aha! now i have a use for the nearly full bag of frozen butternut squash chunks i bought, thinking my kidlett would eat them (gotta make kids try new things right? yeah.... doesn't always work that way, lol).
funniest thing is, since i found out all the different things you can feed your snails and fish, the finkids and shellkids are eating the same vegetables as us human beans for their dinner these days, lol.