Farm Fresh (Or Pastured) Eggs

Farm Fresh (Or Pastured) Eggs

Farm fresh (or pastured) eggs: Don't confused these with "free range" or "omega-3" eggs from the grocery store. (These are both fairly misleading labels, Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma has more details.) The good news is that these awesome eggs are readily available at most farmers markets for less than what you'd pay for fancy eggs at the grocery store.

Pastured eggs are from healthy chickens living their lives as chickens ought to — not force fed a vegetarian diet (they're omnivores), not confined to small and dirty spaces 24 hours a day. As a result these eggs have a very different fat profile (and different color yolks) than grocery store eggs. (For the "omega-3" eggs in the grocery store, they just supplement the diet of, but supplementation doesn't actually undo terrible living conditions) They naturally have lots of omega-3 eggs, no sugar, and lots of protein.