"Fess Up Everyone, How Many Eggs A Day Do You Really Eat?

[suburbanminifarm]

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Actually this is a myth put out by pharmaceutical companies trying to sell cholesterol drugs. For one thing dietary cholesterol will not raise blood cholesterol --my DW , who eats as few as 3 and as many as 6 eggs per day had a very low cholesterol count last time she was tested. Second there is a lot of research out there that seems to show cholesterol is not the culprit it seems to be but may be necessary for good health, especially in the real young and real old humans. Unfortunately the egg raising industry never got behind this research. There are a large amount of research that was done on cholesterol that "proved" what the researchers want to prove by ignoring anything that seemed to contradict them.

The same thing is true about dietary fat, BTW.

Also eggs--the whole thing nor just the whites--are an excellent source of protein to increase brain development and should be in the diet of young children whose brains are growing. Eggs can make you smarter.

If there is anything that can harm one from eating eggs it may be what you are cooking them in, specifically margarine or oleo, that stuff can kill you. Use butter or lard or bacon fat.

Agree 1000% !!!
I eat at least 3 a day and tons of real butter, and am thin and have low cholesterol. I have to; eggs are practically my only protein since I haven't eaten meat since I was 14 years old.

 

[silkiechicken]

Maybe a dozen a month? I'd eat them like every week if my chickens were closer!!! I just can't eat store eggs.

 

[mom'sfolly]

We go in fits and starts. We'll eat every egg the girls lay (about six a day) for a while and then I will have 3-4 dozen in the fridge. It sort of depends who is eating eggs, if we have cereal in the house and if I'm baking alot. For a family of four I think we eat 1-2 dozen a week...so 3-6 eggs each per week. This can go up to three or four dozen a week though with egg and waffles for breakfast, quiche or souffle for dinner, baked dessert or custard twice a week. Doing the math...9-12 eggs for breakfast, 3 eggs for the waffles, 6-10 eggs for quiche or souffle, 3 eggs for pumpkin pie and 8 eggs for baked lemon pudding...that's three dozen without actually eating eggs (counting the quiche) more than twice in one week.

 

[woodmort]

I must confess I don't eat them for breakfast primarily because I don't eat breakfast but I'll boil up a dozen at a time and make egg salad--with real mayo--and scarf them down in egg salad sandwiches in a 2 or 3 day period. Also I'll knock off a dozen devil eggs in a sitting if I can get my DW to make the filling--I'll peel and slice the eggs.

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

Once a week, MAYBE.

The days I do eat them, I eat 3 eggs a day. I have to be in the mood to eat eggs.

 

[mississippifarmboy]

Lets see, three for me, four for my son, two for the wife, maybe one for the daughter, that would be around 9 - 10 for breakfast a few times a week, about a dozen a week for egg salad sandwiches, around a dozen a week for baking, so about 4 - 5 dozen a week.

With that being said, if we are busy we might not eat a dozen some weeks and then again if we are home all week and all the neighborhood kids are here, wife bakes more so might use as much as 6 dozen a week.

There was a time when I could and did on occassion eat a dozen eggs at one sitting myself, but couldn't do it now.

 

[mom'sfolly]

I could probably eat a dozen deviled eggs at a time, I'd regret it, but I could do it. Dh might have to move to the sofa for a while too....TMI

 

[mississippifarmboy]

mom'sfolly :

I could probably eat a dozen deviled eggs at a time, I'd regret it, but I could do it. Dh might have to move to the sofa for a while too....TMI

 

[42Chickens]

I am getting about eight eggs a day with my thirty something juvie hens and to tell you the truth, I ate way more when I bought them. Now it is all I can do to keep up with demand on what other people want.
I went to the fridge on Sunday Morn. This morn and only had a few eggs for I had sold them all. JEEZ. Must keep a reserve for the homrstead~ Maybe I need a special egg carton for "home use" or something. I used to buy two dozen or so a week for my husband and I and now.......we are out but feeding chickens and putting up with them eating the dog food and pooping on the porch. I want some of my own eggs.

Searcy

P.S. I can eat at least six deviled eggs in a sitting and have.

 

[4 luv of eggs]

Earlier this year I was amazed at the amount of eggs I was going through. I was buying 2 1/2 dozen every week and twice that during the holiday season (I bake alot). That's when I decided to get hens.

I'm diabetic so I need to watch my carb count to keep my numbers down. I personally eat two eggs every day. My 15 month old grandson is a chip off the old block. That child can polish off a two egg cheese omelet in no time flat.

I can't wait til the girls start producing so I won't have to buy so many store eggs.