Eggs eggs and more eggs!

Claire_Bear

The other day I bought loads of eggs that were reduced to 10p per box from work. They have a use-by date of the 20th so instead of eating nothing but omelette until then I thought I would do some batch cooking. Anyone got any suggestions for good recipes that use eggs that will freeze well?

gailey_2

well most obvious one springs to mind is

homemade pastry frozen

quiches

use pastry to make pasties or sausage rolls.

not sure if you can freeze omlette think you can freeze a batter mix.
better still make a load of yorkies or toad in hole.

Pink.

Hi Claire Bear,

Things I can think of, off the top of my head are:

Quiche
Pancakes
Fritatta
Cakes and muffins
Use the whites to make meringues and the yolks to make carbonara.

The chances are that your eggs will be perfectly safe to eat well past their sell by date anyway, this Fresh Egg Test should help. Also this thread has more opinions: Dates on eggs / how long do they keep for?

If you want to you can freeze the eggs themselves for using later in baking:

freezing eggs?

And finally this thread should give you plenty of ideas for using them up:

Eggs eggs and more eggs!

I'll add your thread to the last link later to keep the suggestions together.

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Claire_Bear

Thanks for the suggestions, pancakes and quiches are a good idea. I also didn't realise you could make omelettes and freeze them so will do that too. I could probably eat them all before they go off but am taking having a lot of them as an opportunity to stock my freezer up a bit. I already have brownies on the list of things to make, but they won't last long enough to go into the freezer

Cheeselady

On a very tight budget for our food shopping, I have 6 eggs and some mushrooms to use for tea tonight, any ideas of things to make with that, apart from the obvious omelette? We are veggie so no meat ideas please. Thank you!

parsonswife8

You could make a quiche or fry the mushrooms and a few eggs and put the mushrooms on some toast, with an egg on top.

zenseeker

Do you have anything else besides the eggs and mushrooms?

fairtrade

Breaded mushrooms? You will need some extra ingredients.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/breadedmushroomswith_83302

zenseeker

You're both assuming that she has bread...waiting for OP to say if she has anything else

Cheeselady

Sorry, I'm here now, yep have bread, potatoes, and usual store cupboard stuff, but no flour. Sorry should have made that clearer, oh and milk also, and a few Tesco value cheese slices.