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Millipedes are pretty simple to satisfy food wise, and also cheap!
Some species such as Amber banded (Pachybolus ligulatus) and Red legged (Ephibolus pulchripes) eat mostly or only rotting leaf litter and wood. Although all millipedes should be supplied with this constantly, some millipedes will only eat this, and not fruit or vegatables, you can feed Oak, Sycamore and Beech leaves and then mulch and wood, it has to be really rotting though, like when you pick up a log and it falls apart in your hand, the leaves need to be brown and damp rotting, they provide calcium for the millipede as well as a healthy diet.
Oak leaves not ready to feed millipedes
Oak leaves just about ready to feed millipedes
Some millipedes will eat fresh fruits and vegatables as soon as you put it in the tank, but most choose to eat it 24 hours later when it has began to wilt and go off, this is why it is important to leave the food where it is, in fact you shouldn't remove or replace food at all however gone off it gets, millipedes love rotting stuff and it is healthier for them, Just keep replacing food when it has been eaten, however mouldy or gone off it looks, it will either get eaten or eventually decompose into the soil.
Wilted Iceberg lettuce
Millipedes will eat most anything...
Lettuce
Cucumber
Tomatoes
Apple
Banana
Pear
Melon
Peppers
Courgette
Carrot
and many many others...
There are also other foods that millipedes will eat including..
Sweet potato
Spirulina wafers
and even meat, some people feed lunchen meat to millipedes weekly as millipedes will scavenge in the wild.
Spirulina wafers
(Left) Sweet potato, (Right) Courgette
Calcium
Millipedes can also be given extra calcium in captivity in different forms, apart from the Oak leaves you can also give calcium through Cuttle bone, but millipedes won't instinctivly eat cuttlebone as they don't come across it in the wild, so in order to get your millipedes to eat it, you need to powder it which can be done by scraping the bone with a knife or spoon into a bowl, and then you can sprinkle the powder onto the millipedes food and enclosure.
Cuttlebone
Another form of calcium is Crushed oyster shells, this is a more recent 'discovery' but seems to work well, and is becoming more available to purchase. you can simply leave a saucer of it in the millipede tank or sprinkle/mix it in with the substrate, millipedes nibble on anything they happen to come across.
You can purchase crushed oyster shells from
