I'm leaving for a week and I need to prepackage food for my little guy. He is on one of the glider kids staple recipes, which is already made and in the right size cubes..however today I was going to the store to get some frozen fruits and veggies to hopefully make everything easier, currently I have frozen peas, carrots and butternut squash. Any suggestions on what else to get frozen?

I buy frozen green beans, mixed vegetables, cut okra, broccoli florets, sugar snap peas and chopped spinach.

I buy frozen mango, blueberries, blackberries, and cherries.

Melons can be cut up and frozen for longer use. I cut up watermelon, honeydew, cantaloupe and papaya in glider size pieces. Spread the pieces out on a wax paper cookie sheet and put the fruit in the freezer. Once frozen solid, pop the pieces off of the wax paper and transfer them to a zip lock bag. This pre-freezing keeps the pieces separate in the bag for easy serving each night. I keep these on hand in the freezer but I only need to cut up and freeze ONE of them every few weeks.

When I travel, I put the GliderKids staple cube and a night's serving of fruits and vegetables on a plastic baby plate (I use doller store divided baby plates) and then slip the plate into a large zip lock bag and put the whole plate in the freezer.

My son feeds the gliders when I am away - he only needs to take out the zip lock bag and put the plate in the cage. (I have 3 colonies so each of MY bags has 3 plates for the night.) This way my gliders still get a different combination of foods each night I am away.

If you do not have multiple plates, you can just put the nightly feeding in a zip lock bag so your glider sitter just needs to dump its contents on a plate and serve.

Candy, I found that to be VERY helpful. Thank you. I will also be going away to a work convention in October. I live alone, so I've asked my mother to come over nightly and take care of my suggies while I'm away. This will make our lives a great deal easier.

Thank you so much! I will be going to the store tonight!

Are red raspberries and pineapple okay? I found mixed fruits in a bag and those were the only questionably fruits, the rest are perfect:)

Yes raspberries and pineapple are OK - they are just not my glider's favorites so I do not offer them often.

Okay:) I'll be trying all the new fruits n veggies before I leave to see how he likes them!