So, how much are you all spending per dozen eggs?

[conuly]

I went to the store to re-up eggs, and they were going for $10 a dozen. It was actually cheaper to get organic eggs, at $8.50! I seriously considered getting the 2.5 dozen pack, but even at a (slightly) cheaper per unit price of $8.20/dozen that sticker shock was still insane.

And while I love complaining about the way our local store gouges on butter ($8 a pound for store brand!), this time it's not just them - the prices were about the same at Stop and Shop. Well, okay, everybody's talking about egg prices lately - except then I read an article about skyrocketing egg prices and the article cite a shocking (!) $4 a dozen, which, don't make me laugh.

So was that article already painfully out of date, or are we just getting massively ripped off over here?

Poll #32662 Egg prices

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Price per dozen eggs?

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Mean: 6.25 Median: 6 Std. Dev 1.89

2		0 (0.0%)
3		4 (7.5%)
4		4 (7.5%)
5		13 (24.5%)
6		11 (20.8%)
7		7 (13.2%)
8		7 (13.2%)
9		4 (7.5%)
10		2 (3.8%)
11		1 (1.9%)
12		0 (0.0%)
13		0 (0.0%)
14		0 (0.0%)
15		0 (0.0%)

Comments

[cactuswatcher]

Yep, I noticed eggs were over a dollar a piece last week.

Bird flu problems I'm sure.

[conuly]

A dollar an egg! Who needs them to be made out of gold and/or chocolate at this rate?

[jessie_c]

Since I'm Canadian my answer would skew your data. I'll put it here
1 dozen medium eggs, C$4.25
flat of 30 large, $10.59

[armiphlage]

Wow, they're $3.73 here in Ontario. I'd have thought they'd be cheaper in BC due to the shorter distance to transport feed.

[dine]

per the safeway site just now, pricing is all over, with most running $6-7 per dozen, but you can definitely spend a lot more if you wanted.

they also listed a package of 60 for $27 (45c per egg), which would clearly be the way to go if you're feeding crowds or baking tons

[conuly]

Or just have a large fridge.

[hannah]

I've taken to joking the grocery stores have finally caught up to the farmers' markets.

[conuly]

Oooooooooof.

[fox]

$4.69 at the Whole Foods by me.

[nicki]

I'm in Cali, all our eggs are cage free, so I don't want to skew the poll. roughly $9 per dozen.

[archersangel]

at the local wal-mart they're $5.46 for 12 large & $6.12 for extra large. at aldi it $5.15 for 12 large.
you can't get medium anymore, it seems.

[conuly]

I've hardly ever seen medium, and never small except at farmer's markets on occasion. It's weird.

[redbird]

I paid $5.99 for a dozen cage-free eggs yesterday. That was an Instacart order from Star Market in Boston.

Sometime recently, Adrian came back from Whole Foods without eggs, because we didn't need them enough to pay $9 for a dozen. That market generally has several different brands of eggs, at different prices, and she said the case was mostly empty, and what was left were the most expensive eggs.

[siderea]

I just checked Stop and Shop online: house brand large brown is $7.99/dz. Large white is $8.49/dz.

(The 1.5 dz packs for both work out to the same per dz price; there is no discount for the larger package.)

Nellie's large brown is $9.99, Eggland's Best large white is $8.99, England's Best large brown $8.29, Nellie's extra large brown is $10.29, Pete and Gerry's large brown is $10.49. These are all premium brands, some organic.

Land o' Lakes large brown is $8.59. Nature's Promise (a house brand) organic large brown is $9.29, and extra large brown is $9.49.

[hafnia]

$5.69 for a dozen in OR here (western part of the state). Part of that is the general markup on eggs after the laws changed regarding poultry farming, though. Supposedly Trader Joe's still has them for $3 but we don't actually eat eggs all that often so I haven't confirmed it.

[ethelmay]

Just checked website of local QFC in Seattle, and the cheapest were $4.99. Most expensive $10.99, average I think about $7.50. An average of 63 cents an egg doesn't seem that outlandish to me (even a three-egg omelet would be under two bucks), but I don't eat a ton of eggs.

[fred_mouse]

Australian prices, at the big two supermarkets, range between $5.00 and $13.45, with the bottom end being 'free range' or 'cage free' and the top end being "free range organic". One of those supermarkets has a limit of two items per transaction but isn't showing anything out of stock; the other is showing a lot of the bottom end of the price range out of stock. But we've had ongoing shortages for some time. Youngest, who was working in a cafe in Queensland, reported that they almost never reached 'full' in terms of where the stock should be, over the two years they were working there.

[smokingboot]

12 medium free range eggs at Tescos supermarket would be about £2.70, so approximately 22 pence an egg.
10 mixed size organic eggs at Tescos would be £4.60 so 46 pence an egg.

12 large free range eggs at Morrisons would be around £3.15, 26 pence an egg.
10 free range organic at Morrisons would be around £4.00, 40 pence an egg.

[hudebnik]

Interesting: UK sells organic eggs in tens rather than dozens? I guess that would reduce the sticker shock a bit.

[moxie_man]

It depends on the store and brand.
Store brand ones at the moment are running $8 per dozen.
Brand name organic haven't jumped in price yet, provided you can find them as they're still running $5 per dozen.

Me? The last time I bought eggs was 2 weeks ago when the local food salvage store (gets their product from a restaurant supplier warehouse) got a half pallet of eggs in with one box busted, which made a mess on the outside of the other boxes. After repackaging in egg cartons that all his customers bring in, he sold off 300 dozen at a buck a dozen. I told him he was charging too little compared to the competition. He didn't care. He wanted to help his loyal customers. I bought an 18 pack for myself and six dozen for my father. If I had more room in the fridge, I'd have bought a couple more.

The time before that, I paid nothing 'cause of the Shaw's (Albertson's) Big Brother tracker program. Only thing I ever buy in that overpriced chain are the lead-loss sale items on the front page of their ads. It adds up and I had enough points in the program to walk away with two free dozen organic eggs, normally $6 per dozen at that time. (I did mention this is the expensive chain supermarkt, right?)

I'm a thrifty squirrel, but not looking forward to the next time I need to get eggs.

[moonhare]

Last eggs we bought were in October or November: double eighteen pack with Best if used by date of Dec 03. Yes, we are still using them up with ten to go, and they are still okay. We baked a cinnamon coffee cake yesterday that used four of these :o)

[gingicat]

Least expensive around here is BJs. $9.99 for two dozen Eggland's Best cage-free large white eggs, $8.99 for 18 large organic brown eggs, $26.99 for five dozen cage-free large white eggs, $17.79 for three dozen extra-large cage-free brown eggs.

[neotoma]

I buy my eggs from the local farmer's market, and the last time I bought eggs (a month ago?), they were $6/dozen.

[moonhare]

The prices inch up every few days here. A dozen hard-cooked, peeled eggs are about $5 USD. Fresh ‘extra-large’ brown eggs vary from $7-$8 USD. A five dozen pack, white eggs, is about $28 USD.

Remember this cartoon?


Walt Disney Studios, 1941, “Golden Eggs.” Inflation calculator puts that at $18.14 USD today! (And I won’t comment here about Donald in drag, er, disguise, trying to seduce a rooster).

[conuly]

Hm. 1941 coins are still in circulation. Lemme just go back in time a sec....

[kareina]

Here in Sweden it depends on if you are buying a 6, 10, 12 or 20 egg package, and if it is organic and/or free range or not. The web page for our local store helpfully shows the per egg price per package for easy comparison. Therefore, I can tell you that converted to a per dozen price our eggs today sell for as littl as 42 kr/dozen (for the 20-pack, non-organic) to as much as 65.88 kr/dozen (for the 6-pack, organic). This translates to between $3.85 and $6.04/dozen.

If we have bird flu here, it isn't being talked about in places I am listening, so I presume these are normal prices for the area. (I rarely actually look at the prices in the grocery store; it is the one place where I prioritise getting the healthy things I want, rather than being careful with my money).

[asakiyume]

Yes, I live in W Massachusetts and shop at Stop & Shop and Big Y, and we have been plagued by the stores' having *no* eggs and by prices exactly in that price range. Eggs are our main protein source, and it's very daunting. Up until about three months ago, it was about $4–$5/dozen, so this is a big jump.

[conuly]

It's so obnoxious.

[sabotabby]

I'm vegan and Canadian and wondering if my egg-replacer will soon become cheaper than eggs, if it isn't already.

[redbird]

Adrian has been talking about using chia seed or flax seed instead of eggs in baking, but I think that's partly about availability, and about learning more about using those in case eggs become even harder to come by.

What's in your egg replacer? Adrian does her own baking because of how many bakery cookies, cakes, etc. contain either dairy or one of her migraine triggers. Cattitude has to avoid mushrooms, and in the last couple of years we've been seeing mushroom powder in things we would have assumed were safe, like margarine.

We're now living near the shopping strip of a Jewish neighborhood, and we can use the kosher labeling to get things we're sure don't contain dairy, but (as you probably know) kosher pareve doesn't have to be vegetarian, let alone vegan.

[spiralsheep]

UK, 12 medium free range eggs, delivered to my door, £2.70 = $3.35

[larryhammer]

FWIW, our local Trader Joe's has lower egg prices than the other chain grocery stores atm -- as in half the price in some cases.

[chickenfeet]

I buy my eggs directly from the farmer at the farmers' market and pay C$6.50/doz for Free Range

[thewayne]

I paid $9 a doz in NM last week: I made a buttermilk ice cream base last night that called for eight yolks, and I have a flourless chocolate cake to make for something or other later this week that also calls for quite a number. But I have a quite workable ice cream base that doesn't need eggs, and that'll be my norm until hopefully this bird flu thing recovers and egg prices come down.

But that doesn't mean that other causes of inflation won't keep them from recovering to their pre-Avian Influenza prices.

[merridia]

I checked and our local store has the cheapest option for about six bucks, which pleased me because I generally assume we pay a lot more for things here; but I'm Canadian and then I read the comments and now I'm annoyed again.

Man, I gotta eat more eggs, they're so good.

[movingfinger]

For a more nuanced look at my local egg prices, here--all are large, white is same as brown unless I note otherwise. You *can* pay $10+ a dozen for eggs here but there is no need to do so. I am in a pricey area. The supermarket is a small local chain, Town and Country, and I'm near Seattle. I think that locally the egg farm regulation may be better. There are a lot of backyard flock eggs for sale around me, also, and one local farm where I do occasionally buy eggs; theirs are always a bit more expensive but, you know, super fresh and all that.

Migration season has not yet begun, but I am noticing there are fewer waterfowl in the harbors and inlets this year.

Store brand free range brown, dozen: $3.99
Store brand organic brown: $5.99
Wilcox Farms "mobile pasture raised": $7.99
Wilcox Farms Pasture Raised Non GMO Omega 3, *18 count*: $9.79
Wilcox Farms Pasture Raised Omega 3, dozen: $6.79
Sunrise Farms White Eggs, *6 count*: $2.59
Go-Organic Brown Eggs: $7.29
Go-Organic Omega-3: $7.39
Go-Organic *XL* Brown, *6 count*: $3.79
Go-Organic Free Range *XL*: $7.39
Stiebrs Farms Organic Pasture Raised Brown: $9.79
Stiebrs Farms Cage-Free White: $4.99
Stiebrs Farms Organic White: $6.99
Stiebrs Sunrise Fresh Cage Free *XL* *White*: $4.99
Stiebrs Sunrise Fresh Cage Free Large *Brown*: $5.99 (interesting that brown eggs still command a slight premium!)
Stiebrs Sunrise Fresh Cage Free *XL* Brown: $5.99
Misty Meadows Organic: $9.99
Misty Meadows Pullet Eggs, *6 count*: $6.99
Oakdell White XL: $11.99
Wilcox Free Range White: $4.69



I can't believe how many kinds of eggs there are