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USD$4.50 for 30 large eggs.
for context, i live in hong kong.
I mean, I pay more for eggs. That’s it.
Yeah, it isn’t like eggs are a massive part of my food costs.
The overall increase in food prices have more impact than one specific ingredient.
I’m becoming an inveg – involuntary vegan
LOL. I came up with inveg back in 2018 after I had to go vegan due to major heart surgery. I use it all the time but you’re the first person I have ever seen use the term other than me even though “involuntary veganism” has got to be a thing for plenty of people who’ve had a near death health issue.
I didn’t realize, but same. Meat, besides chicken, is becoming more and more of a treat. Even then, I get stuff with bones and save them for stock. Not vegan, I know, but definitely much more plant focused than I remember being.
I’m going to start using that, I’m in a similar position.
I scramble to make eggs meet
I feel this joke needs an eggsplination for those that get it.
Since I have no idea what the price of eggs currently is or how it has changed … I’d say not at all.
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I actually checked yesterday, it’s $9.40 for a dozen.
What??
Nobody beats the Swiss at food prices :)
And I though 4.40€/2dz was expensive… Jesus!!
It is impacting my life a lot. It affect my meal plan, the balance of my meals, my overall food budget, my snaking possibilities. It also ruined my mood whenever a see how quickly the money I spend on eggs adds up to the cost of owning a hen!
Also eggs retail have consentrate most of today retail malpractice.I’m not from the USA btw.
I’d love to see your snake possibilities. Slithering, constricting and dislocating your jaw.
I would love to see it too. Eggs swallowing, egg laying… Unfortunatly, I don’t have snake. I meant snack.
;)
They still cost 2 euro for 8 eggs, right?
Damn, I just bought 12 eggs for 2 Euro. (2.1 if we want to be exact)
Either I did get the pricing wrong or u are lucky indeed. Are you from south eu?
Probably got a little bit lucky but prices seems to have gone down, maybe people just refuse to buy them otherwise. I’m in the far north of EU. Really can’t get much further north than here.
Not at all. The only eggs I get are from a local chicken enclosure where my family helps out by feeding them once a week.
Does my country being destroyed because of other dipshits freaking out about them count as impacting my life?
Hasn’t affected my life one bit. It people weren’t mentioning egg prices on Lemmy, I would have had no idea that there was a shortage.
Never understood everyone’s obsession with eggs. There are so many other sources of protein out there. You don’t need to perpetually have them in your fridge.
Because normally eggs are very cheap, very easy, and very healthy. When you’re broke and living off pasta, beans, and rice, eggs are something you make that you feel good about feeding yourself and your family. Anybody can make good scrambled eggs, and those two eggs in the morning can get you through until you get back home after work.
I can’t explain everyone’s obsession, but mine is easy to explain: I want to feed my baby two eggs most days of the week. They’re clean, she enjoys them plain, they’re easy for her to chew, they’re very quick, and there’s no question on whether they cooked long enough. I hate the taste of eggs but I ate them non-stop through my pregnancy and now as I breast feed. You can’t beat them for efficiency. Some days those two eggs are all I eat until dinner time.
They’re also crazy versatile! Scrambled, eggs-in-a-basket, hard boiled, French toast, over easy, runny on toast with a tomato slice, egg salad.
People don’t need them, they like them.
I’m not buying eggs for $17 a dozen. I got a flat for $33 that breaks down to $7 a dozen, my kids got real excited about it and ate them all in about a week and a half. They are teens so, they tend to eat everything in the fridge pretty quickly. Anyway. I’m thinking maybe I never buy eggs again. maybe I’ll buy a chicken.
Where do you live that eggs are $17 a dozen???
The worst possible place to live ever! Ridgecrest, CA! Our sales tax is the highest in three counties, out cost of living matches the trendiest neighborhoods in LA and NYC! We have a military base that’s all engineers, and we’re an half hour from Death Valley! We get the hottest recorded tempatures on record every summer! We’re one of the most earthquake prone locations in the world, we live in the rain shadow of the Sierra Nevadas, and off base average income is worst then any other rural location! Our school bus drives are paid less than half of every single school district in the nation! And everyone’s a racist piece of shit republican! Yee haw! . Well, I am from here, and I do actual like most things about living here, but it’s not going to work out much longer. Seriously our fast food locations upped their prices so high with greedflation that no one is bothering anymore. They put up ''now accepting EBT" that’s food stamps, at all of them to try and get people back. It’s crazy. There’s an adittude in town of ‘‘you all work at the base making 6 figures you can pay double for everything! Plus it costs at least $60 in gas to drive out of town to do anything, so if you want it done in town we’re charging $60 extra because fuck you’’ and that’s always been the case, nothing new, but add inflation and stagnant wages, it’s pretty fucking crazy.
It’s made me a lot more smug about having our own quail.
… how many quail eggs are needed to make a decent sized omelet anyway? A dozen?
Half dozen is plenty really. In recipe’s it’s supposed to be 3 quail eggs to replace 1 chicken egg, it’s really about 2.5 just rounded up. With a family of four and a dozen birds we have egg breakfasts 2 or 3 times a week in the summer, down to every other week in the winter. We’ll probably expand the flock a little this summer, bigger cage plans once I can figure out how to keep them as safe as they are in the shed now. Just found out rodents can spread bird flu too, so building requirements just got tougher.
I’ve had to buy a few eggs since my chickens stopped laying for the winter but hopefully in a month or two I won’t have to buy.
Ive always spent a bit extra for a certain brand of eggs, which I prefer, so I haven’t noticed a great deal of difference if I’m honest.
Can’t be skimping on good egg.
WE EAT EGGS
