When I saw the Daily Post listed “egg” as a word prompt on Sunday, it made me giggle, but then I actually have something to share!

We used to have back yard chickens.  Since switching to a low carb diet, I use a lot more eggs, and I’ve been wishing I still have back yard chickens!

They are so much fun to watch. 🙂

In the summers, when the days were long, our hens laid almost daily (sometimes twice).  I’d have 18 or more eggs a day and I had to figure out what to do with all those eggs.  We did egg salad.  We did breakfast pizzas.  And we did a variety of eggs for breakfast.  We got egged out.

Thing is, hens don’t lay when the days are short and they don’t get enough sun.  Since we didn’t want to run electricity for heat and lamps, we just didn’t have fresh eggs in the winter.  So how to save all those extra eggs?

Easy!

Don’t hard boil them to freeze.  They come back out rubbery.  Yuck.

Just crack them open and scramble them up.  Then freeze those scrambled eggs raw.

• For single servings, freeze them in ice trays and and then transfer to freezer bags.  When you plan your meals, put the number of “egg cubes” you want into a bowl in the fridge and they will defrost by the next day.
• For larger portions, put your raw scrambled eggs into a freezer bag.  Lay flat to freeze so it doesn’t take up much space in the freezer.  You can stack a bunch in there! 😉  Again, put your bag of frozen eggs in the fridge the day before you need them, and they’ll be ready when you’re ready to cook.

You wouldn’t think it, but I get the question about saving eggs fairly often!  Most recently it was the cashier at Aldi who has hens at home…

So whether you are buying a bunch of eggs while they’re on sale, have somehow inherited eggs like a friend of mine did, or your hens have you swimming in eggs, now you know how to save them long term.  And they’ll still taste good when you get around to eating them!

P.S. Egg cartons make excellent fire starters!  They burn hotter, longer than newspaper!  They’ve been a life saver here when the morning coals are about burned out. 😉