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Eggs are a fantastic ingredient for any number of main meals – but we all have moments when inspiration is lacking in the kitchen. Enter celebrity chef Dean Edwards, who has devised a new collection of ten super-speedy egg recipes available in a special area of www.eggrecipes.co.uk. From...

The Christmas period is all about over-indulging and going to parties until the early hours – then comes the downside of the morning after. Breakfast is a crucial start to your recovery and protein-rich eggs seem to be the choice of those in the know to speed up your return to health...

Edwina Currie praised the British Lion scheme as she launched version 7 of the British Lion of Code of Practice at Westminster on Friday, stating: “In Britain, provided it’s got a little Lion on, it’s safe.” The launch of version 7 coincides with the Lion’s 15th anniversary, during which...

After a campaign to raise awareness of the EU ban on battery cages in 2012, more than 5,000 people signed up to the legaleggs.com pledge as a show of solidarity with producers of British Lion eggs and egg products and to support the fight to keep eggs and egg products produced from illegal...

A new report published 25 years after the Edwina salmonella crisis, shows that scientific opinion has turned full circle - with health experts now recommending that increased consumption of eggs could have widespread benefits for several key population groups. ‘Eggs - establishing the...

This week (2 November 2013) sees the launch of a new version of the British Lion Code of Practice, marking the 15th anniversary of the Code and the return of the ‘little Lion’ to British eggs. Since November 1998, 130 billion Lion eggs have been sold, £100million has been invested by the...

Hundreds of bloggers got involved on twitter this month to swap egg recipe ideas as part of a ‘Twitter party’ held on the social networking site during British Egg Week. One hour of eggcellent chat resulted in countless recipe ideas, tips and even saw the party trending. The speedy recipe...

We eat 350 eggs every second in the UK, so get cracking this World Egg Day (Friday 11 October) with delicious egg meals from across the globe. Among the hundreds of recipes on www.eggrecipes.co.uk is a speedy Curried Scrambled Eggs, a flavour-packed Japanese omelette or extra easy Egg...

Pupils across the country were given an ‘Eggspress’ cookery lesson last week to celebrate British Egg Week. Howard Helmer, the world’s fastest omelette maker, and experts from the Kids’ Cookery School taught children how to cook some simple egg dishes including a speedy pizza omelette as...

New research shows that more children think that they should go to work on an aeroplane than go to work on an egg. The survey*, commissioned for British Egg Week, also shows that while 95% of adults can cook at least one egg dish from scratch, only half of today’s kids can. These results...