Re: [fast5] Re: Rick's meal choices

Thursday, October 18, 2012

Re: [fast5] Re: Rick's meal choices

You are fortunate! Homegrown chickens absolutely make the best eggs.

One thing about chickens too ... they are great garbage disposals/composters. Mine get a lot of kitchen scraps, from my family and another. They are omnivores and eat about anything, and compost the rest into great manure. Some local people are collecting scraps from local restaurants too, to feed their chickens.

Think about this: 3/4 of the food grown in the US is just thrown out, mostly going to landfills. That would feed a whole lot of chickens!

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 6:39 AM, Sam <samdgood@yahoo.com> wrote:

hello, i found what you wrote about eggs very interesting. i never liked eggs much until i was told not to eat more than a couple a week. after that i started eating them all the time! lol

one of the things i like about eggs being a large part of my diet is that i buy them from a young lady who lives just outside of town and raises happy healthy chickens the natural way. after all i've read about our food sources (inhumane treatment, hormones, antibiotics,etc) i am trying to eat natural organic foods. good free range eggs are one of the easiest and least expensive switches i have made.

--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, Heather Twist <HeatherTwist@...> wrote:
>
> I've been doing a fair amount of research lately on the "best" sources for
> fatty acids, proteins, vitamins, etc. In all counts, the lowly egg comes on
> top. Protein-wise, egg white is considered the "perfect" mix of amino
> acids, by which all other protein mixes are measured. Fat-wise, egg yolk
> contains fatty acids that are very hard to get otherwise. An egg basically
> has all the ingredients needed to make a chicken, and chickens are
> omnivores, like us. Birds also use the version of sialic acid (Neu5ac) that
> humans have, while mammal meat uses Neu5gc, which is inflammatory for a lot
> of people.
>
> Anyway, we got "scared off" eggs in the '70s, but the research never really
> showed any negative effects from eating eggs. The research was all based on
> the theoretical issues of "eating cholesterol". Since the '70s, egg
> consumption has gone down in the US, but heart disease has gone up. Not so
> in, say, Japan or China, which eat way more eggs and have lower levels of
> heart disease.
>
> So yeah, eggs rock! They are also very good at "satiety", so people who
> tend to eat too much ... start your meal with eggs, or at least include
> them, in sauces, pickled chopped eggs on salads, egg drop soup, etc.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 3:52 PM, sandiofhb <gonnafly@...> wrote:
>
> > I love the simplicity of Rick's meals. Tonight I am going to do the hard
> > boiled egg, tuna, sour cream ensemble. I might add a couple chopped up
> > olives.
> >
> > Lately I have been hooked on 3 eggs in a frying pan with a pouch of salmon
> > and some shredded cheese all stirred up together. Usually I also steam a
> > BIG bunch of spinach to go along with that.
> >
> > One of the best things about this WOE is you don't have to think back at
> > the end of the day about the food choices you made throughout the day
> > because... well there were none. I like not having to think about "should
> > I or shouldn't I" with respect to what to eat earlier in the day. You just
> > don't, problem solved.
> >
> > ~Sandi
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Heather Twist
> http://eatingoffthefoodgrid.blogspot.com/
>

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