What do you do with your extra eggs?

[Crusty McPottydoodle]

POUND CAKE! 4 eggs per loaf.

 

[Sunny Side Up]

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THROW AWAY FRESH EGGS???

Who would dare to do such a thing? These gems are precious, and never ever to be wasted!!! Instead of tossing my home-grown eggs I do any number of the following:

Sell & deliver a few dozen each week to a few priviliged customers who realize the quality of fresh backyard eggs (I do this on a routine trip into town so it's not an extra trip)

Bring eggs to give or sell at homeschool and church gatherings. If I neglect to do this there are sure to be folks asking "Did you bring eggs?"

Give eggs as hostess gifts or thank-you gifts when picking up FreeCycle items or in return for other great favors

Use them by the fistfull in egg-rich recipes like quiche & breakfast burritos

Whir them shells & all in the blender, along with some garlic cloves & cayenne pepper, and scramble for the chickens to eat

Bury in the planting holes when starting tomatoes, or bury along the drip line of bushes

But never never ever TOSS away home-made eggs! Once someone asked me to supply the eggs for a company picnic egg-toss game. I was both horrified and amused. Horrified to think of wasting their goodness like that, and amused to think of how it would spoil the game with their hard, difficult-to-crack shells.

 

[TaLani]

Since we get at least a dozen a day, I do have extras. A lot of them get used when making eggs salad. I donate the rest of my extras to my local food pantry. They're a non-profit agency that feeds local needy folks in my local communitiy. The best thing is that my donations are tax deductible.

 

[Smartie_Pants]

When I had tons of extras, I gave them to friends and family who don't have much money and need them. Now that I have downsized my flock greatly and only get a few eggs a day, any extras are scrambled and fed to the cats. A few months ago I had 21 strays and their babies living in my yard.

Now I'm down to seven, and will eventually be down to 4.

 

[Sunny Side Up]

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I hope you're claiming their fair market value of $5 a dozen. Don't forget to log the miles you drive 'round trip to deliver them, and claim the credit for that as well.

 

[CityChicker]

We never seem to have extra eggs. After ALL of our friends and family are taken care of, we seldom have any significant amount of extras.

When we do have more than normal, my favorite thing to do with them bar none is make creme brulee or egg custard. A lot of times, I will also bake something with them. Like someone else said, sometimes we will also do egg salad or rarely, boil them and feed them to the critters.

If I ever had like dozens of extras, I would probably donate them, but that doesn't seem to ever be the case.

 

[TaLani]

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I hope you're claiming their fair market value of $5 a dozen. Don't forget to log the miles you drive 'round trip to deliver them, and claim the credit for that as well.

Goodness, I've only been writing down $3/dz! They come pick them up where I work, so I don't have any miles, other than maybe I could "charge" for transporting them from the town I live in to the town I work in (30mi. one way) where they pick them up. What do you think???

 

[Sallyschickens]

All I can say is that my neighbors LOVE me!

 

[DawnSuiter]

Extra Eggs???
I honestly didn't know there was such a thing!???!!!!

 

[Mrs MIA]

Every time I think I have too many eggs, someone asks for and extra dozen, or 3 or 4.

Bantam eggs I will boil up and feed to the birds, pigs, or make pickled eggs. Full sized eggs are sold to help pay for the little piranhas eating habits.

If I still have extras, I sell them to the local feed store as eating/hatching eggs. With 2 growing boys, a strapping young husband, 2 pigs, 3 dogs and a bazillion birds, NOTHING goes to waste... ever.