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.

  • MaxMalRichtig@discuss.tchncs.de
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    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. 💚

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      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.

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    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.

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        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.

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    Eggs still only 3 something where I am. Don’t eat em much but maybe a dozen each month or two.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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      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!