Eggs

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  • tcay584
    tcay584 Posts: 55 Member
    Eat all the egg! It's wholesome, LOL!
  • RedolentTome
    RedolentTome Posts: 4 Member
    Thanks for all the great advice everyone, I'll stick to the whole egg then. And yeah, I must've been thinking off egg substitutes which I can't cook because they freak me out.
  • vingogly
    vingogly Posts: 1,785 Member
    I eat the whole egg -- and see no point from a taste perspective to eating them without the yolk; all the flavor's there. I have them maybe once a week on the average, but sometimes I'll eat egg salad sandwiches every day for lunch or have them for breakfast. I believe in moderation -- I personally wouldn't eat 2-3 dozen a week but that's me. As far as I know, latest research has found the amount of cholesterol in your diet isn't related to the amount of cholesterol in your blood.
  • lisaatswitch
    lisaatswitch Posts: 1 Member
    I never used to particularly enjoy eggs but since following a low carb 'regime', they are an essential ingredient for my diet and I have grown to love them. I find best to eat in morning as they keep me full for around 4 hours, my fave breakfast at the moment is baked eggs on bed of spinach, about 5 cherry tomatoes halved and 30 grams feta cheese - bake in oven for just 11 minutes on 240 degrees, bingo, such a tasty start to the day and soo healthy, low carb and around 370 calories.
  • extra_medium
    extra_medium Posts: 1,525 Member
    kdtodd1124 wrote: »
    I absolutely love eggs and breakfast in general. I know egg whites are healthier but I feel like I'm wasteful if I throw away the yolk and prepackaged egg whites are pricy and seem like they'd be overprocessed. What do you guys do about this? Also if you have any healthy breakfast ideas I'd love to hear them!

    Look at your entire diet for the day, not just each food individually. if you have room for the extra calories and fat, just eat the whole egg. I only eat egg whites if I just want to add some protein.. but I get those from a carton so there's no extra yolk.
  • Zarka_91
    Zarka_91 Posts: 99 Member
    i take the yolks out of two of my eggs and one whole egg to make scrambled eggs. egg whites work better for me. and i have it with a slice of toast sometimes otherwise just with avocados for breakfast usually..
  • fitoverfortymom
    fitoverfortymom Posts: 3,452 Member
    Whole egg. Boiled. Each weekday morning. On weekends, I'll usually fix an omelette. Always the whole egg.
  • vikinglander
    vikinglander Posts: 1,547 Member
    3 thoughts:

    1) I only eat pastured eggs
    2) I ate 4 pastured eggs cooked in duck fat, with sea salt and black pepper, and 5 oz. of organic blueberries, for breakfast this morning
    3) You can use the egg yolks to make Hollandaise sauce to serve over your egg whites: https://stellaculinary.com/content/how-make-hollandaise-french-mother-sauce

    OK, 4 thoughts...:

    4) My total cholesterol, HDL/LDL ratio, and triglycerides are perfect. My doctor loves me.
  • GottaBurnEmAll
    GottaBurnEmAll Posts: 7,722 Member
    cwolfman13 wrote: »
    kdtodd1124 wrote: »
    I absolutely love eggs and breakfast in general. I know egg whites are healthier but I feel like I'm wasteful if I throw away the yolk and prepackaged egg whites are pricy and seem like they'd be overprocessed. What do you guys do about this? Also if you have any healthy breakfast ideas I'd love to hear them!

    Actually, most of the nutrition in an egg is in the yolk. I only use whites to bulk up my omelettes for fewer calories.

    Also, cartons of egg whites are just egg whites...they aren't overly processed...they're just egg whites in a carton and have been pasteurized. Maybe you're thinking of egg substitutes.

    This. I'm a volume eater, so I do make use of packaged egg whites, but it's not because they're "healthier", it's because I can eat more for less calories. I mix packaged whites together with whole eggs when I make myself omelets. I'd be ethically uncomfortable trashing the yolks.
  • Chadxx
    Chadxx Posts: 1,199 Member
    I typically use egg whites simply because they allow me to eat larger portions but there is nothing wrong with whole egs and sometimes I still eat them as well.
  • TeresaB12345
    TeresaB12345 Posts: 23 Member
    I use one whole egg and a serving of the carton egg whites mixed together. The carton doesn't have any extra ingredients - just the egg white but they are tastier w the whole egg mixed in.
  • HeidiCooksSupper
    HeidiCooksSupper Posts: 3,839 Member
    The drive to cut out the yolks goes back to the low-fat-is-the-way-to-lose-weight ideas of the past. More recent science shows that excess carbohydrates present more of a problem. You should limit saturated fats but fat-free is no longer the way to go. https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/what-should-you-eat/fats-and-cholesterol/
  • Grammytryingtogetfit
    Grammytryingtogetfit Posts: 672 Member
    Need2Exerc1se wrote: »
    NEOHgirl wrote: »
    I eat the whole egg - more nutritional bang for the buck, literally & figuratively. When I was baking a white cake from scratch, I had to use only the whites, and wondered what I would do with the yolks because I didn't want to waste them. You can look up how to freeze them properly for use later; I think it was basically add a little salt, scramble, & freeze in a plastic bag, but it's been a few years and I might be wrong. Besides, if you aren't eating yolks, what you you personally possibly use them for? I ended up buying some of the egg white cartons and mixing those in with a little bit of the saved yolks to essentially get back to a whole egg.

    You could probably just freeze them as is. Eggs freeze really well raw in the shell. During winter most of the eggs I eat will have been frozen because they freeze in the coop before I gather them up.
    OK, I have the same issue, my eggs always freeze, but it's ok to thaw them and eat them?
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