How many eggs do you eat in a week?
How many eggs do you eat in a week?
I get that the point is inflation, but why eggs? If they went to $12/dozen, it would cost me like $4 extra dollars per week.
I get that the point is inflation, but why eggs?
It's because the current avian flu, chicken and egg farms are having to kill a metric fuck ton of their chickens. 😢 Meanwhile spray tan is already vowing to gut the CDC and leave WHO.
maybe if we just stop testing for avian flu it will go away
/s just to be sure
You know, if you spent your entire life living underground and never saw the sky, you'd never worry about silly little things like asteroids crashing into the planet and killing everyone.
It doesn't mean you'll survive any better, you just get to die ignorant.
I’m sure the entire problem is government over-regulation. If we fire half the cdc and not allow them to use the word “gender”, they won’t be ble to enforce regulations and the price will come down
Wait... I thought it was because of Biden.
Who do you think infected the chickens?
Asintomatic avian flu chickens are being sacrificed? Poor creatures.
Realistically, how can you control the spread? Even assuming there are treatments, in what world is it practical to provide repeated direct medical attention to millions of chickens?
When our household was at full bore with the kids home, we could go through three dozen per week. It's not just eating them, it's cooking. Two eggs for a some cake, brownies, etc. one day of french toast (not doing that into the foreseeable future), if I did breakfast with eggs it would take anywhere from 6 to 10.
At our height of consumption we had four teenage boys, one teenage girl and a 10 year old who could out eat anyone at the table.
I'm just fortunate that our kids are mostly grown, but now they're struggling to keep food on their own tables.
I actually kept a small flock of chickens for a while because we would go through so many eggs.
I have two boys. I can't imagine feeding twice that!
When I was a lad I ate four dozen eggs every morning to help me get large. And now that I'm grown I eat five dozen eggs, so I'm roughly the size of a barge.
So about 336 and 420 a week, respectively
I see you’ve got biceps to spare.
Eggs because:
Vance gave a quote bashing the price of eggs, but he cited a number much higher than the sign he was standing next to.
Dems pounced on this, mocking the blatant exaggeration and dismissing any concerns about a cost of living crisis.
It stuck around because it’s emblematic of the overall situation:
Repubs don’t give a shit about facts, just vibes, and wanna paint as dark of a picture as possible.
Dems only care about being correct on paper, and don’t give a shit about listening to the problems of ordinary people or doing anything that could be called “radical”.
About 12 every 2 days on my keto diet. I buy 18packs for like $5
There! I've been looking for a demographic upon which to lay blame, and here you are!
Keto!?! It's been the keto bros all along? Hoarding all those delicious eggs for your own woke ass diet? No wonder eggs are so pricey.
Jk. Good luck with the diet though. And try not to fart in any enclosed spaces!
What's your favorite way to prepare the eggs?
Favorite way, steamed. Eggs are delicate and deserve to be treated like it.
I'm waiting for the day I can try making chowanmushi.
Yeah. We made a lot of egg bites when we were low carbing. Probably need to go back to that.
It’s not just inflation. Eggs are experiencing a supply problem due to avian flu.
8-12. They
arewere inexpensive, versatile protein.I don't really eat eggs. I have ducks that lay eggs and if I really want some, I eat what they produce. I might try selling their eggs as a side hustle but a lot of people are grossed out by the concept of eating duck eggs for some reason lol
How are they compared to chicken eggs?
Richer flavor, they have higher levels of fat and protein. I much prefer them to chicken eggs.
Mostly yolk, a richer flavor, and GREAT for baked goods. My girls are a variety of breeds, so I get an assortment of different sizes. Used to get blue eggs from my mallard until she stopped laying when she hit duck menopause lol
About 14. I'm not particularly price-sensitive about it given the absolute cost is low relative to many food options.
Eggs keep getting cited by people trying to blame their political opponents for increases in food prices because they have increased to about 2.5x from five years ago, which is a bigger increase than most foods. The bulk of the increase is due to the ongoing bird flu outbreak, but that fact doesn't seem to have great distribution among the general public.
I haven't eaten eggs in a decade, they're surprisingly easy to avoid.
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There are vegan egg substitutes like a flax egg. Here's my favorite waffle/pancake recipe.
My pancakes never use eggs, but waffles so.
It's been 6 years for me, but at my peak I used to eat 2 every morning for breakfast.
At one point I looked at all the eggs and chicken breast I was eating by being "healthy" and realized it was not in any way rational or sustainable. How could one person (myself) be responsible for the death of one chicken and two chicks PER DAY! I imagined what it would look like to stuff all those birds into my living room and how there's no way I could farm something on that scale myself (or want to).
So I switched to a vegan diet and never went back. My personal morals tell me I shouldn't eat animal products, but for the average person who doesn't agree I can understand why consumption is through the roof. This separation we have of living creatures into commodities, all behind a legally protected black curtain.
When all that's talked about is how much per dozen, your mind never really stops to think about the rest.
Commercial eggs aren't fertilized, when we had chickens we had no rooster and still the hens popped out about one egg per day. That's why chicken eggs are "eggs", generally speaking. Not saying they are ethical by whatever standard you are using just that they wouldn't have turned into a chicken ever.
Family of four. We probably go through 10 to-12 eggs a day much of the time. Scrambled eggs, French toast, homemade bread, cookies, pancakes, frittatas, huevos rancheros tacos... It adds up. I recently started buying the 18-egg packs because it's more cost-effective.
Same same. Family of 4, we use a bit over a dozen if I dont make quiche, 18 if I do.
Don’t forget that most baked goods and other foods rely heavily on the eggs in their recipes. Most food sectors are affected.
??? Did you mean to say eggs instead of gas?
It’s possible premade baked goods will switch to substitutes. And if those substitutes turn out to be cheaper, then the egg industry is really screwed.
lol yes, eggs not gas. My bad!
Yes, but the fixation on the price of a dozen...
As many as possible. It's one of the perks of my new job, free eggs.
I didn't know there was afree egg job. Farm? Breakfast restaurant?
breakfast restaurant indeed
https://unitedegg.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Facts-and-Stats-Summary.pdf
According to this, as of 2019 -- which is a couple years back, though probably good if you want a pre-avian-flu number -- Americans had a per-capita rate of 279 eggs consumed a year, up 16 percent over the twenty years prior.
EDIT: according to this, numbers are about the same in 2023, dipped a little bit over the past couple years, but looks like there's a pretty low price elasticity of demand.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/183678/per-capita-consumption-of-eggs-in-the-us-since-2000/
In 2023, consumption of eggs in the United States was estimated at 281.3 per person. This figure was projected to reach 284.4 eggs per capita by 2024.
EDIT2: On a non-statistical note, eggs are goddamn delicious.
We use 4 every weekend for breakfast tacos and sometimes one or two more for fried rice or baking. I really don't love the texture or smell. A few times per year i boil some just for something different.
Cause eggs are in fucking everything.
It's not inflation, it's bird flu reducing supply.
It’s a combination of greedflation and bird flu. It’s amazing we still don’t have an RNA vaccine for livestock yet.
It's almost like the president doesn't directly control the prices of things like gas and eggs. Looking at you "I did this" sticker gang...
You're right that it's principally bird flu, but it'll still count towards inflation. CPI -- what people are typically referring to when they say "inflation" -- has a basket of goods which I strongly suspect includes eggs. If the price goes up, that's inflation.
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Yeah.
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.t01.htm
Meats, poultry, fish, and eggs
Though that whole category, which is not egg-exclusive, only makes up 1.737% of the weighting for the basket. So it's not as significant as, say, the cost of housing in calculating inflation.
Yes, it counts toward inflation. The price is not caused by inflation. At least not significantly.
Yeah, but mostly it's something to yell about on tv and 'news' radio to distract us from what's really going on.
Normally around 6. Ill make scrambled eggs with 3 eggs for breakfast twice a week
I'm vegan BTW
How do you know if someone is vegan?
Yeah, but how many eggs do you eat? /s
Around 12.
Eggs are incredible nutrition value and I'd still pay 12$ for 12 eggs. In fact I do splurge on local market eggs that come from free range chickens and here they are around 5$ for 12 which is double the factory price but still and an incredible steal.
That's why the great American egg whine of 2024 is so confusing. Min wage in the US is still like 24++ eggs an hour which is an insane thing to complain about. Y'all need financial literacy not cheaper eggs.
Which US are you from that minimum wage is $24 an hour?
Avg 12 egg price in US seems to be around 4$ and federal min wage is 7.25$ and that's extremely generous cause federal min wage is not even remotely representative of actual min wage. So 24 eggs / hour is the bare minimum an American earns.
It doesn't matter cause no amount of math or finance logic will make you guys whine less.
Zero after I went vegan 3 years ago.
And honestly, when you know your way around a little and stick mostly to whole foods, it gets dirt cheap if you try. 💚
"How many eggs you're eating per week?"
"I'm vegan."
Bruh I can't.
I can't either .... eat eggs anymore. 😇
They were literally asked how many he eats. What should they have done, just ignore the question?
My son goes through a ridiculous amount or fake eggs! I wish i could get him onto food instead of meat substitutes.
Because eggs are seen as a very reasonable weekly purchase that a consumer can see a price delta in over a short period of time.
Whatever gets put in pad Thai once a week.
Eggs themselves, not many if at all. The issue is when it comes to baking, while not often, can consume through a whole dozen or more in a single week, specially in the winter. Wanting to find alternatives, I hear applesauce is good.
I feel like it all depends on what you're cooking and what the egg is meant to do. For brownies/cake applesauce is pretty good, when I make desert breads I use a flax egg. If whole point of the egg is to help hold things together (which it usually is) and i know my fake egg isn't gonna cut it I'll throw in a dash of corn starch along with whatever egg substitute I'm using.
I mostly use them for baking. I will probably just switch to substitutes going forward. I can live without eggs.
Corporate farming better get its shit together or consumers are going to learn to live without.
How many do you use in a week? I can't think of enough baking for it to make a huge difference in my life. Going from $2 to $4 per dozen costs me an extra dollar per week.
Eggs still only 3 something where I am. Don't eat em much but maybe a dozen each month or two.
zero, vegan
With cooking and baking, 12+ per week. Which is about USD 5.60 for the XL bio eggs from the farm shop.
Luckily, I am not in the US.
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I eat 3 eggs every morning. 21 a week.
Eggs are too expensive.
I can eat up to a dozen boiled eggs a day if I'm particularly craving them. They're my fave source of protein!
A fourth of the way to Cool hand Luke.
Six; 42 a week! Easy way to hit my protein goals everyday and maintain those gains :D
My problem is we have three teenagers of our own plus an extra one who lives with us 60% of the time. Two of them are vegetarian but eat eggs for protein. The rest of us just like eggs. We go through about 3-4 dozen a week.
My son ate a ton of eggs when he was veg. Now he's vegan and eats fake eggs which are much more expensive.
Yeah I eat quite a few plant-based meals but I'm glad they're vegetarians who are okay with dairy and eggs and not fully vegan. I don't know if I could afford two vegans in the house on top of the other four of us. Food costs are crazy right now. I think having hand raised backyard chickens who love to be held and love to give their eggs, that made the difference. Not all poultry farming or milk production is traumatic. If I could get a little more land I'd think about a few milk cows so I could make my own cheese.
Eggs are not that expensive in Sweden, but in all honesty I don't really eat that many eggs in a week. Maybe if we use it as an ingredient, or maybe I'm having a boiled egg as a healthy snack, but I think most weeks it would be 0.
Almost none. Allergies.
That sucks. Do you have to do egg free vaccines?
I have like four every six months.
42 a week, or 6 a day.
However, 30 eggs is only $3 where I live.
Varies a lot. Sometimes weeks can go by without me eating a single egg. But when I start, I go hard. It's not unheard of that I go through an entire carton as a late night snack with boiled eggs.
I make a bunch of deviled eggs maybe once or twice a year. I don't care for most other types of "easy" egg preparations and there are plenty of cheap beans, chicken, and cheap bits of pork for my protein needs.
Tbh I don't understand why people don't just buy something else. There are several good alternatives available.
Other things aren’t “breakfast”. While I understand that it’s only tradition that makes foods be for a specific meal, it’s hard to get around. Chicken is not a breakfast food.
So where do you get protein in foods that identify as breakfast? Cereals and grains are mostly carb or fiber, not good sources of protein. Sausages and bacons are not lean and are not healthy foods. then there are eggs, and there are many ways to prepare eggs
Sure, butterfly a chicken breast and fry it over high heat. Or eat cheese. Or make succotash, or lentil soup.
All of our cultural defaults for breakfast are terrible for us anyways, we need to eat other things regardless.
Me, 10-18. 2 per work day for egg Sammy. Then weekends depend on omelets and other meals depending on recipe. 10 minimum tho. Brother has 1 more chicken than his family eats eggs so if anything I buy less eggs than most households per month.
It depends. Eggs are part of cakes and pancakes, and a very quick to cook healthy thing to eat. Family of 4 now, we go through between 8 eggs on a light week and 32 eggs on a week I make a lot of egg stuff, or if someone is bulking, like today I made shakshuka for supper and a cake, that's eight eggs in one meal.
I think they are a commodity and historically a cheap source of animal protein, that's why they are talked about.
Protein is not a nutrient that anyone is deficient in. Any plant that humans eat provides enough protein if you consume enough to meet your calorie requirements. You have never met a person who is in protein deficiency who was not also literally in starvation from not having eaten. The whole "we need a cheap source of protein" thing is a myth. It's everywhere, it's inescapable. It's literally the building blocks of all life on Earth. It's like people in the 50s extolling the health virtues of smoking, it's pure marketing bullshit that we have become completely steeped in.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcopenia
Sarcopenia is a real thing, happening to people who eat a "healthy" diet.
The fact of the matter is most people are not eating enough bioavailable and complete protein (with all the essential amino acids). If your missing any of the amino acids you can't use that "protein"
Not to mention food labels use crude protin, a measure of nitrogen, they don't actually measure the amino acids.
Sadly this means many people trying to hit their moderate protein targets of 1g/kg bodyweight are absolutely not getting enough protein.
Using this graph as an example, different foods have different amounts of bioavailable nutrition. Nobody is going to eat 12kg of processed grains a day to hit their minimums.
Zero now that the price has gone up.
How much had the price changed where you are?
I last bought eggs around $3.50, now they're just shy of $5/dozen.
5-6, and eggs aren’t expensive yet. I guess wherever we get eggs from don’t have avian flu yet …. Although it’s here in the wild
I have a bowl of cereal (yogurt and fruit) during the week, but usually make something with eggs on the weekend.
Lots the chickens are liking the weather it seems.
And ironically the latest egg price rise in the states is because of h5n1 and the stock market taking bets because of that. As much fun as it is to blame trump it would be misinformation to claim its his fault.
I'm not sure anyone really is blaming trump, but when we ask "what's he doing about the egg prices", it's because he and his supporters blamed Biden for high egg prices and it's fun to hear them make excuses for how the president doesn't control egg prices.
about 3 fiddy
That's a lot of eggs!
Zero. I used to have a fried egg for lunch every day but many years ago something switched in my brain and now the flavor of them really puts me off.
Probably like 2 dozen a week. I like eggs lol.
I haven’t had eggs since they were $2/dozen, so zero in like 8+ months, but when I have eggs (starting chickens and quail) I’ll be eating probably 2-4/day. When they were cheap I was averaging 3/day, including baked goods and such.
I really don’t eat much meat (can’t afford that either, but my digestive system doesn’t do well with a lot of meat anyway), and my mushroom cultures are taking foooooooorrrrrreeeeeeevvvvvvveeeerrrrr, so.. need protein somewhere.
None, I've never particularly liked them. I know some people love them, but to me they don't smell great, kinda sulfurous farts and they have an odd smushy consistency when cooked.
Depends where I am with training, but up to 70 a week.
Now I have the rocky montage music stuck in my head
Wow! That's a shitload of eggs! Do you do anything with the shells, like composting?
Nah, I live in an apartment and my city doesn't have green waste bins :(
Most weeks maybe just un oeuf. I think since I stopped eating breakfast and found out my body hates gluten (so heavily reducing baked goods, my other main use of eggs), my egg consumption went way down. The one weekly is generally from going to get sushi and there being some tamagoyaki in there. I guess the odd exception is throwing one (boiled or raw) into soup and the rare occasion that I knock out a fried rice.
Edit: I think 10 local eggs are around 500 yen, at least the last time I checked. More expensive than non-local, and the price has definitely gone up generally in the last few years.
A few a week, apparently 3 to 4 a week is optimum for health.
When I was younger about 14 eggs a week. Now about 9.
Where I am eggs have only gone up about $0.20 in the last few months. Still under $6 per dozen for cage free eggs. Maybe $3.50 for caged eggs?
About the same here. I think sprouts had large cage free for $4 this week.
12ish if were talking simply fried eggs, if you consider all the baked goods and stuff it probably closer to 24
- Eggs are not worth what they charge.
Tends to be around 4 per week, I'm just one person and eggs are usually a weekend breakfast thing for me.
But.. I also try to budget meals to be close to $1, so I might just stop buying eggs if a dozen get to $6+ (around me they have been in the $5-$8 range for now)
I guess around 8-12, sometimes more, rarely less.
Prob 4-5. I mix up breakfasts with oatmeal or cereal.
i eat one to two eggs per day, so anywhere from seven to fourteen a week. it's about $1 per egg.
... hong kong $.
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I know what I’m about, son
~30
If we count fast food breakfast sandwiches and meals at places maybe 6 or 7 a week. If not, zero, as I usually make regular ol sandwiches at home.
I forgot to count those - i do grab a breakfast burrito or sandwich for lunch about once a week.
As many as I feel like.
Probably about 6 to 8. Poached eggs on toast drizzled with sriracha and baked beans with a dollop of chipotle paste is my go to lunch.
I just don't really like the taste, so about 1 per week in my fried rice.
Somewhere between 4 to 8, depending on how productive we are in the morning.
between eating and baking i use about a dozen a week. i generally get Extra large or Jumbo eggs.
Zero. The animals we create are morally equivalent to our own children in that they are owed the exact same unconditional love and protection. Consuming eggs is shameful.
So raising your own chickens and giving them a fine life as long as they live is immoral?
People like you are why vegans are fucking hated, can't even talk compromise.
Best part is, you're too fucking stupid to see when you're acting against animal interests. How's that rhetoric working out for you? Winning hearts and minds? Or turning more and more against you?
I will say that I'm also vegan and don't agree with the approach they made. On high moral shaming doesn't get us anywhere. My mom constantly telling me to clean my room did not make me a tidy person as an adult.
We need understanding, conversation, and education otherwise it's just a pissy exchange like this and no one is better from it.
Oh yes. It's quite horrible that adult animals need to work to survive.
It's also quite horrible that I had kids and doomed them to a life of work, suffering from wrestling with mortality, and ultimately ending in death.
Treating animals like people isn't the great thing you think it is.
At least chickens don't have to do taxes.
Do you drink water? Or breathe air? Do you know how much bacteria is floating around in the water you drink and the air you breathe? You consume millions of micro organisms everyday, how dare you deprive them of their full life cycle, shame on you!
Damn, its a shame every animal (besides herbivores) eat other animals. Shame! Shame! Game of Throne bell ringing noises