Sylvia’s Blog
March 4, 2008 by recycleworks
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Sylvia
What do we do with bread? Any surplus that we can’t eat is either turned into breadcrumbs and stashed in the freezer for making crumble topping, bread sauce or similar - or much more likely is crumbled a bit and put out for the birds. OK, so it also feeds the occasional long-tailed field mouse and field vole - but live and let live!
Leftover bread… I like the breadcrumb idea. Mostly the half-eaten breakfast toast and odd end of stale loaf goes to the birds. The bunch who hang around our garden usually demolish the lot before any “vermin” get a look-in. We occasionally go to brain a duck or goose at the nearby lakes, but mostly find they’ve been fed to apathy by 10am and the water looks decidedly unhealthy from the festering excess of bread.
This morning I half heard a mention on Radio 2 about the RSPB asking people not to feed bread to birds as it has “little nutritional value for them, wastes their digestive enzymes and fills them up with junk-food” – or words to that effect. So, do I now expand the worms’ diet to include bread. Currently they’re a strict cooked vegetables (no sauce) diet, I had a previous bad experience with meat in the wormery.