Wow, great price! Buy a lot.
The Walmart/Aldi āregularā price here (well, Aldi is 25 miles away) has come down to $2.60-2.99/lb lately. I still mostly can get the āname brandā ones for $1.99 either on a door-buster sale or because they are expiring. But like the Egglandās Best eggs suddenly being the same price as store brand eggs, it makes me think Tyson/Eggland or whoever is partly just footing the price increase whereas generics were already rock bottom more or less.
But MOST IMPORTANTLY-- your eggs are on sale for $2.49 for 18!!! (Assuming you donāt use your points.) I wish I could go over there and stock up!
I think this thread goes to show that food prices vary a lot based on location even at the same āchains.ā Those California Trader Joeās prices listed on here are way less than in my momās TD in her mid-west city. (We have no TD anywhere close to us, by which I mean within an hourās highway drive.) In particular, sometimes HCOL areas by housing/taxes have lower food and utilities prices than lower cost areas because of competition in my experience.
Thanks so much for sending the ad. I love to see this sort of thing, but I am kind of a groceries nerd.
PS- I will say the chicken, eggs, and salmon are the only big price differences from, for instance, a Kroger ad here. Which makes sense since they are fresher and more local.
@sursumcorda i wonder if Aldi has some relationship to egg lands Best. I got a dozen eggs there a couple of years agoā¦and they were spoiled. I wrote an email to their corporate headquarters. They were wonderful. Told me to just go to the store and tell them, and they would authorize a new dozen eggs. (Because they knew no one keeps rotten eggs to return to a store). So I didā¦and I got my fresh eggs.
About two weeks later, I received two coupons for free dozen eggs at Aldiā¦and a coupon for something like 1/2 off a purchase of Egglands Best (which I had to do at BJs). The letter came supposedly from one of their egg farmers
@MarylandJoe and I live in a similar area with multiple food farms within a couple of hours. That keeps prices for food relatively inexpensive here compared to when I travel. Itās a nice perk.
Itās definitely not the way things are everywhere though - Iāve seen tons of differences through travel. Itās just common for people to think what they see is the same everywhere. Thatās where I feel this board is good so we can share experiences, even without travel.
I just got back from Whole Foods (Boston) and was surprised to find Nellies for $6.99 for 18. I see eggs advertised at Stop n Shop for less quite often, but they are usually sold out.
D22 is home right now so close to a dozen a week. She and her dad are the egg eaters. I donāt eat them that much. Trying to watch my cholesterol. When she goes back to school maybe half dozen a week.
About 20 a week is what we go through. Our typical breakfast includes 2 eggs for Mr. B and 1 for me. Occasionally we eat something non-egg like pancakes or oatmeal.
When my daughter was a toddler, she loved scrambled eggs. I asked the doctor how many she could have and at first the doc said as many as she wants but then decided a dozen a week. My daughter was a tiny girl and we were trying to get calories into her.
So she got 12 and I got none. Her only other meal was elbow mac with Kraft parm cheese in the green can. No substitutes (no Safeway brand, too orange). No Kraft mac and cheese in the box (too orange). It didnāt matter what they served at day care, she wouldnāt eat it. Eggs and elbow mac, 365 days a year.
How many we use depends upon how many our chickens are giving us. In the spring/summer we can go through at least 4 per day with H and I and still have some left over to give away. Right now in winter weāre going through about 6 per week since weāre getting about 1 per day (total) from our chickens.
Weāre not huge egg eaters except when theyāre overrunning my fridge or counter. We also rarely bake anything. Most of our eggs are consumed when we do breakfast stir frys or make cornbread or pancakes or something and the latter is rare. Breakfasts at our place vary considerably. This morning it was leftover pasta.
I like having my own chickens though. Theyāre cleanup for my kitchen scraps as much as theyāre my source of eggs most of the time.
So it seems we have pretty decent egg quantity consumers here! Many in the 1-2 dozen a week range. So at $3.50/dozen (just picked sort of a random number based on prices mentioned) thatās $7/week. $364/year. At $2/dozen - a price we would consider a bargain now youād be at $208/year for 2 dozen a week.
Estimating, we go through two dozen a week. Backyard chickens are permitted here. We have a very large lot and I have often thought of converting our existing garden structure into a henhouse. To go along with the garden Iām going to plant. When Iām retired.
My neighbors had chickens more recently. They said it would have been cheaper and way easier to buy the eggs at the store. Between the cost of feed, beddingā¦and making sure their house was secure from animalsā¦it wasnāt cheap. In addition, we live in the north, so a heat light had to be used in the winter. Ohā¦and their time to take care of the birds and their nestsā¦They never estimated how much it costā¦but it wasnāt cheap. They had six chickens which was enough for them, and a few of us neighbors. At the time (over 5 years ago) we paid them $3 a dozen.
My friend estimate it at $40/dozen. Sheās kidding, but it would be cheaper to buy eggs. They live in the city but have 5-6 chickens in the backyard, several dogs, birds in the house, 3 gigantic cats, a bee hiveā¦
But theyāll be saving money soon as their daughter is in vet school.
I seriously doubt itās cheaper to own chickens, esp if folks want the mass produced āhorrible life for the chickenā variety of eggs (which we, ourselves, had to buy when we couldnāt afford the better ones so no shame there from me).
I have chickens because I want chickens. I like the better eggs for my health and I like the better life for the chickens. I also like turning kitchen scraps into eggs. I donāt have them to save $$.
We donāt need a heat/light here. We let ours be natural. It does mean fewer eggs in the winter.
