What do you end up doing w/ the yolks?? It seems like such an awful waste to just toss them out...
Being comfortable throwing away food was something I needed to learn in order for me to be able to eat moderately in all situations. If I couldn't go to a restaurant and be able to push my plate away when I was full, even if there was still food left on my plate, then I knew i'd never be able to sustain my weight loss. I paid a lot of money for that meal, but that doesn't mean I have to make myself fat because of it. I had to learn how to let go of food.
Well to me, the same philosophy applies to egg yolks. It's much cheaper here in So. Cal. for me to buy a dozen eggs (well, not this week, but usually) than it is to buy egg whites or egg beaters, plus I like eating one egg yolk with my whites. So i'll eat 1 yolk and 2 or 3 whites and yes, throw the other yolks away. I am actually saving money by doing it this way, and i'm not forcing myself to eat something just because I paid for it, or just because it's a waste of food.
i've wondered the same thing
i mostly boil my eggs..but i dont eat the boiled yolk..(so liquid egg whites cant help me here)
and i dont have a dog.
still i hate wasting food
It is so hard for me to get over the mentality of not wasting food and also getting my money's worth.
Hence I always pig out at buffets and parties as well :( I mean its "free food"
Everyone keeps saying to leave stuff on the plate.... but I still can't seem to get over my mentality of it!! (tips??)
There's nothing wrong with the WHOLE egg, and everything RIGHT with it; it's been something humans have eaten for THOUSANDS of years.
All this 'hype' - and my own doctor calls it just that! Unless YOUR DOCTOR tells you that you should avoid eggs entirely; or only eat the white because of your high cholesterol count, there aren't enough calories to make that much of a difference (as others have said here).
I'ved noted how posters will complain that they over-ate a bunch of junk food and 'blew their calories' for the day. Eggs will keep you from being hungry (I'm not overweight by the way). These people will eat 'only whites', then chow down on high-caloried restaurant foods - that makes no sense.
Because I have Crohn's disease and IBS, I'm limited to 3 eggs a week; however, I'm not the rule - the exception. My doctor said the the yolk is where the nutrition is, and that's why he allows (and recommends) 3 eggs a week for me.
Wasting food is not what anyone should be taught to do. You can freeze the yolks; they can be put into a meat-loaf/chicken-loaf with the normal bread crumbs or cracker crumbs if you like making up this type of meal.
Why would you feed your dog an egg yolk if you didn't think it was 'safe' for you? They do feed dogs yolks to help make their coats shine - this is an age-old practice, but most often it was done when the eggs were too old for humans to eat safely (dogs have different digestive systems).
Egg-beaters 'beat' their gums about their product; that's because they want to sell it - it's much more expensive, and that's about all the validity there is in picking their product.
Unless your doctor says no, enjoy 3 or 4 a week and quit listening to advertisers' who're hawking their product so they can make a profit with 'scare tactics'.
The yolks either get tossed, nibbled on by kitties, or gobbled up by doggies.
=^..^= MOLLY
Edited to add: but I am also of the opinion that it won't hurt you to eat the yolks. I avoided them for a long time but they taste so great and really do have a lot of nutrition. They are not that high in fat for what they are and all the things you can do with them. Yes they're high in cholesterol but they have so many other important things in the yolks that it really does balance out. Plus like another poster said, people have been eating them for hundreds of years. They are a lot more natural than half the chemical diet product crap we put into our bodies. I say eat the yolk, but if you have some you're not using, find another use for them, like a hair rinse or give them to your dog.
Jamie, it took a lot of work to get to this point for me. I had to change my entire perspective about food. I've been working with a nutrition therapist and that's what helped me. I've learned that there are no "good" and "bad" foods, they're all just "food" the only difference is how I view them. I don't restrict myself any foods, that way I don't feel deprived and feel the need to binge on anything. It's JUST food, it's not my friend nor my enemy. I have control over it, I can eat what I want, when I want and I can throw it away if I don't like it or if it is an egg yolk that I don't want to eat.
It took me a long time to get to this place though, and I still struggle at times. I have 40 years of old habits I had to break, they aren't going to be broken over night.
