Tortoise Food
Most of your tortoises food can be found in your kitchen. Or you should be able to access it easily. For proper diet it said that 75% of the diet should be from green leafy vegetables, weeds, or grass. 15% of the diet should be from vegetables and 10% should be fruit.
Leafy Greens: Romaine Lettuce, Red Leaf lettuce, Grass (without insecticides, herbicides, or fertilizers), Alfalfa, Clover (leaves,blossoms,hay), Timothy (fresh hay), Spinach (fresh only), Chard, Collards, Dandelion (plant and Flowers), Endive, grape leaves, Mustard Greens, Turnip greens, Kale, watercress, parsely, Bermuda grass, rye grass, rice grass, mallow, sowthistle and barley.
Vegetables: Beans, Beets (Stems, flowers, grated roots), Broccoli, Brussels sprouts (fresh raw heads), Carrots, Corn (off the cob), Okra, Mustard, Nasturtium, Pea (pods), squash, cabbage, green-yellow-red peppers, turnip (leaves, grated root) cauliflower, Zucchini, Sweet potato, lentils, and carrots.
Fruit: Apple (Fresh, no core or seeds), Banana (peeled), Blackberries, Blueberries, Grapes, Pumpkin (fruit, flowers) Cantaloupe (with scrubbed rind), Peaches (no pit), Pear (no seeds), Strawberries, and Tomato (fruit only, leaves poisonous).
See house hold plants and flower section to find safe plants.
Remember a well balanced diet is very important to your tortoises life. You do not eat the same foods everyday, they should not have to either. I personally recommend a good calcium sprinkle as well, every few days, a minimum of once a week. Crushed egg shells are another source of calcium.
Take care not to feed too many plants from the cabbage family: broccoli, cauliflower, brussels sprouts and cabbage. These are known to interfere with thyroid functioning and clacium absorption in both turtles and tortoises. Do not eliminate them from your feeding program completely, as they do offer good nutrition; just feed them in small amounts every other week or so.
