FOOD FACTS Five dishes from 267 difference. And, after all, there really is no delicious packet of dried eggs one They'll taste exactly as if you'd used shell eggs! Here are five different family-size egg dishes you can make from a single packet of dried eggs! Your family will think you've used shell eggs—if you don't tell them other- wise. Most people, unless you announce it beforehand, simply can't tell the difference. Shell eggs are three-quarters water, and dried eggs are simply shell eggs with the water and the shell taken away.