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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Green leafy vegetables are no slouch either. I remember we had a chart with nutrition per calorie and collard greens were way up there. Eggs have much protein per calorie. I agree with foggenboody though, sarcopenia is mostly from inactivity, and particularly from not doing strength training. Your body will find the nutrition in whatever you eat if you lift first.
The chart is in the message you replied to. Dark leafy greens are pretty dense per calorie, but not so much per gram. Something like 800g a day needed of dark leafy greens.
https://www.diaas-calculator.com/
If you want to lookup individual food options
As far as a Sarcoprnia goes you need both activity AND protein. If you neglect protein, your body can’t maintain muscles. As jerkface above was saying that nobody is protein deficient, I was refuting their claim
I would never be foolish enough to say that nutrition isn’t important, but most people who are becoming frail in the western world are doing so because they lack exercise, not sources of protein.
Whatever gets put in pad Thai once a week.
Six; 42 a week! Easy way to hit my protein goals everyday and maintain those gains :D
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.
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I know what I’m about, son
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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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)
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?
Favorite way, steamed. Eggs are delicate and deserve to be treated like it.
I’m waiting for the day I can try making chowanmushi.
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!
I haven’t eaten eggs in a decade, they’re surprisingly easy to avoid.
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.
Sure commercial eggs aren’t, but they’re supposed to be. Egg laying takes a toll on the hens and the conditions they’re kept in are deplorable.
Still, thank you for adding clarification. Education is never bad.
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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.
