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

Manchee

Stephen_Leak wrote: »

Eggs should have a code number stamped on them. UK eggs also have a Best Before date stamped on them.

The egg on my desk as I write this is stamped ...

3UK11510
B/B24MAR

O = Organic (IIRC, this also implies free range)
1 = Free range
2 = Barn
3 = Cage

UK = Country of origin

11510 = Farm ID

B/B24MAR = Best Before 24 March

Ive got to say, thats really interesting and helpful

Lynsey

Looks like the rise in the price of eggs has really started, the price is on the up now!! :mad:

Lynsey

geordie_joe

lynseync wrote: »

The extra cost is worth it to help move towards a future where animals are treated properly.

But the extra money won't go towards that! egg producers will treat hens as good as the law says they should treat them, and no better.

After HFW's attempt to get us to all eat free range the producers couldn't cope with the extra demand, so the government lowered the standards so birds that are not really free range can be labeled free range.

lynseync wrote: »

The quality of a non free range egg is also much lower - ever noticed the difference in yolk colour?

The yolk colour has no effect, and is no indication of the quality of the egg.

Fuskercat

We buys Asda 'Cooks' eggs, 36 for £2.98 or so, well, until yestererday when we noticed they'd gone up to £3.10 AND they'd reduced the pack size to 30

Edwardia

I suspect that producers add colouring to the feed to get deeper yellow egg yolks. I can't find organic locally though.

geordie_joe

Edwardia wrote: »

I suspect that producers add colouring to the feed to get deeper yellow egg yolks.

Yes, egg yolks are required to be within a specific colour range. The feed can't always make the yolk the right colour so they add colouring to the feed to ensure the yolk always meets the colour standard.

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HappyMJ wrote: »

. I'm a cheap egg person so get barn laid eggs which are probably just as bad as caged but not quite as good as full free range. I don't trust the word free range anyway. If I wanted a true free range egg I'd buy it from a local person who keeps hens.

The definitions for caged, barn, free range and organic are available on the old DEFRA site.

Lynsey

Got 6 medium free range today in Lidl for 95p.
Heron Foods have large free range for £1 (6).

Lynsey

wonderbetty

Tesco today had box of 6 free range eggs for 99p.

anniemf2508

I was buying the 89p tesco free range ones, but the quality was pretty awful. So have started buying ours from our local saturday indoor market, they are local free range and £1 for 6