How are the prices of eggs impacting your life?

[nemo@slrpnk.net]

I mean, I pay more for eggs. That's it.

[dragonsinaroom@lemmy.world]

I can't get the cheapest eggs near me which is disappointing

[sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world]

I had to give up animal products and soy. At this point, I'd pay the $10/dozen if I could eat one without being sick.

[anintensemoist@lemmy.world]

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.

[tobogganablaze@lemmus.org]

Since I have no idea what the price of eggs currently is or how it has changed ... I'd say not at all.

[spankmonkey@lemmy.world]

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.

[snowclone@lemmy.world]

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 but eggs again. maybe I'll buy a chicken.

[mesamunefire@lemmy.world]

Nothing. My local area has a lot of chicken in peoples back yards.

[corno@lemm.ee]

Not much if at all. It's around $3 for a dozen eggs, not $10+ like in some places in the US right now.

[jjjalljs@ttrpg.network]

I don't buy eggs, so not directly.

[albbi@lemmy.ca]

Was this article about you?

https://lemm.ee/post/53906545

[misterneon@lemmy.world]

Oh hell no! I'm a vegetarian because I hate animals. I heard about that guy, literal butter fingers.

[statler_waldorf@sopuli.xyz]

I'm part of a CSA with a small, local farm. The winter share was $5 a dozen for 2 dozen every other week. We'll see if the price goes up for the summer share.

Maybe I'm lucky to be in a city with tons of farms nearby, but I'd encourage others to look for local options like this.

[youngalfred@lemm.ee]

There are no eggs. Anywhere.

[misterneon@lemmy.world]

I'm going to start using that, I'm in a similar position.

[_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works]

I barely use eggs, maybe one or two every once in a while to make something but in the morning I'm in a hurry so it's breakfast shakes for me!

[spacenoodle@lemmy.world]

I eat fewer eggs

[hootinnhollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Half the time I go to the store there aren’t any eggs. The best ones are 10$ a dozen. The reg ones are $5 a dozen. But again that’s when they’re available in the first place.

[paultimate14@lemmy.world]

It has certainly been annoying, the shortage perhaps more than the price.

My wife and I were keto before the pandemic. Years of struggling just to be less overweight, and all of a sudden with keto we just dropped pounds easily. She has epilepsy too, so animal protein is a key piece of her nutrition. We were actually able to continue through the pandemic at first, but eventually a combination of outbreaks at meat packing plants, the bird flu, and of course the collusion of the major agricultural corporations, meant that we stopped because it was just too expensive. Even our protein powder went from ~$30 for a 10lb package to now $85 for a 3.4lb package.

So we stopped and gained weight. I tried to get us to start again later, but my wife had a hard time sticking to it and kept on buying more bread and rice. We finally managed to make the switch in December. I entered ketosis, started dropping weight, and was really the best I felt in years... Then we got influenza type A. I tried to stay keto through it but eventually had to stop (could not find any keto cough drops).

Okay so that's all done and finally we can get back on keto. Go to buy some chicken and eggs and.... Out of stock everywhere. And since then when it is in stock it's even more expensive than before.

At this point we've already seen the mega food corporations get slaps on the wrist for colluding on reducing supplies and hiking prices for profit- we usually find out a few years after the fact and the news usually gets buried. If only there were a way to truly hold the CEO's and board members of those companies accountable.

[skyrmir@lemmy.world]

It's made me a lot more smug about having our own quail.