How many eggs do you eat a day?

[Zellephant]

I’m currently busy with a research study and need to keep a food diary for a couple of weeks. Something that I picked up on (not particularly surprised about or concerned about though) is how many eggs I eat.

I am not on a keto diet or anything, but do try to focus my eating more towards fats and proteins, so I’m not exactly trying to avoid eggs, but just found it funny how I easily eat 8 eggs a day almost every day, through my various meals, and now it’s considered perfectly good and healthy, but a couple years ago, I remember how everyone was jumping up and down telling us we shouldn’t eat anything more than 2 eggs a day and cholesterol this and fat that and bla bla bla.

Where did all the terrible nutrition advice from the 90s and early 2000s originate from

 

[RedViking]

It can't be proven that the chickens came first.

I'm an eggnostic.

 

[boomslang]

I eat 6 eggs a day, +-5 days a week

 

[Zellephant]

just realised I made a mistake with the poll and can’t edit it. 5+ should have been 6+

 

[Fulcrum29]

I don't eat eggs every day, but I do eat them regularly each week. Let's say I average two eggs a day.

 

[RedViking]

just realised I made a mistake with the poll and can’t edit it. 5+ should have been 6+

use the report function

 

[cpu.]

just realised I made a mistake with the poll and can’t edit it. 5+ should have been 6+

Choose "Change vote".

 

[Zellephant]

Thanks. But I still can’t delete the option for 5+. Anyway, it is what it is now

Choose "Change vote".

 

[neoprema]

I was brought up heavily on the thought that eggs are going to kill you from cholesterol and aren't healthy for you. Even though that is not the current thought, i can't shake that "ooh i've had too many eggs this week!" feeling when i hit around 5 eggs in a week lol. I do like eggs though especially for breakfast. But I usually just go for cereal in between.

 

[SauRoNZA]

Since I have 4 chickens it’s become almost a necessity to use the eggs when the ladies are in full production mode.

I can only make so much pasta and bake so many cakes and still have too much which I need to give away.

So I quite often will have just 5-6 scrambled eggs with cheese or some left over ham or mushrooms or whatever as a brunch option.

Other times will do a 3 egg omelette and in between the usual toast with two fried eggs on top.

Once in a while it will be egg friend rice if I have left over from the night before.

So it won’t be every single day but I reckon it averages out to at least 2 per day on average over a week.

If I was buying them? No way in hell. Maybe twice a week.

This is excluding eggs used in pancakes and such which I make religiously on weekends.

 

[SauRoNZA]

I was brought up heavily on the thought that eggs are going to kill you from cholesterol and aren't healthy for you. Even though that is not the current thought, i can't shake that "ooh i've had too many eggs this week!" feeling when i hit around 5 eggs in a week lol. I do like eggs though especially for breakfast. But I usually just go for cereal in between.

It’s the cereal that will kill you, not the eggs.

Probably more the butter and cheese and such that usually goes along with the eggs that push into a real concern for cholesterol.

 

[Zellephant]

It’s the cereal that will kill you, not the eggs.

Probably more the butter and cheese and such that usually goes along with the eggs that push into a real concern for cholesterol.

Yeah, it’s all the trans fats that go along with eggs in the traditional “English breakfast” context that will get you. But eggs themselves are actually pretty perfect little packages of just the right balance of good fats and protein on their own.

 

[Mephisto_Helix]

2 boiled eggs every day of the week .... love mah boiled eggs

 

[wbot]

None. Or I very rarely eat eggs. Almost never.

 

[Zellephant]

What about foods containing eggs? Do you not eat cake, or muffins or chocolate mousse or custard and things like that, or is it just eggs in “egg” form you don’t like?

Out of interest, what is your reason for not eating eggs?

 

[porchrat]

I'd guess I eat about 4 eggs a week. Maybe 5.

Basically every weekend for Sunday lunch we'll do bacon and eggs. I eat 2 then. At some point during the week I'll have a 2 or 3 egg omelette.

 

[Lupus]

Only about 2 a week, though should go for more

 

[Pegging]

Since I have 4 chickens it’s become almost a necessity to use the eggs when the ladies are in full production mode.

I can only make so much pasta and bake so many cakes and still have too much which I need to give away.

So I quite often will have just 5-6 scrambled eggs with cheese or some left over ham or mushrooms or whatever as a brunch option.

Other times will do a 3 egg omelette and in between the usual toast with two fried eggs on top.

Once in a while it will be egg friend rice if I have left over from the night before.

So it won’t be every single day but I reckon it averages out to at least 2 per day on average over a week.

If I was buying them? No way in hell. Maybe twice a week.

This is excluding eggs used in pancakes and such which I make religiously on weekends.

4 chicks and no cock. Life is tough.

 

[Smugs]

Poor unborn chickens... Didn't even make it out the egg and being eaten already..

 

[Hemi300c]

4 chicks and no cock. Life is tough.

He'd get jealous and he don't share his chicks