jmcquown > wrote:
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>long. Now if only I could find eggs by the half dozen...

When I had my store [a country store in the boondocks] 40 years ago
there was a little o' lady who wanted only the freshest eggs and asked
if she could but them 2 at a time.

Sure, says I and opened a carton and sold her two eggs. I put the
rest of the carton in my personal fridge behind the counter. A
couple days later she came in for 2 more & I sold her some out of the
'loose egg' carton. It took her less than 2 weeks to buy all of
the eggs out of that carton.

I bought from a local farmer and knew the eggs in my cooler were
always less than a week old. The sell-by date code-- if we used such
a thing- would have been 6 weeks. Chances are the last 2 eggs
she would buy out of her carton were fresher than the ones she could
buy at the local supermarket.

Lady was happy- I was getting a good deal.

I suggest you check Craig's list- Buy a dozen [or 2] direct from the
farmer and try to use them up in less than 8 weeks or so.

Jim