Better life possible if you cook with lard
Like many others, I am forced to fight a daily battle with the pernicious malady called diabetes. A lot of that challenge stems from dietary choices. “If it tastes good, spit it out!” is the meal time marching orders with which diabetes sufferers have to contend.
That being said, you would least expect me to be one of the prominent cheerleaders for the merits of lard as the kitchen ingredient of choice. Don't eat it, for gosh sakes! Instead, use it as a component for a batch of homemade bird food. Feeding the wild birds in your home's backyard can be a valuable benefit to your overall mental health.
Let's begin. Measure out equal parts of lard, the chunky variety of peanut butter, corn meal and flour. You'll also need a double dose of oats (the “quick” variety) and a double dose of nonmedicated “chick starter.” (Your local farm/ranch store will most probably have the latter ingredient in stock.) The initiation of the procedure is to mix the lard and peanut butter together; doing this with some heat will aid the mixing task. After that, it is a simple-enough process of slowly adding the other components to the mix. Easy-peasy! You're done.
This homemade bird food will be sort of the texture of granola and will require a specialized bird feeder that consists of a tray with a rain hood above. The addition of rain water is anathema to your efforts to provide a nutritious meal to your backyard songbirds.
There is no end to the amount of pleasure you will derive from watching the birds outside of your home's window as you kick back with the morning's cup of joe and you proceed to read the newspaper.
It is a sure prescription for fun.