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@shoekitty wrote:

I get Trader Joe's, Organic jumbo brown eggs, vegetarian fed, free range . For 4.99. You  are allowed one. The conventional stores I heard here in California sell from 5.99-8.50

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For some reason I can only eat Trader Joe's Jumbo eggs.  No other eggs compare so I will willingly pay their prices.  

[Rockycoast]

$5.00 a dozen for local farm fresh eggs in our town. We have many farms in our area, as well as people keeping chickens in their backyards.  I don't mind paying that at all.

[ValuSkr]

Unfortunately, I have a carton of eggs in the refrigerator that expired in August. I would have used them if I'd have known they'd become so valuable.  

[Othereeeen]

@sunshine45 

Didn't read all the comments yet, but eggs ARE an excellent source of protein and amino acids, for the price...

Paid 5.50 a dozen for jumbo eggs here in W. PA Walmart a few weeks ago...that's about 46 cents per egg. They may be a little more today but I didn't buy any this week.

If you have two for breakfast,  six days a week, that's about a dollar and twenty five cents for the eggs, the gas to cook them and the pat of butter or a little oil...maybe.

The same people will pay 7.00 for an egg McMuffin and cup of coffee and "hash browns"  ( whatever that really is) at McD's. For a sandwich with ONE egg on it. 

I see people in the market with carts FULL of processed junk food, frozen junk food, convenient junk food, soda, and other garbage that costs a fortune per serving, complaining loudly about the price of eggs and real butter.

I just shake my head. 

Cook your meals at home, eat REAL food and stay away from prepared garbage masquerading as "healthy" or any other du jour  label affixed to it.

Just like here on QVC....paying $99.00 for three pounds of chicken parts dusted with smoked paprika and ketchup and labeled "Gourmet".... Right.

Last week in my Walmart, a TEN POUND bag of Purdue chicken leg/thighs were 75 cents a  pound. These are the leg/thigh sections that may have torn skin or a broken end of a leg bone. Too rough looking to put in the pretty family packs, but nothing wrong with them.

I don't care what they look like. That's a great price for protein, and there are about 12-14 pieces in the bag. I separate and freeze them. They are in with the Purdue chickens, in Purdue bags. Not generic pieces. 

And the large bags they come in are SO durable, they make great garbage bags!! ( I waste nothing....EVERYTHING that can be reused, I reuse.)

A lot of people today don't know how to shop, don't know value, and live on junk food and processed garbage full of who knows what. The fifty pound tube of fat around thier middles give it all away.

Eggs and chicken are some of the best protein sources going. Even if the price is high. 

Walmart was "giving away" the last of thier Holiday frozen Butterball turkeys last week, in the end case of the frozen foods. MOST poultry was over 1.50 per pound, ( WAY over) but these turkeys were 78 cents per pound. They were all between 16 and 18 pounds..usually too big for me (single) but I'll cook it and freeze meals for the future). I got one.

I went to Aldi same day...and thier last Butterballs were 1.59 per pound. Gotta learn how to shop!!!

Still a bargain.

[JeanLouiseFinch]

DH and I eat at least one egg each everyday, sometimes more depending on my meal plans.  Most of the time they're hard cooked, but we also like fried, scrambled, and omelettes.  I usually make a week's worth of hard cooked at a time,  I always try to buy pasture raised eggs because eggs labeled as such have specific requirements to meet.  Labels like cage free or free range sound good, but are really gimmicky terms that don't really guarantee anything as to the care of the hens or quality of the eggs.  I'm used to paying about $4.69/dozen for pasture raised at Aldi.  They have recently jumped to $5.29.  The everyday basic eggs have jumped to right around $4.69 or $4.89, I think.  I'll be at Aldi again today so we'll see if they've jumped again.  

ETA - pastured raised were $4.99/dozen today.  

[4kitties]

I did not mean to abandon this thread I started, just have been unusually busy the last few days. 🙃🙃

My daughter sent me that picture after I posted pictures of egg prices in one of my local Walmarts.  I usually buy a dozen jumbo for breakfast eggs.  I remember when they were under $1.50 a while back.  They are now about $6.50.  Two 18 packs are $15.44.  

Crazy!

Ten days or so ago, I got a package of 24 large for $5.99 at Costco.  The case was mobbed with everyone buying some.

Hope the chickens get healthy and prices will come down soon!🤞🤞🤞

[MorningLover]

Egg Prices reflect several factors 

Emily Metz, president and chief executive of the American Egg Board, said in an interview that while the bird flu has played a role, increasing costs of fuel and shipping, feed and packaging have also contributed to pricier and scarcer eggs.

“Is avian flu a factor? Yes,” Ms. Metz said. “Is it the only factor? No, and I would argue it’s not even the biggest factor in where these prices are right now.”

“When you’re looking at fuel costs going up, and you’re looking at feed costs going up as much as 60%, labor costs, packaging costs — all of that ... those are much much bigger factors than bird flu for sure,” Metz said.

[Tinkrbl44]

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@Stelladorable wrote:

Avian flu. Millions of laying chickens infected.

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@Stelladorable 

I read a blurb about the infected chickens and more than a million birds had to be destroyed in the U.S. ....  I can't even imagine how they do that.  Ugh.

[aubnwa01]

[gertrudecloset]

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@JeanLouiseFinch wrote:

DH and I eat at least one egg each everyday, sometimes more depending on my meal plans.  Most of the time they're hard cooked, but we also like fried, scrambled, and omelettes.  I usually make a week's worth of hard cooked at a time,  I always try to buy pasture raised eggs because eggs labeled as such have specific requirements to meet.  Labels like cage free or free range sound good, but are really gimmicky terms that don't really guarantee anything as to the care of the hens or quality of the eggs.  I'm used to paying about $4.69/dozen for pasture raised at Aldi.  They have recently jumped to $5.29.  The everyday basic eggs have jumped to right around $4.69 or $4.89, I think.  I'll be at Aldi again today so we'll see if they've jumped again.  

ETA - pastured raised were $4.99/dozen today.  

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@JeanLouiseFinch

There is nothing "gimmicky" about the terms used to describe the way eggs are manufactured.  They all mean something different.  Besides, you have to go by what the manufacturer says anyway, like for anything else we buy ~ we hope they are being truthful.

“Cage-free,” “pasture-raised,” and “free-range” describe different methods of egg production.

Essentially, these terms refer to the differing levels of animal welfare standards that farmers use on their farms.

There are no solid definitions of what constitutes cage, cage-free, free-range, or pasture-raised eggs. Often, certification programs offer the best indication of how farmers keep their hens, but there are several certification programs that they can apply to.

Read on to learn more about the various egg production methods and the certifications that define them, as well as the benefits of and differences between each type.

To read this information in it's entirety you can find the entire document at Medicalnewstoday dot com.