Good Lord, the price of eggs!

BitterAndTwisted

A fellow non-meat-eating friend was trying to persuade me that not only should I be buying free-range eggs but organic free-range ones. I was seriously considering this.

I heard on Radio 4 that the price of eggs has shot up recently and remembered that the last time I bought any free-range ones in @sda they were £2 for 15.

Today they were £2.88

No organic ones for me, thanks.

If things carry on like this I might have to think about buying caged ones or more likely, give them up altogether.

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rachbc

yowzers - I haven't eggs since getting chickens last summer - we sell out surplus for £1 half doz - no wonder people bite our hands off for them

zzzLazyDaisy

Not much help if you are a city person, but I get mine from a local smallholding - £1 for 6 - the hens run around free outside in the daytime. Not sure if they are organic, but the hens seem happy and the eggs are lovely.

If you are a townie, maybe its worth keeping your eyes open or asking around next time you are in the country (at that rate the saving on eggs would probably pay the petrol for the day out!)

Oh, and I just remembered - if you have a Sainsbury's near you, they have 'Happy Eggs' £1.80 for 6, or two packs for £2. I *think* they are organic free range, but I'm not 100%

BitterAndTwisted

I really doubt that Sains are selling them at that price now. The last lot of @sda eggs I bought was just over a week ago. They've soared since then. There's some issue with us not being able to import them. Animal welfare issues, I think. I must pay more attention when I'm listening to the radio or I'd be certain.

Some really fancy eggs in the supermarket today were £1.20 EACH! No wonder people are biting your hands off for yours rachbc!

McKneff

I buy small holders eggs, just gone up last week from £1.60 a dozen to £1.90. Lovely large eggs with lovely yellow yolks. And delivered to the door..............

I ran out of them last weekend and went to the coop for half a dozen,
£1.78 for half a dzen, no way I was going to pay that. Put the baking off till i got my usual eggs.

lizzyb1812

The rise in the price of eggs has affected producers of foodstuffs that use eggs - eg cake makers, ice cream makers etc. The rise has occurred because since 1st January new welfare regulations have come into force re the size of cages. Some EU countries have not yet implemented this and imports from those countries have been disallowed.

In theory free range producers should not have been affected by the regulations, but demand for eggs has risen because of the lack of imports, hence the price rises. Per Radio 4 this morning. Apparently the situation in France is even worse.

Doom_and_Gloom

My partner eats eggs but they have to be free range or organic - he would rather go without if there isn't the money.
He preferes large eggs so £2.10 for a half dozen organic or £2.88 for a dozen free range. Yes the organic ones are bought if the extra money can be spared.
He will buy the free range 15 mixed if money won't get the others as they are £3 and make more meals so cheaper - until the 27th they are on offer for £2.39.
It has not come to it but if the 15 mixed couldn't be justified then he wouldn't have eggs.

matty17r

I bought half a dozen medium free range eggs for 85p in lidl a couple of weeks ago.

rachbc

I'm a townie - 3 people in my street keep chooks so its def worth asking about as I'm sure there are people about with eggs to sell. We have 3 regular customers - maybe I should start a waiting list lol

zippybungle

I buy Sainsburys Basics Eggs Barn Eggs (not caged, not free range or organic) there are 18 in a box for £1.89 at the moment which I think is good value for money. Sainsburys don't sell any battery eggs.

Zippy x

thriftwizard

Oh my word - next time someone quibbles about the £6 sack of feed I buy in every three months to supplement the leftovers our totally non-organic-but-very-happy girls live on - oh, and two bales of barley straw a year at £3 each - I will be able to point out that we'd be spending well in excess of £2 a week on eggs otherwise - and there'd be no free fertiliser!

I know we're lucky to have the room to keep them, but we go through about 2 dozen eggs a week (averaging 7 teens/adults in household) so it really does make economic sense. That's £30 p.a. as opposed to £176.80, using the Lidls price.