistently get Loki to eat green grapes (cut in half) and they have to be the small, sweet ones. He won't touch the larger, bitter ones, and apples. Sugar will only eat watermelon.

 

[aliray]

I also get the small containers of fresh cut up melon, 2 kinds pineapple, grape ,watermelon that publix supermarket make fresh daily and give them a chopped up variety for fruits as well as any other kinds of fruit that is safe this week I also tried some fresh apricot with both birds liked, strawberries are also in the fruit mix by the way. It gives them a good variety without buying and wasting a ton of fruit for two little birds. Alison and sweetie pie

 

[aliray]

Sorry I got off the track. I use baby food at times because it comes in small amts already prepped no work and it mixes in well. I use the baby food carrots in the bread to up the vit A and the extra egg to up the protein. Alison and sweetie pie

 

[KatherineI]

I also get the small containers of fresh cut up melon, 2 kinds pineapple, grape ,watermelon that publix supermarket make fresh daily and give them a chopped up variety for fruits as well as any other kinds of fruit that is safe this week I also tried some fresh apricot with both birds liked, strawberries are also in the fruit mix by the way. It gives them a good variety without buying and wasting a ton of fruit for two little birds. Alison and sweetie pie

It's not the buying. We all eat the same things - my daughter is a fruit addict. I hate wasting food period, and it irks me because what I put in their dishes, we could have eaten instead. It's not the cost or that I buy too much and it goes to waste that way. I remember going hungry as a child and as a result, I'm really conscientious about food waste. It's like, I look at what ends up on the cage floor, or barely touched in their dishes and think "the kiddo could have eaten that for a snack". If that makes sense.

 

[MikeyTN]

I feed all mine fresh, I don't get why everyone thinks organic baby food is cheaper as it is more expensive and have added stuffs I don't care to give to my birds....we run to the grocery store 3 times a week and buy small amounts so we keep everything fresh....

 

[KatherineI]

I feed all mine fresh, I don't get why everyone thinks organic baby food is cheaper as it is more expensive and have added stuffs I don't care to give to my birds....we run to the grocery store 3to times a week and buy small amounts so we keep everything fresh....

That's what I do as well. I guess I'll just make homemade baby food and mix in their muffins and hope more muffin ends up in their crop than on the bottom of their cage.