EGGS

vicky1

I always use free range eggs because we watched a program about battery hens and it totally appalled me that I will never eat eggs that don't come from barn or free range hens.

However we have a local farm that sells lovely eggs that taste yummy but they are big when I log eggs it has 1 large what would you class as a large egg.

This program also showed how hot dogs were made and I am so glad that hot dogs are high in fat as I will never eat them again neither will my kids I now find I check all labels of suspicious foods to make sure they don't contain mechanically recovered chicken we know pay more and buy german sausages for my kids when they want hot dogs at least they are made from meat not the leftover bones.

Anyway average size of an egg?

vicky1

I always use free range eggs because we watched a program about battery hens and it totally appalled me that I will never eat eggs that don't come from barn or free range hens.

However we have a local farm that sells lovely eggs that taste yummy but they are big when I log eggs it has 1 large what would you class as a large egg.

This program also showed how hot dogs were made and I am so glad that hot dogs are high in fat as I will never eat them again neither will my kids I now find I check all labels of suspicious foods to make sure they don't contain mechanically recovered chicken we know pay more and buy german sausages for my kids when they want hot dogs at least they are made from meat not the leftover bones.

Anyway average size of an egg?

jbuehrer

You might consider becoming a vegetarian soon... things in the FDA world is changing. They are letting things go. Playing God is now aloud (cloning was recently aloud). Sometimes fruits and vegetables are not so appealing. The Tomato for example is moved to an air tight room where they are exposed to a ripening agent called ethylene gas which only colors the tomatoes not ripen them. Tomatoes (and a lot of other fruits and vegetables) get their nutritional value from ripening... If it doesn't ripen naturally... you aren't getting the Nutrients in your food. there is no hiding from animal and plant abuse... unless you grow your own.:grumble:

jbuehrer

P.S. I believe the average American egg is Large. Farm raised eggs are usually smaller.

rheston

When you go to the store and you see several packages of eggs you see medium, large, extra large and jumbo as your selection so there is no easy answer to your question. I went onto the web and found the following about egg sizes:

Egg Sizes Per Dozen
Peewee eggs 15 ounces (425 grams)
Small eggs 18 ounces (510 grams)
Medium eggs 21 ounces (595 grams)
Large eggs 24 ounces (680 grams)
Extra-large eggs 27 ounces (765 grams)
Jumbo eggs 30 ounces (850 grams)

In my opinion eggs that are farm raised are the best because they truly are fresh whereas the eggs you get in a grocery store may be irradiated a number of times so that they can be recycled back to the shelves for sale. Your fresh bought eggs will last a long time straight from the nest.

The calories in a large egg (yolk is 65 calories the whites are 15 calories).

I hope this helps

jbuehrer

good answer. Whoot!

may_marie

I feel like its so hard in these days and age to eat normal fresh foods. It seems like everything has been raided with chemical of some sort of way. When you think of the harm it does to ourselves and the planet its really depressing. I am a vegetarian and I eat as much organic stuff as possible. i now live in the uk, and find it much easier then when i was in canada or the usa (I lived in a lot of places but i'm actualy canadian) but sometimes i just wish i could relax without feeling guilty or worried, and i though i was pretty aware of what was happening on the food market but i didnt know about the irradiated eggs.

Cowboy

We are very fortunate where we live we have a nice temperate growing season and my wife and I grow and preserve our own food fruits & veggies. We use raised bed, organic gardening techniques and manage to grow the bulk of our own potatoes, shallots, corn, etc. We buy our seeds from a place called "territorial seeds" and "Seeds of change" which are organic, open-pollinated seeds. We have fruit trees, and the meat and eggs we eat come from friend's and family's chickens and livestock...all raised organically. I don't know what we'd do if we couldn't track our foods as closely as we do.
Part of the problem is that we have all grown so accustomed to tomatoes in January...well, tomatoes don't GROW most places in January, but we want them, and we want them red and we want them perfect.....so they are under-ripe, gassed, and trucked or shipped from who knows where so that we can have a hard, tasteless red tomato look-alike on our nutrient deficient iceburg lettuce salad in January! For those of you who have never tasted a warm from the sun, ripe tomato that actually has a thick, meaty, sweet, rich flavour, let me know and I'll overnight one to you in August! You have to taste a real tomato at least once in your lifetime!
Cowboy

vicky1

As it happens I have just bought all my seeds to plant this spring I will be growing spring onions, peppers, cucumber, lettuce (not as many as last year) and carrots. I find that not only is it cost effective with my rabbit and 3 guinea pigs (soon to be breed and multiply) the veg taste soooo much nicer the carrots taste like carrots if you know what I mean. I am getting more paranoid about eggs though which is why we get them from a farm down the south of the Island from a lovely little old lady.

If I had room I would get chickens but I live in the middle of a housing estate and I don't thing my neighbours or my husband would appreciate it.

It is good to see that I am not the only one with concerns about what they do to food before it gets to the grocery store. (my hubby thinks I am paranoid)

may_marie

You guys are so lucky !!!
Its my dream to do the same, to have my little garden ect. Not that i think i could do it, ask the plants in my flat !!! they barely survive. In the meanwhile i try to buy local organic fruit and veg. But i do like my bananas and they dont grown much of those in the uk. (still buy organic fairtrade through)

Maybe one day i can convince my boyfriend to move out the city flat to a cottage in the country, so i can grow my veg and maybe have a couple chicken. ho . why not add a sheep too, we're in scotland afterall ! (there is more sheep then people here, and more pubs too ! )

Nice to dream a little
may