I was wondering what strange things other people feed their rats.

Mostly my kids get a staple cereal mix, with treats from whatever I'm eating.  So like, lunchmeat, carrots, veggie burgers, hummus, bagels and cream cheese, ramen noodles... you know, college food.  Then they also get other things, like those nice chew treats I got at the RMFE show (I need to find more!), Yogies, and natural greens like violets, dandelion, and chicory.

Small amounts of chicken is actually good for them.  If you're eating something like fried chicken, they can have the bones and they'll clean the meat right off of it.  Unlike dogs, they can actually have chicken bones for chewing.

Dandelion is good for them, too.  We used to give it to our iguanas.

Around here they don't get anything "strange".  They eat Suebee's diet, Mazuri lab blocks, and then Gerber baby cereal made with soy milk, and they get soy beans, jarred baby food, and sometimes our "leftovers" from dinner.  I always take a small amount of whatever we've had for dinner and make them a plate.

They get oatmeal, and Malt-O-Meal, and scrambled eggs, baked tofu, small bits of bean burrito.  They don't get anything like lunchmeat, though, because the sodium is through the roof on that stuff.  I never buy it, so they never eat it.  They don't get hot dogs & things of that nature either, because I never buy those.  They don't get anything that's been overly processed that way, mostly because we never eat that stuff.

Sending them back home to live with their mamas sounds like a nice start, doesn't it?