Happy Tuesday ladies! I hope that the weather is as beautiful in Iowa as I think it is here. Tuesday is coming to a close and we are fast approaching a long weekend and my mood is reflecting these wonderful facts. I have had a really good day and besides the fact that I am very hungry right now, I am feeling great. Anyway, I was checking the blog and noticed that Jenny and I have sucked lately at blogging (we're both busy and trying to get back on track so it's understandable) but I thought I would give it a go as I'm done with all of my work for today (and the majority of tomorrow as well).
As always, I was bored and was doing some reading online. Now, I know it's always a risk with you picky-eater Smith girls (yes, I'm calling you out) but I thought I'd share some thoughts with you. Lately, I've been getting up early enough to have breakfast at home before I head out to work, or, in the very least, early enough to eat in the car while I'm driving to work. Anyway, I have started eating egg sandwiches a few times per week. Well, apparently I was doing something right when I decided to choose eggs for my breakfast food of choice. Apparently in a newly published study, men and women who started their day's off with an egg at breakfast consumed fewer calories during the remainder of the day. There was also a trend that showed they consumed fewer calories the next day as well...go-go eggs!
While there is this positive side to eggs, I won't pretend that I wasn't concerned with the amount of cholesterol in egg yolks. In a single large egg, there is 70% of the daily allotment of cholesterol for a 2000 calorie diet...ouch. It has long been debated whether men and women who have high cholesterol get it from foods such as eggs or from their poor diet in general. I don't know what I believe so I decided to make it a non issue. The days I have eggs, I tend to cook them in a non-stick skillet with cooking spray (no added fat) and have taken to eating 2 egg whites instead of a whole egg (no, fat or cholesterol in the white and still lots of protein, and in the spirit of full disclosure, the white is my favorite part of a skillet cooked egg). So, if you like eggs, you should totally give this a try. Also, I've been thinking that I might like to try some alternate ways of making my eggs for breakfast and wanted to share some ideas that I have really come to like. I'll post the recipes in a separate blog entry so this one doesn't get outrageously long and so that we can add another entry to May!
Anyway, happy eating and keep up the good work ladies!
4 comments:
Eggs do rule. I don't get picky with my eggs unless they are made over easy. I like my eyes hard or scrambled. I didn't realize how much cholesterol was in one yoke! I am a yoke lover; I don't think I could give them up.
Wow I cannot spell the word yolk evidently.
I like eggs too! I'm an omelet girl, scrambled eggs girl, and over hard girl. I used to make egg and cheese sandwiches on english muffins. They are sooo good. I'm a big egg sandwich fan. Luckily and unlike Jenny, I like the whites more than the yolk so I could easily do without the yolk. Now that I will be living a more domesticated lifestyle with Jason I'm sure that there will be several egg sandwiches made - Jason likes them too. Eggs are a large source of the protein I eat since I am a picky meat eater. Yep, that's my two cents.
Omlets are good too. Fill them up with cheese and lots of veggies...yum!! It seems like we're all on the same page here...well cooked eggs!
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