Eggs for Breakfast
Fresh raw pastured eggs are absolutely egg-credible!
Sometimes the kiddo asks for ‘just egg’ for breakfast. What this means is fresh raw pastured egg with a straw in it – drink it straight from within the shell.
Nutrient dense breakfast for the kid and an easy no-mess, no-clean-up breakfast for me! It’s a win-win, complete fast-food breakfast!
Raw pastured eggs provide protein the body uses for regeneration and maintenance.
Consuming raw pastured eggs keeps your body young and vital. Consuming them daily keeps your skin nice and healthy, decreasing your need for lotion.
Fresh raw pastured eggs are densely packed with vitamin B2 – riboflavin (essential for red blood cell production), vitamin B12 (required for normal functioning of your brain and nervous system and for the formation of blood), phosphorus (needed for healthy bones and teeth) and selenium (supports healthy immune system and thyroid function).
The Best Way to Eat Fresh Pastured Eggs
- Raw straight out of the shell (with or without a straw), or
- Raw cracked into a drinking glass, or
- Raw whipped into whole raw grass-fed cream, OR whole raw grass-fed milk, OR organic coconut cream to maximize your nutrients.
Why pastured eggs?
There are SO many reasons why…. to make my point simple today, watch Samsara and Baraka. Both of these excellent movies have disturbing and realistic footage of the chicken industry. If you’re not currently a pasture-raised chicken supporter for eggs and/or chicken meat, watch these movies and I think you’ll reconsider and become a supporter – a huge supporter!
What happens to your food before it gets to your mouth is of critical importance.
So pastured eggs… they just taste better! The hens they come from are happier and healthier and it shows in the quality and flavor of the eggs they produce.
We happen to be chicken people. Meaning, we have backyard hens. The girls have been with us since they were just weeks old. What a funny crew they are! Ah – ha, chickens… funny pets. Hours of entertainment.
As chicken owners, we need to feed these creatures so they may feed us. Obtaining NON-GMO all natural chicken feed is not as easy as it should be. What your chicken eats counts. No matter if that chicken is making eggs for consumption or will become meat, what she eats you will too… and chickens eat a lot!
But wow…our girls are big, healthy, and full of life and at most times too much personality. The eggs they produce are perfectly wholesome and delicious.
Where do you purchase pastured eggs from if you don’t raise chickens?
I would start at your local Farmers Market. You may be a wee taken aback when you first see they cost about $7+ a dozen, but honestly this is a fair price. As I mentioned earlier, chickens eat a lot…
Ask if the eggs have been washed yet. Eggs don’t need to be washed up until the point you are going to eat them. Many eggs are washed for appearances as eggs can get chicken poop or an under feather stuck to the shell naturally in the laying process. If the eggs have been washed, they should be consumed that week. If they haven’t been washed, they’ll stay fresh for eating for several weeks without refrigeration. What protects the egg is that its shell has a thin outermost coating called “the bloom or cuticle” that helps keep out bacteria and dust.
Eggs don’t need to be stored in the fridge. Actually, eggs should be left at room temperature, but out of direct sunlight. This keeps all the nutrients intact.
This may seem odd, but the underneath of a hen is quite warm. If they eggs are not collected each day, this is where the eggs will stay. The eggs will survive just fine under a hen, or a few as they change sitting guard duty. Even if they remain warm for a few days, they are still great to eat raw. Point being, eggs are not suppose to be put in the fridge.
Now to the yummy part – eating!
I crack a hole on one pole end of the egg using the edge of my canine tooth since it is the sharpest and pointiest tooth. Then I’ll place a finger over the first hole as I crack the second one. Next I’ll put one hole up to my mouth, remove my finger from covering the opposite hole and suck the egg out. An egg-licious breakfast!
With the kiddo, we use a 4” homemade straw (take a straw and cut it). I poke a hole in the egg around where a hole might be if the egg was a Capri Sun Drink (remember those?) or at the pointer pole end of the egg with the food side of a chopstick. Then pop the straw in and hand over to the kid… another egg-licious breakfast!
If you are not on board to eating raw eggs yet, here is a hard to turn down tongue-tapping, absolutely delicious smoothie recipe to test out!
Delicious Egg Smoothie Recipe
Add the following to a blender:
- 1 cup of whole grass-fed raw milk (OR organic coconut cream, OR whole grass-fed raw cream, OR whole grass-fed pasteurized milk [never ever drink homogenized milk or milk from cows not 100% grass-fed – why? Email me for my free eBook])
- 1 raw fresh pastured egg (whites and yolk)
- 1/3 organic banana (still a wee on the green is better then on the brown side)
- pinch of organic cinnamon powder
- 1 tablespoon raw honey (always use raw honey and never heat your honey)
Blend and drink!
Bon appétit!!!
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References
- The Recipe for Living Without Disease by Aajonus Vonderplanitz
- The Tao of Nutrition by Maoshing Ni Ph.D., C.A. with Cathy McNease, B.S., M.H.
- Anatomy of a chicken egg
- http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/dairy-and-egg-products/111/2
- http://www.barakasamsara.com/