Eggs are expensive. Have you changed your breakfast because of it? What are you eating?

[Burch]

I cut back from 6 eggs per day to 3 and started eating alot more homemade pan sausage. I think i like this better

 

[Hnthrdr]

Nope, I’ll spend a little extra on eggs no issue. When the flocks rebound things will settle back out some, we have the “unhoused” chickens in Co which will keep our prices higher, but hey I guess we can sleep a little better at night knowing our Governor’s husband is happy

 

[peterk123]

$3.50 a dozen from a neighbor. I consume two dozen per week.

 

[ozyclint]

Nope.. go to the coop get eggs, fry bacon and eat.

I do this except I make my own bacon too

 

[Wprinkle]

I do this except I make my own bacon too

I did one time when I butchered a hog.. problem was we didn't get much... can you just purchase unprocessed pork bellies and do it? It was by far the best bacon I have ever had.

 

[gbflyer]

.50 per surcharge this morning at a Juneau AK breakfast joint. We got some and we were glad of it.

 

[KsRancher]

The pasture raised eggs at the store seem immune from price fluctuations, they were $6 before covid, all during it, and still are today. Sometimes they are cheaper than the cheap eggs, they are in a different part of the store so I guess people buying the cheap eggs never notice that the fancy eggs are cheaper.

I get a good portion of our eggs from people I know locally around here, nearly 100% in the summer and maybe 1/3 in the winter when laying productivity goes down. They have stayed consistent at $5 for many years.

If eggs doubled or tripled it would not change what I eat. At current price of $.50 each I eat about $2 worth most days. If that changed to $6 its not going to make or break me. I guess if they get into similar cost per unit of protein to steak I may rethink that.

The avocado I put on top of my eggs at breakfast still costs about as much as the eggs.....

Your speaking my oldest sons language. He enjoys going shopping. He is a numbers guy. He mentioned a few weeks ago that the organic eggs were cheaper. Walmart gives a per egg price on the price tag along with the total price. But he takes it farther and figures the per oz price. A month or so ago the Jumbo eggs were cheaper per oz. This past week the extra large were cheaper per oz. It was so small of price difference per oz from the large to the extra large to the jumbo that it was less than half a cent per oz difference. But is his words he was "geeking out".

 

[Mighty Mouse]

Just picked up a baker’s dozen (future) egg machines today

 

[5MilesBack]

I always thought that 6.5 cents for an egg was dirt cheap before Covid, so I would have paid more if needed to. 500% increase is a little ridiculous, but now at a little over 40 cents an egg......that's not going to break me. But we also know folks with chickens and my wife gets a few dozen every week.

The bigger question is why are meat chickens apparently immune to this bird flu? They've killed 10's of millions of laying hens supposedly spiking egg prices, but chicken hasn't gone up at all the last two years.

 

[spur60]

95% of the eggs we purchase are from our friend's chickens. Typically we get 3-4 dozen every few weeks from them. I eat 2 every morning for breakfast.
No change in price or consumption for us as a family.

 

[zacattack]

I always thought that 6.5 cents for an egg was dirt cheap before Covid, so I would have paid more if needed to. 500% increase is a little ridiculous, but now at a little over 40 cents an egg......that's not going to break me. But we also know folks with chickens and my wife gets a few dozen every week.

The bigger question is why are meat chickens apparently immune to this bird flu? They've killed 10's of millions of laying hens supposedly spiking egg prices, but chicken hasn't gone up at all the last two years.

We’ve lost more egg laying hens to avian influenza true than broilers or turkeys, even though the turkeys have also been hit exceptionally hard, broilers have not been hit as hard but none of our domestically raised birds are immune.

Eggs are also commodity based pricing, meat not so much. Prices fluctuate a lot more for eggs than meat. You also have places that will get eggs before supermarkets. Like Kraft foods, Kelloggs etc. they get their contracts filled first.

 

[cnelk]

I’m surprised there isn’t some sort of vaccine for the flu …..

Oh wait…..

 

[ScreamingPotato]

Eggs around here are less than $6/dozen at the local Walmart, even less if I drive 1/2 mile further to the HEB, so really not that high. Seeing all the hype I always wonder how much of this "crisis" is just cherry picked by the media to create hysteria but I'm sure other parts of the country do have higher prices.
Having said that I started raising quail about 1.5 years ago and haven't bought eggs since. I eat a lot of eggs for normal breakfast and pickle the surplus to take for trips. It's worked out great and buddies love it when I break out the pickled quail eggs.

 

[ScreamingPotato]

The bigger question is why are meat chickens apparently immune to this bird flu? They've killed 10's of millions of laying hens supposedly spiking egg prices, but chicken hasn't gone up at all the last two years.

I think most meat chickens are killed at 6 weeks old or so, whereas it takes a lot longer to grow an egg producing chicken. So the rebound if you exterminate a flock (which seems like the wrong way to do it but not my decision) is quicker with a 6 week harvest than however long it takes egg producers to mature.

 

[GSPHUNTER]

No. I want eggs, I buy eggs.