What are your top 3 cheap meals?

**peanut** · 01-27-2012, 11:14 AM

She said no rice and beans?! Oops! Well then... my 3 cheap meals are...

hamburger hash (potatoes, leftover veggies, hamburger)

Grampa stew (2 cans condensed soup, 1 lb. hamburger, 1 potato, a couple carrots, cut up and layered in a crockpot and cooked for 6 hours)

Tuna fish surprise (a curried tuna muffin served with a cream sauce and veggie of the day).

**hnybny91** · 01-27-2012, 11:24 AM

Originally Posted by Aqua Blue

Just curious, why can't the bird eat the whole green pepper?

He is just a little green cheek conure parrot. He does eat some of the green pepper that surrounds the seeds but he would not eat a whole green pepper a day.

**madhen** · 01-27-2012, 11:31 AM

Originally Posted by hnybny91

He is just a little green cheek conure parrot. He does eat some of the green pepper that surrounds the seeds but he would not eat a whole green pepper a day.

I guess that would make it a "cheep" meal for him.

I have a Congo African Grey who loves habanero peppers. My mini-macaws aren't big on veggies. They like a good piece of fruit, though.

**OOwl** · 01-27-2012, 01:17 PM

My parrots LOVE the tops and bottoms (and seeds) off the peppers I prep for cooking, too. Gotta watch that though because the oils from the hot types of peppers get on their feet and beak. Then, later, when you've forgotten all about that, they give you a kiss and it's FIERY HOT to the mouth or in the eyes or they transfer the oil to your hand, you rub your eye, and you wish life was over.

I quote from first-hand experience. . . .

**madhen** · 01-27-2012, 03:50 PM

In terms of cheap meals, I like to make a broth (whatever you like, but I use Hon Dashi to make a memmi-like broth). Crack an egg into the boiling broth, and scramble it up a bit. In a separate bowl, make a dough with flour and water. Make it pliable enough that you can stretch and pull off thin "flakes" of it, and drop those into the broth. You can add some scallion or whatever else floats your boat, but not necessary.

Makes a nice, warm, FILLING meal, and not huge on calories.

**hnybny91** · 01-27-2012, 04:00 PM

My parrots LOVE the tops and bottoms (and seeds) off the peppers I prep for cooking, too. Gotta watch that though because the oils from the hot types of peppers get on their feet and beak. Then, later, when you've forgotten all about that, they give you a kiss and it's FIERY HOT to the mouth or in the eyes or they transfer the oil to your hand, you rub your eye, and you wish life was over. I quote from first-hand experience. . . .

Been there, done that and bought the T-shirt...LOL