This recipe makes about 5 cups gel food. Note. I also added around 3/4 of mazuri gel powder to mine which isn't reflected in the nutritional breakout below.

Ingredients

• 5 cups bottled drinking water
• 7 packets unflavored gelatine
• 1 adult multivitamin
• 1 500 mg vitamin C
• 2 500 mg calcium carbonate suppliment tabs
• 1 tab Acidophilus (optinal)
• 1 tsp paprika
• 6 tsp calcium bentonite clay
• 1 can pumpkin
• 1 cup kale
• 1 can mustard greens
• 1 can colliard greens
• 3/4 cup canned mackerel

Add 3.5 cups water to blender. Place the Acidophilus tab, the calcium, vitamin C and the multivitamin in to soak.

Blanch kale 1.5 cup of water. reserve water for dissolving the gel.

Add mackerel, paprika, clay and veggies to blender. Blend well.

For sinking food

• Pour blended ingredients into bowl.
• Dissolve gelatine in water used to blanch kale and bring to a boil to dissolve gelatine.
• Add gelatine mixture to bowl and stir until well mixed
• Pour into flat shallow container(s) to make a depth of 1/4".
• tap container gently to remove any trapped air bubbles.

For floating food:

• Dissolve gelatine in water used to blanch kale and bring to a boil to dissolve gelatine.
• Pour gelatine mixture into blender and blend until well mixed.
• Pour into flat shallow container(s) to make a depth of 1/4".

Refrigerate until set.

Cut into squares. I leave out a week's worth of gel in a plastic zipper bag and store in the refrigerator. The rest I freeze between layers of plastic wrap. When frozen, I store in the freezer in ziplock bags (each holding about a week of food). You can make layers thicker than 1/4 inch and then slice it up before you feed it.

Nutritional Breakout per 10 grams food
59% Total protein (1 grams)-- 22% Protein from fish (0.2 grams)
8% Fat (0.13 grams)
6% Ash (0.1 grams)
27% Carbohydrate (0.5 grams) (11% Fiber, 6% Sugars, 10% Complex)

6.5 Calories per 10 g food

Minerals
20.2 mg Calcium, Ca, RDA=50mg
0.34 mg Iron, Fe, RDA=1mg
2.4 mg Magnesium, Mg, RDA=5mg
8.7 mg Phosphorus, P, RDA=70mg
23.59 mg Potassium, K, RDA=30mg
8.2 mg Sodium, Na, RDA=30mg
0.2 mg Zinc, Zn, RDA=1mg
0.06 mg Copper, Cu, RDA=40mg
0.05 mg Manganese, Mn, RDA=0.5mg
3.1 mcg Selenium, Se

Vitamins
3.1 mg Vitamin C, total ascorbic acid, RDA=1mg
0.05 mg Thiamin, RDA=0.2mg
0.07 mg Riboflavin, RDA=0.2mg
0.47 mg Niacin, RDA=1.5mg
0.13 mg Pantothenic acid, RDA=0.5mg
0.08 mg Vitamin B-6, RDA=0.2mg
7.7 mcg Folate, total, RDA=50mcg
0.31 mcg Vitamin B-12
798.6 IU Vitamin A, IU, RDA=40IU
0.08 mg Vitamin E (alpha-tocopherol), RDA=1mg
8.4 IU Vitamin D
7.3 mcg Vitamin K (phylloquinone)

Fatty Acids (*=Essential)
0.04 g Saturated Fats
0.04 g Unsaturated fats
0.03 g Omega 3 linolenic acid *
0.01 g Omega 6 linoleic acid
1.2 mg Cholesterol

Amino Acids (*=Essential)
0.01 g Tryptophan *
0.02 g Threonine *
0.03 g Isoleucine *
0.04 g Leucine *
0.05 g Lysine *
0.03 g Methionine *
0.01 g Cystine
0.02 g Phenylalanine *
0.03 g Tyrosine
0.03 g Valine *
0.04 g Arginine *
0.05 g Histidine *
0.03 g Alanine
0.09 g Aspartic acid
0.1 g Glutamic acid
0.07 g Glycine
0.12 g Proline
0.09 g Serine

Carotenes
267.3 mcg Beta Carotene
130.9 mcg Alpha Carotene
2.3 mcg Cryptoxanthin, beta
5 mcg Lycopene
147 mcg Lutein + zeaxanthin
552.5 mcg Total Carotenes

Nutrition data for the foods above was pulled from the USDA Nutrient Database.

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