Eggs are now $4.99 per dozen here, large, not free range, so those are the cheap ones

[unloadonme]

I'm not sure keeping chickens is so much work. Sure, they have to be sheared once a year ...

Sheared? Are you confusing them with sheep?

 

[me203]

I'm not sure keeping chickens is so much work.

I don't know all that's involved--but it's certainly more work than grabbing a dozen eggs at the grocery store.

it's only when they stop laying that you have to kill and dress them.

One of the people I knew who got some chickens weeped about the day they'd stop laying eggs, and she'd have to do them in. (My thought, which I didn't voice: "You don't have to--you could let them live out their lives!" But of course, that would caring for them, with no eggs in return.) One time she had a non egg laying bird, and she suggested I could have the bird--alive--to use for my stew pot. I still ate meat then, but I told her that I preferred my chicken to be anonymous grocery store chicken, not something I'd once seen running around her yard.

 

[Vannie]

Sheared? Are you confusing them with sheep?

What he does in the privacy of his barn is his own business.

 

[Thad1527]

Eggs used to be the best value in the supermarket.

I'm on the road and am surprised at milk prices. In Pennsylvania a gallon of milk is about $5. At Kroger in suburban Detroit, it's $2.99.

 

[Vannie]

I feel this way about eating eggs sometimes. Toad in the hole.

 

[cityboy-stl]

I paid $3.50 for a dozen free-range eggs today.

 

[rareboy]

Our eggs are in the range (see what I did there) of $4.25 to $5 per dozen.

Ask the chickens what they're worth. Probably still an economical protein, fat and calorie choice though at about 80c per egg.

 

[NotHardUp1]

Sheared? Are you confusing them with sheep?

No confusion. Just being a smart-ass, doing Lisa Douglas impression. I have my public to think of.

Eggs used to be the best value in the supermarket.

They still are. I don't know of another complete protein that is quality that can rival that unit price per pound, and nothing else is as versatile.

I paid $3.50 for a dozen free-range eggs today.

Chef's mother said it would be about tree fiddy.

Our eggs are in the range (see what I did there) of $4.25 to $5 per dozen.

Ask the chickens what they're worth. Probably still an economical protein, fat and calorie choice though at about 80c per egg.

I'm in violent agreement except for your long division.

If I divide $5.00 by 12, I only get less than 42 cents per egg. But I'm not using Canadienne Dollars.

 

[NotHardUp1]

I feel this way about eating eggs sometimes. Toad in the hole.

This isn't an NSFW forum.

*ahem*

 

[me203]

If I divide $5.00 by 12, I only get less than 42 cents per egg. But I'm not using Canadienne Dollars.

Or maybe there is something else going on. Many times, food makers will downsize products to get a price increase without increasing the price on the shelf. For example, a cake mix that loses a couple of ounces. Maybe they are now redefining what a "dozen" means to create of those sneaky price increases?

 

[Araucaria]

Or maybe there is something else going on. Many times, food makers will downsize products to get a price increase without increasing the price on the shelf. For example, a cake mix that loses a couple of ounces. Maybe they are now redefining what a "dozen" means to create of those sneaky price increases?

I've noticed that with tuna cans. When you bought a can, you used to get 8 ounces of tuna. Then they reduced the amount to 6 1/2 ounces. Now there's only 5 1/2 ounces per tuna can. This might affect the measurements in recipes.

This phenomenon was very apparent to me when I used to buy LPs (vinyl records) a lot back in the 1970s. You would get a fold-over cover for the album sleeve with lots of artwork, the same for the protective disk sleeve, and posters inside to boot. After a while, you'd pay the same price, but you'd only get the basic album sleeve, the protective sleeve would be plain paper, and there'd be no extras with it. Then they'd raise the prices again, and you'd get all the goodies again-- the extended album sleeve with all the artwork, the protection sleeve would be fancy again, and you'd get posters again, etc.

 

[NotHardUp1]

That really is a hidden mode of inflation that has been going under the radar for a couple of decades.

The Consumer Price Index when applied to groceries isn't so volume specific when you get away from a gallon of milk.

 

[eddielee]

When I buy eggs, I buy eggland's best, which tend to be pricey compared to other eggs. I have noticed, as everyone else has, that my grocery bill has gone up. Stores also seem to have a problem keeping some things in stock.

 

[cabinfever]

Today I checked the eggs price on my receipt because of this topic. it was 3.99 a dozen for the cage free eggs - I never paid attention to what they cost before but it doesn't seem to be unreasonable

 

[NotHardUp1]

That is very much the point of the thread. Eggs are only at the ponit they would be if you took the 2000 average price in the U.S. and escalated it, year over year, at 3%, a model inflation rate.

Eggs are not "high" unless consumers kidded themselves about fair pricing for food, consistent with historic pricing.

 

[Peloso]

 

[Vannie]

I'm not eating eggs ^ anymore.

 

[Vannie]

 

[rareboy]

I'm in violent agreement except for your long division.

If I divide $5.00 by 12, I only get less than 42 cents per egg. But I'm not using Canadienne Dollars.

Totally in CDN to Us dollars although I might not have gotten the conversion right. We were at about 40% excange this past week.

 

[Peloso]

I'm not eating eggs ^ anymore.

I'll be sure NOT to post the "My Cabbages" video.