SSG Veggie Relish
Recipe 2
The SSG Veggie Relish Recipe for sugar gliders can be used
in place of the vegetable portion of the diet. It was
designed by Misty at Sweet Sugar Gliders, to work with the
HPW
Diet. Click here for
the SSG Complete HPW Diet. Our intention was to make it
easy for glider owners. By not spending so much time
calculating ratios, you are now freed up to spend more time
with your sugar gliders. We do not claim to be nutritionists.
We simply strive to do the best we know how for our sugar
gliders (based on the research we have done) and wanted to pass
along the information.
SSG Veggie Relish Recipe
This recipe will make around 40 servings for 2 sugar
gliders.
Ingredients
- 1 cup frozen vegetable mix of peas, green beans,
carrots, & corn - 1 cup jicama
- 1 cup sweet potato
- 4 cups turnip greens
- Unsweetened apple juice (if needed)
Instructions
Dump the frozen vegetable mix into a large bowl. Peel the
jicama. Poke holes into the sweet potato with a fork and
microwave 5-6 minutes (until soft in the middle). Scoop the
sweet potato out of the skin with a spoon, measure, and
pour into the bowl. Chop/dice the jicama and turnip greens
using a food processor or knife. (We use a hand crank food
processor and chop small batches into pieces about the size
of peas.) Measure the ingredients AFTER chopping them, then
put them into the bowl. Mix with a large spoon. If needed,
add enough apple juice to wet the mixture a little (so it
will freeze together in the ice cube trays). Scoop the
veggie relish mixture into ice cube trays (measure one
TABLEspoon per cube). Cover and freeze. Once frozen, run
hot water over the bottom of the ice cube trays, pop
the vegetable mixture out and place the cubes in a
freezer container or Ziplock freezer bag. This will prevent
freezer burn.
Feed one cube for one glider or 2 cubes for two gliders per
day, with the HPW
Diet or SSG
Complete HPW Diet. This can be fed as
the vegetable portion of the main diet. Some diets
specify which vegetables you should use, but otherwise, the
SSG Veggie Relish can replace the vegetable portion of any
diet.
Extra Advice
- If your gliders are picky and not eating some of the
veggies, you can try blending them with a blender (instead
of chopping them) and mixing them in with your HPW
or other main
diet. If necessary, add some unsweetened apple juice to
the mixture, to make it easier to blend. - The SSG Veggie Relish can be used as a substitute for
the vegetable portion of the sugar glider diet. - Aside from making your nightly feeding routine easier,
the SSG Veggie Relish works great if you are out of town
and want a convenient way for your glider-sitter to feed
your gliders. - This yields approximately 1.75 ca:ph ratio, by our
calculations. This ratio was calculated estimating even
amounts of the different vegetabless in the frozen bag mix.
Please let
us know if you believe our math to be incorrect. - When combined with the SSG Fruit Smoothie and
HPW
Diet as shown in the SSG Complete HPW Diet, you
will get a 1.69:1 ca:ph ratio. - This recipe was developed by Misty at http://www.sweet-sugar-gliders.com to be
used in the SSG
Complete HPW Diet (and can be used in other
diets as well. - Check out our other recipe, SSG Veggie Relish Recipe
1.