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| Eggs...Are You Still Buying | |
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| Topic Started: Jul 8 2015, 02:31 AM (1,736 Views) | |
| Trotsky | Jul 8 2015, 02:31 AM Post #1 |
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Bird Flu has devastated much of the Central and Western states with IOWA alone losing 25 MILLION laying hens. Prices are soaring and I am always adamant to cut back when these episodes occur. I do it for coffee when prices soar, I got rid of the car when gas soared, I rarely eat beef and now we have cut back drastically on eggs. I feel that if all consumers do this, that when supplies are normalized the price gouging will stop and normalcy will reign in the marketplace. So we have added a cold cereal breakfast, a bit more steel cut oats breakfasts and a continental (bagel only) breakfast atop a weekly lox and bagel breakfast. We are doing eggs only once a week instead of 4 times...last a ham and cheese omelet. (Today's breakfast: Special K and Milk.) How about you? Are you seeing super-high egg prices? Are you cutting back? Gotta learn to make a congee. Edited by Trotsky, Jul 8 2015, 02:33 AM.
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| Olive Oil | Jul 15 2015, 04:03 AM Post #31 |
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I love eggs any which way but pickled. My son has left a quart sealer of them behind when he returned to Edmonton. Every time I open the fridge I see eyeballs. I have to ask him if he wants them. He will be back next month. I'm not even sure what their shelf life is. Gruesome!!!! |
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| swing | Jul 15 2015, 05:08 AM Post #32 |
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I love pickled eggs, used to make them. They keep for a good while as they are pickled just like dills! |
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| Trotsky | Jul 15 2015, 05:31 AM Post #33 |
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I love picked eggs also, in a couple gallon jug covered with sliced beets and onions. The purple color is so inviting. Back in Pennsylvania, every corner bar had them. I made them several times, and will again if egg prices fall. <I wonder what I did with my huge wide mouthed jug? Haven't seen it since I moved...it had originally held an immense pile of kimchee.> Edited by Trotsky, Jul 15 2015, 05:33 AM.
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| Olive Oil | Jul 15 2015, 12:41 PM Post #34 |
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Will they survive more than a month in the fridge? The beet color would be an improvement. I have to admit I've never tasted one. |
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| Trotsky | Jul 16 2015, 12:02 AM Post #35 |
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Pickled HB eggs will last 'til the Second Coming (but not with me around.) laugh123 I had JUST made hard boiled eggs a part of my diet plan. :th_th15_8_6-2: They were the perfect snack, easy, sugar-free, high protein, low calories, for whenever I got peckish. And just then millions of laying hens got sick had to be destroyed and prices soared. question.gif Dammit. Edited by Trotsky, Jul 16 2015, 12:04 AM.
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| swing | Jul 16 2015, 03:41 AM Post #36 |
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Trotsky is correct, pickled eggs will last forever. I think I have a recipe somewhere, I believe the brine is similar to dill pickles which is rather simple, but soo good. |
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| Trotsky | Jul 16 2015, 04:22 AM Post #37 |
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I don't use brine, just a couple cans of sliced beets, liquid and all. Sliced onions, maybe half as much as the beets and vinegar...the rub is I cannot remember how much vinegar. If you cannot completely cover all your eggs, just turn the bottle over periodically so they all get a uniform red-purple (like the shoes.) I add some salt as I eat the eggs. I am talking myself into this but also I used to buy my beets at Can-Can (Shoprite's twice a year sale) and I paid a quarter a can. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSEW5yejZbw In Manhattan I guess I can quadruple that price. |
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| lilal | Jul 16 2015, 05:37 AM Post #38 |
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This is my aunt's recipe for pickled eggs: Fill a half-gallon jar to3" from the top with eggs and sliced onions.Add 1 Tablespoon pickling spice, 1 teaspoon salt; pour vinegar to 2" from neck. Add cold water to fill. Cover and refrigerate. I like your recipe Trotsky and the next time I make some I am going to try adding beets. |
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| Shorty | Jul 20 2015, 03:18 PM Post #39 |
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Checked out extra large at Walmart today, $2.89. For Americans, that translates to about $2.25 Canadian. Lots of protein and so versatile (as long as they're not bright yellow 😏). Hard boiled eggs are always popular in salad season. |
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| Trotsky | Jul 21 2015, 02:10 AM Post #40 |
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We are sort of stabilizing at around $3 for LARGE. Too much. edit: $4 today. Edited by Trotsky, Jul 21 2015, 10:22 AM.
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| Darcie | Jul 21 2015, 12:41 PM Post #41 |
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Paid $2.64 for large today which is about 4 cents less that what I paid all winter. |
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| Trotsky | Jul 22 2015, 01:09 AM Post #42 |
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WHite Silkie Bantam...the most popular "pet" chicken: Posted Image It looks like a schmoo...remember them? We eat a lot of eggs as a nation:
Egg Council report today:
I don't know if that is retail or the price paid the farmer. I found out something about "free-range" chickens. They are kept in a warehouse and the so-called "free range" is the warehouse floor...they never see a blade of grass 'til their heads are lopped off... only an expanse of concrete. Edited by Trotsky, Jul 22 2015, 01:21 AM.
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| Trotsky | Aug 9 2015, 06:16 AM Post #43 |
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Had to pay $2.99 for the last dozen of extra large...they have gone up since. |
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| Darcie | Aug 9 2015, 06:56 AM Post #44 |
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I paid $2.29 Can for large. |
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| Bitsy | Aug 9 2015, 07:24 AM Post #45 |
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I got a WalMart flyer in the mail and they have Sunny Meadow Extra Large Grade A Eggs, 18 count on sale for $4.18. Sale is good until 8/31. |
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