Take approximately equal parts of quinoa, cooked a bit dry, and sweet potato or yam, baked and mashed, and mix them together. Let cool, and present to small birds. Of the Finsters that I saw, Earl Grey, Oolong, Ovaltine and Szechwan (Pepper) liked it — Szechwan (Pepper) snacked on it several times. Peanut also cleaned his spoon off.

Of course, the thing about Peanut is that he's probably mostly just flicking bits all over to get at the quinoa, he's a big fan of grains. But with everything mashed and mixed together, I figure he's bound to get some sweet potato in him. Actually, some of the Finsters are the same way. Sometimes you have to trick them into eating what's good for them.

The next step is to see if the mixture remains as tasty after it's been frozen. Not everything does. For example, zucchini, while quite nice raw and chopped fine, turns into a terrible, slimy mush when frozen, good for a science experiment to discover new textures in slimy mush, and not much else. If the sweet potato thaws well, I'll have another handy thing to pull out of the freezer every few days. If not, I'll have five extra little tubs of mush taking up space in the freezer until I get another 25 pounds of tasty seeds and have to get rid of things to make room. Hey, I might be a lazy slug, but I can clear out a freezer if it's a choice between tasty seeds, tater tots, and tubs of slimy mush.