In article , Patricia
Smith writes
I am spending a fortune on Fat Balls for the birds every week. Does
anyone
know of a receipe I could make up myself for the birds.

Try looking at the CJ birdfoods website - they sell a 'home kitchen' for
making your own fatballs so they may also indicate ingredients.

basically, you need bird-type food - dried fruit, oats, tiny bits of
bacon, remains of grated cheese, then you melt some suet to glue it all
together. Exact proportions aren't important!

Suggestions I've seen include - drilling holes in a log and packing that
with your home made fat cake, doing the same with coconut shells, or
packing it into open fir cones.

Another way would be to get a tin, baked beans, sweetcorn etc, rinse it out
and put a hole in the lid, put some long wire or a shoe lace, whatever you
have lying around through the hole and put a knot in it. Put the lid into
the tin so the knot is at the bottom. Place the tin beside your cooker and
when you empty your grill pan, fry pan etc empty it into your tin adding the
other ingredients as you go (bird seed etc), put in a little melted lard or
suet too if the stuff from your pans doesn't seem to be setting. When it's
full it just slides out when you give a firm tug on the wire, lace etc. If
you start now you can make at least one a week (with six to feed here thats
quite easy) and you can keep em in the fridge/freeze them as I do, then you
have a plentiful supply for the winter.

Shannie
--
Kay Easton

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