OT: Do you eat the eggs you colored for easter?

[Jeannabna]

Just curious, we always did growing up and a friend of mine says that her family doesn't.

[JElaineB]

Yes, as long as they have been refridgerated. If they were used for an egg hunt or something and sitting outside for a few hours, no.

[4evermom]

Of course! Even if they sat out all morning. I can't imagine wasting all of those eggs (growing up, 7 of us each getting a dozen to decorate)!

Much easier eating them with one child doing the decorating.

I think I'd sit there and blow out all the raw eggs before dying the shells if I wasn't going to eat them hardboiled.

[hummingmom]

As the PP said, if we weren't comfortable eating them -- e.g., if we were going to be using artificial food dyes (which my DC react badly to), or if the eggs would be sitting out for a long time -- I'd hollow them out before coloring them. We used to do that when I was a child. Some got broken, and there was always the risk of forgetting what you were doing and sucking on raw egg, but it added to the excitement. There seems to be more salmonella around these days, so I'd probably give the eggs a good wipe with alcohol first, or blanch them in boiling water for a few seconds.

I was thinking about this today... from what I've seen, most people just use hard-boiled eggs and throw them out after Easter. Maybe I'm in the minority, but I can't imagine treating perfectly good eggs that way. Some chicken worked hard for that!

[Dar]

Yes! What a waste of food not to....

For eggs hunts we use plastic refillable eggs... we've actually used the same plastic eggs for about ten years now. At our house, the Easter Bunny leaves a basket with a few things in it and also hits the plastic eggs, and coloring hardboiled eggs is something we do together as a family.

Dar

[icxcnika]

Of course we do! And yes, we refrigerate them. And no, we don't do Easter egg hunts.

[elmh23]

Yup we do. We do our egg hunt with plastic eggs too.

[Drummer's Wife]

No, because I don't like hard boiled eggs. My kids do, though, so they will eat them.

We decorate 2 dozen or so and they remain refridgerated. The Easter bunny hides plastic eggs.

[vitochka]

I use onion shells to color the eggs so they are perfectly eatable for me.

[Malva]

We've always emptied the eggs before coloring/painting/dying them. No wasted eggs!

[lovesdaffodils]

Oh yes, we definitely eat them. I make deviled eggs out of them.

[talk de jour]

I think it's extremely wasteful not to.

[DashsMama]

Yep, but we don't use them for the egg hunt. When I was a kid, my mother made a special recipe on Easter, called goldenrod eggs, that used up all of our dyed eggs so they wouldn't go to waste.

[Minerva]

I bought a little doohicky to blow them out first, and we'll be using natural homemade dyes.


Why waste the eggs? :

[Princess ConsuelaB]

We dye them, we hunt them(they don't stay out for hours, and even so..they're in their own wrapper lol) then we rinse them and make deviled eggs to have with Easter dinner.

Unless the girls decide we need to do "painted" or glitter eggs, then we just buy the cheapest conventional white eggs to color and toss since we don't like these anyhow.

I'd rather make creamed eggs but everyone else likes deviled

[kalisis]

We always make egg salad. It's our Easter tradition. I cannot wasting that many eggs, seriously. And I grew up in a home where there is no understanding of food poisoning, my mother leaves food out for days and still eats it, so even if they get left out/used for an egg hunt, we still eat them.

What's the difference between creamed eggs and deviled eggs?

[Magelet]

When I was a kid, we used those egg dye kits, which I don't think even claimed to be foodsafe. We would do some that we blew out, (and eat those eggs), and the rest hard boiled and get thrown out after. Don't make easter eggs anymore, but if I used natural food dyes to color them, I'd eat them. Likely, I'd blow them out, but they are more delicate that way.

[ledzepplon]

Of course! I would never have occurred to me to not eat them.

[PenelopeJune]

Yes. We do natural food dyes (onion skins, celery seeds, raspberries, etc) and use them in an egg hunt. They are rarely out of the fridge for more than an hour for our egg hunt. I'll probably make deviled eggs this year.

[Shantimama]

Eggs dyed with food grade dye, yes. Pysanki, no