HPW Recipe
Ingredients
Instructions
Cook eggs, set aside. (Easy microwaving instructions below.)
In large
bowl mix water and honey. Stir until honey is dissolved.
Add in HPW powder,
mix well.
In a blender add in eggs, bee pollen and about 1 cup HPW
liquid mixture. Blend for two minutes.
Add in additional liquid and blend for
another two minutes.
Pour into a freezer safe bowl with an airtight lid.
Keep in freezer. HPW will freeze to consistency of ice cream. It is not necessary to thaw before feeding.
Feeding Instructions
- 1 1/2 teaspoons of HPW per glider
- 1 TABLEspoon of mixed fruits
- 1 TABLEspoon of mixed veggies
- Mealies for treats
- Gliderade once or twice a week
Extra Advice
- Feed in the evening close to the time your gliders wake up. Remove the food
in the morning, so your gliders don't try to snack on the leftovers during the
day (you don't want them eating fruits and vegetables that have been sitting out
all night).
- You can cook the eggs in the microwave - it's faster and less cleanup. Just
make sure to use a tall plastic cup and mix the eggs up really well. Microwave
for 30 second intervals, stirring in between, until they're done.
- The final HPW Diet mixture will be runny and a bit foamy at the top. This is
normal.
- If you have two gliders, double the recipe to 1 TBSP HPW, 2 TBSP fruits,
& 2 TBSP veggies.
- The calcium:phosphorous ratio of HPW is 1.29:1. Try to select fruits and
vegetables that will keep the overall ratio of the complete diet at 1.5-2:1. For
HPW Diet made easy, check out the SSG
Complete HPW Diet at www.sweet-sugar-gliders.com. This will show you examples of which fruits and veggies
yield a good ca:ph ratio for sugar gliders, when combined.
- If you are doubling the amount of HPW powder for a nursing female, it is ok
to have the other cage-mates eating the same batch with the increased amount of
powder.
- Gliders are messy with their food. You may want to try putting their food dish inside of a
"glider kitchen". This can be a plastic (ferret) igloo on top of a plate or an
upside-down plastic bowl or container with a hole in the side. This will help keep the
mess and the cage smell down and make cleaning the cage MUCH easier.
- High Protein Wombaroo Diet is one of the approved sugar glider diets
designed to be fed as a main course.
- HPW is designed to be a complete diet (when following the feeding
instructions above. A dry
staple food is not required to supplement this diet, but can be used during
the day in case your sugar gliders wake up and need a snack.