What's on today's menu & recipe sharing ~2006~

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 8:00 pm

banana&peeling, apples, strawberries, dandelions, clover petals, egg shells, grapes, carrots, egg yoke.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 8:49 pm

ALHC wrote:
FMR is bad for hermit crabs. It has bad ingredients in it.

This is an interesting claim. While reading other posts on this forum, I see that most people on here feed their crabs fresh organic food.

While I think it is inarguable that organic foods in the right proportions would be ideal, are they inherently necessary? What is so bad about FMR? Only one ingredient in FMR is on the â€œAdulterants & Additivesâ€

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 9:15 pm

Tonight my critters have thawed krill, grapes, kiwi, honey, cuttlebone/eggshells, carrots and yellow bell peppers. There's also an oak leaf being drug across the tank as I type. Silly crabs.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 12:30 pm

Narnars BlueGreen Kibble (I always keep some dry kibble in my tank)
Narnars FruitFlower Kibble
Narnars Pumpkin muffin
Honey
Blood worms

***still working up the courage to get silversides...

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The HCA offical view on commercial foods can be found to the right under "safe commercial foods?"

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 3:31 pm

Todayâ€™s menu includes egg shell (pulverized), soft boiled egg (finely shredded), carrot (finely shredded), coconut (finely shredded), and apple (mushed) mixed together.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 11:21 pm

New recipes that my crabs liked:
Last night, I put a cube of frozen coconut milk with an equal portion of honey and mangrove meal and warmed it in the microwave until the mangrove was soft. Then I mixed in krill. I served it over lettuce. They really liked it.

Tonight there was some left, so I decided to reuse it. With my mortar and pestle, I crushed shelled, raw sunflower seeds, walnut, shelled hemp seed and eggshells into a powdery mixture. I mixed it with an equal portion of grated carrot and mixed all of it with the leftovers from last night. I topped it off with lettuce. It looks like another hit.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 12:06 am

Shell 1: Steak, both raw and cooked on a bed of lettuce
Shell 2: Carrots, mango, and my home made peanut butter (It's YUMMY!!)
Also available are a small shell with honey with powered cuttlebone and eggshells mixed in. It's the only dang way I can get them to touch cuttlebone. There's still part of an oak leaf, and also a freshly picked Impatient flower.

Last I checked they were going at the home made peanut butter like a bunch of rabid crabs.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 10:59 pm

Here is tonightâ€™s offering, I was aiming for a lot of variety:

Left: Tahini paste (ground sesame seed) mixed with ground toasted coconut, kelp granules and eggshells
Middle: Silversides surrounded by chopped crab omelette (eggs, spirulina powder and chopped shrimp meat cooked with olive oil)
Right: Tropical fruit baby food mixed with Crab Island Fruit and Flower, walnut and eggshells

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 10:14 am

Tiny peices of cooked steak (first try-hope they like it!)
A small amount of shredded cheese
A broken up wheat cracker
honey with sand dollar

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 2:28 pm

Dish one: pulverized egg shell and honey. Dish two: kiwi, soft boil egg, honey, and pulverized egg shell.

annopia · Post by **annopia** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 10:13 am

last night: dried cornflowers, rose petels, english walnuts, and cuttlebone.

Caroline

annopia · Post by **annopia** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 9:34 pm

tonight:

-two dishes with oatmeal soaked in milk, topped with fresh clover flowers
-one dish with a almond/pecan/honey mixture with the consistency of a rice krispy treat.

Caroline

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 10:34 pm

Tonight my partner went for a walk on a country road and found all sorts of edible treats for our crabs. We made them a little salad consisting of wild red raspberry leaves, wild strawberry leaves, white clover (flower), purple clover (flower and leaves), and daisy (flower). We also went grocery shopping and got a coconut to make a hut. The meat inside was actually ripe and fresh, so we added that to the mix along with some strawberry tops with some berry. All of this was minced into a colorful salad.

As an aside note, we found a mulberry, but were not sure if it is edible or not for our crabs. We decided not to include it with tonight's salad.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 9:28 am

Dry Bowl: Narnar's Blue/Green Kibble and Dried Krill

Treat Bowl: Mashed bananna mixed with honey and bee pollen.

annopia · Post by **annopia** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 8:39 pm

tonight's dinner for the crabs:

kibble shell: Narnar's fruit/nut kibble

two fresh shells: raw salmon and a crabby pretzel, made fresh tonight (I got the recipe from a great post that Narnar made on epicurean hermit, it uses whole wheat flour, honey, yeast, marine salf, and olive oil).

Caroline