Eggcellent Value!

We eat eggs. We are exceptionally eager egg eaters and often in this household six eggs per day can be devoured without a blink. The boys love scrambled eggs for breakfast (I've learnt my lesson NOT to poach them in the microwave unless I want to spend the day cleaning the bloody thing out afterwards!) and Mr loves eggs in his salads and oh boy, the nights I make quiche for dinner ... well you can add more to the tally!

Eggs can be expensive to buy or very inexpensive to grow at home if your local council will allow cluck-clucking in the back yard. Free range, barn range, RSPCA tick of approval, home brand ..... when is an egg not an egg?? Or is an egg always an egg??? Are the ethical and nutritional differences all that advertising tells us? Maybe. I'm not intending to comment on that eggspect (ha ha ha) though as I am certainly not an eggspert (ok, sorry) but rather a homemaker who attempts to squeeze the most value out of each dollar and I've found it.

We are lucky enough to live in a semi-rural area and in our midst are a number of chicken farms producing meat chickens for Steggles and Inghams. These farms come under the management of a single organisation who, from their head office (which is just up the road), sell eggs and also bulk lots of fillets, legs and/or wings. They represent sensational value and at $6.50 for a tray of 30 large jumbo eggs they can not be beaten on price or freshness straight from the farm. 

It may be worth your while to look locally to see if there is anyone in your area selling eggs. You will at least know that they have not been sitting in a supermarket's cold room for months, and you will undoubtedly save yourself some dollars too. Now, I just need to find myself a nearby chocolate farm!!