My post today is for the A - Z Photography Contest initiated by @sustainablyyours. This is Week 5 for The Letter E, and I am very late, but hopefully in time.
I have been looking for places to post food photos and information for my new @fitinfunfood blog, and now this is going to be a place until we get to the letter Z!
Eggs are part of a healthy diet that I describe as having two steps:
- Eat less crap.
- Eat more nutrition.
Eggs are mostly in the second step with some information about the first step too.
But this is a photo contest, so here are a bunch of egg photos I took and one of them will be entered in the contest through this post.
Let's see if we can find a good one. And:
Dear @sustainablyyours,
If you like another photo better, feel free to choose it. I am flexible!
So, starting in Bangkok Thailand, this is how you can get eggs in a cart. The lady is gone now and not worried about theft, I guess. She is also selling yummy steamed sweet potatoes.
I can never miss a chance to post ant egg soup photo. This is about the best soup I ever had, and ant eggs knocked out of a tree are so yummy. They are a bit like chicken eggs in flavor and pop in your mouth as you eat them, unless you get an ant.
Close up!
These next eggs were in a steamer in my local Bangkok market and are in various stages of development. The ones on the right are called balut and include a chicken that almost got to live.
These are salted eggs Thai people did not think I would like, but I love them. I'm pretty good with all versions of eggs but these are very flavorful and filling.
More eggs at a Thai market, next to wonderful and cheap mangos. No one refrigerates eggs here in SE Asia and they do not die from them.
This is the ingredients of an egg salad I made. The Thai holy Basil was great in this dish.
Now we are in California. My farm fresh egg was used to show the size of the dates. They were $3 for the container and I wish I had them now.
Here's the guy with the eggs and other delectable food at the Coronado Farmers Market in San Diego. I took photo of a person!!! I should have put this is one of my Market Friday posts for @dswigle, but I flaked.
In the next set of photos I'm showing how to hard boil eggs for a weight loss client I had. I kid you not. This girl was 21 years old and had only eaten fast food for her whole entire life before this time. She thought you could only get eggs hard boiled at the 711 one by one.
Me: It's good to eat eggs. They are cheap and you can make a few at a time.
Her: They only come one at a time.
Me: No! You get them by the dozen.
Her: Where do you find them like that?
Me: At the grocery store or the Farmers Market.
Her: Oh, I did not know that. I get the hard boiled ones at 711. They are 99 cents for one.
So I made a little food essay for her about how to boil eggs.
And how to cut them into slices.
And how to eat them another way.
After that egg story, I did this one.
You see a mixture of veggies, cheese and eggs - all chopped finely.
Then I put that mix on bread I baked and heated gently.
Until the cheese melted and steamed up my lens.
Here's a whole other egg sandwich. I baked the bread and grew the spouts. This had cheddar and feta cheese too.
Well that was another look at my horrific attempts to photograph food.
I think the best of those photos is this one:
So on to the nutrition. First let's discuss Part Two of the plan.
- Eat more nutrition
Unless you ar one of the 10% of people who cannot eat eggs because you are allergic, you should!
Remember that you are trying to get more of the 31 essential nutrients into your diet:
Eggs are good sources of some of those according to the Worlds Healhiest Foods site.
Really. The Worlds Healhiest Foods site has this chart too:
And eggs have great health benefits accounding to the Top Health Remedies site:
So you have a lot of reasons to eat them if you have a weight loss dream.
And sadly we need to think about Part One of the plan as well:
- Eat less crap.
Eggs are a place with all kinds of nonsense in the mainstream sources.
- At least get organic and "non-gmo."
- Try to get pasture raised.
- Try to buy locally from a small farm or homestead.
- Do NOT get plain old regular cheap eggs at the store.
I hope I do not need to tell you all the bad stuff about regular eggs. Comment if you need me to make a post proving factory farms are not your friend, and I will.
If you are in San Diego, contact @mariannewest. She raises chickens for eggs, and you might be able to work out something with her or other people she is connected with.
Also search Craigslist and local FB groups for good sources.
That's it for this post. All photos were taken by me with one of the many Canon point and shoot cameras I have had over the years.
Thank you so much for your attention to my post and I will see you for the letter F if not sooner.
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