Is this fine to feed to my birds

[conureowner1]

Hi just wandering if this is fine to feed to my birds. I brought a packet of soup mix the ingredients are pearl barley,yellow split peas,green split peas,mung beans,white beans,red split lentils,small red beans,black eye beans,faba beans,whole green lentils and pinto beans.

[vankarhi]

I cook my soup mix and I add chickpeas and normal green peas then I also add frozen veges too and red and brown lentils.....they love it. But I make sure it has been cooked for a few hours. I cook mine in my slow cooker and add the lentils when I turn it off and just let them cook in the heat as they become mushy if overcooked but everything else has cooked for a couple first.

[angelicvampyre]

Do you have to cook your soup mix? I just soak mine in hot water for 12 - 24 hours and all the birds love it but if I should be cooking it I will start to do that

[vankarhi]

I only cook it as I read somewhere that one of the bean types needs to be cooked.....and I can't remember which one it is and so just to be sure.......I cook it, but it is still nice a crunchy and not mushy (most times anyway) and they love it.

[Robyn]

I think AV when the soup mix is soaked it still has a bitter taste. Once cooked that bitterness goes. That's from personal experience when i make pea soup they are revolting if not cooked through.

Robyn.