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Macaw-roni Salad

Ingredients:

  • 1/4 cup garbanzo beans
  • 1 cup dry pasta*
  • 1 sm crown of broccoli
  • 1/2 carrot
  • 1 stalk of celery
  • 5 grape tomatoes
  • Directions:

    1. Open a can of garbanzo beans. Drain and wash under running water.
    2. Bring a pot of water to a boil. Add 1/4 cup of garbanzo beans and 1 cup dry pasta. Cook as long as indicated on pasta package, then drain and put into a mixing bowl. Place in refrigerator to chill.
    3. Wash broccoli well and cut into small chunks. Include the nutritious stem pieces as well!
    4. Wash the carrot well and grate into shreds.
    5. Wash and peel the celery. Cut into medium pieces.
    6. Wash tomatoes well, and cut into halves, and each half into halves or quarters. Never feed tomato stems or leaves to your birds.
    7. Remove the chilled bowl with the beans and pasta from the refrigerator. Add the rest of the ingredients. Mix well and serve.

    * For small parrots like parakeets to conures, try small pasta shapes like stars, alphabets, or small shells and elbows. For conures to macaws, use spirals or large shells and elbows.