Eggs and Jams

Glowpun · Apr 25, 2015

What do you look for when you go shopping for eggs and jams?

I try not to eat too many eggs each week. What I buy are those eggs from cage free and vegetarian fed chickens. The eggs are more expensive that the commercial mass produced type but since I only eat a few eggs a week…

On jams I look to see what is listed on the ingredient label. I stay away from so-called jams when sugar or fructose is listed as the first, second, or third ingredient. These "jams" are really fruit flavored sugars! I've found jams that contain no added sugar and are sweetened instead with fruit juice and the fruit is actually listed as the first or second ingredient on the list. These jams have so much more flavor.

RabidAlpaca · Apr 25, 2015

In the warmer months I'm often able to buy eggs from my neighbor's chickens, so I'll see no label, but I can see the chickens walking around free, even crossing the streets in packs. In the store I look at the labels and only buy the humane, preferably free-range eggs. Here in Germany everything is labeled and regulated so there's a lot of information about the eggs. I've found they're not really even much more expensive than the dubious eggs.

Goshin · Apr 25, 2015

I look to see if the eggs are cracked, and if the jam has real fruit in it.

sangha · Apr 25, 2015

Glowpun said:
What do you look for when you go shopping for eggs and jams?

I try not to eat too many eggs each week. What I buy are those eggs from cage free and vegetarian fed chickens. The eggs are more expensive that the commercial mass produced type but since I only eat a few eggs a week…

On jams I look to see what is listed on the ingredient label. I stay away from so-called jams when sugar or fructose is listed as the first, second, or third ingredient. These "jams" are really fruit flavored sugars! I've found jams that contain no added sugar and are sweetened instead with fruit juice and the fruit is actually listed as the first or second ingredient on the list. These jams have so much more flavor.

1) Cage-free is pretty meaningless. It just means that were crowded into a pen with a lot of other chickens. Only slightly less cruel and has no nutritional avantage. And for vegetarian, chickens are omnivores. They are hunters and will kill and eat small animals.

2) Jams - when they add fruit juice, it's usually apple juice which is nutritionally almost the same as sugar and because the added sweetener is divided between sugar and fruit juice, it moves sugar down the list of ingredients.

countryboy · Apr 25, 2015

Glowpun said:
What do you look for when you go shopping for eggs and jams?

I try not to eat too many eggs each week. What I buy are those eggs from cage free and vegetarian fed chickens. The eggs are more expensive that the commercial mass produced type but since I only eat a few eggs a week…

On jams I look to see what is listed on the ingredient label. I stay away from so-called jams when sugar or fructose is listed as the first, second, or third ingredient. These "jams" are really fruit flavored sugars! I've found jams that contain no added sugar and are sweetened instead with fruit juice and the fruit is actually listed as the first or second ingredient on the list. These jams have so much more flavor.

If I am at the grocery store I try to buy cage and hormone free eggs. If I run to the dollar store in a pinch, I get whatever they have.

I usually buy Polaner all fruit jam. Good stuff and non-GMO. Smucker's makes a good real fruit jam too.

Eggs and Jams

Glowpun

RabidAlpaca

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Goshin

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sangha

countryboy