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Eggs

Well, the chickens are laying four eggs a day now.

Funny, but we are excited about that!

With a family our size, we use a lot more than four eggs a day!

At $2.39 a dozen, it is getting to be too expensive to buy eggs. 

Well since eggs seem to be one of those things you tend to need, I decided to check out the price the local Amish are selling their eggs for.

I sent my eldest daughter over the other day, and yeah, they were $1.50 a dozen.  Not only that, they are beautiful huge brown eggs.

I guess that's where we will be getting our eggs until our own chickens start cooperating a little more.

On a side note, we add mayonaise instead of eggs in a lot of our recipes.  Cakes turn out so nice and moist!  Cookies, on the other hand, need to have a least some eggs added.  Many times we add a couple of eggs and a couple of spoons of mayo.

I have even added mayonaise to my pancake mix when in a pinch.

your lucky

{ 12:45 , Saturday, March 29, 2008 } { Posted by AbiBuening }

Your lucky to get eggs from the Amish so cheap. Wish I had that option.

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{ 04:44 , Saturday, March 29, 2008 } { Posted by southernbelle }

Our chicks just came in yesterday that will grow up to lay those large brown eggs like we really want! We got exctied when our others started laying a few recently too. Before you know it you'll have them running out of your ears maybe. I know I just love that I can add lots and lots of boiled eggs to potato salads and things and not have to worry about it. Fun!

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{ 10:57 , Monday, March 31, 2008 } { Posted by wannabeone }

First of all, thanks SO MUCH for letting me know how your flaxseed bread turned out! We just love it and it's our family's regular bread.

About the eggs...we live in SW Ohio, in a rural county where many Old Order German Baptists live...they live "plain" and w/o much technology like the Amish. I get brown eggs and whole milk from a local farmer and we just LOVE it!! I only get milk and eggs from the store if I'm in dire straits and need it NOW. Who wants to live in the city?!

Blessings from Ohio, Kim Wolf<><