I HATE wasting food so I was none too pleased when I dropped an entire brand new ba
g of peanuts on the not-clean-enough-to-eat-off kitchen floor.
I can’t throw the nuts on the ground or the distracted festing birds will just become kitty snacks! After a bit of pondering I came up with a solution that I thought I’d share.
You need
1) toilet roll tube
2) peanut butter
3) wire from the outside of a lettuce
4) spilled nuts
Slather toilet roll with peanut butter, press in peanuts, hang somewhere out of the reach of peckish moggies!
Have you made you own feeder? Have you created a clever way to use up food that would otherwise go to waste?
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Great idea!
A fabulous idea! “Necessity is the mother…” and all that. I suppose it would work well with traditional feed, as well, and makes the food hard for a horde of kestrels to monopolize. Brilliant! Some years I bake bird cookies, covered and filled with seeds. It is a high fat recipe. I also will press seeds mixed with suet and crunchy peanut butter into cookie cutters, let them harden, and then hang with ribbons. These make nice little Christmas gifts for bird loving friends, as well. Best wishes, WG
Great idea, woodlandgnome!
Awesome!!!!
Hey! Great idea! I’ll do the same thing next time I drop peanuts (if my dogs don’t get to the peanuts first!)
Wow, I love it!
When I had my vermicomposting bin, spilled nuts could go in there, too. 🙂
Creative! But you know our floors are often not that dirty
In the past I’ve put orange peels, and banana peels in with my potted plants, and I always take my moldy bread to the duck pond. As for other food waste well if its a vegetable or meat part it goes into the freezer for Winter time soups. This really allows for some interesting soup flavors!!!
Thanks for the great idea, my kids will love making these!
Great idea and terrific way to save that food. I don’t blame you for not eating off the floor, I wouldn’t eat off my floors either! Enjoyed your blog. Thanks for stopping by my blog, appreciate the read.
Hearty Congratulations. Very much like Your idea of Not Wasting anything, Doing things by Yourself, and being concerned about the Cats NOT eating Unwary Birds! Love and Blessings. 🙂
Haha… you’re so inventive! Congrats! Expecially because you’re so environment protecting💟
Good idea, I love your blog!
Amazing idea – I bet the birds love peanut butter, and perhaps the squirrels too?!
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Wonderful Idea… Thanks for sharing 🙂