How to Make Organic Hamster Food for Less Than $2.00/lb

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By Greg S. Hurley
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Close up of organic hamster food

Have you been paying full retail for hamster food at your local pet store or online? The choices are limited and not always the healthiest for your little hamsters. Quite often "hamster food" is sold for hamsters and gerbils. They do not have the same nutritional requirements. And if you have dwarf hamsters, you need to have high-quality ingredients to avoid any risk of diabetes.

Below is a super quick and simple recipe for making your own hamster food, and this one is even organic. Of course, since the ingredients are common enough, you do not have to choose organic, but at approximately $1.65 per pound - why not get the best ingredients for your hamsters and potentially extend their lives? Another advantage to making this type of pet food is that people food is tax-free in many states, while pet food is usually not.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

All ingredients are from the dried goods bulk section of your local grocery store.
Approximately equal amounts of all ingredients below:
Soy beans
Great Northern Beans
Oat Groats
Millet (hulled)
Split Green Peas
Lentils
Sunflower Seeds (hulled)
Yellow Corn
Wheat (found in many forms - Hard Winter Wheat Berries used here

Step 1

Pour all purchased ingredients into a large mixing bowl.
Step 2

Stir with a spoon to evenly distribute mixture.
Step 3

Hamster food stored in air-tight glass jars.

Store in an air-tight container to keep fresh, moisture free, and vermin free.

Tips & Warnings

You can also add rabbit pellets to this mix instead of nutritional supplements to the water. Rabbit pellets include vitamins and other nutritional supplements.
Feed only about 1/4 ounce of food per hamster each evening. Too much food will result in your hamsters storing food that can go bad or attract insect pests.
Always get raw unsalted ingredients.
Be sure to add a supplement to your hamster's water to maintain a fully nutritional diet, especially if you plan on breeding. Vitamin E, along with other essential nutrients are especially important in pregnant and lactating female hamsters.

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