Hi everyone. Ok so I am still waiting for my supplements to come in so right now I am feeding protein, fruits and veggies. I found a great list that tells me what fruits and veggies are good and how many times a week they can have them. However on the fruit part there aren't very many that I can find in the grocery store. I can find the ones that are meant for 2-3 times a week or 1x a week no problem but I dont want to feed them a variety of those ones everyday. I dont know if it's ok to do 2-3 different fruits from the 2-3x and 1x a week together. So I need some help. I want my babies to be as healthy as they can be. I ordered sample packs from critter love and the pampered glider to try out to see which ones they will like. Can someone please let me know what fruits are accessible and that I can feed them. Last night I made them some ground turkey, a tiny bit of celery, some kale, some apple, sweet potato and cantaloupe. Thanks in advance for all your help!!

If you are getting a sample pack of the NOT instant HPW/critterlove, your gliders will LOVE both!! If you are using the INSTANT version your glider will eat it, but if giving the NOT instant and instant at the same time, your gliders will eat the NOT instant and not touch the instant. ?got that?

lets try again. wombaroo version or critterlove PLUS your glider will love.
critterlove complete (instant version) is good and healthy and your gliders will eat it. but your gliders will eat the PLUS over the instant. We got 2 gliders with wombaroo powder, we gave it a try, the gliders were on instant. they eat ALL the wombaroo and non of the instant.

I cut up 6 lbs apples, with a cube thingy, then 3 lbs pears, then 1 large papaya. sometimes I use mango instead of papaya if store has no or bad papaya. I put in FLAT AS POSSIBLE one gallon freeze bags, 4 bags total. Put bags in freezer then a few hours later I make sure I break any freezing bond, just shake and break apart in 1 gallon bags, then put back in freezer. If you dont break them apart during freezing process they can freeze as a block. After frozen, I put into a 2.5 gallon tupperware and put back into freezer. I serve this every night as the fruit part. I also will have some fresh stuff I will add in, last few night they got some fresh peach. sometimes a few grapes, depending on what we have gotten at the store.

Byk I love ya man, but even I had to read that like 5 times

ok so you ordered samples of the Australian wombaroo diet and critter love ? Those are the two I saw samples for on that site.

Personally I'm not well versed in the Australian wombarroo diet, I looked it up on the pampered glider site. I know people used to use that diet, but the majority switched over to critter love original I think. There was a reason for the Critter love hpw coming about but for the life of me I don't remember what it was.

To me the Australian one seems more complicated from their feeding instructions. I would suggest you speak to Peggy directly she can tell you the differences better than anyone can. https://www.facebook.com/peggy.h.brewer Just shoot her a message she is very good about answering questions. She is probably more familiar with the australian diet and can explain it.

I do know Peggy has salads that go along with her diets, so you can use any fruit or veg off her salad recipes.https://www.critterlove.com/salad-mixtures It seemed like her salads can go with the other diet too but I'm not sure on that one.

I've not fed any of the hpw's or wombaroo based diets, but if I had to choose one of those I'd go with critter loves I may just be more familiar with it than the other but it seems a lot more straight forward.

The main thing is don't switch back and forth a bunch trying to figure out what they like. Give the first sample a chance it can take a few days for gliders to eat new diets well. Going back and forth is hard on their digestive system.

I would start with which ever one you feel you can afford the most consistently, not just the staple part, but calculate in all the parts and ingredients of the entire meal ( fruits veg extra nectars what ever that specific diet includes. )

And consider availability, one of the items that is fed with the australian diet is out of stock on that site. I'm not sure where else it is sold, these are just a few things to consider when making your choice.

As far as what the gliders will eat well that depends on your gliders LOL I can tell you mine won't touch apples or grapes, yet lotssssssss of other gliders devour them.

for now you can feed...

apples, grapes,cherries, blueberries, any kind of melon, are good fruits you can mix and match or feed one at a time. I mainly feed melons and blueberries and cherries with the occasional apple and grape they never touch.

Most gliders don't like strawberries or bananas or kiwi but you can try them anyway they may be ones that do.

Avoid acidic foods, citrus, tomatoes, pineapple they can have them but in moderation, the acidic foods cause runny poo.

Veg, my go to are, corn, peas, green beans, carrots, I usually just get a bag of mixed veg they eat what they want out of it somedays its peas sometimes its beans. You can fresh or frozen. Occasionally I'll give them asparagus or squash or cucumbers

hope that helps