Calling all DIY Food junkies!!!!

I am going to run out pretty soon, I maybe have 2 months worth of the reef food and still have a few bags of FOWLR (don't seem to use those much except for Taki)
I asked Joe yesterday and he said Central Campus is experiencing some issues and cannot have the event there for a while.
I have a heated garage and can do it at my place again if no one else can.  Also this might be one of those "what can sponsors do" things but I guess I don't see a problem hosting an event and using my business to get better prices on ingredients, I figure between me and Seascapes we can put on a pretty good event.
Last time we ended up making over 5g of food.  We did the Reef mix, FOWLR mix, and Large/Aggressive mix.
Matt was the only one needing the Large mix and IIRC he went through it pretty fast.  Also it was kind of complicated to make 3 different types of food, and I think the non-reef packs got kind of shorted, so I'm thinking that if anyone wants these we should make these separate batches.
I guess for right now pipe up if you have interest and how many bags.  For reference 1 bag is about 12 oz in a 1 qt Ziploc, when laid flat and frozen that comes out to somewhere between 1/4" and 3/8" thick and costs about $10/each, maybe $12.  You get about 2x as much for 1/2 the price of most frozen concoctions.
Also I'm working on revamping the recipe based on some I've seen on RC and Adam Pottebaum's recipe which included frozen veggies.

 

Also looking at really amping up the content, looking into sites like these for supplies:

http://www.brineshrimpdirect.com/

http://www.jehmco.com/

http://reedmariculture.com/product_instant_algae.html

I'm seeing some pretty good prices on frozen brine shrimp, rotifers, daphnia, mysis, bloodworms, cyclop-eeze, etc...

 

I should note that this will likely be a club sponsored event as it has been in the past, meaning you have to have a paid membership to participate or buy any food.

 

I started this before the business meeting, the minutes of that said that they wanted to do the DIY Food in April, I think I can hold out until then. Maybe Central Campus will be available by then as well.

 

Yeah, still working on that. Could use the extra month of time to get that all figured out an ordered. Last time we barely got the PE mysis on time

 

IIRC it's about 12oz. For comparison, a 6 oz bag of Rod's is about $20 so you get 2x as much for $10

Also I believe this is generally considered a club event so it's members only.

 

Food list (typical)

Shrimp
Scallops
Squid
Baby Octopus
Cod
Jumbo Krill
Blended Oysters
Spirulina Brine Shrimp
Bloodworms
PE Mysis
NLS Pellets (back in after reading Randy Holmes-Farley's article on phosphate content of foods) (I have this already)
Cyclops
BRS Reef Chili
TLF Zo Plan
TLF PhytoPlan
Coral Frenzy (I have this already)
Nori
Selcon
Marine C
Garlic Extreme

Other recipes in the club included things like

Marine Snow
Rotifers
Mussels
Peas
Broccoli
Spinach

I started an RC thread a couple months ago and got some good ideas http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2131786

But the original recipe seemed to work fine. I am against mussels because they're dirty according to this guy

http://home.wavecable.com/~jrowe/DIY%20Fish%20Food%20Procedure.htm

"Another thing to note is that I also remove clams and mussels from the mixed seafood I get at the Asian store. The reason for this is that I don't want my fish getting a taste for clams, and both clams and mussels have a high waste to protein content. They are practically half crap."

Also the sites I posted on 2/13 in this thread had good products and I think we should add some of those. I think we will get good bang for the $.