Eggs...Are You Still Buying

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Eggs...Are You Still Buying
Topic Started: Jul 8 2015, 02:31 AM (1,734 Views)
Trotsky	Jul 8 2015, 02:31 AM Post #1
Big City Boy Posts: 38,319 Group: Member Member #79 Joined: September 8, 2005	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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goldengal	Aug 19 2015, 10:22 PM Post #61
Mistress, House of Dogs Posts: 11,674 Group: Member Member #715 Joined: March 31, 2010	Darcie Aug 19 2015, 01:58 PM FuzzyO Aug 19 2015, 12:05 PM How about peameal bacon Darcie? Everytime I try to eat it I think I will like it this time, but I never do. What is there that is different from other bacon, I really do not like it. I absolutely love pemeal bacon, and just writing the word I can taste it. Perhaps because it is Canadian bacon. Yummy. Take care, Pat



Trotsky	Aug 19 2015, 11:51 PM Post #62
Big City Boy Posts: 38,319 Group: Member Member #79 Joined: September 8, 2005	FuzzyO Aug 19 2015, 12:05 PM How about peameal bacon Darcie? Is that what we call "Canadian Bacon," the sine qua non of Eggs Benedict.



Olive Oil	Aug 20 2015, 06:52 AM Post #63
Gold Star Member Posts: 4,747 Group: Member Member #785 Joined: June 10, 2010	It's strange that Canadian bacon is so rare in Canada.



Shorty	Sep 15 2015, 05:41 PM Post #64
Red Star Member Posts: 2,301 Group: Member Member #1,150 Joined: February 12, 2015	Yesterday when I was mixing up egg salad for sandwiches, I remembered adding a can of tuna. It was a less expensive way of making a tuna sandwich. Both have the same ingredients, at least the way I do it.



Trotsky	Sep 16 2015, 12:08 AM Post #65
Big City Boy Posts: 38,319 Group: Member Member #79 Joined: September 8, 2005	Quote: I remembered adding a can of tuna. I always add a sliced HB egg to my tuna salad, now Bob's tuna salad because I don't like canned tuna enough to make it anymore. I will eat it if laid before me (once a month max) as long as the smelly cans are immediately thrown out. Without the egg I would have no interest in tuna salad at all. Between the egg and the tuna it's definitely a week's worth of protein in one sitting. I prefer it on a nice big leaf of iceberg lettuce. My other tuna gripe is that I can only rarely find Bumble Bee White Albacore in OIL, only water which makes for too dry a product. Edited by Trotsky, Sep 16 2015, 12:13 AM.



angora	Sep 16 2015, 02:39 AM Post #66
WWS Book Club Coordinator Posts: 14,494 Group: Member Member #717 Joined: March 31, 2010	As far as I can tell, peameal bacon is Canadian bacon rolled in cornmeal. I love it.



angora	Sep 16 2015, 02:40 AM Post #67
WWS Book Club Coordinator Posts: 14,494 Group: Member Member #717 Joined: March 31, 2010	Trotsky Aug 19 2015, 12:45 AM I buy for value and here's the accepted standard. The next size up is 10% bigger than the last so if it costs LESS than 10% more, buy the bigger eggs. If the bigger cost MORE than 10% more, then go with the smaller eggs. Our favorite way for eggs is "over light" or "over easy" and a big dippable yoke is a nicer meal, so my size of choice is exclusively JUMBO and we USED to get them often for 3 dozen/$5. Now it's more than twice that amount. To me even EXTRA-LARGE seem too small. Today Bob announced "French Toast for breakfast, and of course with that meal, or pancakes or scrambled eggs, size is immaterial. Quote: and eggs similarly not much nutrition in the whites, at least this is what I am told by the dietitian. Eggs have traditionally been the cheapest source of high quality protein and nearly ALL the protein is in the whites, nearly all the fat is in the yolks. The yolk is the chicken. The white is food for the chicken.



Darcie	Sep 16 2015, 02:41 AM Post #68
Skeptic Posts: 31,154 Group: Member Member #714 Joined: March 30, 2010	angora Sep 16 2015, 02:39 AM As far as I can tell, peameal bacon is Canadian bacon rolled in cornmeal. I love it. Maybe it is the cornmeal I can't stand, don't like corn bread either.



angora	Sep 16 2015, 02:47 AM Post #69
WWS Book Club Coordinator Posts: 14,494 Group: Member Member #717 Joined: March 31, 2010	Probably why I like it. I am mad about all things 'corn'. I devour huge corn muffins until my stomach pops.



Trotsky	Sep 16 2015, 03:16 AM Post #70
Big City Boy Posts: 38,319 Group: Member Member #79 Joined: September 8, 2005	angora Sep 16 2015, 02:40 AM The yolk is the chicken. The white is food for the chicken. The SPOT on the yolk is the chicken. The white is the protein source for growth and the yolk is the fat source (most of the energy) as the embryo grows. Many animals are born still attached to the yolk, aka yolk sac, and it continues to feed off it when there is no "mother" to feed it. Quote: Juvenile fish go through various stages between birth and adulthood. They start as eggs which hatch into larvae. The larvae are not able to feed themselves, and carry a yolk-sac which provides their nutrition. Before the yolk-sac completely disappears, the tiny fish must become capable of feeding themselves . Edited by Trotsky, Sep 16 2015, 03:18 AM.



angora	Sep 16 2015, 03:46 AM Post #71
WWS Book Club Coordinator Posts: 14,494 Group: Member Member #717 Joined: March 31, 2010	ok, so I simplified. My early experience with our chicken eggs was to candle them and to cook them. I knew when an egg was too old when candling or floating revealed that the white was almost gone. That meant that the chicken-to-be had absorbed most of the food so was ready to be a real live chicken and the egg was not for eating.



haili	Nov 7 2015, 12:55 PM Post #72
Gold Star Member Posts: 7,083 Group: Member Member #387 Joined: September 15, 2006	I paid $2.69 for eggs and was surprised to notice that they were from the U.S. Don't we have enough Canadian chickens?



Darcie	Nov 7 2015, 03:40 PM Post #73
Skeptic Posts: 31,154 Group: Member Member #714 Joined: March 30, 2010	I got Extra Large Omega 3 eggs on sale for $2.44. and bacon for $2.77.



Trotsky	Nov 8 2015, 01:10 AM Post #74
Big City Boy Posts: 38,319 Group: Member Member #79 Joined: September 8, 2005	My 2 best sales this month: 18 Large for $2.50. 12 Jumbo's for $2.50. I guess the new replacement chicks are reaching laying age.



Trotsky	Nov 9 2015, 02:00 AM Post #75
Big City Boy Posts: 38,319 Group: Member Member #79 Joined: September 8, 2005	Got 18 large again yesterday for $2.50. I can live with that.



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