Oh you should eat eggs from your own hens for sure! And an egg contains 6 g of protein plus all the lutein and choline and other good stuff that is in the yolk. Eggs are precious.

I used to get eggs from local hens, too. Then the hens became too old and stopped laying eggs. The woman from whom I got the eggs last told me to wait until May. They are getting new hens. Hopefully I will be able to go back to getting those eggs from local hens, from an adjacent town.

The hens were different in color and size and so were the eggs: some white, some brown, some large, some small. Some more obtuse in shape and others more pointed. It was fun simply opening the carton to look at what I got.

I am saving cartons from Trader Joe's eggs to deliver them all to that woman who keeps the hens when she finally summons me back. I also regularly open the paper recycling containers at the apartment complex to see if anyone has put a clean carton into recycling, and then I pick those up, too. This way there is no waste: I deliver the cartons, pick up the eggs, and the cycle goes on.