Ouch! Again! The Price of Eggs!!!

Kroger is running a special this week, $1.99 for a dozen, with their digital coupon.

I have read it is mainly the bird flu. It's not just going to be eggs. Chickens, your turkey for thanksgiving next year is going to be unreal. The new administration isn't going to be able to spin this one.

How is that a political issue? 

Here in Western New York at our Wegmans they are $4.99 for 12 eggs. At Tops, for a dozen, they are $4.59. That’s a huge jump from two weeks ago.

I just paid $3.99 for a dozen at Kroger. I don't buy them often enough to know if that is a large increase or not.

Eggs just randomly keep showing up in my fridge! LOL So many people raise eggs around me, that the overflow just shows up sometimes.
Checked at my Walmart and a dozen Eggland eggs are $3.68, while the Great Value brand is MORE at $3.97. That's weird.




Raw milk is a big political issue here, in that the nut job MAGA people think raw milk is better for them (it's not) and demand it. Our lovely governor passed the law to make it legal to sell it here a couple years ago. I think anyone that is giving raw milk to their children should be considered child abusers. The fact that bird flu can be passed in raw milk (a child did get it from raw milk in California) is the least worry on that. Why would anyone want to feed that to their children with the risks associated with it? It is not 'healthier' as they try to claim.

Don't worry! It's all magically going to get better in January.

Walmart large doz $3.97.
18 eggs, $5.97

I’m in the Twin Cities too and at Costco two days ago I think they were $4.97 for a pack of 18 which would be about $3.13 a dozen. The 60 count packs at the business Costco are usually a little less per dozen. The thing I’m more alarmed about is the price of butter which has never really come back down to anything close to prepandemic levels. Recently it was running about $15.99 for four pounds, now it is back at $13.99 which IMO is still high. I remember stocking up on butter years ago and freezing it when it was something crazy like $6.50 for that same pack of four pounds. My DH thought I was nuts and I was only wishing I had more freezer space!

Another thing I’ve been tracking pretty close is the price of chocolate chips because I go through a lot of them. There is currently a cocoa bean shortage and as a result Costco stopped offering their house brand of semi sweet chips because they couldn’t price them competitively. They’ve been selling Nestlé since then and I bought three giant bags (72 oz) several months ago when they were selling for $12 something a bag. Now they’re up around $14 or so a bag, so I’m glad I stocked up when I did.

A dozen has been $4+ for a while, 18 is $6+. Eggland's Best have been out of my acceptable price range for the last six months.

Bird flu + an all eggs must be cage free law passed in Washington last year + plus the holidays...

There is also a sign above the egg cooler that if you buy more than one carton the price for the second carton is substantially more, probably to prevent hoarding.

I am west of Houston. If I get eggs at Walmart in Sealy, 60 count is $19.26. But if I drive 20 minutes into Kroger in Katy, the same eggs are $11.55.
I also get Organic Milk because I use so little milk and with organic, the expiration date is usually around 2 months. So Walmart is $6.98 and Kroger is $6.29.

Both the eggs and milk prices have been like this at Walmart for months! So, I have been doing my shopping at Kroger since just these 2 items alone is worth the savings. And my drive is about the same distance!

I paid $4.15 CAD for a dozen on Sunday in Southern Alberta for the cheapest ones (im not an egg purist or snob when it comes to free range, colour, etc).  I just about fainted when I saw that price.  Last time I bought them they were just over $3.

But when I look at some of the US prices and add the 45-50% on, I think I may have a gotten a deal.

I bought 18 eggs the weekend before TG and I think I paid $4.99. 

I should have worded that differently. What I should have said it's ridiculous that the farm is calling this a political issue rather than a public health issue.

I just found out that my parents are buying and drinking raw milk. My head just about popped off when my mom told me. I think she buys it through her church. She does not even want to hear about how dangerous it is, and she's a registered nurse!  This is such a hot button issue for me right now.