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| Eggs...Are You Still Buying | |
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| Topic Started: Jul 8 2015, 02:31 AM (1,733 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 | Nov 9 2015, 05:22 AM Post #76 |
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If you consider 2 eggs as a serving, it is a bargain indeed compared to meat. I am very confused about protein. The science used to be that beans with the exception of soy, were not complete proteins. Are beans and legumes now considered complete on their own? I'm also surprised to now read about protein in greens such as kale. I have always read that vegetables are very poor protein sources. Are animal proteins still considered superior? |
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| campy | Nov 9 2015, 05:26 AM Post #77 |
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Now wait a minute. Doesn't the egg have to be fertilized to create a chicken? Isn't that why we candle the egg to make sure it has not been fertilized? |
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| angora | Nov 10 2015, 02:09 AM Post #78 |
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yes, you're right, the egg must be fertilized to produce a chicken. All farmers I knew and our egg business. everyone candled eggs for various reasons, there could be blood spots or 'meat spots' or the egg could be old. Not nowadays but our chickens really did 'run free' and would lay where it suited them. My mother had one hen who would only lay in our back kitchen. She would cackle when she wanted in and my mother would open the door for her. I don't know why the yolk still eats the white. Maybe it doesn't know it's not fertilized. If you know please post it. Tks. |
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| Trotsky | Nov 10 2015, 02:39 AM Post #79 |
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I don't know but I will guess: The white of the egg has a much higher water content and perhaps the water vaporizes out through the porous shell making the white smaller and smaller giving the illusion it is being consumed when it is actually being dried out. Edited by Trotsky, Nov 10 2015, 02:40 AM.
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| angora | Nov 10 2015, 03:07 AM Post #80 |
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Sounds good. I'll buy it. :) |
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| Trotsky | Jan 17 2016, 04:59 AM Post #81 |
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Eggs are finally coming down in price. I guess those new chicks in IOWA have reached laying age. Last week I got Extra Large at my fave market 3 dozen/$5. Today the sale was on Jumbos: 2 doz./$4. Hoping next week we get back to the best price of yore: 3 dozen jumbos for $5. |
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| Durgan | Jan 17 2016, 06:11 AM Post #82 |
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Never saw eggs 3 for 5 ever. I only eat about three eggs a month anyway and buy them from a local farmer. |
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| Dana | Jan 17 2016, 06:47 AM Post #83 |
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Legumes need a grain to complete the protein makeup. Trotsky once posted that new science says they need not be eaten together. A dietitian recently told me that a cup of almost any type of food contains 1 gram of protein. I doubt any would say that animal proteins are superior - no fibre and the environmental cost of meat to the planet is large using grain that could feed far more people to produce one pound of meat. Somehow I managed to raise two healthy kids on a vegetarian (ovo/lacto) diet using the old science. |
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| Trotsky | Jan 17 2016, 08:50 AM Post #84 |
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We go through about 18 eggs per week, so price is important. |
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| margrace | Jan 17 2016, 11:14 AM Post #85 |
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Towns here are passing laws forbidding the keeping of any chicken within their limits. People evidently are afraid of chickens. What stupidity. 4 hens was all some kids had and they had to get ride of them. |
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| Trotsky | Jan 18 2016, 01:37 AM Post #86 |
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The newest federal guidelines say that teenage and adult men get far too much protein from far too much meat. Of course, federal guidelines are always up for bidding. If the tilapia lobby buys a few politicians we'll all be eating tilapia for breakfast. Edited by Trotsky, Jan 18 2016, 01:42 AM.
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| Olive Oil | Jan 18 2016, 05:59 AM Post #87 |
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I think many seniors don't get enough protein or maybe the body doesn't utilize it well. The "toast and tea" crowd seem very fragile. IMH0, we don't need huge steaks, etc. but still need enough to repair muscle wear and tear. I'm still eying those protein powders to add my morning smoothie but worry about contaminants, etc. I am suspicious of processed soy because of its estrogen type properties but am considering whey. |
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| Durgan | Jan 18 2016, 06:17 AM Post #88 |
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I eat a bowl of soy beans every morning and have done so for probably 40 or more years. http://www.durgan.org/URL/?RPGMQ 29 November 2014 Processing Soy Beans. One liter of dried soy beans were processed for a breakfast food. Procedure is rinse, boil for about half an hour, rinse again, soak for 12 hours,rinse, cook in pressure cooker for 1.5 to 2 hours. Blend into a slurry, add a bit of molasses for flavor. Store in containers. They will keep in the refrigerator for about ten days before spoiling. I usually store in the freezer to remove the spoiling concern. A bowl is ingested each morning. I am making a new batch of soy today. I got a bag full yesterday 30Kg for $45.00, locally grown. Posted Image Edited by Durgan, Jan 18 2016, 06:22 AM.
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| Olive Oil | Jan 18 2016, 07:22 AM Post #89 |
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Eating soy beans is a very healthy choice. You are utilizing a whole food. It's when soy is condensed into a food additive that it may be problematic. It seems to be in so many processed foods as well. Some doctors think it could interfere with endocrine glands with its estrogen like properties. Prevention magazine spoke of this concern and advised Breast cancer survivors as well as others to watch their intake. |
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| Darcie | Jan 18 2016, 07:39 AM Post #90 |
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I was told not to eat soy by the nutritionist. Lucky I make 99% of my food from scratch because they seem to put soy or soy something or other in everything. I eat an egg with spinach for breakfast and either fish, chicken or some other meat for the evening meal. The bread I make for myself has 4 eggs in it. The nutritionist told me that as we age we need to increase our protein as that is the building block of the body and we need all we can get. |
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