Feeding Neopets on a Budget!

Mmmmm..Food!

If you have more than one Neopet, feeding your little treasures can get quite expensive! Almost every Neopets' user wants to keep their pets well-fed and happy, without wasting all of their hard-earned neopoints. So, how can you keep the cost down to the minimum? What's the secret? The answer is really simple: just follow this budget. This guide is specially written to help you minimize the costs of feeding multiple pets.

Your Daily Food Ration

Yes, there are several dailies that pass out food. And best of all, they're all free! Most of them can only be visited once a day (hence, the name 'daily') to maintain how well it works when you use it.

Giant Omelette

The Giant Omelette in Tyrannia is the most used daily. You can collect one Omelette per day which will give you three feedings. Therefore, if you collect an Omelette every day you can feed all of your pets and keep them very happy at an ease! Not to mention, the food will never go bad. Omelettes of rare varieties can be collected and if this happens to you, you should check the shop wizard. It might be worth a lot of neopoints and you could potentially sell this to pay for many meals to come.

Giant Jelly

Another daily that will give you food is the Giant Jelly in Jelly World. (To those of you who do not believe in Jelly World: I guess that this daily won't work for you.) Sometimes you will get a screen that says the Giant Jelly was eaten, but this only happens so many months (the same goes for the Giant Omelette. Once in a while it won't be there.) There are several kinds of Jelly that your pets can eat, but watch out for the poisonous ones. Obviously, they will make your pets sick.You can tell a Poisonous Jelly by both its name and colouring - this Jelly is purple with red spots. I also wouldn't feed your pets Dung Jelly. Each Jelly will last for two feedings. If you collect both, Jellies and Omelettes, you can save the leftovers for later when you need them or can sell the extra in your shop for about 1 to 5 neopoints each.

Soup Kitchen

For those of you who are struggling to earn Neopoints, or running low on Neopoints, a great place to go is the Soup Kitchen where the Soup Faerie cooks up meals for those owners who have no more than 3,000NPs in their shop till, bank or pending trades. If you fall into this particular category, for whatever reason, you can take advantage of feeding your pets, as the kind Soup Faerie understands how tough it may be for you to feed your pets while running low on NPs. Simply head there, and click on which pet you want to feed, and they'll be fed the Soup Faerie's delectable soup varieties! Just remember, that if you have more than 3,000NPs you won't be able to take advantage of this, as its only for really really struggling neopians.

Fruit Machine/Sakmet

If you visit the Fruit Machine in Sakhmet, you will win about 50 neopoints and a fruit about once a week, sometimes more. The fruits change every time, but the most common are Tcheas and Ummagines. You can either save the neopoints in your bank or use them to buy more food. If you visit Coltzan's Shrine between 11-12 NST you most likely will receive a burnt food. You sometimes will win food prizes at the Tombola. Also, every half-hour you can visit Healing Springs where your pets may be fed. You may also have several opportunities to win food through wheels, events and games.

Monthly Freebies

Of course you've heard of the Monthly Freebies! Whenever you collect them you will get 2,000 neopoints and a food item for each of your pets. These foods tend to be of a higher value than the food you will get from dailies. Mark your calendar on the first day of each month and remember to collect your freebies! You can either use the food and store it or sell it for about 10 to 20 neopoints depending on what it is.

NeoLodge

One of the best options for keeping your pets fed while not spending a lot of neopoints is using the NeoLodge. You can book a room for 1-28 days during which your pets will be fed to the status level of bloating. If you have 1 Neopet, it costs roughly only 140 neopoints (choose the cheapest hotel - doesn't matter what hotel; your pets will still be fed to 'bloated') for 28 days. That's 1,820 neopoints a year for 1 neopet! And if you use the dailies you won't need to use the NeoLodge everyday so the cost will be even lower. Remember, even if your pets are in the NeoLodge you can play with them, train them, or fight with them in the Battledome.

Afterthoughts

If you want to think it this way, you can remember that Neopets don't die. Therefore, you don't have to feed them. Feeding your pets does, however, improve their playing, fighting, and training. On this one fact I place my case that everyone should feed their pets at least once every three days. I must say that the NeoLodge is probably your best bet to use! After reading this guide, you should be able to feed all of your pets cheaply while also making some spare neopoints on the side. I hope this guide has been useful to you.

Contributions by Anne, Duy, & Shalane

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