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What size eggs are the best value!?

Martin Fisher

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Martin Fisher

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I eat an average of 3 dozen per week.

Rarely less, sometimes more.

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I check the online prices which can vary from week to week or even day to day.  I buy mostly  Large white eggs  in 18 or 36  (1 or 2 cartons)  

Today's prices are higher.  

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The last time I shopped for eggs,  January  15,  The price was less:   $1.91 a DOZEN. 

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And before that,  on November 26,  this was the price:

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LAST SPRING, MARCH 30,  the same eggs were  $5.86  for two dozen, $2.93 a dozen.   That is because hens lay less during certain seasons, even with the artificial day length lighting.  

 

 

I occasionally buy the JUMBO eggs because every 3 months or so, Walmart has them at a  "sale" price which is hard to resist.  This was in September.

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1 hour ago, DiggingDogFarm said:

I eat an average of 3 dozen per week.

Rarely less, sometimes more.

 

 

 

That's a lot of eggs!  More than five per day.

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That's a lot of eggs!

 

 

I eat 4 for 'breakfast' every day, plus what I use in recipes.

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7 hours ago, DiggingDogFarm said:

 

 

I eat 4 for 'breakfast' every day, plus what I use in recipes.

LOL I eat 4 for breakfast in a year, if that.

I have nothing against the ol' bacon (/ham/sausage) & egg breakfast, just to be clear...I just don't care for it in the morning. More usually lunch or "breakfast for dinner."

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1 minute ago, chromedome said:

LOL I eat 4 for breakfast in a year, if that.

I have nothing against the ol' bacon (/ham/sausage) & egg breakfast, just to be clear...I just don't care for it in the morning. More usually lunch or "breakfast for dinner."

 

I put breakfast in quotes because I don't eat until after noon.

1 to 2 meals per day is all.

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I just don't want to look back and think "I could have eaten that."

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The best thing about a vegetable garden is all the meat you can hunt and trap out of it!

 

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