Is it an 11 egg omelette too much?

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Would you say an 11 egg omelette, roughly 3 times per week, is a lot/too much for 1 person?

Yes. We use 2 or 3 eggs but if it’s a Spanish omelette with lots of veg and cheese topping we do 4 eggs to share. Is this person huge or just generally very greedy?

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WASTING 11 eggs is way worse.

How little veg are you putting in? To get a decent amount of veg to stick together I need 2-3 eggs.

Brilliant!

Do you use a pan the size of a saucer for your one egg omelette?

The farts are quite fragrant too.

A baby could eat a 1 egg omelette.

To my astonishment eating 12 eggs/day results in losing weight, the weight loss is fat & the tester lost 40mm off his waist!

However cholesterol went up

https://www.menshealth.com/nutrition/a31014726/eating-12-eggs-a-day-diet-video/

It turns out that 33/week isn't so nuts as I first thought!

Wow, I thought my relative was the only person on earth who made an omelette with one solitary egg! If it works for you then that's great but it hardly seems worth getting the frying pan out for one egg!
I expect someone to come along in a minute to tell us that one egg is excessive, that they feed a family of four with an omelette made from one egg and they are all so full after that they don't need to eat for the rest of the day! I have been accused of being a chronic under-eater but, if anyone tells me that again, I will just tell them to take a look at MN sometimes, some of the comments on here make me feel like a glutton!

Our 16-month old has been devouring two egg omelettes for months now. Eggs are pretty much her favourite food. If we presented her with a one egg omelette she would definitely register her dissatisfaction in no uncertain terms!

Are they a tiger?

I'm not mad keen on omelettes but on the odd occasion I do one I use three eggs and chuck in either cheese/mushrooms/peppers or occasionally, just eat it plain.

If I had 11 eggs three times a week, I doubt I'd have a poo for at least a month. 😧

Blimey thats a big omelette! We use 2 or 3 eggs per omelette

Dr’s know NOTHING about nutrition 😆

Love some of these comments 🤣

Yes an 11 egg omlette is ridiculous.
I had a 4 egg one and felt greedy for it.

But you also don’t get to police what someone else eats.
If this person is paying for the eggs then it’s up to them what they eat and when.

We also have no context, are they doing a one meal a day diet, what do they eat on other days etc.

I know a woman who ate a chicken a day. Literally an entire roast chicken and a bit of veg to go with it.
Which is madness but she lost loads of weight and kept her muscle and didn’t waste any food.

So is it greed or is there an actual reason for it.

Why would you feel greedy for it?

Do you normally only have meals that are the equivalent of 3 eggs?

People are very weird about eggs for some reason and think portions should be limited but they often have no problem having far bigger meals when it comes to other foods.

Yep my baby used to!

People are very weird about eggs for some reason and think portions should be limited but they often have no problem having far bigger meals when it comes to other foods.

It's probably because there's been so much mixed messaging about eggs over the last 40 years or so. One week they're going to kill you, the next week you should be eating them every day. That doesn't give people confidence.

I'd understand that if they were very obsessed with health but many who are like this about eggs are definitely not health freaks and would happily eat say a big fry up or huge chinese quite regularly or drink too much, and there's plenty of warnings about those kind of things too, but God forbid they may have too many eggs 😅

Yes, I use a fried egg one. It poofs up nice. Like a fat pancake

Cool.

@kkloo a huge fuss was made of salmonella in eggs in the late 1980s. Edwina Currie was all over the media saying that almost all eggs carry salmonella and that no one should ever eat soft-boiled eggs or they'd die. Then, once we were allowed to eat them again egg yolks, the most nutritious part of the egg, was demonised and people were told to throw them away. It's no wonder people are confused.

I can understand it from that perspective as I personally fell for the demonise salt messaging. I never added it to anything for years and I definitely need salt as I have chronically low blood pressure so I have plenty now.

But I have never heard anyone bring up the salmonella argument in real life, just cholesterol, whereas they will happily eat large portions of other foods that they have repeatedly heard warnings about and that they know are not healthy.

Dietary cholesterol has minimal effect on blood cholesterol. The whole too many eggs is bad for cholesterol was debunked many years ago.