Caelan
04-30-2005, 07:35 PM
This is from the AMDA website. Hope you find it useful.
HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN FROZEN FOOD
Hobbyists and retailers may not realize that your frozen food items will degrade over time...i.e., certain vitamins such as thiamine will break down over time in these foods. Some companies that sell the packaged frozen foods will not give you a date when the product was made (we will not name any names here). So how can you ensure that you are selling your customers the best items? Why not make your own gel diets. Gel diets are easy to make, they can be stored in refrigerated or frozen mode and they are also a great way for you to feed your own live stock. And finally, you have control over your quality of foods.
If you have a blender and can make it to a supermarket and have a spare hour or so at night, this is a great way to make your own product line and sell a much fresher product for the same price as the pricy commercial product. If you buy some inexpensive glad plastic containers, some Knox Gel powder, some shrimp, scallops, squid, broccoli, zucchini, and other healthy items, you can make some pretty impressive gel diets in no time. The broccoli should be blanched (or steamed) for about 6 minutes before using it (to break down the alkaloids) but everything else should just be washed in tap water and you are ready to go
Blend up all of your items and put in a bowl. Then take some hot tap water and put about 200 mils of hot tap water in a bowl. Add about four of the Knox gel packets and stir till dissolved. Now add about two ladlefuls of your blended ingredients and stir till it all is evenly mixed in the gel solution. Pour some of this into one of the glad plastic bins (sandwich size bins), put the lid on it and put it in the freezer or refrigerator.
Randy Goodlett, Aquatic Systems Consultants
aquadolph@aol.com (aquadolph@aol.com)
HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN FROZEN FOOD
Hobbyists and retailers may not realize that your frozen food items will degrade over time...i.e., certain vitamins such as thiamine will break down over time in these foods. Some companies that sell the packaged frozen foods will not give you a date when the product was made (we will not name any names here). So how can you ensure that you are selling your customers the best items? Why not make your own gel diets. Gel diets are easy to make, they can be stored in refrigerated or frozen mode and they are also a great way for you to feed your own live stock. And finally, you have control over your quality of foods.
If you have a blender and can make it to a supermarket and have a spare hour or so at night, this is a great way to make your own product line and sell a much fresher product for the same price as the pricy commercial product. If you buy some inexpensive glad plastic containers, some Knox Gel powder, some shrimp, scallops, squid, broccoli, zucchini, and other healthy items, you can make some pretty impressive gel diets in no time. The broccoli should be blanched (or steamed) for about 6 minutes before using it (to break down the alkaloids) but everything else should just be washed in tap water and you are ready to go
Blend up all of your items and put in a bowl. Then take some hot tap water and put about 200 mils of hot tap water in a bowl. Add about four of the Knox gel packets and stir till dissolved. Now add about two ladlefuls of your blended ingredients and stir till it all is evenly mixed in the gel solution. Pour some of this into one of the glad plastic bins (sandwich size bins), put the lid on it and put it in the freezer or refrigerator.
Randy Goodlett, Aquatic Systems Consultants
aquadolph@aol.com (aquadolph@aol.com)