Easy Food Tips & Tools

Frozen Food Logs - How To

Make Quinoa in the rice cooker, using the proportion ratio 2 parts water to 1 part quinoa - our birds love to eat Quinoa - it takes about 20 minutes to make a batch. Our cooker is the 2 cup model, so we use 2 cups water to 1 cup quinoa.

You can get an inexpensive rice oooker at your local Walgreens, Walmart or Target store - the 2 cup model makes a perfectly sized batch of Quinoa. We found our Home Gourmet brand one for 9.99 at Walgreens, it comes with the measuring cup and removable  liner,.

Mini bottle washer set from DAISO (perfect for cleaning drinkers)

1 cup mini chopper (several Mfrs make these) these are good for prepping your veggies and seed combinations. Perfect for prep small batches of The Green Day Diet or Roy Beckham's Eggfood recipe 

Also great for prepping your dried eggshells prior to mixing in with your food mix. See How tp prep eggshells

We use the mini-ice cube sized trays instead of regular sized ice cube trays for food freezing because the food freezes more evenly in the shallower-trays.

For the Frozen Food Logs we use water-bottle type ice cube trays - this freeze the food into the perfect size "logs" for treat trays.

Treat trays

Reusable cable ties

These are washable, and really great for cagedoor locks and mounting Corn on the Cob on cage bars

We also use these for mounting nests in the top back corner of the cage. These come in a 25 pak or 100 pak - both are very inexpensive and are washable.

Shopping Tip:

About DAISO - we have found an amazing selection of items that work well for birdfood prep and serving (food and water dishes) at DAISO stores in our area. This is a Japanese themed worldwide store chain similar to Dollar Tree stores but their product emphasis is much more on space saving practicality. Most everything in their store in 1.50 or 3.00. We get the the mini chrome racks that hold our Hosptial Cages there, bird food treat cups in their sushi dishes dept, and trays for mini ice-cubes. 

Easy Food Prep Tips & Tools

Feeding Your Finches

Food Choices

Growing Greens For Your Birds

Others' Recipes

Prep Eggshells For Your Birds

Sprouting

Click

on

the

cookbook

to download

your order form

for the

Contra Costa Avian Society's

Cooking Is For The Birds

avian cookbook!