Hoads Farm Free Range Eggs

I prefer to buy free range eggs having being brought up with chickens in the garden I can not bring myself to buy caged bird eggs. I wanted some eggs when I was in Tesco and decided to give the Hoad's farm free range eggs a try. I usually just buy the Tesco free range eggs in the green box.

As you might expect these Hoad’s farm free range eggs come in an egg box. This is a light brown coloured one with a picture of a farmer holding one of his brown eggs.

These eggs come in medium or large sized boxes of 6. At £1.69(28.2p/Egg) for the medium box and £1.79(29.8p/Egg) for the large eggs they are more expensive3 than the Tesco free range egg and a little bit cheaper than the Happy egg free range brand that Tesco also sells.

These eggs are Lion quality. The red lion means that they have the assurance of the BEIC ( British Egg Industry Council British Egg Industry Council and its labelling is on these eggs for its best before date and the farm and flock where the egg was laid

I think these eggs an attractive egg they are a lovely brown speckle egg. I know the colour of the egg will have nothing to do with the egg inside its only that different breeds of chicken lay different coloured eggs. The nutrition of a white shelled egg is the same as the brown shelled one. I still prefer a brown shelled one if I am eating a dipping egg for breakfast or a hard boiled egg for lunch.

I have now used these eggs and found they broke cleanly into my jug I usually break my eggs into a jug or cup before I use then to check they are fresh. When broken these egg's look pretty much like any other egg the white was not too runny and the yolk a good yellow colour, no blood specks.

I used some to make a cake with and soft boiled a couple for our lunch. The resulting cake tastes good but no different to my usual cake, my dipping egg was very nice but I could not detect any difference to another egg. After I had cooked my eggs they had an eggyu smell but not a strong one.

Overall I was happy with these egg's they were a good taste and a good quality and I feel better for eating a free range egg.

These Free range egg's from Hoad’s farm meet the RSPCA Freedom Foods Welfare standards

These Egg's come from Hoad’s farm a Sussex farm which according to their website http://www.hoadsfarm.co.uk/index.asp is a traditional farm dating back to 1805 with
Ancient Hedgerows and ditch system. Not all the Eggs sold under this label come from this specific farm but other farms which also keep their hens in the same way. This does not surprise me as many places sell Hoad’s farm free range eggs