I make suet cakes every single day!
At 6 o'clock this morning I was making suet cakes!
I go through 12 cakes a day now, so at $1.00 each, it would cost me $360. a month for store-bought cakes. I can make them for about 15 cents each, depending on what I put in them. So, I only spend about $55. a month instead of $360.! Andy has never complained about the cost of my bird-feeding habit (I go through at least 50 lbs. of
seed a week!), but I don't think he would support my habit if it cost him $360. a month!
Actually, he doesn't really realize how much I spend on bird food, because I can buy a lot of things at the grocery store (extra apples, peanut butter, lard, oatmeal, etc.) that he doesn't know is for my suet cakes. (Yes, a little bit of deception going on here, and NO, I don't feel guilty about it!
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I use the plastic containers that the store-bought cakes come in for molds for the cakes I make. When they are frozen, I pop them out of the containers and wrap them in plastic wrap. I keep some store-bought cakes in the fridge in case I run out of homemade cakes, but whenever I have to put one of those out, the birds don't eat much of it because they (the birds) are SPOILED and would rather have the homemade ones.
I make EXTRA-special cakes for my crow, and if his suet feeder is empty when he comes to eat, he sits outside and screams until I bring a cake!
Cindy
"The Crazy Bird Lady" (every town has one!)