Eggs

[cjsmith]

Did you know that if you eat two hardboiled eggs for breakfast each day, you'll go through more than a dozen in a week? That seems obvious, but I hadn't done the math until this morning.

Another thing happens, too. I like eggs and I wouldn't have thought I'd easily get tired of eating them, but I'm here to tell you it happens fast.

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[ann0625.livejournal.com]

The yolk in a hardboiled egg is quite boring and tasteless. You can dip it in different kinds of source everyday. I usually throw it away. Actually the white is tasteless, too, but somehow it just tastes good.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I'm just putting salt and pepper on it. I kind of like the yolk better than the white because the white does have a mild taste, to me, and at least right now, it's revolting. :-) I wonder how I would have compared the two a week ago!

[kimatha.livejournal.com]

Why don't you try scrambling them and throwing yummies in? I have an omelet for breakfast every day. I put in various cheeses, leftover meat, leftover veggies, or whatever I can find in the fridge. This morning I had swiss cheese and pepperoni in my omelet. I'm not tired of them yet, and I've been eating them every weekday and most weekends since March.

[gekko.livejournal.com]

I never knew how much flavor eggs really had until I got my own chickens. When a fox got most of our laying hens earlier this year, we actually bought a dozen from the store. We bought the more expensive free-range, omega 3 added organic ones, and we still found them incredibly bland. Even my son, who hates eggs, likes the ones from our own chickens.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I've tried scrambling them and throwing cheese in. Clearly it's time to vary the menu a little. In most omelets, at least the ones I'm likely to make, the flavors of the random other ingredients overwhelm the flavor of egg.

One challenge with omelets or scrambled eggs is that they're not really as good after being frozen and reheated, and I'm not going to make an omelet fresh before work every morning. I already take way too long to get out of the house with all the medication-and-food chores for the cats! :-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Right now I can't imagine liking MORE egg flavor. I think I'm just plain burnt out on eating eggs! I'm allowed to have oatmeal in moderation, so maybe I'll do that for a couple of days.

[elflet.livejournal.com]

Frittatas refrigerate well, and are basically omelettes with the ingredients mixed in with the egg. (I don't know how well they freeze).

[layer.livejournal.com]

i hear you. i've been eating two scambled for breakfast as often as possible which is probably about once a week.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Scrambled is more fun because you can add stuff, but it also makes a pan dirty and stinks up the house. When Rob wasn't home I scrambled a big pile of eggs. :-) I thought I really had it made because I could hardboil eight at a time... guess it's not that easy!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Ah, is that the correct name? I've just called it "scrambled eggs with stuff in them". :-) It's good to know they refrigerate well. For the time spans I'm looking at, freezing isn't really required.

[tiger-spot.livejournal.com]

Are apples okay occasionally? I like apple slices with peanut butter on them for breakfast; that'd at least mix it up a bit, even if you can't have them often. Or peanut butter on celery, if apples are a problem.

[abqdan.livejournal.com]

The other possibilities are constipation and gas of course.... :-)

[layer.livejournal.com]

i learned that you can do scrambled eggs in the microwave. like 2.5 min on high (for two eggs plus a little milk/cream, salt, and pepper). the eggs froth up so use an extra large bowl (i do mine in a 4 cup pyrex measuring cup).

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Apples are on the "in moderation" list, surprisingly enough, except for anything with "Delicious" in the name 'cause they're way sweeter. (Please don't ask me why an apple is okay occasionally but a carrot is right out.) Thank you twice: I've not only been thinking about breakfast, I've been wondering what in the world people put peanut butter on except starches! I have some sugar-free peanut butter and almond butter and I don't know what to DO with them. :-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I've done scrambled eggs on the microwave too, once, but mine didn't turn out great. I suppose the fact I was distracted by the stove suddenly being nonfunctional could have degraded my cooking/coping skills a bit. :-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I suppose I could have prunes or beans for breakfast... ;-)

[tiger-spot.livejournal.com]

"Delicious"es are supposed to be sweeter? Huh. I don't like any of 'em because they taste like nothing. (Fuji & Gala are my favorites, unless I'm dipping them in cheese or chocolate or caramel, in which case Granny Smith works better.) I wouldn't have thought there'd be enough variation between varieties to make a nutritional difference like that.

Other things to do with peanut butter:

* There is a groundnut and kale soup in one of the Moosewood books. These guys (http://jugalbandi.info/2008/05/african-kale-pineapple-and-peanut-stew/) have the recipe up and say you can replace the pineapple with bell pepper.

* Mix with soy sauce, a little extra oil, and spices of your choice to make satay dip for chicken or tofu or what-have-you.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

That's what the sheet says... I think. Maybe I memorized it backwards! I haven't had apples since the start of this, so I haven't looked it up for a while.

MMMSATAY. I definitely want to learn to make this, without of course the traditional fish sauce base!

[edit, mostly for me: satay1 satay2 satay3 satay4]
Looks like there's a lot of coconut milk, soy sauce, chili pepper, lemon or lime, and of course sugar, which I'll simply omit. Woohoo!

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

do you have a full list of things you can't eat up somewhere?

[just-cyd.livejournal.com]

i buy three dozen eggs to get me through two weeks, and that works well. took me a while to figure that out, though. ;-)

i'm getting tired of eggs, too, but i haven't really come up with anything that'd be just as quick and easy for work-morning breakfasts. for egg variation, could you make a crustless quiche? i should try that myself, although i don't have much to put in it besides bacon.

carrots are little sugar bombs - especially baby carrots. you might tolerate regular carrots in tiny amounts.

i seem to recall biaxin making everything taste funny, too. it's awful. maybe it'll fade with time? *hopeful*

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Not online, but if you search for "yeast control" or "Sugar Busters" diets you'll get a list that's pretty close to the handout from my doc. They all disagree on various things. :-) So far, I'm trying to be as conservative as possible. The last thing I need is ANOTHER chronic disease!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's between 2 and 3 eggs a day! I can imagine how tired of eggs you're getting!

I should see if I can find some bacon that's not sugar-cured. My handout says no bacon or ham (or a few cold cuts either). I've had pretty good luck finding breakfast sausage that's not swimming in sugar.

Carrots are impressively high-glycemic, for a vegetable. (Here I'm not counting grains, such as corn, as a vegetable.) If I recall correctly the only thing worse is a potato.

Fortunately the Biaxin taste seems to affect me only when I'm not eating. Food still tastes like it always did, thank goodness! I've also found that a bit of very dark chocolate will banish the awful taste for a while afterwards. I'm allowed to have 70% cocoa and higher, oddly enough, and I found some low-sugar 80% that I'm using. I am going to become a total chocoholic.

[just-cyd.livejournal.com]

yup, i typically have 2 eggs for breakfast, and maybe one hard boiled in a salad at lunch. i'm not always out of eggs when i make my bi-weekly grocery run, but it's usually close.

for sweetener, have you tried stevia? it's the only sweetener officially allowed on the diet i'm following. that said, to help keep my sanity, i let myself have a square or two of really dark chocolate. a little of that goes a long way towards keeping me happy.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've tried stevia. Most weird sweeteners taste nasty to me, but I don't know if I've ever had that particular one.

I love the dark chocolate loophole. That's a big help.

[eichin.livejournal.com]

The web seems to think that if you're a "supertaster" you won't like stevia either, though it's more in the licorice direction than just bitterness...

Don't forget that you can use chocolate in other things... a couple of ounces of very dark chocolate, plus cinnamon and chili powder went quite well in lasagne at the last chocolate party. Not sure what it would do with eggs, though :-) but if you're adding chili pepper anyway (just got back from NM so "of course" red chili is what you put on scrambled eggs...) it's something to consider... or if you're just bored enough with the eggs to try something :-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Licorice, huh? That might be worth trying just for the weirdness. Licorice chocolate! Licorice chocolate eggs! :-)

[katybeth]

Do you like egg salad? If so, that's another egg idea. (Not sandwiches, of course, but I'm happy to eat it with a spoon.) I read "no vinegar" on some yeast-control diet sites, but it sounds like you can have vinegar?

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Oh interesting. I have been assuming I can have vinegar, and I think for my own sanity I will sort of pretend that there aren't sites out there telling me not to. :-) My own handout from the doc doesn't say anything about avoiding vinegar, thank goodness.

Anyway, egg salad - thanks for the idea! I don't think I've had egg salad since I was a little girl!