This was my first experiment with the recipe! I did not do pics because I didn't know how it was going to turn out. The next time I do this recipe (and I will definitely do it again) I will post step by step pics, here we go.

What you will need:
1. A good blender or better a food processor.
2. About 12-15 Ice cube trays
3. A box of plastic zip lock baggies sandwich bag size (I used Quart size food saver bags)
4. Optional: Food saver vacuum sealer.
5. Paper towels
6. Rubber gloves.
7. Strainer, two large bowls, one small bowl, one large pot.

Now I will say that this recipe will be a lot of food. I got about 30 sandwich size bags full. If you don’t have a lot of fish to feed you can reduce the amount of things accordingly.

The Recipe
2 lbs Whole shrimp
8 oz (1/2 lb) Salmon
1 lb Frozen peas
1 lb Frozen Spinach
1 Small bag of mini carrots (you will only need about a handful)
1 Medium Zucchini
1/4 Cup Sprilina powder (you can find this at health food stores)
6 Centrum Vitamins (I used the generic...much cheaper)
120 gr Unsweetened Gelatine powder (about 4 boxes)

The Process:
Take and steam your carrots and zucchini until they are soft not mushy. While you are doing this have your shrimp in luke warm water unthawing. Have your peas and spinach also out on the counter unthawing. You don’t want to have your peas completely unthawed because they will not grind up as well when they are mushy.

After your veggies are done steaming remove them from heat and strain all the water out, set aside. Get your vitamins in water so they are totally dissolved. Next Remove the tail off the shrimp, rinse them and set aside. Next you want to get your salmon ready, I diced mine. Next take and add everything together (veggies peas shrimp salmon) Add the vitamins to the mix last don’t worry about if there is a little bit of water in the mix.

Now you are ready to start grinding everything up. I ground mine to a mush. When you are done with that step it is time to start boiling your gelatine. The directions on the box say mix 3 cups hot water to one cup cold. I used 4 cups of water for each box and boiled it all. Bring water to boil add your packets of gelatine to water slowly stirring it in completely. Make sure to boil gelatine down completely about 5-10 min to make sure no lumps are left.

Time to add your mushy mix to the gelatine. Turn the gelatine to low to medium heat add mixture to gelatine slowly but not too slow. Mix in well stirring for about 2-3 min. Now it is time to scoop the mixture to the ice cube trays.

I used a measuring cup for this fill all the ice cube trays with your food. If you don’t have enough ice cube trays find some tupperware (I didn't have enough trays) I did modify the recipe so 15 should be enough.

After you pour your mix refrigerate your mix (I did mine for almost 15 hours) just make sure it is completely set up. When your food is set up it is ready to be removed and bagged up. You can bag it in any portion you want I did about 9 cubes per bag that way it would last 3-4 servings before opening a new bag.

I used a vaccume food sealer which I think will work out better but zip locks will also work just fine. You will be very happy.

If you would like to do a more Carnivorous diet you can replace modify as follows.

1 lbs Whole shrimp
1 lbs Beefheart (trim any fat off)
1 Whole packet apprx. 8-10 oz Cyclopeeze (you can find this in your frozen food section at the LFS)
8 oz Salmon
3 Medium Zucchini
1 lb Mini carrots
8 Centrum Vitamins (I used the generic...much cheaper)
120 gr Unsweetened Gelatine powder (about 4 boxes)

I would of liked to put pics of the whole process, which I will do next time but I do have a few pics to show. I pulled another bag out last night 3/4/2009 to start on, here are some pics......

The food processor bag with the individual bags


Here is the individual bags these are quart size bags filled about half way...about 2 LBS of food each.


Here it is out of the bag


Here is a small chunk cut up and ready to feed.


The recipe makes about 3 gallon size bags which holds about 6 quart size bags half full......You are making about 35 lbs of food which will last a very long time.

Hey this sounds interesting. If I had bigger fish (someday I will & I'll try it) I would try it. I have a couple DIY invert recipes, 1 for snail biscuits & 1 for snail jello that I'll get posted soon. My fish love both too, I think they eat more than the snails or RCS's.

Think im gonna make some next weekend!

It is real easy just a bit messy!