Dyed our eggs last night, would it be wrong to eat them today?

[TheRatPack]

We always ate ours too....we would dye them and then once we found them all, my cousins and I would sit on the porch and peel eggs and eat them.....yummy.

We make deviled eggs for Easter, eat them boiled with a little salt or put them in potato salad.

 

[kmvand1]

Really they cost us $.89 and serve as a decoration. Why pay for the dye or food coloring and then just eat them? That seems like a waste. We like to see ours.

 

[WeLoveLilo05]

Happy Easter everyone!
OK, how many eggs do ya'll have left this morning?

 

[iheartdisney]

We are simple folks, not big into "decorations" Besides, at our home, the fun is in dying them together, not sitting back admiring them.
We had "egg boats" for breakfast this morning, and will have deviled eggs for dinner.

BTW, my dad drove an old Ford van, the flat nosed ones, with the engine between the front two seats. During the winter, that was the best seat in the van, because it was the warmest. Can you say no seatbelt and my head was about 6 inches from the windshield!

 

[pixiewings71]

We color and decorate, refrigerate and then eat them....We have 2 dozen eggs hard boiled and decorated, it's raining so we hid filled plastic eggs instead of the hard boiled colored eggs. I'll make some deviled eggs in a little bit, altho we are having lasagne for dinner so not sure deviled eggs goes with that. LOL Maybe a few eggs sliced up on our salad. We pay almost $3 for a dozen eggs, no way I'm wasting those! LOL

 

[shortbun]

Ummm.............EWWWW!! Sorry, but we boil them, cool them, decorate them and then display them. We do not eat them after doing all of that. Can you not make a peanut butter and jelly?

What, why? Why would you not eat them?

 

[kmvand1]

What, why? Why would you not eat them?

Because we specifically buy the eggs to dye, then leave them out as an Easter decoration, then throw them away. That's why.

 

[nashville_minnie]

just thought i would chime in too - i am surprised to see that i am in the minority. i would never eat a dyed egg in a billion years, the thought makes me naucious. i acknowledge that it is only the shell, not the actual egg, that comes into contact with people's hands, the dye, etc. But to me, once food is used in any kind of manner not consistent with cooking, etc, it is no longer "food", it is arts & crafts.

would y'all eat macaroni noodles after someone glued them onto a picture frame? do you cook up your pumpkin after you carve it out? i think not.

i guess i just feel that if you want to eat some eggs, then buy some eggs for eating as well as some eggs for coloring!! they really aren't that expensive.

 

[iheartdisney]

just thought i would chime in too - i am surprised to see that i am in the minority. i would never eat a dyed egg in a billion years, the thought makes me naucious. i acknowledge that it is only the shell, not the actual egg, that comes into contact with people's hands, the dye, etc. But to me, once food is used in any kind of manner not consistent with cooking, etc, it is no longer "food", it is arts & crafts.

would y'all eat macaroni noodles after someone glued them onto a picture frame? do you cook up your pumpkin after you carve it out? i think not.

i guess i just feel that if you want to eat some eggs, then buy some eggs for eating as well as some eggs for coloring!! they really aren't that expensive.

IDK...I guess it is just your point of view. I mean, do you eat decorated cakes?

 

[goodferry]

Wow, never thought about not eating them, we always eat ours. I don't hide the hard boiled ones, though, only plastic ones, hiding the hard boiled ones in the grass, etc. and then eating them seems icky to me for some reason. Growing up our hard boiled ones were hidden inside the house, plastic ones outside. We also always ate our eggs growing up. It's fun to hear different perspectives, though.

 

[pixiewings71]

just thought i would chime in too - i am surprised to see that i am in the minority. i would never eat a dyed egg in a billion years, the thought makes me naucious. i acknowledge that it is only the shell, not the actual egg, that comes into contact with people's hands, the dye, etc. But to me, once food is used in any kind of manner not consistent with cooking, etc, it is no longer "food", it is arts & crafts.

would y'all eat macaroni noodles after someone glued them onto a picture frame? do you cook up your pumpkin after you carve it out? i think not.

i guess i just feel that if you want to eat some eggs, then buy some eggs for eating as well as some eggs for coloring!! they really aren't that expensive.

But this makes no sense, the eggs are cooked before you color them....in approved dies that are safe to ingest. And actually yes, I've used pumpkin that has been removed from pumpkins I'm going to carve, and yes I've used the seeds too.....
And yes, eggs are expensive, as I said before I paid $3 for 1 dozen eggs to color, since we did 2 dozen that's $6 in eggs....so yes we will eat them.

 

[kmvand1]

just thought i would chime in too - i am surprised to see that i am in the minority. i would never eat a dyed egg in a billion years, the thought makes me naucious. i acknowledge that it is only the shell, not the actual egg, that comes into contact with people's hands, the dye, etc. But to me, once food is used in any kind of manner not consistent with cooking, etc, it is no longer "food", it is arts & crafts.

would y'all eat macaroni noodles after someone glued them onto a picture frame? do you cook up your pumpkin after you carve it out? i think not.

i guess i just feel that if you want to eat some eggs, then buy some eggs for eating as well as some eggs for coloring!! they really aren't that expensive.

I am laughing, how funny!! But that is exactly what I am trying to say. We're not talking $25.00 for a dozen eggs people.

 

[racefanof88]

We boil them, cool them, dye them, refrigerate them, then eat them. When I was a kid we also hid them before we ate them. The only time they went in the trash was if they were cracked when we found them. Now we hid plastic eggs because it is no big deal if we don't find all of them. We dyed 15 eggs yesterday and mysteriously, three of them were gone this morning .

 

[MickeyCrazedMom]

In our house only 1 out of 5 likes eggs, so we throw most of the eggs away. DD will eat a couple, but only for a day or two. So, we decorate about 30 just for fun, put them in the fridge for a few days, and then toss them. We don't even display them because we don't have easter at our house. Purely the joy of decorating!

We also don't hide them for 2 reasons. One - the smell of the eggs grosses us out and two - the easter bunny hides 80 eggs for each kid and I am not making that many!!!

 

[WeLoveLilo05]

just thought i would chime in too - i am surprised to see that i am in the minority. i would never eat a dyed egg in a billion years, the thought makes me naucious. i acknowledge that it is only the shell, not the actual egg, that comes into contact with people's hands, the dye, etc. But to me, once food is used in any kind of manner not consistent with cooking, etc, it is no longer "food", it is arts & crafts.

would y'all eat macaroni noodles after someone glued them onto a picture frame? do you cook up your pumpkin after you carve it out? i think not.

i guess i just feel that if you want to eat some eggs, then buy some eggs for eating as well as some eggs for coloring!! they really aren't that expensive.

People do put the seeds in the oven, bake them, then eat them.

 

[gerberdaisy1234]

just thought i would chime in too - i am surprised to see that i am in the minority. i would never eat a dyed egg in a billion years, the thought makes me naucious. i acknowledge that it is only the shell, not the actual egg, that comes into contact with people's hands, the dye, etc. But to me, once food is used in any kind of manner not consistent with cooking, etc, it is no longer "food", it is arts & crafts.

would y'all eat macaroni noodles after someone glued them onto a picture frame? do you cook up your pumpkin after you carve it out? i think not.

i guess i just feel that if you want to eat some eggs, then buy some eggs for eating as well as some eggs for coloring!! they really aren't that expensive.

You can buy eggs already dyed at the grocery store to EAT, you can not buy noodles glued on a frame at the grocery store to EAT! It is FOOD coloring you are using not Elmer's glue. If you want to throw our food go ahead, but don't make it sound like we are eating our kids' art!

 

[HLDisney]

We use food coloring to dye our eggs so we have no problems eating them. For that matter, every year our church hands out colored eggs and most people will crack them open and eat them on the spot. Even at the childrens Sunday School party, each child got an egg and quite a few of them cracked them open and ate them along with the candy, cookies and chips they got.

If we couldn't eat them, I couldn't bring myself to color more than maybe 1 or 2. No, it's not a lot of money but to me it would be like decorating a cupcake and then throwing it away.

Helen

 

[3boymthr]

This thread is soo funny.



Of course, we don't even boil our eggs. We just put them in the dye and then using them in cooking as normal.

Of course yesterday, DH wanted deviled eggs and I had to boil the Orikana eggs (if you've never seen them these are chicken eggs that are all kinds of fun colors no dyeing needed - we had pink green and blue) that a friend had given us .

 

[MomRN]

We eat our dyed eggs.... but we don't hide them. To each their own.

 

[wdwfan16]

People do put the seeds in the oven, bake them, then eat them.

But they don't make a pumpkin pie out of the used jack-o-lantern. I paid $.89 for my eggs. They are eggs not golden eggs. That pumpkin cost me $5+ yet I just carve him, light him and toss him. He too is a decoration.