Asklemmy

It’s reminding me that most people don’t see the forest for the trees.

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

In Europe tho price off eggs are still stable. Even if they rise I live rural so I know some local egg producers so I'll always have access to cheap eggs.

Like eggs, but I can live without.

Ive always spent a bit extra for a certain brand of eggs, which I prefer, so I haven't noticed a great deal of difference if I'm honest.

Can't be skimping on good egg.

I don't buy eggs, so not directly.

I eat fewer eggs

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

They more or less cost the same as before.

But I'm also not from the US

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.

I haven't looked at egg prices in over five years. Are they getting more expensive?

I hope they get so expensive that no one buys them anymore.

WE EAT EGGS

more worried about future prices given the culling that actually made chicken meat cheaper recently.

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

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!

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

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

Not at all. I don't eat eggs. Never knew the prices went up (beyond just general inflation) till I saw this post.

A little bit yeah. Really just all food is a lot more expensive.

I used to not have to check my bank account. Now my savings account is slowly shrinking. And it's almost entirely because of the cost of food.

Inflation sent me from adding to savings each month to pulling from it instead. Just hope my wife or I get a decent promotion before the savings run out I guess.

Not at all. Eggs were never a significant experience to begin with.

I think buying Eggs is Illegal. (Bad Trans Egg joke)

I really like eggs, but I walk to my grocery store and back, and often bump the fuck outta whatever I buy. After the first accident, I've not bought eggs in a real long while.

Locally they've gone up to 50cts an egg, because most chicks died in last month's cyclone.