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I get that the point is inflation, but why eggs? If they went to $12/dozen, it would cost me like $4 extra dollars per week.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Zero. The animals we create are morally equivalent to our own children in that they are owed the exact same unconditional love and protection. Consuming eggs is shameful.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Do you drink water? Or breathe air? Do you know how much bacteria is floating around in the water you drink and the air you breathe? You consume millions of micro organisms everyday, how dare you deprive them of their full life cycle, shame on you!

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

I have like four every six months.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Depends where I am with training, but up to 70 a week.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I can eat up to a dozen boiled eggs a day if I'm particularly craving them. They're my fave source of protein!

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Eggs are not that expensive in Sweden, but in all honesty I don't really eat that many eggs in a week. Maybe if we use it as an ingredient, or maybe I'm having a boiled egg as a healthy snack, but I think most weeks it would be 0.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

42 a week, or 6 a day.

However, 30 eggs is only $3 where I live.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Me, 10-18. 2 per work day for egg Sammy. Then weekends depend on omelets and other meals depending on recipe. 10 minimum tho. Brother has 1 more chicken than his family eats eggs so if anything I buy less eggs than most households per month.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Varies a lot. Sometimes weeks can go by without me eating a single egg. But when I start, I go hard. It's not unheard of that I go through an entire carton as a late night snack with boiled eggs.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Lots the chickens are liking the weather it seems.

And ironically the latest egg price rise in the states is because of h5n1 and the stock market taking bets because of that. As much fun as it is to blame trump it would be misinformation to claim its his fault.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I make a bunch of deviled eggs maybe once or twice a year. I don't care for most other types of "easy" egg preparations and there are plenty of cheap beans, chicken, and cheap bits of pork for my protein needs.

Tbh I don't understand why people don't just buy something else. There are several good alternatives available.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago
  1. Eggs are not worth what they charge.
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

5-6, and eggs aren’t expensive yet. I guess wherever we get eggs from don’t have avian flu yet …. Although it’s here in the wild

I have a bowl of cereal (yogurt and fruit) during the week, but usually make something with eggs on the weekend.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I haven’t had eggs since they were $2/dozen, so zero in like 8+ months, but when I have eggs (starting chickens and quail) I’ll be eating probably 2-4/day. When they were cheap I was averaging 3/day, including baked goods and such.

I really don’t eat much meat (can’t afford that either, but my digestive system doesn’t do well with a lot of meat anyway), and my mushroom cultures are taking foooooooorrrrrreeeeeeevvvvvvveeeerrrrr, so.. need protein somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

A few a week, apparently 3 to 4 a week is optimum for health.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

That's a lot of eggs!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It depends. Eggs are part of cakes and pancakes, and a very quick to cook healthy thing to eat. Family of 4 now, we go through between 8 eggs on a light week and 32 eggs on a week I make a lot of egg stuff, or if someone is bulking, like today I made shakshuka for supper and a cake, that's eight eggs in one meal.

I think they are a commodity and historically a cheap source of animal protein, that's why they are talked about.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Protein is not a nutrient that anyone is deficient in. Any plant that humans eat provides enough protein if you consume enough to meet your calorie requirements. You have never met a person who is in protein deficiency who was not also literally in starvation from not having eaten. The whole "we need a cheap source of protein" thing is a myth. It's everywhere, it's inescapable. It's literally the building blocks of all life on Earth. It's like people in the 50s extolling the health virtues of smoking, it's pure marketing bullshit that we have become completely steeped in.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcopenia

Sarcopenia is a real thing, happening to people who eat a "healthy" diet.

The fact of the matter is most people are not eating enough bioavailable and complete protein (with all the essential amino acids). If your missing any of the amino acids you can't use that "protein"

Not to mention food labels use crude protin, a measure of nitrogen, they don't actually measure the amino acids.

Sadly this means many people trying to hit their moderate protein targets of 1g/kg bodyweight are absolutely not getting enough protein.

Using this graph as an example, different foods have different amounts of bioavailable nutrition. Nobody is going to eat 12kg of processed grains a day to hit their minimums.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Probably like 2 dozen a week. I like eggs lol.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Zero. I used to have a fried egg for lunch every day but many years ago something switched in my brain and now the flavor of them really puts me off.

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