one egg or two????

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My DM will not stop going on about the fact that I have two boiled eggs, rather than one, for lunch. This may seem trivial (and it is ), but she is a total food obsessive and has fixated on my 2 egg-ness in order to illustrate my apparent over-eating (as far as she is concerned!).

She has even apparently done a poll of her friends (I kid you not) to find out if they eat one or two, and apparently they have all agreed that I am greedy!

Am I? I really didn't think I was but maybe I am? Surely 2 pieces of bread is normal for lunch, and you then need two eggs! In the light of all this overwhelming evidence (my DM's highly scientific poll of pensioners at her sewing group!), please advise if I am indeed BU and piggy!

(BTW DM has two eggs if she has scrambled egg which I think rather spoils her moral highgound IMO ).

Your DM sample group has a bias she has overlooked as many elderly people have dimished appetites, and consquently eat much less than they did previously in their youth

Oh and your mum needs to butt out.... maybe you need to let her intrude less ie. if she starts about this again close the conversation down, "i'm sorry but'll we'll just have to disagree on that one I'm a grown woman and I'll eat as many eggs as I like. So what did you think of Enders last night... etc"

connortraceptive has it

alhtough got to agree with thumbwitch - 14 eggs a week is a lot - they're known for their erm binding properties are they not?

She needs to get out more (as do we all).

Two!

My mother is very good and relaxed about food, but can get quite controlling in other ways ('oh, but you should be playing this music/going here on holiday/setting the table like this/not watching this on TV').

I find a brisk firmness works best and is least upsetting for both of us ('ah well, we are playing this now/have decided to visit X/have already set the table').

She doesn't really mean to annoy me; it's just the way it comes out.

I think Doris has something there - they are probably still playing by post war-time rationing rules when a mere sniff of an egg was considered a luxury...can see her point now. Yep, 2 eggs - you are a greedy guts

I usually have one but will have two if I'm very hungry. You always get two in the cafe down the road though and dcs have two.

If it was wrong to eat two boiled eggs, why would God have invented these?

I just had two poached eggs on toast

My chickens are currently laying 15 eggs a day, so it is my duty to force feed them all to my dh and dc's, and my sisters and they're dc's.
If we stuck to one egg a time, we'd be up to our necks in no time!

Well I was going to say that since my children have one egg for lunch, I feel it is reasonable for me to have two, but actually, I just remembered that my children had 2 eggs each one lunchtime last week. So does that mean I can have 4?

Your dm is fooling herself.

well your mum and her mates are miserly and mean only one egg - for goodness sake that wouldn't feed a ant let alone an 11 year old dc

What if you want to plug yourself up a bit aswell - you deff need two or three eggs for that

Get your dm to do another poll of her mean and miserly friends and see if they make one egg omlettes for lunch?

also do they measure there bran flakes or fee hand pour - give your mum soemthing to do

You see that colour-changing egg timer beside the eggcup in Kurris link? Works like a dream.

LOL @ IvyKaty's "give your mum something to do".

I want to join a sewing group now, just so I can discuss these weighty (pun intended) matters.

When I was 13 and a vegetarian and went on a school ski trip to Austria, the kindly but bemused hotelkeepers didn't know what to feed me instead of meat so they gave me two eggs. At every meal. (Except for the one memorable day when I got seaweed soup.)

YANBU.

(Actually I do only have one egg unless it's scrambled, but I don't see why you shouldn't have two if you want.)

Two eggs for poached or boiled... four in an omelette to feed two people.
Older ladies eat like sparrows so major egg consumption probably feels like cannibalism.

I sometimes have one egg for breakfast but if it's lunchtime or dinner time, then two at least.

You're not greedy. And they're good for you. And all those people who tell you they're bad because of cholesterol are wrong.

well if ops mum has got so much time on her hands she take her to the nearest shopping center give her a clip board and away she goes

ohh all this talk of eggs, i have just put 2 egs in a pan to make egg mayo with cherry tommatos, thats about normal in our house!

When I was at school, my French teacher used to say "One egg is un oeuf (enough - geddit?)"

I have two eggs for lunch. Nothing greedy about it atall! They keep you going through the rest of the afternoon.

Infact I am really bad because I had THREE eggs in my omelette at lunchtime. tut tut....

Two eggs - boiled, scrambled, poached or fried unless I'm having them as part of a bigger meal. But then I've got an odd quirk which means I need certain numbers of some things!

I would like to point out that I don't have 14 eggs a week!!!!! Just the two once a week.

BTW my mum is also the only person I know who actually precisely weighs out portions of pasta, and weighs chicken to allocate portions rather than just using one average-size chicken breast per person as I do!

(lovechoc - I'm telling my mum on you! ).

lol