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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 f...

22 March 2018 - What To Expect When Your Expecting Easter

When Does Easter Come? "Easter is a Christian holiday whose date varies each year." In A.D. 325, a church council determined that Easter should be determined by the first full moon after March 21st. Easter is celebrated on the first Sunday after this full moon. Easter can never come earlier than March 22nd and can not be later than April 25th. Our Almanac actually looks forward to April 23, 2000 as the latest Easter would be celebrated since 1943 when Easter fell on April 25th. For us, we can look forward to April 25, 2038 when Easter will fall on the absolute latest date it could fall on. The actual word Easter is thought to be a variation of the name of the goddess Eostre who was celebrated every spring. ... Easter is a season where we celebrate the coming of new things. The rising of the dead. Nature coming back from its winter sleep. OR Hollow Chocolate Bunnies full of disappointment that symbolically remind of us of the empty ...