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'm vegan BTW
Almost none. Allergies.
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.
Six; 42 a week! Easy way to hit my protein goals everyday and maintain those gains :D
It’s not just inflation. Eggs are experiencing a supply problem due to avian flu.
I eat 3 eggs every morning. 21 a week.
Eggs are too expensive.
42 a week, or 6 a day.
However, 30 eggs is only $3 where I live.
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.
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?
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.
Cause eggs are in fucking everything.
Yes
I know what I’m about, son
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”.
Whatever gets put in pad Thai once a week.
Probably like 2 dozen a week. I like eggs lol.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Wait... I thought it was because of Biden.
Who do you think infected the chickens?
maybe if we just stop testing for avian flu it will go away
/s just to be sure
That is 100% how he'll deal with egg prices, if he ever cares enough to pretend to help the common man.
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.
Asintomatic avian flu chickens are being sacrificed? Poor creatures.
about 3 fiddy
That's a lot of eggs!
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.
As many as possible. It's one of the perks of my new job, free eggs.
Depends where I am with training, but up to 70 a week.
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 :(
Now I have the rocky montage music stuck in my head
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!
8-12. They
arewere inexpensive, versatile protein.Eggs still only 3 something where I am. Don't eat em much but maybe a dozen each month or two.
I have like four every six months.
A few a week, apparently 3 to 4 a week is optimum for health.
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.
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. 💚
My son goes through a ridiculous amount or fake eggs! I wish i could get him onto food instead of meat substitutes.
"How many eggs you're eating per week?"
"I'm vegan."
Bruh I can't.
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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 12 every 2 days on my keto diet. I buy 18packs for like $5
Yeah. We made a lot of egg bites when we were low carbing. Probably need to go back to that.
What's your favorite way to prepare the eggs?
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!
Normally around 6. Ill make scrambled eggs with 3 eggs for breakfast twice a week
This is me. I make a default breakfast a few times a week but only 2 eggs per meal, along with sautéed greens with cherry tomatoes, a small tortilla wedge, blueberries and some sausage.
So it's costing you $1-2 more per week?
Don’t forget that most baked goods and other foods rely heavily on the eggs in their recipes. Most food sectors are affected.
Yes, but the fixation on the price of a dozen...
??? 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!
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.
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.
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.
goes to check
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Zero now that the price has gone up.
How much had the price changed where you are?
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?
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
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)