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angelaggie
re: your food expertise
what's your take on amy's frozen meals? kashi products in general?
::please say they're ok, please say they're ok:: 
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Re: angelaggie
Kashi is good
My mom buys them all the time. I just don't like the way most of it tastes.
Pretty much anything sold in any UT campus store is good to eat. My mom is the director of food purchasing at UT
eeks, I haven't been to the UT campus, much less the store, so I have no idea what's sold there!
is most of the stuff that's sold at whole foods pretty legit? I remember reading an article, they were ranked #1 in healthiest supermarkets.
Yup! The only thing she recommends as non-organic is eggs. Free range eggs are not good, the chickens are treated the worst in that process, and there's no way to control what the chickens eat. She usually recommends eggland's best.
With meat products we always buy deli-meats by Boar's Head. NOTHING with by-products or something that says chicken product. Just a huge no-no. Only all beef hot dogs, only the expensive bacon.
Ha, went off on a tangent there.
wait, so she says buying non-organic eggs are ok? I usually buy the central market organic ones (that cost an arm and a leg) - but I also buy them because they use paper cartons, not styrofoam.
I don't do bacon or hot dogs, so I guess I'm safe there?
Yeah, she actually went to a seminar from all farmers and egg companies and researchers and all kinds of stuff. Chickens are an animal that actually prefer a coop-like setting. Let me rephrase what I mean by organic. Cage free, or free range are not good. They still keep them in a large warehouse area and it's not very clean at all (actually some are down right nasty). The chickens pack up in tight groups and actually smother each other in cases. The pictures were horrible. Due to them being very close to each other, they're packed full of meds to keep them from spreading diseases.
Caged eggs are best. The chickens are healthier and happier, and the feed is very controlled. As long as it's organic, but caged eggs, they are great eggs. But cage free, and free range...yuck!
Re eggs: I've have long been buying cage free (but not free range, actually because I remembered you mentioning before about the food and such) eggs. Anyhoodle, the last time I bought them, there were 3 or 4 eggs in there that appeared to have been fertilized. One of them was actually pretty well formed - I could see what looked like little legs. I'd seen it a couple of times before with caged eggs, but it really grossed me out that there were so many in one dozen, so the next time I bought eggs I got caged.
My question is, is there something about cage free that ends in a higher likelihood of fertilized eggs or is this really just a freak occurrence? Seems like they would keep the roosters away from the hens, no? Or maybe they aren't fertilized at all, but that is what I was told when I was a kid and what it looked like to me with these eggs (anything from a red dot to the one that actually looked like a teeny tiny fetus).
ETA: Just read what you wrote above, so I'll get caged from now on. But still curious about whats with the fertilized eggs.
Caged free they do not keep the roosters away from the chickens
Well, they try, but it depends on the house. Yeah...weird huh. You get better egg productions when the roosters are near the chickens. In a caged egg house each chicken has their own cage and the roosters are in blocked off areas around the cages (cannot get to the cages).
In reference to the red dot....red dot means spoiled egg. Like, it's gone bad, don't eat it. Although when my grandfather was in the Navy they told him no such thing as a bad egg...you ate what you got.
But yes, there is a higher likelihood of fertilized eggs from cage free and even more so with free range. But really it's still rare.