On Friday, I was in Watertown NY, and Aldi had a dozen for $4.53, and Walmart wanted $4.87
The website for my local store (Long Island NY) says $6.49 / dozen for most varieties, but cage free brown are just 3.79.
Fully agree. The German concept of Bio today is very similar to what is called organic in the USA, orgánico in Spain, biologique in France, and so on.
The roots of the German biological movement, though, are complicated and partly absurd. Biologisch-dynamische Landwirtschaft, which translates as biodynamic agriculture into English, is an esoteric concept and a form of alternative agriculture based on pseudo-scientific and esoteric concepts initially developed in 1924 by Rudolf Steiner, an Austrian occultist, social reformer, architect, esotericist, claimed clairvoyant and founder of an esoteric spiritual movement, anthroposophy, with roots in theosophy, whose followers tend to show imbecilic smiles not dissimilar to the ones shown in the video linked above. It is complicated. Those people tend to be pro nature and against vaccines, for instance, firm believers in homeopathy, and other things that would lead to a hijack. So let me just say: beware! Bio is good, biologisch-dynamisch is not necessarily so. Although Demeter, of biologisch-dynamisch convictions, sell great products.
Ah! And the price of eggs in Berlin for Bio-Eier? Six eggs for 2 to 3 Euro, closer to 2.
Here in Lux we also see 12-packs from France and Belgium. But I agree that 6 and 10 are more common.
Let’s round up and say eggs are $5/doz. That’s $0.42 per egg. Five days per week you’ll save $0.42 (going from 3 to 2 eggs and if you don’t add anything else). $2.10 per week. It’s not nothing, but it’s not a whole lot of savings. If you enjoy having three eggs, it seems like a pretty cheap thing to splurge on.
I think I eat a lot of eggs, but I think I’ve cut down. I know we’ve cut down, as my wife has been eating yoghurt and jam, and instant oatmeal with jam for breakfast. (I don’t know if I’m making eggs for her even one day a week.) As for me, my breakfasts were usually one over-easy egg atop a sausage patty on buttered toast. But lately that has been less common. I’m just as likely to have avocado toast (a whole avocado on two buttered toasts) or a couple of Vegemite-and-cheddar toasties. Or I might make an omelette (sometimes chorizo frittata – either way, two eggs) occasionally.
So even though eggs are more expensive now, it’s not as much of a hardship as for people who were expecting the prices of eggs to come down, or eat more eggs than we do.
Yes, there are 10-packs here also, and I believe I’ve seen four-packs as well? Personally I don’t understand it. My only guess is that it’s to make the “organic” (“eco” here in Sweden) packs price comparable with the non-eco containers… like 10 eco eggs and 12 non-eco eggs being about the same. I’ll check on that next time I’m at the store.
Not sure what you mean by that “though”; but the use of the term “organic” on food labels is also controlled by law in the USA.
Although the federal USDA definitions leave out or minimize some of what most of the smaller scale producers (and some of the larger ones) would like to have in there. I don’t know whether the EU is stricter on humane standards, or any of the environmental ones (the USA does have some); or whether they kept in any of the social justice stuff that used to be common (though not ubiquitous) among private certifiers in the USA before the USDA took over the term.
Biodynamic, at least in the form I’ve run into it in (I can’t speak for Austria), is organic with additional layers piled on top. The additional layers strike me as mostly religious rather than scientific, but they’re things that (at least from the consumer’s point of view) do no harm.
As prices on other animal protein sources have also risen drastically over the years, eggs are still one of the cheapest per serving.
I eat a lot of eggs. Even compared to some of the people in this thread who think they’re eating a lot of eggs (though not compared to @bordelond, who seems to eat about the same amount as I do, at least in the form of eggs as eggs; though I eat mine two at a time). But some may be eating more than they think, as eggs are a common ingredient in other things, and I may make more stuff at home than most people, which makes the rapid disappearance of eggs from the fridge more obvious.
Yeah, I didn’t know that the label “organic” was controlled, that’s why the “though”.
I skimmed the Wikipedia article on biodynamic agriculture, and yes, there’s quite a bit of woo there.
And I disagree, as I believe that those layers do harm, as does anything related to Rudolf Steiner, who sits in the middle of a straight line that goes from Madame Blavatsky to Heinrich Himmler.
/hijack
The biodynamic growers I’ve met or read are nothing remotely like Heinrich Himmler.
This is starting to stray considerably from the price of eggs, though.
My WAG is that it is yet another example of “shrinkflation”. They have to be packed in even numbers, so five would not make sense. A carton of ten doesn’t look much smaller than twelve.
Cheapest eggs here (Scotland) are £1.39 (US$1.70) for 6 medium large I think were £1.69 but you can pay twice that for organic.
6 is the most common box size with 10 also common, though years ago it was 6 and 12.
I was surprised yesterday to find cartons of 12 large for $3.49 at my local Aldi, Long Island NY
Over nine dollars a dozen in Mesa.
Bird flu. Or profiteering.
A year ago, Japan had a problem with supply and we had a really difficult time getting any. Fortunately, the prices didn’t go up, but they were scarce. Supermarkets were limiting purchases to one per family. Craze times.
I was at the supermarket today and noticed the signs stating there was a shortage due to bird flu. I did not have to buy any so I didn’t look to see what the supply looked like.
Looking at their app, store brand large eggs are $5.99 a dozen.
One egg, or one carton?
At Costco today, an 18 pack came out to $3.66 a dozen for standard large white eggs. But you could also buy a crate of 60 eggs for $3.60/doz.
I kinda feel like buying 60 eggs should net you a larger discount than that.
One carton of 10.
There were people waiting in line for the supermarkets to open.