March 7, 2025

Eggs 101: The Cost, Health Benefits & Best Options for Big Families | We Are the Hansons

Eggs 101: The Cost, Health Benefits & Best Options for Big Families | We Are the Hansons

In this episode of We Are the Hansons, we crack open the truth about eggs! 🥚 Whether you're raising your own chickens, buying farm-fresh eggs, or sticking with store-bought, we break down the differences in quality, cost, and nutrition. With a big family, every grocery decision matters, so we dive into the financial impact of eggs, their essential health benefits, and the best ways to prepare them. From scrambling to baking, learn how to make the most of this protein-packed staple while keeping your budget in check. Don’t miss this egg-citing conversation!

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Welcome to We are the Handsoens and today we're going

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to talk about eggs. It sounds like a boring topic,

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but when you have thirteen kids, you go through.

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A lot and I mean a lot of eggs. What

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do you.

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Think, Yeah, we spend a lot of money on eggs.

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Yeah, so like this is a killer for us with

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the egg prices the way they are. But it's not

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just that, because all eggs are not made equal.

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Yeah, I'd have to agree fresh eggs are the best.

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Yeah.

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I mean if people ask weird questions all the time,

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like where do you save money, how do you save money? Well,

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eggs and buying eggs in the right place, especially when

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you're you were spending as much on eggs as we do.

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I mean that really really does make a difference.

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Yeah, I would have to agree with that.

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Now, the cheapest and best eggs that we ever had

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was when we were able to raise our own chickens.

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Yeah, definitely, I mean we had what forty some chickens,

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Yeah we did. We were overloaded with eggs, but we

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used them right.

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The other thing is you get so if you some

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people won't like this, but you know, the meat and

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chicken on the shelf doesn't just grow on the shelf.

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It actually comes from farms, you know what I'm saying. Yeah,

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So we raised our own chickens. We had a few

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different types. We had some Rhode Island.

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Reds yep, and then we had the the.

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Ones with the feathers on the feet.

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Yeah. I don't remember what they were. They were like

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bard rock something.

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Yeah, they were all great, but I'll tell you the

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bard rock were smarter because the coyote would come in.

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And they would sleep on the top of the vehicles.

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They would I hated it because they you know, they

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crap all down the side of the car. But I

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really did like the the Rhode Island reds for taste,

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because eggs do taste different.

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They definitely do. I like the brown eggs. I've had,

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you know, the green ones and the regular white ones,

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but the brown eggs I think are my favorite.

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Well, there's many eggs.

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There's blue colored eggs, there's speckled eggs, there's brown eggs,

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there's white eggs, there's ostrich eggs, there's duck eggs, duck eggs,

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quail eggs.

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I've pretty much eaten them all, and I'm just an

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egg guy.

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Yeah, I don't mind duck eggs either.

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See.

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I remember when I was very young, everybody always used

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to say the health benefits of eggs, and you know,

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it was so so important to eat so many eggs

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at a time. And then it went through this period

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where they're like, oh, no, eggs are terrible for you.

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They're high in cholesterol all in there, blob. You remember

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those days.

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I do remember those days.

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It was at the same time that they'd crack the

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eggs and put them in the in the frying pan

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and be like, this is your brain. And then they

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cracked the other ones that go this is your brain

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on drugs. You remember those commercials?

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Do you remember those?

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Okay, so you.

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Know we were always left wondering, you know, well, how

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healthy is an egg? And now it has came out

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in a lot of places that the food pyramid is complete.

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Bs. Have you heard that?

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I have heard that. I think you told me that.

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Yeah, I mean, it's all these different scientists have came

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out and said that. How does that make you feel,

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as a mother that's been trying to raise your kids

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in a nutritious way.

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A little angry just because like, why would you put

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something out there and then we try and follow that

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and now it's logus.

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So I think me and you as husband and wife,

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we've kind of came to the agreement that is naturally

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clean and natural that we can get.

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That's the best for us.

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Yes, when you look at cancer rates, do you know

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since twenty seventeen, childhood cancer has spiked forty percent.

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Yeah, I heard that. It's disgusting.

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It is really disgusting. And it's got to be something.

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I mean, it's got to be something we're eating. It's

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got to be something that we're doing to have that

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big of an increase, wouldn't you say?

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I just actually heard that our foods, a lot of

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what we eat have poisons in them.

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Oh, they do.

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And the reason that they do isn't because they're trying

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to poison us.

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The reason that.

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They do is because because if they don't have a customer,

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they're not going to make any money. But the reason

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that there's those things in there is because they're trying

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to make it last longer or not fresh.

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Yeah. So when we had our chickens, we didn't feed

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them anything. They've free roamed, We've fed them like their

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normal foods.

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We had the stones that we gave them, and then

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we had like chicken feed from the local it was

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the local feed store, yep. And that was all like

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corn and different things that the local farmers brought in.

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And I'll tell you I missed that so much because

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those eggs were so tasty.

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That we knew where they were, what they were getting

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for feed. So we do that absolutely, we're going to

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be great.

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Well, we knew what was in them.

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And you know what, I have been where they have

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these huge chicken farms and the chickens don't even really move.

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Yeah, I've seen that and it's disgusting.

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So today I want to talk.

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You know, there are so many things and when you're

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strapped for money, when you have a large family, you

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have to do everything that you can to try to

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alleviate some of the hemorrhaging of money that you're going

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through every month. And I think eggs is one of

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those places to start. The cheapest and the best by

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far is by growing your own.

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Yeah.

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Okay, most people I remember back in the day when

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they're like, oh, you got to get store bought eggs,

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you got to get store bought eggs. Well, then you

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find out that star bought eggs are not the same

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as farm raised eggs, even to the point that you

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can leave farm eggs out on your counter. You don't

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even have to refrigerate them.

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Yep, as long as they're not washed and stuff not washed.

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Explain that to the people, please.

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Well, after they're laid, you don't want to wash them

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because that outside coating coating. Yeah, and it's like.

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Rush, yes, yeah, it's a protective coating from nature. There's

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no preservatives, there's no chemicals, there's there's nothing. Literally, they

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them out and they got a protective coating on them and.

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They last for weeks and weeks and weeks and weeks.

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Wouldn't you say?

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Yeah?

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So if you can't do that, then what we have

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found is if you go on Facebook groups, there's always

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people selling free range and organic eggs.

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My thing is, if they're free range, unless they're in

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some sort of enclosure, how do you know that they're organic? Yeah,

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you don't really, But free range is way better than

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buying store bought eggs because at least they're healthy, they're

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getting to move, you know, what they're eating at these

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egg factories. All they're doing is doing things as cheap

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as possible to make the most amount of profit. Like

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there's a scale in there. They figured out if we

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give them this much food, they'll produce an egg, this bacon.

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We can sell that egg for this month, right, yeah,

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and then you know how long does it live? And

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blah blah blah. So we were talking earlier, what is

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your favorite meal with eggs?

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I like omelets a lot.

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Okay, so tell me your perfect.

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Omelet, bacon, egg, and cheese.

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So if you're out in the country, you can raise

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all of them. Yeah, okay. You cheese can be a

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little bit hard to get good tasting cheese, but you

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go like right to your local dairy yeap, and you

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can get cheese there. Yes, So just bacon, egg and cheese.

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About onion, how about green pepper?

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I like loaded omelets too, I like I like keishe too,

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which you can put anything in that.

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Oh, keish is like like egg pie. Yeah, yeah, I

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love keish.

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I love omelets if they're done right, like if they

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use the and you tell me if I'm wrong about this,

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but if you use store bought eggs, the cheap ones,

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you know, the seven dollars a frick a dozen cheap ones.

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If you use those, it seems like the omelet's.

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Dry, it is, and it's not very big.

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Right, And the thing is farm bought eggs, Like the

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yolk itself seems like it's a darker color and seems

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like it has more flavor.

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It does, And I think that's just because it's fresh.

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I agree with that. Like, do you like just breakfast

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cast roles in general?

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Yeah, yeah, Like.

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Some have sausage, some have bacon, some have ham. I

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mean there's a lot of them. Ham where they take

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the egg and they roll it up in the ham

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or you know what I'm talking about. Yeah, and then

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the cheese in the middle that and then put a

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croissant around it. That stuff is heavenly and it's actually

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cheap if you start buying things, like right now, you

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can go get organic eggs from the farmer for what

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three fifty to four dollars a dozen. Yeah, okay, So

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we got very very active, very very early one, having

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our own garden. And you do not need a big

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garden for a bunch of vegetables to come out of it.

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No, you don't. We've actually had a garden in buckets,

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five gallon buckets.

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Right then, if you notice around the country all these

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little towns. They're pretty much saying that you can raise

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chickens like in a chicken coop in the bag.

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Now you can do that.

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Also, even in some cities they're going to allow you

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to do that. And it's you're way better off that

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you can get into the ethics and all that stuff.

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But you want some tasty food, start growing your own.

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It's so much cheaper. Tell them about our tomato experience.

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So we went to this lady and we got a

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bunch of tomato plants that she had started because she

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did this for a living.

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mom and dad and granp and Grandma in the garden,

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but we didn't know much about gardening it.

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You know, we got twenty five tomato plants, and needless

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to say, we had tomatoes coming out of our ears.

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We would go out there and even the kids would

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come out help and we would weed wag or not

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weed wag, but pull the weeds in between the plants

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we had that. We had watermelons, we had pumpkins. We

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had what else did we have out there?

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Squash? Cucumbers.

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Cucumbers are low casellen.

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Some people like it but but what I'm saying is

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what did that whole garden cost us?

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A plant everything?

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Ably fifteen dollars.

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Right we had at that time when we had four

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and two so seven kids, yep.

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And we were like like it was great.

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And then we learned how to do things like canning

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and freezing. And I want to have another show just

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about that because that saved us so much money and

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it's so much better. Yeah, you know, today we're talking

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about eggs, but there's there's ways. There's actually groups of

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people that nowhere to get eggs. There's Facebook groups of

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people that hey, well call this person or call that

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person or I know this person selling some so you

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can get around the high prices that we're seeing, and

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it's much much more nutritious.

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Like you know, me, I am.

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Hard fried egg, I am over easy egg, I am

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eggs sandwich, I am omelets, I am French toast, I

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am kishe, I'm eggs, benedict.

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I don't care what way the eggs come.

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I eat them right, yes, So even this, take your

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eggs hard frying, okay, and then put a little bit

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of spaghetti sauce over the top of them, and then

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throw a little bit of.

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Spaghetti and eggs.

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I don't know that.

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See, I mean, you're wrong, and that's okay to be wrong.

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I'm not saying it isn't. But eggs make everything better.

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My mom used to make us spaghetti, just just the noodles, yep,

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and then she'd scramble eggs and throw it in there

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and mix it up. And then she'd add ketchup.

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Yep.

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I've seen people do. My grandpa I ate ketchup on

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his eggs, which I prefer not to. But I had

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had omelets with tabasco, and that's very very good.

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I like ketchup on my egg sandwiches.

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But if you're feeding a bunch of kids every day,

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and you're going per meal, so let's just say that

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you're doing it cheap, and you're doing two three dollars

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a meal, well you add the parents into that, you

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got five kids, Well you're at twenty one dollars every

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time you eat.

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That's the cheap stuff, you know what I'm saying.

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Yeah, So buying cheap eggs is imperative because whether you're

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whether you're making breakfast. I mean a lot of times

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we even have breakfast for supper.

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Sometimes yea the kids love it. So from the.

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Store, this is science now, this is a New life

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homestead dot com. From the store versus farm fresh eggs,

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the size and color are different.

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Yeah, I've seen that well, And a.

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Lot of it has to do with the types of

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chickens that you have, like you know, what is the breed,

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but also the way that they're done, the chemicals and

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stuff that they're actually washed under are different. So how

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many times in the store do you see brown eggs?

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Not very often, Yeah, not very often.

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There is some, but it usually says organic or something

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like that next to them. But there's definitely shell and

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yolk differences. Like you know, the shells can get tough

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depending on what you feed them if we're growing them

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on the farm.

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Yeah, but that just means you have a healthy chicken.

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Yeah. And like the last eggs we got that were

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farm fresh eggs. When you open the thing, there was

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a little paper in there that told about the eggs

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and how fresh they were and exactly chickens eat.

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I'm telling you right now, folks, Just like the vegetables

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that you see in Walmart, the eggs are months old

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when you get them. Yeah, I mean, it is what

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it is that's how they're able to do this now,

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Like with apples and things like that, they put them

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in a great big warehouse and they fumigate them with

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different chemicals to try to keep them around as long

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as possible.

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Yeah, it's kind of gross when you think about it,

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and then you know that would explain why a lot

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of times people.

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Get sick get sick, or what's happening with our kids healthy.

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Do you know that our kids are the most medicated

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of any kids on the planet in history.

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Why is that?

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I think it's because of what they're eating.

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Oh, I'm sure it's because of what they eat.

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I mean the mental health issues could be from you know,

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social projections at how much screen time they have, not

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getting out associated. I mean, there's so many dysfunctions in

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our society. The least we can do is buy the

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right eggs for our kids. I mean that's a start, right.

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Yeah.

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Okay, So there's actually taste differences that everybody used to say, well,

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an egg is an egg. I'm telling you every different

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egg I think has a little bit different flavor.

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Yeah, they all taste like eggs.

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But that's like saying that venison and elk and moose

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all taste the same because they're all part of the

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same family.

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Well, you can tell when it's fresh and when it's not.

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Well, you can, and you can also tell if you're

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eating pheasant or if you're eating chicken, yeah, or turkey.

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They have three different tastes even though they're three different birds.

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Eggs are the exact same way. So eggs, to some

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people can be a del licacy.

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I believe that.

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So what do you think about the ethical differences in

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buying eggs? Like, you know, I'm not going to browbeat

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somebody because they stop and buy eggs from somewhere, But

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do you think that we have an ethical responsibility to

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be buying our food in a place that is healthy

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for the environment.

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And you know, I don't know, there's a.

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Lot of people that see this ethical thing about well

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they keep these chickens in the thing. I just look

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at it like, well, the eggs aren't going to be

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as healthy. I feel bad for the chickens, but you know,

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humans are the apex on the priority list.

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I think I'd rather buy farm fresh, local on meats

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and eggs than I would any store.

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Oh for sure.

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And how many different places have we found eggs besides

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going to the little markets and flea markets and you

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know stuff like that. If you're driving in the country,

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a lot of times you'll just see eggs for sale

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signs sitting out in the middle of nowhere, at least

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in our part.

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A lot of areas around here are like that.

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Yeah, and then there's Facebook groups and the Amish and

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health food stores. The thing that I've found about health

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food stores is they always try to make a little

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bit on it.

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Whatever. Everybody's got to make money.

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But if you go in and you tell the owner

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of your local health food store this is what I'm

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looking for, they almost always know somebody that's selling whatever

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it is you're looking for.

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Yep, that's like that. With almost anything in their store,

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like honey or anything like that, they'll know where to

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get it.

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Well, listen to this. This is scientific fact.

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There are nutritional differences between buying eggs in the store

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and buying eggs on the farm. Multiple studies have proved

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that farm fresh eggs are more nutritious than their store

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bought counterparts. Not only do farm fresh eggs tend to

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have less saturated fat and cholesterol, but they tend to

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be higher in omega three fatty acids along with vitamin A,

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D E, N, beta caroteene. I mean, so it's not

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only cheaper, it's not only better nutritionally for you. It's

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not it's not even the ethical thing. It's that everything

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that's good for your pocketbook, that's good for your gut,

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that's good for your heart comes from those eggs, the

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farm raised eggs. Yeah, and it gets even better if

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you can raise them yourself. So if you get the chance,

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do this, and then people say, well, I'm not spending

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five dollars in gas to go get you know, four

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dollars and eggs.

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Well, you know it might be worth it in the

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store anyway.

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Well that's the thing.

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If you do it right, you should be on your

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waystop here and grab them, or you talk to the person.

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Where do you have these out? You know?

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Is there any stores around her? Is there any gas stations?

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Is there anybody that has them? How else would you

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do it?

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Oh? No, I just I don't see how people can

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say that because Walmart, you're paying eight dollars for a carton.

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Of eggs seven I saw for seven nine.

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And then you could pay the few dollars plus four

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dollars and it totals out to eight anyway, so fresh

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or not fresh.

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See, we're a little bit different.

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There is a local butcher here that we get our beef,

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which is one thousand percent better than any any big

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store beef when you say they're Burger for sure. Then

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we have another young couple that has free range chickens.

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They do all their own butchering. We buy our chicken

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a lot of it from them, and all the time,

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and we were like every other American family. Sometimes you're

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at the store and you're like, oh, man, i gotta

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grab it, so you just grab it. Yeah, And then

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if we're close to another town here, we'll stop and

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get milk because everything that is mass produced to make

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money has less nutritional value than the things that you

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can get in your local area.

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We have a friend that they have a dairy farm

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and they put their milk in glass bottles and their

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milk is so good.

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Absolutely, it's wonderful.

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And you know that's what we're saying with the eggs here,

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there are alternatives to the big box stores for eggs,

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and it's healthier for you, they taste better, and you

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know what, you kind of get to build some relationships

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with people, like we still talk to people that you know,

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we bought stuff from a long time ago, whether it's vegetables,

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you know, plants, whatever it is, we've done it and

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we've developed some relationships to those people.

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Yep. And I plan to start a garden soon so

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we'll have our own vegetables instead of buying the yucky

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ones from Walmart or wherever.

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One of the coolest things that I have seen is

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they are now making like they call them skyscraper gardens,

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where outside your window and apartment buildings, they got this

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hanging thing that you can now grow your.

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Own vegetables up there.

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Nice.

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I think that's awesome.

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But anyways, remember Monday, we found out today that the

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from a bird that you're going to be putting some

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recipes in there that we the Hansons use. Yes, okay,

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her put my secret smoking barbecue recipes on there.

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Oh you think so?

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Well they're on my head. Okay, you know what I'm saying.

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