Anyone have picky egg eaters in their house that only eat store eggs?

[Hecate]

Before we got our hens, we bought fresh eggs (all colors) from a local farmer. He told me once that his wife refused to eat their eggs and bought eggs for herself at the grocery store. My kids were astonished! As young as they are, they know the difference and love the fresh eggs.

Once we finally got our own chickens, our neighbors inquired weekly as to when we would have eggs and could they buy some. Folks don't know what they're missing if they don't give the fresh eggs a try!

 

[hennypenny9]

Ever since I was little I called store bought eggs "fake eggs." I've slipped up many times and called them fake. People sure give you strange looks. Of course, no one in my house likes store bought eggs, but some of my co-workers think I'm totally insane. I've gotten all of these:

I don't want to get an embryo... (We didn't have a rooster...)

There is no difference. (.....)

Why bother? (Do you really want me to start?)

My view is that industrialized countries have this detachment from their food. We go to the clean bright store, buy our food in plastic wrap, and cook it. Other countries have markets where you can see a WHOLE animal. And no, I would not know how to butcher it myself, and yes it would be very hard for me to do. But I think you respect your food more that way. You see it as an animal that died so you can eat. It has value. It's not just miscellaneous meat. I've actually toyed with becoming a vegetarian because I don't know if I could kill an animal, and I think it's hypocritical of me to eat something when I get nauseous seeing it whole. (seeing a whole, dead, chicken with it's feet still on makes me ill) *gets off soapbox*

Oh, on a side note, the final reason I can't become a vegetarian? One word. Bacon.

 

[Charlene]

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YAY!

 

[Charlene]

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OMG I think we must be related! I have been sorta-veggie in my life, but never did I consider bacon meat

Now i just figure the best thing is just to eat less meat. Ultimatums are like diets, impossible to keep.

And yes, the detached from food thing, this is abd for the world. I can't say exactly how, but I know in the long run if you don't know where your food comes from, if you can't appreciate what it costs, it is a loss to us as a society.

 

[hennypenny9]

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Yay Charlene! And I think if we look at the food industry in the US we can see the bad effect. Horrible conditions, sick animals, hormones, people not being able to trust the quality of food they eat... Around fifty short years ago it was the NORM to have a few backyard chickens, maybe a milk cow or two. Now it's "weird." And guess what? We ate less meat.

And I also try to eat less meat. It's not even hard, when it's so expensive! I think I eat meat maybe once a week. I really don't keep track. I hardly ever eat chicken. I always feel kinda bad when I do, when I think of the conditions. I once read an article about how chickens are slaughtered, cried for like an hour, and didn't eat chicken for months. >> If I got chicken from a local farm where someone takes pride in the quality of their animals, then I'd be fine.

I really love this forum.

 

[americana-chick]

My mom is the same way...

she doesnt like our eggs but loves store bought, and wont drink the milk from our cows but she will drink store bought milk. kinda confusing....? i even told her about how one is better for you.. and how store bought eggs are just nasty how they care for there chickies...

 

[americana-chick]

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Yay Charlene! And I think if we look at the food industry in the US we can see the bad effect. Horrible conditions, sick animals, hormones, people not being able to trust the quality of food they eat... Around fifty short years ago it was the NORM to have a few backyard chickens, maybe a milk cow or two. Now it's "weird." And guess what? We ate less meat.

And I also try to eat less meat. It's not even hard, when it's so expensive! I think I eat meat maybe once a week. I really don't keep track. I hardly ever eat chicken. I always feel kinda bad when I do, when I think of the conditions. I once read an article about how chickens are slaughtered, cried for like an hour, and didn't eat chicken for months. >> If I got chicken from a local farm where someone takes pride in the quality of their animals, then I'd be fine.

I really love this forum.

I eat some meat, but not very often. i agree that in the long run it is hurting societif you dont know where your food comes from or appreciate what the food costs. i kinda wish it was still 50 or so years ago, i always want to share stories with other farmers here but there is none.

~Bri

 

[briana1975]

We don't even have our chicks yet and already have people wanting to buy eggs. We have a Aunt who won't eat our eggs when we get some not because she doesn't like fresh eggs but because she is so cheep she wont pay 1.50 for a dozen fresh eggs when she can get them at the grocery store for $.99.

 

[Jameberlin]

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Man alive i love bacon! I've toyed with vegetarianism briefly, but i believe too much in a natural order and i don't want to mess with that. I was made an omnivore and i think i'd like to stay that way... so as a compromise we buy our beef and broilers from a local ranch who raises their cattle and poultry on pasture in the hills... it's pretty expensive comparatively (i share cost with my parents), but the meat is better for you, tastes like real meat and doesn't come with a nice steaming side plate of guilt

P.S. I hear pasture raised beef is higher in something called conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) than their mass produced soy fed counterparts, and thats the stuff that helps people lose weight, and even shrinks cancer cells.

 

[Wifezilla]

When I was a vegetarian (about 6 years) I gained a lot of weight and developed high blood pressure.

Now I am a low carber, I lost over 40 lbs, my blood pressure is down, I feel great, and bacon is always on the menu

And yes on the pastured beef vs feed lot beef. MUCH healthier.