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The staple of their diet is grasses (probably close to 90% of their total diet in the wild). Most common grasses will do fine as long as they aren't treated with fertilizers or pesticides. In captivity a grass diet can be supplimented with moderate amounts of collard or mustard greens, cactus, dandelion, sometimes carrots, and strawberries. Lettuces, even romaine, are pretty much nutritionally useless to them. Many fruits and veggies will frequently be ignored, and even if they do eat them - too much can lead to various health problems; from diarrhea, to bacterial infections, to kidney failure. They aren't fruit eaters, they are grazers and I'd bet if you let him wander around on your lawn he'd try to eat some of the grass. =)
I don't have any care sheet pages off hand, but I'm positive you won't have any trouble coming across some if you do a websearch from any search engine. There are plenty of great pages out there, I remember from when I was researching before getting my own tort.
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