Just made my own beefheart today (well made it so the fish could eat it.). It was much simpler then i thought, just very tedious. Definently not for the faint of heart though i'd say. I am going to be feeding this to my discus tank only, not sure how it'd work for other fish.
First go get some beefheart. Picked mine up at Walmart. 2-3lb packs, $1.23/lb. Look for one that doesn't have a lot of fat on it already. You are going to end up chopping it off anyway.
Sliced beefheart in the package
Take the beefheart out strip by strip and cut the fat, veins, and "bad" parts out so you have nice clean meat.
Add the strips and other ingredients to a food processor or salad shooter type device and chop it up into either bite size chunks or ground beef type meat. The more you chop it the smaller the pieces get, better for flat packs. In this case i added in some fresh spinach to get the fish their veggies. Some people add in fish flakes, all depends what you want to do. I have some plain ground beefheart, spinach beefheart, and beefheart strips that i will chop at a later date.
Bag them up, smash them flat (Unless you are just doing the little bite size bits) and put them in the freezer. The pack on the right i plan on chopping tomorrow after it freezes to get the good bite size chunks. Its easier to chop when frozen.
