The Price of Eggs

[jaysay]

Just a little wander, I went to hospital last year and was in the office arranging a date for a small Op when I spotted a screen saver, I nearly fell of the chair with laughing. It showed a fried egg, and a chicken is stood looking at it, a speech bubble was coming from its mouth it just said, Jimmy Speak to me, classic

[entwisi]

Originally Posted by panther

An eggs an egg

No way, I'm no food snob but eggs are probably the best example of where cheapness shows, Asda smart price have weak, insipid yolks, good eggs are vibrant orange and full of taste.

[pipinfort]

Originally Posted by entwisi

No way, I'm no food snob but eggs are probably the best example of where cheapness shows, Asda smart price have weak, insipid yolks, good eggs are vibrant orange and full of taste.

Got to agree with you on that.........

[pipinfort]

Originally Posted by pipinfort

Got to agree with you on that.........

as well as from a cruelty point of view...............

[Benipete]

Originally Posted by entwisi

No way, I'm no food snob but eggs are probably the best example of where cheapness shows, Asda smart price have weak, insipid yolks, good eggs are vibrant orange and full of taste.

What do you expect from a £2 chicken Who's only aim in life is to end up on a paupers plate accompanied by a few Asda frozen chips and a tin of Mushy peas.

[Less]

Originally Posted by pipinfort

as well as from a cruelty point of view...............

Give it a few days of trucks not able to deliver the homogenised free range never been touched by a chickens bum, eggs and other such over-priced 'organic' foods then we will probably all queue up to buy rats testicles if that's all that's on offer with no questions asked as to how the rats were raised.

These chickens know no different, better that they are there to feed the nation than we end up with kids suffering rickets or worse because we are soft hearted on animals and hard hearted on the people that can't afford to pay twice as much for an M&S conscience free meal.

[MargaretR]

An egg is only worth eating if it provides your body with nutrition

If your only reason for eating is to stave off hunger then by all means eat the cheap ones, where the hens have fed off junk.
If you care about nourishing your body, it matters what that hen ate.

What that hen ate can affect whether the egg is worth cooking and eating
For detailed facts see here-
http://ressources.ciheam.org/om/pdf/c37/99600038.pdf

[blazey]

Is it better to eat a soft boiled egg or a hard boiled egg? Which is more nutritionally valuable?

I like my eggs runny, but is that good for me or bad

[Less]

Originally Posted by [email protected]

An egg is only worth eating if it provides your body with nutrition

If your only reason for eating is to stave off hunger then by all means eat the cheap ones, where the hens have fed off junk.
If you care about nourishing your body, it matters what that hen ate.

What that hen ate can affect whether the egg is worth cooking and eating
For detailed facts see here-
http://ressources.ciheam.org/om/pdf/c37/99600038.pdf

Better people than us have got it wrong about what is good and nutritious. Pay extra if you wish, I find I can eat over twice as many eggs if I buy the ones produced with those energiser triple AAA's and then I can go to the same store a week later and buy the eggs mother pre-cooked at a very reasonable price probably knowing that I will live longer because I fret less about what I'm shoving down my throat.

[MargaretR]

Originally Posted by blazey

Is it better to eat a soft boiled egg or a hard boiled egg? Which is more nutritionally valuable?

I like my eggs runny, but is that good for me or bad

I can't see that the cooking method can alter the nutritional value, but what you cook it in may well do.
Avoid frying in processed oils and fats (trans fats/hydrogenated oils and fats)
If you eat the cheap ones it would be wise to have a set, not runny, yolk because the extra heat it has been exposed to will have had more chance of killing salmonella bacteria which is prevalent in intensively reared flocks.

[MargaretR]

Originally Posted by Less

Better people than us have got it wrong about what is good and nutritious. Pay extra if you wish, I find I can eat over twice as many eggs if I buy the ones produced with those energiser triple AAA's and then I can go to the same store a week later and buy the eggs mother pre-cooked at a very reasonable price probably knowing that I will live longer because I fret less about what I'm shoving down my throat.

Despite being older than you, I think that I will outlive you
if the picture on your profile page is anything to go by

[Less]

Originally Posted by [email protected]

Despite being older than you, I think that I will outlive you
if the picture on your profile page is anything to go by

If that picture is to be believed then I am a member of the undead so as long as there is plenty of iron in the egg I'm eating I may not out live but I should outlast yo...............................

Arghh left arm, pins and needles, chest in vi...ce like grip.....

speech now impaired....

dush dish meayne de eynd?

Or should I just put it down to lack of salt in the diet and cramps?

Damn the lettuce on my ham & tomato butty I had with my regular 8 dinner time pints,
I knew a healthy diet would be the death of me!