Another week, another egg poll

[conuly]

FreshDirect sent me a coupon, and they have exactly two types of egg, organic and not, at $8 and $6 per dozen respectively - limit 3 per customer.

We bought 2.5 dozen last time, but I'm seriously considering getting some more.

Poll #32771 Eggs!

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 37

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How much is a dozen eggs now?

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Mean: 6.86 Median: 6 Std. Dev 2.12

3 3		1 (2.7%)
4		2 (5.4%)
5		6 (16.2%)
6		11 (29.7%)
7		5 (13.5%)
8		6 (16.2%)
9		1 (2.7%)
10		3 (8.1%)
11		0 (0.0%)
12		1 (2.7%)
13		1 (2.7%)
14		0 (0.0%)
15 15		0 (0.0%)

Comments

[lilysea]

I just went onto the online sites for Australia's two biggest supermarkets and sorted 12 eggs by price low to high. These were the cheapest in-stock

Coles Cage Free Extra Large Eggs 12 pack 700 grams = $5.40 Australian which is $3.36 US

Woolworths 12 Large Free Range Eggs 600 grams = $5.70 Australian which is $3.54 US

Some Australian egg farms in the Eastern States of Australia are starting to have to kill lots of egg-laying chickens because of bird flu outbreaks, so prices may go up soon

[armiphlage]

At the Real Canadian Superstore in Ontario, $3.73 Canadian for a dozen medium Grade A eggs, or $2.58 Trumpbucks.

[hannah]

Farmers market eggs average $10 now. They averaged $8 two years ago, when there were a couple of additional producers who had more hens and could charge less per dozen coming to the markets I go to - when they pulled out to focus on the brick-and-mortar side of things, that shifted the average price point. But the people charging $10 were charging that much then, too.

$5.49

[redbird]

You don't have 5.5 as an answer; we got two dozen eggs at $5.49/dozen yesterday at Whole Fppds.

A few days before that, we didn't buy eggs because the same store was asking twice that, Trader Joe's didn't have any, and Shaw's had eggs that looked too fragile for Adrian to bring home with none of the shells broken. My shopping list said "eggs, if less than $8/dozen, but check shells [for transparency]." That's after we bought a dozen eggs, of which two stuck to the carton and broke when Cattitude tried to pick them up.

Also, we discovered that Cattitude doesn't like chocolate banana bread made with chia seeds instead of eggs because it makes the part of banana flavor he dislikes more noticeable. So we're going to look for other cookie and cake recipes that use few if any eggs, and/or limit baking based on the egg supply. If we can get the eggs, $9/dozen means a sweet potato frittata for dinner is about $5 worth of ingredients, which is more than we're used to but still less than a lot of other meals we might eat.

Re: $5.49

[conuly]

The poll will only let me increment in whole numbers, and I thought that asking the number of dimes or pennies would be too weird.

[gingicat]

Per the Boston Globe today:
As of last week, the price of a dozen large eggs in Boston supermarkets was $5.77, up from $3.78 in September, according to data from market research firm Datasembly. The company regularly collects prices from actual supermarkets, offering a snapshot of realtime prices locally, and the Globe is using the data to track food prices in several categories, including eggs.

[larryhammer]

Trader Joe's large eggs are now up to $4.99 (reported as $5 above) and still limiting them to one per customer.

[chickenfeet]

That's 6 Canadian pesos for free run.

[movingfinger]

Baseline eggs at my local grocery chain, for store-brand plain eggs (not organic), is still $3.99.

ObOutlier

[pauamma]

1.79 euro for a half-dozen large eggs

[topaz_eyes]

I bought a flat of 30 large eggs at a Real Canadian Superstore in Alberta on Saturday for $10.20 CAD, or $4.08 CAD/dozen ($7.08 USD for the flat, or $2.83 USD/dozen).

Canada accounted for 42% of the foreign eggs imported by the US in 2023. Supposedly the US is interested in importing more eggs from Canada but idk.

[white_aster]

9 for the generic store brand, can get the vegetarian-fed cagefree eggs for 5.50, though.

[the_siobhan]

In Toronto, a dozen large eggs run about $4. It goes up to $7 if you want free-run organic.

I like the free-run, but I buy the medium eggs for $4 - it's worth it to me to have slightly smaller eggs in exchange for avoiding battery chickens. (Medium eggs are almost always half the price here and small are even cheaper - Canadians like their fat eggs.)

Re: $5.49

[redbird]

I wouldn't have bothered commenting if I didn't also want to talk about eggshell thickness and such.

Re: ObOutlier

[redbird]

That works out to about US$4 for a dozen eggs.

[archersangel]

$5.97 (might as well say $6) at wal-mart, they went up.

aldi was $5.47 as of wednesday, limit 2.

[jennaria]

They've gone up 50 cents, here in the middle of Texas, to $5.50 per dozen large.

[fred_mouse]

Cautiously optimistic, based on hearsay that the supply on the two sides of the country isn't particularly linked (assumption: no-one trucks eggs that far? But they do truck milk, so ????) that we aren't going to see changes in that unless the quarantine border fails us.

[cellio]

Our ordinary (not organic, not fancy, etc) grocery-store eggs are currently $4.99. I just signed up for a farm share and noticed that they're only charging $6 for organic eggs -- the same price I saw from CSAs in past years -- and I almost added that on because hey, support the local farms for a similar price... until I noticed that the egg share was weekly only, while I was signing up for biweekly produce. But still, kind of surprised that the price wasn't higher!

[moxie_man]

I just returned from a trip up to northern Maine, where eggs are running a buck an egg. I'm surprised they don't have those anti-theft devices on them that they attach to the liquor bottles.

[kyrielle]

This is per dozen with a limit of two dozen per order, as of Sunday: $8 but only because they only had the expensive organic still in stock. Well, that's not true, I put them in my pickup order at that price only to not get them because they sold out before they pulled my order.

We aren't out yet, though, so I'll just try again later this week.