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

[iheartdisney]

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.

Again, you can dig the pulp out of the pumpkin (what is used to make the pie as per your example) and use it. Or not. To each their own.

After all, this is the DIS budget board. In the past five years, I have seen people bragging about things FAR worse (and more humorous) than eating boiled eggs.
*Taking kids to Sams Club to turn samples into lunch during the summer
*Taking Ziploc baggies to a theme park for leftovers
*grabbing resort mugs out of the trash for a week of free sodas
*Purchasing a double cheeseburger and an extra bun rather than fork over the cost of two cheeseburgers
*Making salads at the burger fixin's station
*Taking a taxi to go grocery shopping whilst on vacation for bottled water
*Buy a minifridge on vacation to avoid having to rent one or buy their milk one carton at a time

I mean, lets celebrate our frugality, not mock it!

 

[DrRae2B]

We boil them, and then color them with food coloring and stick them right back in the fridge, so they're pretty much just the same thing as a plain old hard boiled egg (just prettier!). But we don't hide them (we hide the plastic eggs), so I think it's a little less gross that way. Lol.

But yeah, we definitely eat them.

 

[Kat77]

Am I seriously the only one turning them into deviled eggs for Easter dinner? Where are all those southern disboarders?!
We boil, cool, dye and refridge them on Saturday and Easter Sunday they become a yummy side dish.

When I was a child, my grandma would count all the boiled eggs before they were hidden and no one was allowed to quit hunting until each and every egg had been accounted for. She had a rotten, stinking, egg phobia like you would not believe! By the time great-grandkids made the scene, we were smart enough to institute a plastic eggs only policy for family egg hunts.

BTW, we bake our pumpkin seeds!

 

[pixiewings71]

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.

I'm glad that your eggs were 89 cents a dozen, mine were NOT and I won't waste it. Even if it's "only" $6 I still don't want to waste it. Plus DD13 and DBF love boiled eggs, I don't normally make them so for them Easter eggs are a major treat. And again, I have used my pumpkins "guts", I've salted and baked the seeds and I've used some of the scrapings for pumpkin muffins, makes them very very good. No I don't use the Jack O Lantern, I use the insides of him.

 

[Scurvy]

Am I seriously the only one turning them into deviled eggs for Easter dinner? Where are all those southern disboarders?!
We boil, cool, dye and refridge them on Saturday and Easter Sunday they become a yummy side dish.

No, you aren't. That's what we do, too! I thought that's what everyone did. I could see throwing them out if they've been sitting out for a long time or something, but it never occurred to me that people actually hid or decorated their home with hard boiled eggs. We decorate with real eggs that have been blown out (so it's just the empty shell that has been dyed or painted) and hide plastic eggs! Our decorated boiled eggs are treated exactly like any other hard boiled eggs except for the 5 or so minutes it takes to dye them. If we didn't use food-safe dyes or if we left them out as decorations or hid them then of course we wouldn't eat them.

 

[Scurvy]

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 see that those scenerios are completely different, don't you? As you pointed out, only the shell of the egg comes into contact with hands and dye. The inside of the egg - the part you eat - doesn't. The entire macaroni noodle - the part you eat - comes into contact with hands and glue. People do use the parts of the pumpkin that they carve out when making a jack-o-lantern. I would hope they wouldn't use the meat of a jack-o-lantern which has been sitting out for days to make a pie, because that would be both unhygenic and unsafe.

Your Easter eggs might not be safe to eat if you leave them sitting out to display them. I can understand not wanting to eat eggs that have been sitting out for any significant length of time. The mere fact that they've been dyed doesn't make them unsafe to eat, however.

 

[3boymthr]

I'm glad that your eggs were 89 cents a dozen, mine were NOT and I won't waste it. Even if it's "only" $6 I still don't want to waste it. Plus DD13 and DBF love boiled eggs, I don't normally make them so for them Easter eggs are a major treat. And again, I have used my pumpkins "guts", I've salted and baked the seeds and I've used some of the scrapings for pumpkin muffins, makes them very very good. No I don't use the Jack O Lantern, I use the insides of him.

Yeah, mine weren't 89 cents either. They were $3.89 a dozen. The orikana eggs are more than that.

Plus, we eat our seeds too, and the rest of my pumpkin benefits our local wild animals by my not eating it as we put them out in the woods (we also don't pay $6 for my pumpkin - if I don't grow them they cost min $10 ea.).

 

[WeLoveLilo05]

this is making me laugh, I have never created a thread before that got this many responses and its over something as simple as easter eggs.

 

[Kat77]

We decorate with real eggs that have been blown out (so it's just the empty shell that has been dyed or painted) and hide plastic eggs!

OMG, like, me too!

We started turning our blown eggs into cascarones a few years back. My kids wanted to keep them around forever until this occured to me. Also, if I have an egg or two go past their exp. date during the year I blow it out, clean the insides, and save it. By Easter, I have abt. two dozen clean (not stinky, you nit-picky people!) egg shells under the kitchen sink ready to go.
http://www.highlightskids.com/Stories/NonFiction/NF0302_cascarones.asp

this is making me laugh, I have never created a thread before that got this many responses and its over something as simple as easter eggs.

Woah, don't forget the pumpkin spin off! It's not a good post without spin- and you got it!

 

[shoney]

LOL...I just read a few but when I was kid you boiled, colored, then found them easter morning...then displayed them for all to see and then continued to eat them for a week...and we are still alive.

We color them the day before....then put them in the frig..hide them in the early morning and then return them to the frig...some get eaten and most go in the garbage!

Times..they are a changin'