The Great Food Experiment: Egg-venture and Rule #9

Sadly, this post is coming on time because we ended up getting rained out of our camping weekend. I woke up this morning and still wanted some type of adventure so we decided to go on an egg hunt. The positive thing about living out in the middle of nowhere is that we live in the land of family farms. We found a place close by that advertised fresh farm eggs. We called ahead and they said they were open. When we showed up we found a little house with a barb wired gate all around the perimeter and a big scary looking dog standing guard. We parked outside of the gate and starred at the "OPEN" sign. And nothing happened. There was no doorbell, or intercom, the gate did not open, and no friendly people appeared. The dog barked at us a few times before we decided to head to Freddy's and get some expensive organic eggs. On the way we spotted another sign in a family's driveway advertising eggs. This house was almost polar opposite of the last scary house we visited. The yard was full of flowers and bee boxes. There was a friendly couple who greeted us. The only similarity was the scary looking dog. But as soon as we stepped out of the car we realized it was just a big puppy wanted to give us slobbery wet doggy kisses. We asked for 2 dozen eggs and thought we heard wrong when the woman said a dozen was $3! Most organic eggs are $5-7 so this seemed like a complete steal! And the eggs were beautiful! A rainbow of colors and varied sizes. We also got to see where the chickens lived and were impressed with their huge coop and how happy and healthy they looked. We will definitely be coming back to buy more eggs from this family so if anyone would like us to pick some up for them let us know! I really don't think this deal can be beat!

As far as the rule for this week, it didn't even feel like we were on a rule. Apparently, nothing we normally eat makes health claims. Next week will be Rule 9: Avoid food products with the wordoid "lite" or the terms "low-fat" or "nonfat" in their names. This rule is making the point that most foods advertised as low-fat or nonfat are not necessarily more healthy due to the additives used to make them such. The biggest challenge we are anticipating is not being able to drink our non-fat milk (whole milk is just gross once you have lived your whole life on the nonfat stuff). We may try almond or soy milk for the week.