Personally, I stopped eating eggs over easy along time ago. I can't even stand the thoughts of eating soupy eggs. When I was in college, I was a business and hospitality management major. I had to take several food preparation and nutrition classes, which covered a great deal of safe food handling. Since those classes, food just hasn't been the same.

I still have been eating eggs since the recall. However, I have been cooking them to the fullest extent. I ate them well done before, and now I have been eating the extra well done. Eggs that are in commercial prepared foods are suppose to pasteurized. If you want to eat over easy eggs, and be safe, I'd buy some pasteurized eggs. You should be able to find these at a large grocery store. At least until the scare is over. However, no none pasteurized egg is safe from salmonella. Proper storage can lessen the risk.

My initial thought when I first started to hear about this was that I certainly wouldn’t be buying any eggs marketed under those brands for a while. Now it seems like each day the number of contaminated eggs is increasing every day, so I think I will probably try to avoid eggs at least for a little while until I feel like this is resolved. Either that, or I might by some eggs from smaller or organic farms (since many experts believe that this is a result of conditions at large facilities where chickens are kept in tight quarters).

It also raises yet another concern about food safety that I think does have some impact. As we see more and more recalls on food, I am certainly starting to think more about who I buy my food from. I have traditionally been a person who shops for groceries on price. Given some of the recent issues (many of which can be traced to issues with large-scale food production), we are buying more things that are local or from manufacturers making their name on quality. We also planted a garden for the first time this year to try to get more of our food supply from our own backyard. So, while this single event doesn’t create a huge change for us, I do think it is does weigh in and lead us further down the path of focusing more on quality with our food to avoid this as much as possible.

After the salmonella scare, still I am not afraid to eat eggs, however as a precautionary measure, I made some necessary adjustments just to be safe. Since eggs is a major part of my dining experience especially during breakfast, the first thing I did, instead of the usual sunny side up, I often fry beaten eggs and paired with a slice of bread, aside from frying beaten eggs, I sometimes boil eggs and peel it and paired it with rice or mashed potato.

As far as the salmonella scare is concerned, I think it is right to be a little more cautious though but not to the point that I over react, in the sense that eggs if properly cooked may address the core issue when it comes to consuming eggs as part of our daily meal.

I will be honest, we still are eating eggs. I checked the egg brands that were recalled and my brand was not one of them. Have I thought twice and hesitated about buying the eggs, yes! That is a huge amount of eggs and brands that were recalled. Super scary!

The whole ordeal made me think of how often I use eggs and wow, I use eggs more than I thought.

I use eggs in ]cak]e. I love having a cake sitting here at home that is fresh made, so I make cake atleast once a week. I make salad often and on the top of my are cooked and cut eggs. I also make potato salad often and eggs are in that too.

My favorite chicken recipe calls for the chicken to be dipped in egg and then in BBQ chips!

I am not sure how I would survive without eggs!http://farm1.static.flickr.com/66/192210727_45c726502b_t.jpg

I'm not overly concerned with it. Since the beginning of foods being processed and distributed to a large number of people, there have been food scares. Last year it was peanut butter and pistachios, the year before it was tomatoes. There was also the spinach recall. During the Spanish-American war, there was a food scare involving canned beef that was said to have been "embalmed" and was making the soldiers sick. During Prohibition a number of people died or were paralyzed from chemicals used in boot-legged alcohol. Canned tuna and soups were blamed for a number of botulism cases during the 1970's. Baby formula, chicken, turkey, fish, and strawberries have all been labeled as deadly over the years. Remember mad-cow disease? Cyanide in Tylenols? Lethal frozen hamburgers in? Killer pet food from China? This year, it's eggs. Next year, it will probably be food taken from the Gulf of Mexico.