New Member Intro Christine parrots

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Good to see a parrot lover in here. I haven't had a parrot for

years. Mine used to eat vegetarian too. He loves his dried chile

peppers.

 

Mae Jean

 

, budgheebird wrote:

>

> Hi,

> My name is Christine and I am owned by 5 dogs and 9 parrots. My

parrots

> range in size from budgies to Orange Winged Amazons. My parrots

are vegetarians

> and the only meat type protein is from cooked egg yolk which I

give them

> twice a month. I am interested in perhaps becoming a vegetarian

or learning how

> to make tasty and nutritious vegetarian meals for myself and

parrots to

> share and enjoy. Yes, there are numerous parrot related groups

out there but

> none are promoting vegetarian diet for parrots and humans to share

together.

>

> I already make some organic rice and beans dishes to share and I

think we

> are getting kind of bored with that. So I hope you dont' mind if I

pick up

> some tips on veggie/fruit/sprout/legumes/grain nutrition for myself

and my

> feathered companions.

>

> Right now I make us a fresh veggie and fruit salad for our morning

meal. It

> consists of 100 percent organic ingredients. I pulse one

ingredient at a

> time in my food processor. The salad will contain several

variations of the

> following: kale, collard greens, sweet red bell pepper, carrots,

broccoli,

> cauliflower, celery, zucchini, acorn or butternut squash, fresh

ginger, red

> radish, and always an apple and 1/2 lemon or 1 whole orange or 1/2

red

> grapefruit. This all gets mixed together with Ezekiel cereal to

soak up the fruit and

> veggie juices. When my husband was alive, we all ate this for

breakfast

> adding raw, soaked almonds or walnuts or raisins.

>

> During the spring and summer and fall I garden and can therefore

usually

> pretty much harvest each morning or evening for our meal.

>

> Christine E.

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