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28 June 2018 - The Incredible Edible Egg

All About Hard Cooked Eggs

 "When eggs are in good supply and consequently cost less - possibly early summer - hard cook them and use them in a variety of ways."


As if my family leaves eggs just laying around.
We go through our eggs like it is the only food around after Armageddon.

Our Almanac is considering that chickens tend to lay more eggs and more often now in the summer than in the darker colder winter months.
So purchasing eggs could be potentially cheaper now than in the winter.

I haven't really seen that is the case in 2018.

Organic backyard raised chicken eggs can average $3 per dozen and I have seen that price year round. Farm produced eggs (I'm talking factory farmed) can control the temperature environment for their laying chickens so prices might fluctuate but not that much.

You really want to take advantage of stores having a sale, manufacturer coupons, or straight up system errors.
This past weekend I got a dozen eggs for $0.39 and I'm sure it was an error that they couldn't fix right away. Did they advertise this, NO!

I raised my own chickens for a while.
The eggs were great!
They lived in a little coop outside and I let them roam around during the day.
At night they went to their coop to sleep and I shut the door to keep predators out.
Except one night we didn't get there in time and something got in and killed them.

R.I.P. Flora and Fauna

 The money I saved on eggs. I can't even calculate it.

One day I want chickens again.
My little protein makers.

Bonus picture of my kids as chickens

So what do you do when you have extra eggs?

Our Almanac suggests that you hard boil them and serve them with lunches.
Salads, sandwiches, ham dinner, deviled eggs, pickled eggs.

They are a great healthy little addition to any meal or snack.

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