I get that the point is inflation, but why eggs? If they went to $12/dozen, it would cost me like $4 extra dollars per week.
between eating and baking i use about a dozen a week. i generally get Extra large or Jumbo eggs.
- Eggs are not worth what they charge.
None, I’ve never particularly liked them. I know some people love them, but to me they don’t smell great, kinda sulfurous farts and they have an odd smushy consistency when cooked.
When I was a lad I ate four dozen eggs every morning to help me get large. And now that I’m grown I eat five dozen eggs, so I’m roughly the size of a barge.
I see you’ve got biceps to spare.
So about 336 and 420 a week, respectively
Eggs themselves, not many if at all. The issue is when it comes to baking, while not often, can consume through a whole dozen or more in a single week, specially in the winter. Wanting to find alternatives, I hear applesauce is good.
I feel like it all depends on what you’re cooking and what the egg is meant to do. For brownies/cake applesauce is pretty good, when I make desert breads I use a flax egg. If whole point of the egg is to help hold things together (which it usually is) and i know my fake egg isn’t gonna cut it I’ll throw in a dash of corn starch along with whatever egg substitute I’m using.
Prob 4-5. I mix up breakfasts with oatmeal or cereal.
12ish if were talking simply fried eggs, if you consider all the baked goods and stuff it probably closer to 24
I make a bunch of deviled eggs maybe once or twice a year. I don’t care for most other types of “easy” egg preparations and there are plenty of cheap beans, chicken, and cheap bits of pork for my protein needs.
Tbh I don’t understand why people don’t just buy something else. There are several good alternatives available.
Other things aren’t “breakfast”. While I understand that it’s only tradition that makes foods be for a specific meal, it’s hard to get around. Chicken is not a breakfast food.
So where do you get protein in foods that identify as breakfast? Cereals and grains are mostly carb or fiber, not good sources of protein. Sausages and bacons are not lean and are not healthy foods. then there are eggs, and there are many ways to prepare eggs
Sure, butterfly a chicken breast and fry it over high heat. Or eat cheese. Or make succotash, or lentil soup.
All of our cultural defaults for breakfast are terrible for us anyways, we need to eat other things regardless.
zero, vegan
Around 12.
Eggs are incredible nutrition value and I’d still pay 12$ for 12 eggs. In fact I do splurge on local market eggs that come from free range chickens and here they are around 5$ for 12 which is double the factory price but still and an incredible steal.
That’s why the great American egg whine of 2024 is so confusing. Min wage in the US is still like 24++ eggs an hour which is an insane thing to complain about. Y’all need financial literacy not cheaper eggs.
Which US are you from that minimum wage is $24 an hour?
Avg 12 egg price in US seems to be around 4$ and federal min wage is 7.25$ and that’s extremely generous cause federal min wage is not even remotely representative of actual min wage. So 24 eggs / hour is the bare minimum an American earns.
It doesn’t matter cause no amount of math or finance logic will make you guys whine less.
Sorry, I misunderstood what you were saying.
My problem is we have three teenagers of our own plus an extra one who lives with us 60% of the time. Two of them are vegetarian but eat eggs for protein. The rest of us just like eggs. We go through about 3-4 dozen a week.
My son ate a ton of eggs when he was veg. Now he’s vegan and eats fake eggs which are much more expensive.
Yeah I eat quite a few plant-based meals but I’m glad they’re vegetarians who are okay with dairy and eggs and not fully vegan. I don’t know if I could afford two vegans in the house on top of the other four of us. Food costs are crazy right now. I think having hand raised backyard chickens who love to be held and love to give their eggs, that made the difference. Not all poultry farming or milk production is traumatic. If I could get a little more land I’d think about a few milk cows so I could make my own cheese.
Fancy processed meat replacements are insanely expensive. Vegan diets? Man that’s the cheapest shit there is. Most of the world lives off a similar diet due to poverty.
I get that the point is inflation, but why eggs?
It’s because the current avian flu, chicken and egg farms are having to kill a metric fuck ton of their chickens. 😢 Meanwhile spray tan is already vowing to gut the CDC and leave WHO.
maybe if we just stop testing for avian flu it will go away
/s just to be sure
I’m sure the entire problem is government over-regulation. If we fire half the cdc and not allow them to use the word “gender”, they won’t be ble to enforce regulations and the price will come down
You know, if you spent your entire life living underground and never saw the sky, you’d never worry about silly little things like asteroids crashing into the planet and killing everyone.
It doesn’t mean you’ll survive any better, you just get to die ignorant.
That is 100% how he’ll deal with egg prices, if he ever cares enough to pretend to help the common man.
Jokes aside, over here in Europe a dozen large eggs cost between 5.16 and 7.80 € (for cheap barn eggs and pricey organic eggs respectively. Cage eggs have been outlawed for quite some years already)
Wait… I thought it was because of Biden.
Who do you think infected the chickens?
Asintomatic avian flu chickens are being sacrificed? Poor creatures.
Realistically, how can you control the spread? Even assuming there are treatments, in what world is it practical to provide repeated direct medical attention to millions of chickens?
I just don’t really like the taste, so about 1 per week in my fried rice.
Somewhere between 4 to 8, depending on how productive we are in the morning.
It’s not just inflation. Eggs are experiencing a supply problem due to avian flu.
