Save Time By Making Food In Large Batches
Originally published at Harmonic Pets. You can comment here or there.
Okay, so you’re probably not cooking for your cat (I cook for my parrots), but I thought the picture was cute. However, whether you’re cooking dinner for your family or for your bird, one of the complaints is that it can take time. So an easy time saver is to make a big batch of food for your parrot, freeze it, and thaw and use only small portions.
It’s a tactic I use, and I only have a pionus and a parrotlet. But I’ll cook up a batch of our Grains & Goodness, fill an empty ice cube tray with it, and freeze it in individual cubes. Then, I can take a cube a day for the pionus (or every two days for the parrotlet), thaw it in small batches, usually two days’ worth since I split one for the parrotlet to go along with his other food, and it saves time.
You can choose to use individual containers if you like, or even freeze it in one large container and break it up to thaw in smaller batches. Either way, for your parrot, cooking a large portion and spreading it out is a great time saver.
But if you have a pet that eats fresh food, such as the greens for my bearded dragons, you can use this same concept. Sure, you won’t freeze the food, and you’ll want to probably only work in two to three day batch sizes, but it can be done. I will chop up enough greens for a few days, put them in a sealed container, and then they’re ready for feeding time. When I had a friend pet sit, I put the day’s worth of food in a plastic bag with the day marked on it, then all they had to do was dump out the baggie of food into the pet’s dish. It made it very easy for everyone!
Let me know how you save time with your parrot or reptile!