Spring time eggs
One Easter our family went a little overboard on the amount of eggs we colored. I figured they would probably go to waste. I didn’t think the kids would eat them and we aren’t big egg salad eaters. To my surprise, my pickiest eater ate a whole dozen boiled eggs all by himself in one day.
I don’t recommend ever eating that many eggs in a day but I do think an egg or two in the morning can be one of the best health changes a person can make. Especially if you’re saying to yourself right now, “I can’t eat breakfast, it makes me nauseous. If I do eat in the morning, an egg is the last thing I could stomach; I have to have something sweet.”
If you’re saying that, you most likely have blood sugar issues and you liver may be making glycogen while you sleep. You probably need breakfast more than most people, a breakfast that includes protein. Eating an egg in the morning can help with weight loss as well.
Eggs are a great way to get your omega 3s. Especially if you don’t like fish. Eggs are a good source of digestible protein, and also contain selenium, choline, vitamin E, and lutein. Deep yellow to orange yolks are richer in carotenoids.
It’s not always easy to eat strictly organic but, because eggs are naturally a product of hormones, I do not compromise on eggs. For my family they have to be synthetic hormone and antibiotic free. I want eggs to nourish our glandular system, not create an imbalance. Cage free is also important to me because how a chicken feels can effect the hormones in an egg.
Unless you are allergic to the whites, I recommend eating the whole egg. The whites have elements that balance out the yolk and the yolk has elements that balance out the whites. The egg is a perfect balance of a self contained yin and yang food.
To add variety, mix it up. Prepare them scrambled, fried, and boiled. Eat with cheese, or salsa.
Enjoy your eggs this Easter! I know I will.
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