Freezing greens

[kimberley breeder]

HI all- Need some quaick advice. I am going to be away for 3 weeks and I am lucky to have a good friend in town who is willing to look after my finches. The live food and sprouted seed mix is covered as I can freeze the seeds. However, I do feed the following mix to my birds daily:

Alfalfa and bean Sprouts
Egg
Peas Corn and Carrot frozen mix
Broccoli
Apple
Lebanese Cucumber
Multivitamin supplement
Mike Fiddler complete soft food

I mix this up and refrigerate to feed out for a week. I am wondering if this woould be ok to freeze another 2 weeks worth and defrost when needed? I dont feel I should ask my carer to make it up weekly for use. Any suggestions? Maybe remove some ingredients that arent suitable for freezing? Other experience when on holidays would be great!! Thanks!

[jusdeb]

Everything but the cucumber can be blanched for a s few seconds to kill bacteria then frozen ( supplements ie vitamins should be fine as is ) I cant see a problem with freezing it at all .....omitting the cucumber which has not much nutritional value anyway ....hope this helps

[kimberley breeder]

Thanks!! Was thinking the cucumber would have to be taken out. What do you mean by blanched though?

[Diane]

Blanching is a cookery term, just means plunged into boiling water for a little while, then rapidly cooled then drained in preparation to be frozen.
http://www.bestrecipes.com.au/glossary/ ... L1254.html
http://www.ehow.com/how_13887_blanch-vegetables.html

[kimberley breeder]

Thanks BB!