Hey, Easter… it’s here !

The sun is shining, birds are chirping, lilies are blooming, bunnies are multiplying, and ohhhh yeaaah, eggs.

Gots ta have eggs. So, in this Sunday edition, about the only thing we’re rounding up (or maybe should have, regardless of the fact that our little guy is only 6 months old, many tell us) is EGGS.

Not this year for the baby, boys and girls… next year, when he can actually walk and have some fun searching for them 🙂

But for you it’s a different story!

Soooooo, instead, we’ll just ask a few questions:

What do you call a sleeping egg?
Egg-zosted!

What did the eggs do when the light turned green?
They egg-celerated.

Why was the father egg so strict?
He was hard-boiled.

Why did the egg go to school?
To get “Egg-u-cated”

What day does an egg hate the most?
Fry-days.

How did the egg roll across the road?
It just rolled, silly!

Why shouldn’t you tell an Easter egg a joke?
It might crack up!

Then, again, telling cheesy egg  jokes to our list, we know, may make some of  you think we cracked up 🙂

Okay, fun over… back to business. The business of sincere egg FACTS (it’s important, you know, to EXAMINE things related to “Food” and “Diet” (more on that AFTER clicking the  “Continue Reading” link)…

DID YOU KNOW…

The incredible edible egg™ has a high nutrient density because it provides a wide range of nutrients in proportion to its calorie count (about 75 calories per large egg). Nutrient-dense foods help you get the nutrients you need without excess calories.

A large-sized egg supplies 12.6% of the Daily Reference Value (DRV) for protein. A little over half of the egg’s protein is in the white and the rest is in the yolk. The egg’s protein is the highest quality protein of any food. One egg of any size equals one ounce of lean meat, poultry, fish or seafood in the food groups.

Dates on egg cartons, and all other food packaging, reflect food quality, not food safety. An ‘expiration’ or ‘sell-by’ date on an egg carton tells the grocer to pull the eggs if they haven’t sold by that time. A ‘best-by’ or ‘use-by’ date tells you that your eggs will still be of high quality if you use them by that date.

About 60% of the eggs produced in the U.S. each year are used by consumers and about 9% are used by the food service industry. The rest are turned into egg products which are used mostly by food service operators to make restaurant meals and by food manufacturers to make foods such as mayonnaise and cake mixes.

Hey, Egg Trivia is great and all… but, let’s take this even deeper and broader:

How much do you really know about the food you buy at our local supermarkets and serve to your families?

In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that’s been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government’s regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA.

Our nation’s food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment.

We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, insecticide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won’t go bad, but we also have new strains of e. coli — the harmful bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans annually. We are riddled with widespread obesity, particularly among children, and an epidemic level of diabetes among adults.

Featuring interviews with such experts as Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma) along with forward thinking social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield Farm’s Gary Hirshberg and Polyface Farms’ Joel Salatin, Food, Inc. reveals surprising — and often shocking — truths about what we eat, how it’s produced, who we have become as a nation, and where we are going from here.

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