Good Lord, the price of eggs!

sonastin

Only managed tesco and aldi - both had 15 medium cage eggs for £1.25. Didn't check the half-dozen at tesco but 95p for 6 in my aldi too. handwritten sign so you can tell it was a recent increase!

landsker

ALDI eggs are cheap! I couldn't give a flying fish how they are produced. Cost is everything.

OrkneyStar

I only buy free range, for now, as it is one of the things that I try to stick to re animal welfare (not passing judgement on others, it is a personal family thing).
COOP basics range (yellow labelling, cannot recall the actual name of range) is £1.90 for 10 free range of mixed size. Local eggs are £1.50 for 6 free range. Hubby sometimes gets eggs from work so that is nice, but not very often these days.

lally666young

I have to give my eggs away as we cant eat them but the chucks bring me so much joy. My mum was moaning about not about the price of eggs but how everything is shooting up in price!!!! I just tell her not to worry about it and if it gets so bad she will have to come to Aldi with me, but she didnt seem to like that idea!

sonastin

with respect to the animal welfare aspects, OH used to rent some workshop space on a farm. He tells me that they dabbled with free range chickens but the farmer believed the chooks were actually more content in their cages so went back to caged. Haven't never witnessed the phenomenon, I can't comment on the truth of his claim but feel free to believe it if your conscience is currently doing battle with your wallet!

nuatha

It seems the price rise has hit sales. My local Asda had a full cage of reduced to clear eggs this morning and was out of stock of the Smart Price packs.

Kirri

I could never eat caged hen eggs, it's disgusting, even the new so called enriched cages are tiny, the rescue charities are still rescuing them even from free range where they are squashed in, they still have no feathers or room.

As for Happy Eggs, disgusting footage I've seen, would never buy them.

Even in London, there is plenty of opportunity for farmer's markets, hopefully they are ok conditions but you never really know. I've found a place on the outskirts that has chickens running around loose so you can actually see and feed them. They were £1.50 for 6 but have gone up to £2 recently with no real explanation. Farmer's markets in London seem to range from £1.30-£1.50 for 6, cheaper out of London. I'd prefer organic as they are not de-beaked etc but don't tend to find these often.

I'd rather go without if I can't find eggs from chickens kept under ok conditions.

Hels50

I buy Tesco Value eggs at £1.19 for 10.

I used to buy the more expensive eggs, but when I did a taste test, I could not tell the difference between Waitrose free range organic and Tesco Value! So, much as I'd like to support animal welfare (along with a million and one other good causes), in these tough times, cost is the deciding factor.

angeltreats

Kirri wrote: »

I could never eat caged hen eggs, it's disgusting, even the new so called enriched cages are tiny, the rescue charities are still rescuing them even from free range where they are squashed in, they still have no feathers or room.

As for Happy Eggs, disgusting footage I've seen, would never buy them.

Even in London, there is plenty of opportunity for farmer's markets, hopefully they are ok conditions but you never really know. I've found a place on the outskirts that has chickens running around loose so you can actually see and feed them. They were £1.50 for 6 but have gone up to £2 recently with no real explanation. Farmer's markets in London seem to range from £1.30-£1.50 for 6, cheaper out of London. I'd prefer organic as they are not de-beaked etc but don't tend to find these often.

I'd rather go without if I can't find eggs from chickens kept under ok conditions.

Oh no, I've bought Happy Eggs many times thinking I was buying eggs from happy chickens with decent living conditions I will not EVER buy caged or even barn eggs.

Our local deli sells eggs from local farms (we live in quite a rural area) for £1.10 for 6, I try to buy them there. The butcher also sells them but has recently increased the price from £1 to £1.50 which is quite a hike.

Kirri

angeltreats wrote: »

Oh no, I've bought Happy Eggs many times thinking I was buying eggs from happy chickens with decent living conditions I will not EVER buy caged or even barn eggs.

Our local deli sells eggs from local farms (we live in quite a rural area) for £1.10 for 6, I try to buy them there. The butcher also sells them but has recently increased the price from £1 to £1.50 which is quite a hike.

I know, I'd bought them once ages ago before I saw the footage They obviously had a very expensive marketing campaign.

You're lucky to have options from buying from local farms, I think the smaller and more local probably the better, I've gone off most supermarket eggs due to the probable large scale commercial production. I wonder what is causing the 50p increase as seems to be happening all over - the place I get mine you can pay to feed them so they can't use feed price as an excuse! They taste much better than other eggs I've had, not sure if that is the difference as they are so fresh.

Am glad to see caged eggs are having to be labelled as such now in the supermarket, it may make for a few less sales, though I wish they would ban them totally.