Max (blue and gold) lives outside the cage for most of the day. So he eats throughout the day and when he sees mom eat, he needs a meal or snack too - he loves to eat with his flock!
Our typical routine, but specific foods vary..
Morning he comes out of his cage and hangs out on the high counter in kitchen (like breakfast bar) while I grab breakfast. I prepare a bowl of fresh food for him, today's bowl had piece of apple, shredded carrot, 4 chunks of cucumber, 3 fresh snap peas and a piece of cooked potato (crisped up without oil or salt using waffle press).
He had that on his feeding chair (bowl clips on rail), that chair sits at corner of our sectional sofa. So he munched on his fresh goodies while I had oatmeal.
After he's made a mess of the bowl and clear he won't eat more, the bowl is emptied and he gets a bowl of dry mix, which varies, but typically includes a nut/fruit/grain/veggie mix such as parrot legume or Madagascar with Roudybush Ca mixed in... often give him a chunk of homemade birdie bread or cracker.
Throughout the day as I snack, he gets a nut in shell (almond, Brazil, walnut). If I have a GF fruit and grain bar, he'll climb up onto my lap and steal a chunk, same with banana.
When my husband gets home, it's their boy time, they hang out in stair landing and play and Byron gives him a few pistachios.
At dinner, Max gets another fresh food bowl.... whatever veggies I steam for us, he gets a pile pulled before seasonings. Typically this might be broccoli, cauliflower, corn, edamame, carrots.... he will get a small spoon of cooked potatoes or treat of Mac and cheese, or a larger scoop if rice that night. And an even larger scoop if i made mashed sweet potatoes or butternut squash. He also gets plain cooked pasta if we have spaghetti.
Depending on what he gets from dinner, I may add fresh bell pepper, field greens from salad and usually I have sprouts going for the birds, so those top off dinner bowl.
At night for bed, he gets a bowl of dry food only because I live with health challenges so I always make sure he has a nice array in case I'm late getting moving. That bowl always has Phoenix Foraging Green Chunks, caitec baked pellets, a nut mix (like Boca nuts with dried bananas, cinnamon, anise), and I give him a chunk of avicake, top bowl off with a few of his beloved pine nuts.
That's just what might be in his bowl any given random day.
I bake birdie bread, soak seed and grains, make oatmeal treats and he gets a bit of scrambled egg msybe once a week.... and he loves my toasted GF cinnamon raisin bread!
I eat pretty healthy so Max tends to eat along with me throughout the day.
