| What Our Iggies Eat | ![]() |
For the greens portion of their diet, we buy one bunch each of collard, mustard greens, and turnip greens. These are shredded/cut into small bits and then stored in an airtight bag in the refrigerator. The greens stay nice and fresh all week. When the igs get fed, they each get a large helping of greens with some of the vegetable salad on top.
The vegetable mixture contains various combinations of the following ingredients:
The vegetables are put through a food processor and shredded into small pieces, then they are placed in plastic baggies (one baggie per meal) and refrigerated.

Left: "white" squash; Right; Acorn squash
Left: Turnip Greens; Right; Collard Greens
(58 cents each at Food4Less)
Clockwise from upper left: Acorn, spaghetti,
banana, zuccini, and sweet potatoes.
Turnip, mustard, and dandelion greens.
The final mix.
Orange squash
Yellow squash
(i usually buy an acorn squash and a butternut or spaghetti squash, as well as other small summer squashes when available, and only use about 1/4 of each per mixture)
Snow peas
(one small handful)
Green beans
(one small handful)
Two carrots
Two brussell sprouts
One parsnip
One mango, or half a mexican papaya
1/2 yam/sweet potato
1/2 cup of rabbitt pellets
(alfalfa pellets... once added to mix, they will quickly absorb moisture and become easy for ig to eat - you can also moisten them beforehand by soaking them in a bit of water or fruit juice)

When treat time comes, our iggies prefer the following:
- Bananas
- Peaches
- Cantelope
- Watermelon
- Fruit-flavored yogurt

Then there was the time the iggies found out that the folks at Iguana Zone didn't think that bananas and yogurt were a good daily treat and decided to take it out on the cat. As the note below reveals, the iggies were not amused!
