Produce..

[Jacob]

What Are Some Healthy items i can Buy At The Local Grocery Store,
such as Stater Bros, I Usually Buy Spring Mix And Cactus!

I Know You Can Buy Kale, Collard Greens Etc,
But I Have Heard Mixed Reports On These

Besides That I Usually Feed My Little Guy Dandelions, Grasses,
Muzuri, and Zoo Med Forest GreenLand

Thanks Guys

 

[Tom]

Back when I used grocery store stuff more, I would just run through it all. Endive, escarole, bok choy, swiss and red chard, green and red leaf lettuce, butter lettuce, parsley, Italian parsley, cilantro, romaine, celery, carrot tops, mustard greens, turnip greens, collard greens, watercress, dandelions, etc... I know there is more, but it escapes me now.

 

[TortieLuver]

Produce:
Barley
Bearn sprouts (mung)
Beet greens
Bok choy
Carrot greens
Cilantro
Collard greens
Endive
Kale
Mustard greens
Parsley
Radicchio
String beans
Snow peas
Spinach
Turnip greens
dark green/red lettuce or romaine

 

[Jacob]

Ok Thanks,
And I Belive Spring Mix Has Endives Already

 

[zesty_17]

here is a good link, with a list of common tortoise dietary needs.

http://www.anapsid.org/tortdiet.html

 

[ALDABRAMAN]

here is a good link, with a list of common tortoise dietary needs.

http://www.anapsid.org/tortdiet.html

Nice link!

 

[Isa]

I buy escarole, chicory, radichio, mache and watercress at the fruits and vegetables store.

 

[Fernando]

radichio is the hardest to find here...but I know they love it! :/

 

[OllieInAZ]

here is a good link, with a list of common tortoise dietary needs.

http://www.anapsid.org/tortdiet.html

From that link,
15% Vegetables...
...
Rice (cooked, plain)

I don't pretend to be an expert on much but as far as I know, rice isn't a vegetable. Semantics aside, I've never been to Africa but I've never seen rice growing in the Arizona desert.

 

[HankC13]

Is it safe to feed them produce that's not labled organic? I'm always paranoid it was grown with too much fertilizer or with pesticides.

 

[Jacob]

Yes, It Is!
But Its Always Safer To Go Organic

 

[HankC13]

Oh ok thanks Jacob.. that'll save me a lot time and $$

 

[LadyV]

You can't get much of anything here.....and a lot of what you can...just doesn't look as good to me as back home...I found some lettuce today in a round container that has roots on called "oak" lettuce??? I bought it, can she eat it? OHHHH...what the finale on "Kale"? She loves it

 

[Jacob]

My Little Guy is About 7 Months Or so And Gets To Graze The Yard!
I Feed Hi, Dandelion, Spring Mix, Grass, and Cactus!

 

[jaizei]

You can't get much of anything here.....and a lot of what you can...just doesn't look as good to me as back home...I found some lettuce today in a round container that has roots on called "oak" lettuce??? I bought it, can she eat it? OHHHH...what the finale on "Kale"? She loves it

Kale is fine as long as its part of the diet and not all of it. The greater the variety the better.

 

[LadyV]

Wheeeeeeew...I got really worried cause I read on here that kale prohibited the adsorption of calcium and she gets it almost daily along with spring mix and mustard....she'll get right to the Kale first. I also give her a softened block of Muzuri mixed in a couple times a week

 

[laramie]

What about Alfalf sprouts> Are they good or bad for sulcata torts?