When I was weaning my babies I offered them soaked zupreem pellets ( I like how they hold their shape ) along with cooked sweet potato. I served this in a 3-4 inch low wall ceramic dish for easy access. I would also offer to your new baby a wide variety of vegetables, steamed or lightly microwaved in a covered glass dish ( pyrex), butternut squash, acorn squash, golden beets to name just a few. None of mine like yellow squash or zucchini and are not too crazy about the butternut or acorn ( I didn't offer it back when they were babies and wish I had). The two crimson girls are eating the cooked golden beet, still trying to win the others on eating it. I also cook organic quinoa and separately cook carrot and sweet potato with butternut squash ( after finely chopping those veggies in my food processor) and then mixing it all together with some ceylon cinnamon.... I also add tiny minced cooked apple to that mix to sweeten it. A batch of this is frozen flat in zip lock baggies, break chunks off and let thaw. I cook other grains as well, rye, red wheat berries, white wheat berries, toss in a few lentils and split peas in the last 20 minutes or they'll cook too soft. All of my conure crew love whole raw sugar snap peas, whole raw baby carrots ( which will look like an orange shredded pile in the bottom of the cage) which may look like they only shredded it but the color of the poop tells me they actually ate some. They really love those small sweet peppers that come in a bag of mixed colors ( red, orange, yellow). They love cooked corn but don't get it too often. I buy fresh corn on the cob, cut 1/2 inch wheels and microwave in water for 3 minutes and let it sit. They get half of a wheel and shred the inner part of the cob too. For a hands on treat you can take fresh corn, cut a few kernals in half and then cook them in some water - better than always giving a seed treat. It's all trial an error to see what they'll eat. I don't buy any frozen veggies... I just like fresh. Whatever I'm feeding them... I eat while I'm making theirs. I hope you like vegetables!
