Dippy Eggs

I have outdone myself...this recipe just calls for two ingredients!  Eggs and bread.  Talk about easy!

Step 1: pull out the bread

Step 2: pull out the eggs:

Step 2: cut a hole in the bread.

Step 3: place bread on hot griddle.  A pan would also do.

Step 3: crack egg into bread hole

Step 4: after a minute to two, flip.

Step 5: after another minute or so, the eggs is done. Place dippy egg onto plate and add fruit.

My kids go nuts over dippy eggs!

This meal take a total of 5 minutes, if that.  This meal is faster to cook than preparing chicken nuggets, and so much healthier.  We owe it to ourselves and our children to give them good foods!

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Let's talk about eggs.  In the last 6 weeks I read a book that was rather enlightening.  It is call "Skinny Chicks Eat Real Food" by Christine Avanti.  When I read books like this there are a few key points that I pick up.  In this book I picked up the difference between "regular" eggs that cost $.99 a dozen on sale, and real eggs. 

Folks, the package on the eggs I used says it all:

When eggs come from chickens that are pasture raised, they are actually more healthy for you.  So, at $4 a dozen, just a mere $3 more than eggs on sale, you get less cholesterol, less saturated fat, more vitamin A and E, more beta carotene and more omega-3 fatty acids.

Let's talk about the importance of omega-3 fatty acids, as this is the key point that I recall Christine mentioning in her book.  On whfoods.com they have a page dedicated to it.  I urge you to follow my link to look at the importance of it.  To start, this is an essential fatty-acid.  This means you body does not create this stuff...you must eat this stuff.  Are you eating flax seed or walnuts or salmon on the regular?  Then you are not regularly getting the top foods that give you the good stuff.  This stuff does a whole lot of good stuff for your blood (reduce lipids, prevents excessive blood clotting, ect) and prevents cancer.

When I read things like this, I grow more convinced that you truly are what you eat.  The food you eat actually works FOR you!  What is the difference between $3 when it means you great a healthier product...that a mere $.33 an egg! 

Now, be warned...lots of marketers have caught onto this whole "organic" (I will call it) movement.  Because eggs many be called "cage free" doesn't mean they are pasture raised.  The hens can still be feeding on grain and crowded on a dirt ground.  My pasture raised eggs are local, and graze on large pastures eating on grasses and legumes. The hen are eating good foods, and producing eggs that are better for me and my family. 

Make the choice for yourself to buy pasture raised eggs, but I will do my best in my house to do so.  Even though my pilot husband may be cheap, I know this is one thing he would not be opposed of me paying more money for.