anything I eat Enzo wants
^this. Initially I had brought our birds home and just kept taking them out and AWAY from their cage, keeping them with me on my shoulder or arm. I would eat, and they would get curious and go after the food. This way I got them to get used to eating people foods. We quickly stopped offering seeds regularly, just various of the colorful pellets. Seems parrots are more interested in the color of their foods than the taste; mine will eat green grapes, but not red or purple. Red apples, but not green, and so on.
Just take your bird out of his cage, remove the food bowl, only leave the water. You can put the food bowl back with whatever they like in the evening. This way they get hungry, see people eating, and go after it.
I intentionally brought my birds up on people food, because it's just simpler to give them some of whatever I'm eating than to have to get special bird foods. While my diet isn't considered great, they do get all kinds of things.
And FWIW, before we knew what was supposedly poisonous, i.e., avocado, onions, chocolate, our birds had already eaten those things with no ill effects. So apparently tiny amounts probably won't kill them. Just don't give them a whole avocado, spoonful of guacamole, an onion, or a chocolate bar.
This is what they had eaten; corn chips with a bit of guacomole on them (several times, while we were watching TV). White castle hamburgers and Big Macs, with the minced onions; and M&M peanut or peanut butter, and Reeses Pieces, all of which have a bit of chocolate in the shell of the M&M.
Once I got them eating fruits, I got some of the food hangers where you pierce the food with the long screw, which screws into a hanger. This way the fruit becomes food AND toy. a freshly cooked corn on the cob hanging there to be nibbled on, is a favorite, too.
I also have the foraging toys where you can put nuts and pieces of fruit into puzzle boxes so the bird can play with the box to get to food out.
Again, color makes the food more attractive. Though, he seems to know what all the other foods are, even though they're not fancy colors.
I always keep a mix of large size Pretty Bird, Kaytee, and Zupreme in their cage near their water, so there's always something to eat. As above, they like the large size, to dunk in their water.
Some other regular things on their menu:
Spaghetti, lasagna, ziti, pizza, hot dogs, hero sandwiches, chicken, chicken nuggets, various Chinese take out, Hot Pockets, slices of American cheese (they prefer the yellow for some reason), fruit juices and V8, french fries, soups (favorites are those with chunks of stuff in them, like Campbells rigatoni and sausage, wedding soup, chunky vegetable, etc.), oh yes, sausages, italian, breakfast, kielbasa, bratwurst, chedderwurst, omelets and scrambled eggs, bacon, cheese doodles, potato chips, pretzels, cake, donuts, & more. The key is often to give them something that they can hold with their foot while they eat it. I think that they see us holding our food, and they simply do the same thing.
