Pickled eggs

The super K is a delightful place at 8:30 on Saturday morning. The air is abuzz with focused work and plans for the day with stockers and managers speaking with smiles. The aisles are freshly stocked with (mostly) over priced produce and canned goods and frozen entrees or are blocked by pallet-jacks full of goodies to be shelved and devoured throughout the day. Back by the meat department they were holding a meeting where I overheard the manager talking about last years numbers compared to this years, mostly down but Friday's sales were up. Probably because of the source of my delight: Chicken for $1.00/lb. and pork for $1.00/lb.

I grabbed up a bunch of the chicken and pork to throw in the freezer and also supplies for pickled eggs. 90 eggs (5 x 18 packs) and I lost one in the peeling process, not bad at .0111% loss rate. I loaded them up with jalapenos and garlic and beets and they will "cook" now in the fridge for at least 2 weeks in the salty vinegar and water mix. My dear family mostly wrinkles their nose at the eliptical delicassy, but they are full of protein:

-A large egg provides 6 grams of protein

-Protein content of egg white=3.6g, protein content of egg
yolk=2.7g

-Because of their high protein content, eggs are included in
the meat, fish, poultry, nuts and beans group of the US
Food Guidance Systems.

-Eggs have the highest quality protein in the food supply with
the amino acid pattern almost matching the human requirement
for essential amino acids (FAO protein
value=100)

-Digestibility of egg protein is 97%. This means that 97% of the
egg protein is absorbed as amino acids, which are available
for new protein synthesis and replacement of lost
protein.

-Cooked egg protein is more digestible than raw egg protein
(cooked egg protein digestibility=90.9%+/-0.8, raw egg
protein digestibility=51.3+/-9.8)

-The biological value of egg protein is 94%. Biological value is
a measure of the rate at which the protein in food supports
growth. Eggs and milk have the highest biological
value and provide more amino acids for growth and tissue
maintenance than even meat, including beef, chicken, pork
and fish.

They are a quick, cheap, easy source of fuel.