Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
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Don't feed bread to birds or any other wildlife. All that does is fill their bellies, and ultimately starve them of nutrition. They suffer when you do that.
If you want to feed them, feed them species-specific food. Most birds eat worms, bugs, small fish, nuts, seeds, and will eat dried or fresh cut vegetables. NOT corn. Hawks generally eat small rodents, kittens, small dogs, turtle eggs, fish, and some lizards. Lizards eat insects and bugs. If you have bread that's going stale, drizzle it with olive oil, sprinkle with garlic salt, a pinch of red pepper flakes, and cut it into croutons for your salad. Or add a splash of milk as the filler for meatballs or meatloaf. |
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We used to make small hard balls of bread, throw it in the lake and as we put it "sink the ducks" as they go diving for it. Probably not PC or 'Mother Nature friendly' but fun all the same.
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Feeding bread to squirrels has the lovely side effect of molding in the squirrels’ caches and destroying the good quality food they saved up for the winter. If you want to keep the squirrel population down by starving them, then feed them bread.
Really. Never feed any wildlife anything. |
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Use stale bread by either throwing it into your food processor and turning it into breadcrumbs which can be seasoned and used to coat fried chicken or fish etc. or cut it up into cubes about 3/4 inch spead out on a baking tray and put a good glug of olive oil over them with some crushed garlic and toast them in the oven (watch them they will burn in a heartbeat) store in an airtight tin or plastic tub ...ideal for a topping on your soups !! Yumm ! Waste not want not !
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2 things immediately come to mind. You can dry the bread out, make bread crumbs, freeze them and use as needed, plain or adding seasoning. Better yet, dry slightly, cut into cubes and make bread pudding.
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