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Priscilla Price Diet Recipe for Sugar Gliders

The Priscilla Price Diet (aka The Sugar Glider Exotic Diet) was created by Priscilla Price at The Pet Glider. She has used this diet successfully with over 1,000 sugar gliders, including rehabilitated gliders. It uses "The Pet Glider Complete" Multivitamin supplement.

Priscilla Price Diet Recipe

Ingredients

50 oz unsweetened applesauce
4 oz Dannon non-fat plain yogurt
3 oz concentrated calcium fortified orange juice, no water added
3/4 cup Old Fashioned Oats (NOT QUICK-COOKING OATS)
1 TABLEspoon fresh ground flax seed or wheat germ, refrigerated

Making the "Basic Mix"

With a wooden spoon, mix the applesauce, oats, yogurt, wheat germ and orange juice in a large mixing bowl. Divide the mixture into two equal portions. Portion one: add 3 small or medium scrambled eggs. Portion two: add 3/4 lb unseasoned, unsalted, broiled shredded chicken.

Add 3/4 cup various chopped or pre-cut fruits AND 3/4 cut chopped or pre-cut vegetables to each portion (see recommended fruits and vegetables below). Freeze the Priscilla Price Diet mixture flat in quart size freezer bags (1/2" or less thick). If you choose to use pre-cut frozen produce, do not use vegetables which have a high ratio of corn.

Feeding Instructions

Daily: Break off a frozen piece of the basic mix (about 2-3 TABLEspoons per glider)

Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday: basic mix plus mealworms (about 20 per glider).

Daily Staple

The following should be available to the gliders at all times:

Monkey Biscuits
Sugar Glider Cereal
For more information about daily staple food options, click here. Keep in mind that feeding a different staple food with this diet than the ones advised by Priscilla Price may throw off the nutritional balance of the overall diet.

Daily Vitamin/Mineral Supplement

Sprinkle 1/8 TEAspoon of "The Pet Glider Complete" Multivitamin per glider on food daily.

Enrichment Supplement

Pure apple juice diluted with half purified water 3-4 times per week.

Extra Advice

Priscilla's recommended fruits: papaya, oranges, bananas, strawberries, cantaloupe, mango, kiwi, peaches, honeydew melon. You can also use frozen fruit to add variety.
Priscilla's recommended vegetables: yellow squash (or any in season squash), red & yellow bell
peppers, carrots, sweet potatoes, bok choy, jicama, cooked lima beans, green beans, peas, beets, chayote squash, collards, okra, cucumber, and corn in very small amounts (corn is high in phosphorus).
Do not substitute "The Pet Glider Complete" Multivitamin with any other vitamin/mineral supplement. It is designed specifically to work nutritionally with the Priscilla Price Diet.
Lactating females can be given more mealworms.
The Sugar Glider Exotic Diet can be offered fresh the first 2 nights, but the rest should be frozen as directed.
If your mixture is too thick (from the oats), Priscilla recommends adding extra fruit or applesauce.
Priscilla says that this diet stands alone, but extra vegetables can be served if desired.
I did notice some people in the forums are confused about the amount of fruit and vegetables that should be used in this recipe. I have confirmed with Priscilla herself that 3/4 cup fruit and 3/4 cup vegetables should be added to BOTH portions (that is a TOTAL of 1.5 cups fruit and 1.5 cups vegetables being used in this recipe).
Gliders are messy with their food. 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 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.
If you need to feed your gliders a few hours early, prepare the diet without thawing the fruits and vegetables. It should be thawed out by the time they wake up.
Priscilla Price Diet is one of the approved sugar glider diets designed to be fed as a main course.