How many eggs does your DH or older ds eat as a portion?

[daisydalrymple]

DH has just had 5 scrambled eggs for breakfast.
DH and DS18 never have less than 4 eggs as a portion. So I buy a dozen on a shop on a Monday. By weds they’re gone.
we got through 42 eggs last week, me, dd and ds2 had 6 between us.
I think it’s excessive, but wondering if this is now the norm in this high protein era.

My sister has two teenage boys, and a teenage girl and a husband and she buys thirty six eggs a day.

2 each here, that does sound a lot, I bet he’s bunged up afterwards

If scrambled then:
Dh and ds1 (17) would have 4.
Me and ds2 (15) would have 3.
Ds3 (7) would have two.

That's over 7 eggs each every day which is just mental.

3 for scrambled, 2 for poached or boiled.

4 generally. Could easily eat 6.

It's simple. Your DH is greedy.

Two or three and sometimes added egg whites (from a carton) but he’s really into his macros and eats a lot of protein. Five seems excessive unless seriously training.

I was on a cruise recently and the bloke on the table at breakfast next to us had 3 boiled eggs, toast, then a bagel with 3 poached eggs and scrambled eggs on the side. That would constipate me!

I often have 4 boiled eggs for breakfast, and I’m a petite female.

Love eggs, great source of protein.

He has 7 boiled and mashed

Seven?!

You're scrambling your eggs wrong if they’re shrinking.

3 for an omelette, 2 for scramble, boiled, 1 for poached usually. We have an egg farm nearby where they are £3 per dozen and £6 for a tray of 30!

@threenaancurrywhore sorry I mean 7 if both me and DH will have some. Not 7 just for DH.

His argument that he needs twice as much food as DS is barmy.

I remember that when I was a not particularly active 13yo girl, I was eating more for my evening meal than my Dad, who's a builder and was working on sites laying blocks from 8-6!

Because I was growing like mad, as your DS will be.

There's a useful table here.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/educational/wecan/downloads/calreqtips.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwifk-7aqY6NAxVwV0EAHZiYCAwQFnoFCIkBEAE&usg=AOvVaw1ci0hjZ64lldho1F1OfXXw

I think so too but I haven’t got any teenage boys.

My ds (24) could easily eat 6. My dp 3 at a push