What veggies/fruits will she eat?

[xxsapphyxx]

So I've had my budgie Ikaros for a little over a month now. She LOVES millet, and is quite picky in terms of what seeds she eats out of her regular mix I give her. I have been trying to get her to eat veggies and fruit since I know they're good for her, but she seems to not want anything to do with the ones I've offered her so far. I've tried carrots, apples, orange, and cucumber. The closest she came to eating them was mouthing, not even biting, the end of a slice of apple I was holding for her once.


I really would like to get her to eat something other than her seed mix.


And today, oddly enough, she did show interest in the spaghetti I was eating when I had her out of the cage (which I promptly had to hide from her because I didn't want her managing to get a bite of that and getting sick from it). However, considering she showed interest in it, I was wondering if tomatoes were an appropriate food to feed budgies? I see mostly mixed messages about them when I looked it up? 

Other than that, any suggestions for getting picky eaters to be a bit less picky? 

[Hezz]

Not many people have success with tomatoes, not that a budgie can't have the fruit, they can, but most aren't interested, and lots of budgies don't like the colour red. (Never feed a tomato plant though.)
These are the more commonly liked veggies .... concentrate on veggies rather than fruits, less fruit, more veg ....
budgerigarsforum.proboards.com/thread/509/fresh-foods-offer-budgie

Favourites seem to be sweet corn, broccoli, snow peas, carrot, apple and grapes, asian greens, but a bud will not just start eating these because they are good for them. Sounds like your little girl will be willing to have a nibble if you are. This is always a good start. Eat something while she is sitting on you, pretend she can't have any when she leans in and then on, all right, you can have a bit. They think they have gotten away with something, then!

It does also depend on how you present the fresh foods. Some like a chopped up variety mixed in together, others appreciate a chunk and taking off their own bits and making a mess. Mine are definitely in the second ccategory, but you may need to experiment to find what your's prefers. And don't give up. Something that has been rejected 100x before may suddenly be seen as the best thing ever.

[yellowfacedviolet]

Try making a small bouquet of greens--i.e. dill, cilantro, basil, celery leaves, carrot tops, chicory, fennel tops, arugula etc. or any combination thereof--- get it good and wet and suspend it upside-down above her favorite perch so she can brush up against it. Often the nuzzling leads to nibbling.