by Sherlar » Thu Nov 15, 2018 12:00 pm
Correct, I am on a super restricted salt diet, so none of the foods I prepare have salt, and believe me, it is hard to find foods without salts, so I mostly cook everything from scratch. For me it is not difficult because we used to have an acreage and raised all our own meats and a lot of produce and canned and froze many of our foods. However, no salt makes everything taste like cardboard. Try it. I dare you.
I did buy a pomegranate, but have yet to try it.
But all said and done, we are slowly getting the birds to try new things. Slowly. Just found out that although the B&G hated cooked beans and lentils, he loved pinto beans smashed, as in refried! (my husband can eat those from a can. I cannot because of the salt) So now I will start making smashed cooked dry beans for him. He better eat them or I will roast him like a fine chicken!
I was quite surprised when I opened a box of chocolates ( almost x-mas here!) and the B&G saw this and came running faster than I ever saw him move, trying to beg chocolate. So somewhere in his previous 27 yrs, someone taught him the luxuries of chocolate.
I have started making tiny corn breads - without baking sodas etc- and putting chia seeds in one, wheat bulgar in another, teff in a third, etc, trying to slowly expand their palate. I even tried hiding jarred baby food veggies in one. Maybe in 6 months I will have them off pellets. And maybe I won't. The goffins may cause the end of me! The B&G is at least open to putting things in his mouth before throwing them at me. I actually got hit with a piece of kale.
The Goffins sits on top of the shower wall and watches us shower. I put on a show for him, which happens to actually make it more entertaining for me as well, in hopes that someday we will get the bugger to bathe. The B&G finally initiated a bath in his water bowl and actually allowed me to spray him with a bottle until he was thoroughly soaked. His first real bath since we have had him (6 months). Boy was he shiny! And he ENJOYED it. The last 2 families that had him in the last 18 months, weren't able to get him to bathe unless it was coerced. He has been deathly afraid of being sprayed, being in a bathroom, near a sink, or even a larger water bowl in or on his cage. So we were ecstatic when he finally decided to bathe and even enjoyed being sprayed.
Enough rambling! Oh, and yes, the goffins has a great singing voice and dances, until the phones come out to record him, then he becomes a statue. So funny!
Sherri