A menu built for an ambush predator
A pacman frog eats by waiting half-buried until food blunders past, so its diet is entirely animal prey: nightcrawlers and other earthworms, dubia roaches, crickets, hornworms, and black soldier fly larvae all suit it well. Feeder fish and pinky mice are sometimes offered, but they are richer and fattier than invertebrates, so most keepers treat them as rare extras rather than staples. Offer food with long feeding tongs at the front of the mouth; this frog's aim is enthusiastic rather than accurate, and tong-feeding keeps substrate out of the meal and your fingers away from a bite that is surprisingly determined.
How often, by age
Young pacman frogs are growing fast and should be fed daily or every other day, as many appropriately sized items as they will take in one short sitting. Adults, whose growth has slowed and who move very little, do better with a meal every two to three days. In both cases the frog itself sets the limit: when it starts turning its head away, backing down into the substrate, or ignoring strikes, the meal is over. Overfeeding is the commonest feeding mistake with this species — an adult pacman frog burns very few calories sitting still, and excess weight creeps on quietly.
Dusting and gut-loading
Prey insects and worms are short on calcium relative to phosphorus, so dust feeders with a calcium powder at every meal for juveniles and most meals for adults, and use a reptile multivitamin on a regular rotation rather than daily. Feeding the prey well matters too: roaches and crickets kept on vegetables and commercial gut-load for a day before serving pass more nutrition along than starved insects do. Because a pacman frog swallows prey whole and eats infrequently, each individual meal carries more weight than it would for a grazing species.
Feeding watch-outs
Use prey no wider than the frog can comfortably engulf, and never leave live crickets loose overnight — hungry insects will nibble at a resting frog. If a normally eager frog refuses food for several consecutive scheduled meals, check temperatures first, since a cool frog's digestion and appetite both slow down. Refusal paired with weight loss, swelling, or a frog that stops burying itself normally is the point to consult a reptile vet rather than keep offering different foods.
Keeping the routine straight
Pacman frog care runs on a rhythm — feeding days, dusting days, vitamin days — that is easy to blur across a busy week. KinsLe's Care Teams lets you set those duties against the frog's profile and mark each one complete with a timestamp, so a partner or sitter covering the tank follows the same cadence you use.