Last month, I found 31 different ways to eat creme eggs. You can see video evidence and recipes if you go here.
The reason this started is because I’m really bad at saying no to challenges.
The reason the challenge came about is because I got 48 Cadbury Creme Eggs for £5 as they were due to go off at the end of July and Bass – who is fast becoming my nemesis – suggested that I’d need to eat them at the rate of more than one day. I thought this would be easy and I was happy to eat one per day and throw the remaining 17 away.
I can’t remember which of us it was suggested finding a different way to do it each day. I’m going to blame Bass because he’s not here and it’s easier to put the responsibility on him rather than accepting that I’m stupid enough to come up with the idea on my own.
The challenge wasn’t actually too difficult. The trickiest part was being creative enough to come up with 31 different ways to eat a creme egg. If you look at the videos, you may see that some ideas are much weaker than others.
What I have learnt from this experience is that you should never dismiss food combinations that sound like they wouldn’t work without giving them a go. Unless I have advised you not to. I recommend never pickling a creme egg. It is possibly the most horrendous thing I’ve ever tried to eat. It was one of the few that I wasn’t able to finish as I felt like I was going to be physically sick.
However, a scotch creme egg is not as bad as it sounds. It actually made me feel bad about the time I went to Chom Choms and laughed at someone who was eating jelly beans with their curry.
I have also cooked in ways that I’ve never cooked before. I finally learnt how to make cheesecakes properly, I made a lava cake (which if I’m being honest, I’d never heard of before) and I made a creme brulegg which turned out to be my favourite of all the ways of eating a creme egg that I tried, just ahead of a creme egg hot chocolate.
Most importantly though, I have learnt how not to make egg fried rice. I will try to put this right at some time in the future. I am likely to be more adventurous in the kitchen after this experience. I want to try out a few of the things that I have tried in their non-creme egg version.
At the moment, I will tend to have three or four meals that I’ll eat pretty much every week and I have realised that my diet isn’t varied enough. I am also now looking to lose a bit of weight in the three months before my birthday having put on quite a bit through both the creme eggs and the items I have been eating them with.
As I was putting links to the videos up on Facebook and Twitter thinking that maybe one or two people would watch them, I was amazed by how many people I bumped into had watched one or two and asked me about what I was doing and took an interest in it. Mostly, I am just grateful that no-one called me a complete idiot for doing this. At least not to my face.