How are the prices of eggs impacting your life?

[atomic@sh.itjust.works]

Damn, I just bought 12 eggs for 2 Euro. (2.1 if we want to be exact)

[socialmediarefugee@lemmy.ml]

I stock up when I see them at a reasonable price. They'll last a few weeks.

[p1k1e@lemmy.world]

Like eggs, but I can live without.

[ultragigagigantic@lemmy.ml]

Like all rising living expenses, it is crushing me. Not that you really care, you want EZ points to style on the republicans.

These gotchyas, slams, and owns does not make my rent lower or raise my wages.

[flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works]

This is brilliant - one quality rant, for sure.

Egss are a metric, which people are focusing on but they're forgetting whybits a useful metric ('cos it's protein that's cheaper than meat and a useful building block of a lot of foods)

[elorie@lemmy.world]

Eating a few less, but I'm lucky to have my father-in-law who raises chickens nearby. His girls are laying prodigiously right now, and I've not had to buy eggs in months as long as I pay attention.

The shelves at my local stores are nearly empty however. I used to buy the expensive grain-free ones anyway. Because good eggs vs not are like comparing fresh vegetables to canned ones - you know they are related, but distantly.

[chexmax@lemmy.world]

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.

[jhogenbaum@leminal.space]

The Rotisserie chicken I just bought was cheaper than a dozen eggs. This raises a bunch of questions in my mind, and, to answer my first question - yes, cooking the chicken does prevent the spread of bird flu...

[happydoors@lemm.ee]

I have a pregnant wife who eats eggs every morning and it sucks. That and a ton of foods being prepped with eggs at some point makes the rest of food go up in price as well, I’d assume.

[gelcube69@reddthat.com]

I've moved on to tofu scramble. Not as good but cheap as still pretty tasty.

[boomkop3@reddthat.com]

They are delicious, and super cheap. And turns out there's even subscriptions for them. We bought 72 a couple days back for 15 euros at a local farm.

Eggs are awesome, they're making my breakfast and lunch easier and better

[classifiedpancake@discuss.tchncs.de]

The chickens are impacted by the price. The cheaper the eggs the more miserable their life is. And for all you people who obviously don’t care: The more miserable the chicken the worse is the egg quality, due to stress and health problems.

[endeavor@sopuli.xyz]

Wonder how is tofu shakshuka?

[hatchetharo@pawb.social]

USD$4.50 for 30 large eggs.

for context, i live in hong kong.

[hark@lemmy.world]

I have not bought any eggs in about a year or so. The price of food keeps increasing and this is one of the more egregious examples. Sure there's the bird flu outbreak, but I wouldn't be surprised if prices are being increased far beyond the actual cost.

[nitefox@sh.itjust.works]

Either I did get the pricing wrong or u are lucky indeed. Are you from south eu?

[coaxil@lemm.ee]

They should last for at least 6 weeks in the fridge!

[racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml]

"Last". Yes. In practice, I found eggs in a fridge age by weeks. I would still call them "fresh" within a week. After that, they don't taste as well. Another week after that, visual changes happen on the shell. I can see as if the fluid inside is "breaching" the membrane thus dark spots on the outside. This is the last stage I would still be willing to consume them. After that I would throw them away.

[potoooooooo@reddthat.com]

Got a recipe?

[potoooooooo@reddthat.com]

It doesn't?