Did the walk on by....bye eggs

[TM7]

Yesterday I was shopping in the supermarket. And had the Biden inflation shocks as usual.
Until I got to eggs.
Now I don't really care for eggs and so purchase infrequently. But I got a double shock...
No eggs were under $5.00/dozen, and the high end cage free or so-called organic eggs were $9+, even over $10.00/dozen.!!
I decided to do the 'walk on by' _ _ keep them.
They had plenty, too.
.

[nw_hunter]

Damn! Where do you shop. Martha's Vineyard? I thought they were high here at four and five dollars per. doz. I think the orgasm ones are Six per doz.
 

[ironglow]

  I often shop at a local Save-A-Lot store, a discount store like Aldis...not only less costly, but closer to home. I bought a dozen there about a week ago...$4.99.

   I haven't checked with the local super markets, but they are likely higher, say nothing about "organic"..

  I should have driven a bit further , to my grandson's..he gives me eggs..fresh from his flock..

[ironglow]

I consider the brown eggs I get from my grandson's flock, as "boutique eggs"..

[ironglow]

IG...
I'm not a big egg fancier, but it's time I locate a local small grower..
.

   Around here, there are plenty of hand made road signs, advertising their eggs...   We have to remember though,
   their costs have also gone up.

  I eat more eggs than I once did, now that the truth has emerged, concerning eggs and cholesterol.

[Mule 11]

I had a couple scrambled with ketchup a piece of sausage and a biscuit with black raspberry jam for breakfast. I paid $3.60 for a dozen. Yesterday in same store Aldi’s They were over $4.50.

[phalanx]

The Preacher, a bit down the road and his wife give us eggs from their chickens. They are the brown ones.

[Bob Riebe]

My cousin has a small flock and I get them free from him but he lives fifty miles from where I am at.
When I buy , I near always get Jumbo size eggs at the store.
I have for the past few years gone to the local health food Co-Op and bought duck and goose eggs, have not checked on them recently. (bought pheasant eggs one year but it takes so many not really worth the effort.)

I like scrambled and just plain old sunny-side up eggs, but actually do not eat them that often; scrambled eggs fried in quarter stick of butter with chopped sausage or ham is top rank for breakfast, or dinner, or supper with a good cheese and onion omlet not bad at all either.

[phalanx]

My cousin has a small flock and I get them free from him but he lives fifty miles from where I am at.
When I buy , I near always get Jumbo size eggs at the store.
I have for the past few years gone to the local health food Co-Op and bought duck and goose eggs, have not checked on them recently. (bought pheasant eggs one year but it takes so many not really worth the effort.)

I like scrambled and just plain old sunny-side up eggs, but actually do not eat them that often; scrambled eggs fried in quarter stick of butter with chopped sausage or ham is top rank for breakfast, or dinner, or supper with a good cheese and onion omlet not bad at all either.

Sounds good there Bob.

[gypsyman]

Got 12 hens laying, get about 3-4 dz. a week. Sell some, give some away. Some go in storage, coat them with food grade mineral oil, put them on the floor in the basement and rotate when 1-2 months old. Little tip if buying eggs. That term ''organic'' means your paying more for something, that you would have to eat hundreds of pounds of to make a difference. Kind of like buying a Tesla so you save the environment. Same ploy if you want white eggs or brown. Have had different type's of chickens over the years, some produced brown, some white. All got the same food, probably ate the same bugs that crawled in the pen. And I really love the term ''free range''. All that means is the 'yote's haven't caught them yet.

[Bob Riebe]

I miss the old two, or even more on rare occasions, yolks in Jumbo sized eggs, but at that I think the Jumbos you buy now are often just big enough to be sized that way.
 Years back you would open a cardboard egg carton and you could see some were big enough they were a tight fit.
In a few, very few, grocery stores, years back, there used to be super jumbo egg cartons.

My cousin's chicken are a mix of varieties for the sake of variety, and lay the so called easter egg colored eggs also,  farm chicken do have shells a lot harder to crack and the yolks are a much deeper yellow actually closer to orange.
Because I am of the curious type, I did buy , back when egg prices were normal, some those supposedly best ever eggs, with their logo on each egg shell.
I think they think aesthetics sells eggs, but it was different to open the carton and see their perfectly aligned 12 eggs, each  with a logo.

[nw_hunter]

I give a lot of eggs away to friends and relatives from my flock of layers. It wouldn't make me mad if a couple of times a year they dropped off a bag of feed.

[gypsyman]

Dropped of an 18 ct. carton to a friend from Bible class. Gave me $10, and that was for the first one, and another 18 ct. carton in a week or 2. Stopped on the way home and picked up a 40lb bag of layer crumbles, $13. He'll get a couple more if he wants. Read where another bird flu was going around, and close to 2 million chickens were destroyed in Nebraska. Probably another reason egg price's are climbing.

[Lloyd Smale]

buddy needed some soft lead for shooting his sharps rifles. Told him i had more then id ever use and he could have a 100lbs. He brought over 5 dozen fresh eggs and 6 eating chickens. Hell i would have given him the lead if he brought nothing.

[nw_hunter]

That's the kind of friend to have. Back when I was a wee lad.(long, long time ago) my parents raised huge gardens, and we had pretty much every farm animal needed to feed a large family. Mom and Dad traded produce with the neighbors. Dad was a cotton farmer, but every year he also had a big fields planted in Peanuts and watermelons. Another neighbor had big fields of sweet corn. They traded corn for watermelons and Goober Peas  (pea nuts) and so on. Communities worked together back in the 40's and 50's. We may see that happening again, if we last that long!

[Ranger99]

Went to the grocery store for a
few items today.
Didn't even look at the eggs, and
nobody else did either. That aisle
was empty. Plenty of full shelves
of eggs, just no buyers

[Bob Riebe]

Stopped at Walmart today, place was exceptionally busy and the eggs/dairy area was 75 percent empty.

[ulav8r]

Saturday eggs started at 3.99 in Russellville Walmart.  Vienna sausages were $1.24, 2 years ago they were 60 cents or less.  When I got home checked at Clinton Walmart and the sausages were 86 cents so I ordered a dozen, all they would allow me to order.  Picked them up this afternoon and the in store price was up tp $1.24.  44% jump from last week.