Egg price rise?? Where's the cheapest free range eggs??

pineapple

I pay £1 for 6 free range from the village pub. Mixed size but generally medium to large.
For those who sell their surplus - do you declare the income or is it 'under the radar'? I suppose if you did declare it, you would get into all sorts of red tape.

mrstommo

I buy on local market - £1 for six. Choose your own from the trays, boxes provided. Regularly unable to close box properly because eggs too large. Two or three double yolkers each week - taste excellent!! Feels good to be buying local produce.

LondonDreamer

Manchee wrote: »

Are these actually free range though? I think I would feel way too guilty to not buy free range

Can't speak for the Iceland ones as I don't have a store nearby, but the ones I buy are.

Edwardia

Get free range extra large 1.29 for 6 at local Spar, 1p cheaper than local farmer does 6 free range pullets eggs. If I was doing some low carb baking (which I rarely do) I wouldn't mind buying 12 non free range for 99p at 99p Stores or 12 for £1 at Iceland. But as I'm actually eating the eggs boiled, fried. scrambled or as an omelette I like eggs that taste right. Not anaemic, not fishy and from happy chickens.

I once got 6 quail's eggs for 10p in Sainsbury's

kerri_gt

My local Tesco sells 'Farm Pride' mixed weight free range eggs at 89p for 6.

Asda did recently offer mixed weight free range at 85p for 6 but this has gone up to £1+ again.

I must get more organised though and buy from the local farms round here.

blufish_2

I get eggs from my local Lidl — 89p for 6! Free range to boot. :] Not ever seen them anywhere cheaper than that but I'd imagine Aldi is around the same price?

TESCO_R+R_RAIDER

anyone tried poundstretcher/instore 15 eggs for £1.25

Stephen_Leak

TESCO_R+R_RAIDER wrote: »

anyone tried poundstretcher/instore 15 eggs for £1.25

I doubt that these would be free range.

TravellingAbuela

I know I am paying more than I could do, but I get my eggs from a farmer near our caravan site. They truly are free range - the chooks have 3 fields to run round in - but they don't come cheap at £2.20 a dozen. However, they really are the tastiest eggs I have ever eaten and the chooks look the happiest onesI have ever seen! No eggs from caged hens for me thank you!

Chris25

mrstommo wrote: »

I buy on local market - £1 for six. Choose your own from the trays, boxes provided. Regularly unable to close box properly because eggs too large. Two or three double yolkers each week - taste excellent!! Feels good to be buying local produce.

I've done this in the past but it wasn't until I happened to check the stamp on the eggs one day that I realised they were from caged birds!

The next time I went back I discovered that the sign didn't actually say they were free-range, I had assumed they were as they were sitting on a bed of straw in a nice basket; you took a box & chose your own, they looked lovely.

So since then, it doesn't matter whether the sign says free-range or not, unless i know where those eggs came from, I check them before buying.