The price for a dozen eggs continues climbing as explanations turn toward blaming bird flu. However, the avian influenza may explain a recent spike, but the longer duration of escalating food price commodities is much deeper than momentary fluctuations. These are energy dependent products.
As CTH noted last year, watch egg prices as a general gauge for overall food inflation (eggs hit almost every process in the supply chain), and watch potato availability to gauge overall row crop stability (staple commodity on every plate, venue).
Additionally, as previously noted, as energy prices continue rising pay attention to the prices on ‘organic’ products. Rising energy prices drive up costs for large commercially processed food supplies at a much higher rate than smaller organic production. People are starting to notice the ‘organic’ option is almost at price parity.
Wall Street Journal – […] Wholesale prices of Midwest large eggs hit a record $5.36 a dozen in December, according to the research firm Urner Barry. Retail egg prices have increased more than any other supermarket item so far this year, climbing more than 30% from January to early December compared with the same period a year earlier, and outpacing overall food and beverage prices, according to the data firm Information Resources Inc.
For supermarkets, eggs are a staple product that most consumers pick up on trips to the grocery store, similar to milk and butter. To maintain store traffic, grocers said they have been sacrificing some profits on eggs to keep prices for consumers competitive. Some suppliers are projecting potential relief in price by February or March, but cold weather could hamper production in the near term, executives said.
[…] Grocery prices have continued to increase this year because of what companies have said are higher costs of labor, ingredients and logistics, helping supermarkets generate higher sales and profits. Those factors have propelled egg prices, too. As eggs get more costly, some supermarkets are selling more organic eggs that are sometimes less expensive than conventional varieties, while suppliers say consumer demand has remained steady despite higher prices. (read more)
Additionally, the overall price for a Christmas meal is much higher than it was in 2021.
(Via Fox) […] The holiday dinner grocery basket is estimated to cost an average of $60.29, according to data from Datasembly. That’s 16.4% higher than last year’s basket when comparing the same exact basket of goods. It’s also double the year-over-year increase reported last year at 8.2%, according to the retail data firm.
[…] The 13 products included stuffing mix, corn, green beans, frozen apple pie, whipped topping, butter, cranberry sauce, bone-in spiral-cut ham, egg nog, homestyle biscuits, russet potatoes, white frozen young turkey and homestyle roasted turkey gravy.
According to the data, biscuits had the highest price increase year-over-year, rising 47.7%. Butter and russet potatoes weren’t far behind with prices rising 38% and 32.6%, respectively, the data showed. (read more)
Keep in mind, this week you should be seeing competitive pricing on beef, specifically standing rib roasts. Retailers will be competing with each other on the staple table items, and this creates an opportunity to buy and freeze beef at a lower price.
2023 will be a year when shopping smart will become increasingly important. Prices are likely to continue rising; one thing is certain, as long as energy costs keep increasing, food prices will not drop. Use the season(s) and holiday sales as opportunities to purchase specific items at lower prices; then store, freeze or can at home for use when the price of those same items is much higher.
Just eat less eggs for Zelensky.
It’s the patriotic thing to do.
BTW, anyone who has his/her home temperature over 60 degrees is an enemy of the state, both Ukrainian State and American State (although they seem to be merging into one state).
The group of leftist legislators giving away our money by the hundreds of Billions while Americans are hurting under this record high Biden induced inflation are the most evil group of Fools / Thieves this country has ever had to endure.
We all need to contact our reps and senators and tell them to stop sending money to that crook in Ukraine immediately. If their staff gets no respite from phone calls and emails, at some point they have to listen. They must be making a lot of money from this money laundering scheme, but they crave power even more. I won’t vote for another warmonger, no matter what party.
Good luck, most get the kickbacks from Ukraine, they are the crooks, Zelensky is just the middleman.
Stealing elections is very profitable.
Yep.. Looks like it’s more profitable than providing service to the poor
I do.
They don’t answer the phone. You call, you get sent straight to voice mail and the voicemail is not accepting calls.
Make no mistake, Janet..
BOTH sides are all in on this, Rs and Ds.
They were all over Zelenskyy like a bedspread yesterday.
As Catherine Austin Fitts stated, there is no left or right anymore, and they don’t care who knows it.
It has become “Them” and “Us”. And that fact they have made perfectly clear.
(Oh…A dozen eggs at Walmart a week ago? $4.20. I almost needed a defibrillator when I saw the price)
We normally buy Vital Farms eggs. They have been about $6/dozen for the last three years. Pricing didn’t change through the covid lockdowns. Doesn’t appear to be affected by the increase in production cost, just yet.
Apparently a consortium of small farms. Great tasting eggs.
I would greatly miss them in the mornings.
It’s amazing how much I have grown accustomed to milk, eggs and butter being available at the grocers.
And there is taste difference between eggs we’ve found, Eagle61, so I know what you mean.
My sister in law in Wales lives on a lovely smallish rural property. She used to keep horses when she taught dressage and later for carriages which she and her driving partner used to compete with (against Prince Philip a couple of times).
But she has always kept chickens which have supplied them with eggs aplenty. The trick was finding the eggs, as those beautiful chicks wandered everywhere and dropped them whenever the mood took them. Egg hunts every day.
Until I moved to Wales, I’d never tasted a free range egg. I wouldn’t have believed there could be such a difference…but oh my! Is there ever!
I never look at the prices of organic eggs because I would do without before I’d buy any. I dread to think…
We also go through a lot of milk in this house. I’ve got powdered just in case we can’t get any but we keep a bottle in the freezer, again, just in case.
Yes, we’ve all become so spoiled and not having to go down to the barn and milk the cows early in the morning then separate the cream from the milk and turn the cream into butter gather eggs from the chickens slop the hogs and so forth.
Harder times, better times.
No, it’s: Harder times, better men. (people)
You must be in the Austin TX area. I helped them get started about 15 years ago when I raised pastured poultry between Austin and Bastrop.
We lived in Austin for 25 years. Played in the Austin music scene all that time. Hammond B3 organ was my calling card.
Was a full time civil engineer as well. (Still am.)
We moved to the Ozarks 15 years ago. That’s when we discovered Vital Farms.
Very glad you helped them get started. That’s very cool.
They have maintained excellent quality eggs.
We get them here in Massachusetts too
Great tip, thanks Eagle61. The Vital Farms website has coupons for both eggs and butter—$1 off each. https://vitalfarms.com/eggs/
I buy a modest bag of potatoes every year, plant them and get about ten bags back. So my price is always 1/10th whatever the store is selling them for. Too bad this doesn’t work with eggs 🙂
In fact, Christmas dinner will feature the last of this year’s potato crop. I still remember when my kids found out, one by one, that potatoes come from other potatoes, and you grow them in the ground.
Chickens are surprisingly easy to raise. Many towns and even big cities will permit owning a few hens.
Eggs are a wonderful source of protein and fat, and are easy to sell or barter.
We’ve kept 3 or 4 yard hens for 20 years. So much better tasting than store bought , and a little cheaper.
It is too bad indeed😂 And besides that they keep for only so kong…unless someone knows something about preserving them for use that I don’t know about.
I can only imagine the looks on your children’s faces as they tried to process that information about the potatoes. The wonder of it all! Bless them, spaul…and you for a Merry Christmas.
So the key to preserving them, after many mistakes, is to get them very dry in the late summer and in a dark area outside, so hot, dry and dark. This year we had a really dry and hot fall so I just left them in the ground and harvested them in bone-dry soil just before the weather was forecasted to turn wetter.
Then I kept them in a cold (no choice), dry, and dark place inside.
Potatoes must have some internal mechanism that uses some combination of moisture, warmer temperatures, and light to figure out when it’s time to sprout. This is what needs to be suppressed.
Anyway, it’s taken a decade or so but I have about 10 crops I can now produce from seed to long-term storage and some from long-term storage to seed/plant as well.
Still working on the last part for potatoes, but I can now get them to Christmas dinner. Closing the loop and getting some of the last year’s crop to be part of the spring planting is the next goal.
The funny thing though, sometimes I miss some and they sprout next year. So maybe I’m over thinking this. Just leave a few modest ones behind every year.
Suddenly, a few bags of potatoes from the store will feed you for life.
Really like your thinking, planning, and doing sir. I like where I live now allot, but I wish I had acreage to do some gardening/farming, and wildlife habitat creation.
Just storing some simple foods is the best advice if you don’t have ‘any’ land. But trust me if you can grow some fresh food of any kind it’s well worth it vs just beans and rice.
Just the volume under your bed is more than enough unused space for one person to survive nearly a whole year if you also have heat and clean water.
This is great website in general but below is a link to very a practical list of what you need.
https://www.grandpappy.org/hfoodaff.htm
The eggs can be easily freeze dried. Multiple ways of doing that but beating raw eggs and freeze drying them works well. Store the powder in canning jars with O2 absorber (vacuum pack if possible). When rehydrated and cooked they taste the same as fresh eggs. Although a freeze dryer is a serious investment, it can be used to preserve many things for long term storage. With the effort by the globalists elites (and our own government) to control the population with food control (i.e., starvation) having techniques to store food will be ever more important.
What good information. Thank you!!
I have pints of dehydrated eggs/powdered. I use a dehydrator with several trays. Then powder with a mixer. Sead in mason jars.
I normally buy my eggs from my closest Harris Teeter for around $2.25/ish a dozen for the last few years. However, today I ran into Walmart. They were $4.73 a dozen. That is just nuts.
It is…and the eggs I had bought before those a week previous were just a bit over $3. An incredible jump in that short a time. Thus the defibrillator…
Exactly what can we do about it other than prepare for the collapse of this corrupt empire now that we don’t have legitimate elections.
The goal will be for MAGA to take over and zero out their IOUs with a new currency. Especially IOUs held overseas in ‘special’ bank accounts. People of modest means and/or who have earned their IOUs the honest way, are converted 1 to 1.
I’m sure the corrupt powers have this whole thing planned out…and have had for perhaps decades. But you are correct I feel. None of us on the lower end are going be anything but worse off.
One day we will all wake up and find our whole worlds changed. The worlds of the day before the last of our freedom. Unless through Almighty God’s never-ending mercies and mysterious ways all their machinations come crashing down. I pray for that, my friend.
So there have been many cycles, and both good and evil are still roaming the Earth since Eden.
Matthew 13:24-30
Actually, I ran into this very problem Jesus talks about this year.
Too long of a story to tell as to why; but 2023 will be different because I’m tilling everything in and running dry beans.
Anyway, I had weeds in the wheat crop. I tried to pull them out but sure enough, their roots were entangled with the weeds. So I left both to grow side by side.
I tell you there are times when I don’t think you will truly appreciate the Bible unless you farm to one extent or another.
In short, just be the best person you can be, and trust God to take care of the weeds around you and within you.
A beautiful piece of advice. And a wonderful analogy. Exactly so…
Betsy, my mind was reading ahead on your comment, and I read
“the day before the last of our freedom”
as
“the day before the last of our free ELECTIONS”
same same, I guess
Potato/Potahto, nimrodman.
Same/same indeed.
So never forget, they are the Satan’s parasites, we are the children of God.
Stay in his light, no matter what.
Have no fear…I intend to, spaul.
But it is amazing…satan strides this earth in full view, and there are still people who cannot see him.
The eggs I bought at WMT a few weeks ago…four of them had double yolks…so much for quality….
Wow!!! The last double yolks I saw (and often) was 16 years ago from those free range chickens, Aggiegirl. That always thrilled me. Such a small thing but I always felt I’d hit the jackpot.😁
I have at least 4 Sapphire Jems (chickens) that they lay large DBL yoke eggs consistently.
Oh my! How utterly wonderful.
Double yolks are high quality! I’m always pleased when one of my flock gives me a double!
Young hens will often lay doubles and larger eggs in general. As to storage, scramble the eggs and freeze them raw in 4 oz (by weight) portions which equals two large eggs. They work fine for scrambled eggs, baking and making egg drop soup.
“They were all over Zelenskyy like a bedspread yesterday.”
I always enjoy your posts not only for your wise words, but for your special way of putting humor in them as well as the wisdom and information. Learning and laughing are a great recipe Bet. Ty!
😁…borrowed from the brilliant PG Wodehouse. I loved it and have used it often because he never missed with his metaphors. Ever.
I don’t think he’d mind….
I’m going with pure evil. They know exactly what they’re doing and they do not care. A pox on all of them!
1. 🤔 An interesting story for you. I knew this “guy” who’s Military Intelligence unit (SLAR,Photo, and IR) reestablished stateside as Vietnam was winding down….
2… The next year Carter’s administration established new mission parameters.
Specified IR(Infra Red) mission tasking required locating on base family housing violators of Carter’s new energy policies including mandates for base family housing thermostat maximums(winter) and minimums(summer)…
3. Post missions results were sent to this Unit’s IA/II(Image Analysts/ Image Interpreters then referred to the Post MP where tickets and fines were given for violators…
4. At least that what this “guy” told me😉
Troops just doing their jobs and following orders
I used to buy and sell military surplus. I once bought a pallet of brand new Honeywell modified furnace thermostats for almost nothing. People like me that bought a lot of government surplus knew that the special government stuff might be something that was worthless, so I bought them on spec for nothing more that the mercury switch inside which I could remove and sell.
They were made in the 70’s and the government just got around to selling as surplus in the 90’s. That happened a lot. When I got them home, I learned that the modification was that they could not be set higher than 68 degrees F. The NIIN record showed that they were special order modified thermostats for which the government paid well north of $100 at a time when the regular ones were about $15.
These were perfect replacements for people with vintage furnaces that did not want to upgrade if not for that max setting. You may know the type. Turn a dial, move the position of a mercury switch relative to a bimetal strip and change the temperature where the switch would turn on and off. Simple tech that had been in use for many years and still is used. I opened one up and found the max setting was a tiny plastic clip that could be removed in about 5 seconds with the snip of a pair of small diagonal cutters. There was also a note inside every one that stated it was a violation of federal law to modify or bypass the 68 degree limit.
I did not want to be a criminal. In my ebay listing, I had pictures of the little plastic tab, an explanation that it could be removed with a quick snip, and said what they did with them after they bought them was their business, not mine. I would not judge. Sold them all and made a pile of money.
Good for you! Nowadays ebay is a joke. For years my husband made all his fun money selling odd & ends and collectables on eBay.
I am still an eBay seller. We are not all a joke.
In many ways, Ukraine and the US are melding into one country
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/12/in_many_ways_ukraine_and_the_us_are_becoming_melding_into_one_country.html
Taking turns now, we’re at the beginning of the American Holodomor.
offcourse, aren’t you afraid to post such an article. Biden’s henchmen will come after you. Great read though.
XCel Colorado Locks Thousands of “Smart” Thermostats
“For the first time ever, Xcel Energy locked the smart thermostats of thousands of Colorado customers on Tuesday because of what it called an energy emergency.
Xcel started a program six years ago, called the AC Rewards program, in which customers get rebates in exchange for allowing Xcel to adjust their thermostat on the hottest summer days to ease strain on the electrical grid. Participating customers need to sign up for the program, and about 22,200 have done that in Colorado…
Customers can opt out of control events at any time, though on rare occasions, system emergencies can trigger an event that can’t be overridden. Tuesday was one of those times when participating customers could not opt-out, Xcel said.”
Note: I am really beginning to hate energy “rebate” programs.
These companies are contributing to political policies which make energy more 40% more expensive, receive Federal grant money for supporting those contributions, and then hand back a 5% “rebate” to the customer. In many cases these rebates are tied, as they are above, to “smart” technology which is forces a surrender of personal freedom and choice on how to use the energy who are paying 35% more for.
keeler: Electric car usage will be centrally controlled, eventually.
“Note: I am really beginning to hate energy ‘rebate’ programs.”
I beat the rush: I hated them the very first time I heard about them.
It’s not hard to figure out where something is intended to go when we note what direction it is pointed in when it starts.
Don’t forget the “loyalty cards” that give you a paltry five cents off the price of petrol….or groceries…or whatever else…
I’ve never allowed control of my thermostat. I did sign up for time of use rates but that saves me decent money and I control the thermostat in my house.
Hmmm… it’s 2 below here in the Ozarks. This hillbilly “prepared” for the winter and has enough firewood to make it through until spring. I set the thermostat on 65 and the temp stays around 70 all day and well into the night. We have a Jotul System 18 woodstove fire place. The whole hearth and chimney were built around this air-tight wood stove.
Those guys can take their locked smart thermostats and recycle them.
Nothing like real wood heat to warm the bones.
Same here Eagle61.
I do not even know the temperature inside my house right now, we are using our wood stove to heat entirely now and I have no way to measure the in side temp except for our own comfort.
If we are getting cold we add more wood, if we are too hot we use less.
Easy peasy and old fashioned but it works for us.
The only thing we adjust is how much air we allow into the stove, we use the air adjustment on the stove and that is it.
We are pretty good at judging how much wood to add to the fire, we no longer have to open the front door like we did years ago when we misjudged and put too much fuel on the fire and almost blasted ourselves out of the house with overheating.
We are now older and wiser.
There’s nothing like the warm, gentle, cozy feeling of the heat from a wood stove!
If anything, they should have mandatory “smart” regulation tools for indoor marijuana lamps. Seems like that would save a whole buncha electricity in Colorado.
And add to that you often don’t get the rebate anyway.
Yes and don’t forget of course that all white people are racist pigs who don’t deserve to eat!
Sarc!!!
Gee, don’t give Joe any ideas. Am getting used to 70 to 74 and more depending on bill. But 60 glad am in FL. But we are looking at hard freeze into Sat. Plants will be covered.
👉Our Country’s, “winter of discontent” 👈
✅️ Possibly just the beginning of sorrows
In the last week I saw 3 items I buy regularly increase by 20-30 percent in one week. When is this BS gonna end?
Walmart is the biggest abuser of this Biden era Record inflation as they want more people on foodstamps.
A bag of store brand chips went up 31% last week…. after 2 prior increases under Joe Stalin.
I try to avoid Walmart as much as possible for the reason that the grocery chains actually treat their employees relatively well in terms of pay & benefits as opposed to the Democrat beloved Walmart who was allowed to stay open as they are a huge democrat donating corporation, while small mom & pop stores were closed you know because of the “science”. Ma’am just to be clear, I am not chastizing you at all, just pointing out that supporting grocery store chains, you support their employees who are treated decently. Merry Christmass
I NEVER go to walmart.. and won’t.
Slainte friend. Merry Christmass!
I had to go to a Walmart a couple of times recently and the shoppers are either mean-mean or very decent and neighborly, and I mean in a very obvious way; you cannot not miss the two different kinds of shoppers.
Please note that the 2 RINO Senators from Arkansas, Boozman and Cotton, both voted with the Democrats on the ridiculous omnibus spending bill.
As long as Winco isn’t on that list, I agree. Worked there once, got treated like drek. Watched as all of the older employees were pissed on and passed over for any promotions or increased hours, especially the straight, white ones.
We already self checkout (making sure we wipe down everything that those who preceded us have touched).
Pretty soon we will be self unloading their trucks at the back.
👉 The new fees and charges that you’ll be paying for the “privilege” of unloading the store’s freight will be added to your final check-out bill.👈
Pretty soon we will be self unloading their trucks at the back.
Not if the newly homeless get to them first.
And then, not if the newly immigrated CITIZENS get to them first (with government/military) escorts.
Provided there is anything to unload.
We have stores where they roll out pallets, and the customers get to unload the pallets to get the stuff.
We heard a story about a guy they found in the employee break area getting a cup of coffee. They asked why here was there and he said that if he was going to do their work he would take a break in their break room.
comfort food has skyrocketed.
improved my diet actually.
Yes, the lower on the shelf and the less processed (closer to nature) the lower the cost per calorie in general. Rice, beans, and spices are staples for more than half of mankind for a reason.
Plus our meat freezer has paid for itself (capital + electricity) in just one year by being able to buy 50% off meat and such and freeze it. Also, many stores have loss leaders like ‘free’ turkeys, hams etc. if you purchase enough.
The link below is a great way to make homemade bread the ‘easy’ way. The website is also great if you want to convert some screen time into something that will make you more resilient. Just start with dedicating half hour a day and then progressively working up.
She reminds me of my wife and Psalm 128.
Ty sir. Merry Christmass
The Ghost of Inflation Present
“Due to farmers losing money on every box of eggs sold in the UK because of inflation, production cuts have led to a nationwide egg shortage.”
The Ghost of Inflation Future
“Ahead of an emergency press conference today, the NFU said tomatoes, cucumbers and pears could be among the next food items likely impacted by supply problems because they all come from energy-intensive crops.”
The Ghost of Inflation Past
As it is the Christmas season I won’t provide a link , but for others who also see rhythms in the affairs of men I will close with one word: Ukraine.
Well done Keeler. Sad but true.
War criminal and who does he work for again?
So what we are going through is a key control mechanism of an illegitimate government, not a bug.
Government price control policies ‘create’ shortages.
Government energy control policies create ‘high’ prices.
The only ‘peaceful’ solution is an honest election system that will by definition eliminate the illegitimate government enabling and/or imposing both policies above.
Big box visit yesterday, 2 dozen tray of Grade A large eggs for $6, limit two trays. Mayo, downstream of eggs, is also skyrocketing.
BiG Box visit 1:30 this afternoon (Costco), dairy room had NO eggs at any price, and they had time to fill the empty space with more milk, suggesting they ran out of eggs early today, or the day(s) before. I was in a foreign country, though. Must have been. Saw no one that looked like me in any way, and couldn’t understand the language. But not far from home, so, must be the sanctuary city draw. I’m used to internationals, but not me being it, alone. We may have lost it.
When you mostly hear what seems like grunting, leave!
What State?/ City?
Suburban Maryland. I’d leave, but I have a house with a wonderful view that has certainly added years to my life. And having to pack all of my accumulations (“you never know when this might come in handy’s”) would surely kill me.
I was driving behind a public bus the other day, in the USA. The message on the back was in Spanish, no English.
Here in the Southwest we have tv commercials entirely in Spanish.
Bird Flu gain of function was paid for by US. In the biolabs of Ukraine. I wonder if accidentally on purpose it was released, while food processing plants seem too suddenly self destruct? What mental deranged midget would’ve done something thid stoopid & fauchilent as gain of function? Almost like this has happened before? Could cause a Great Reset? Could Build Back Better for a Green/Red Serf World? A sociopath like this would then claim it/he is science. Sounds like something Youval Horrendous would get in behind. This is a klause for conversation for free people of the world, who don’t want to be slaves? No
I stopped at a local restaurant a while back and had to pay almost $7 for 1 piece of toast and two eggs, nothing but glass of water to drink. This did not include the tip, The breakfast out the door cost me $8.
At most restaurants, a simple breakfast will cost you $10 plus another $3 for a drink.
While Sock Puppet JoeBama’s gang was bragging about fixing inflation via lower fuel prices, there was this interesting observation.
We recently completed a road trip to celebrate Christmas early with the Arkansas Branch of my family, in Bentonville. Along our route from Allen, TX to Bentonville (US 75/69 Eufala-McAlester to I40 in OK …I40 to Ft Smith and then I49 to Bentonville) there was a noticeable DIFFERENCE in the price of diesel fuel, between “city gas stations” and the Love’s Truck Stops along the route.
Fuel Costs are still an issue for the overland haulers of goods along the routes as well even at the pumps of Trucking Companies. Fuel impact on inflation is still a problem among others.
I noticed gas prices mysteriously are cheaper in leftist college towns, where historically gas was always 20-30 cents higher. Quite the interesting thing to see.
I drove from Dripping Springs, TX to Santa Barbara, CA last week and noticed the same thing. Since I drive a VW tdi the cost of diesel was of special interest to me. In Texas the cost of diesel fluctuated from $3.79 to $4.99 during my drive.
Miss my trusty VW TDI – that girl could go places without filling up. She was murdered a few years ago by a DUI driver. At the time we could not replace her… but one of these…
I agree. VW TDIs are great cars. Simple understated elegance, and the fuel economy is unrivaled. I get 55 mpg driving Interstate 10 between California and Texas. My 11 gallon fuel tank gets over 500 miles between fill-ups. I also love the storage capacity.
I hope you get another one.
That’s my route to and from Texas. We’re a little east of Bentonville near the Land-of-the-Freaks (You-Freaky Springs).
Beautiful country on the Ozark Mountain tops. Nice and quiet and peaceful.
Love the Ozark’s, gobsmacking georgous.
Yes, and the water table is very close to the surface. You can find land with springs on it. So you don’t have to drill a well, or have it registered with the county!
Nice, hardy people, too. Life was always hard there, so people adapted.
Great people in Arkansas. Lousy politicians.
I have a nephew in Rogers and a sister in Mt. Ida.
Eggs still about $3.50/doz in SW Missouri
Depends on location vs shipping point for the eggs…the old cost x distance thingy.
In Allen, TX the cost is about $4-$5 per dozen.
Think of all the bakeries and breakfast restaurants that use eggs. As Bakers and Restaurant owners in my family, to say this is crushing is an understatement.
We get our eggs from a friend who raises chickens.
She had to raise the price because the price of chicken feed went way way up.
We do too but they give them to us for free.
Costco here was limiting the number of eggs you could buy.
Last night they were almost out.
There is such a thing as powdered eggs, I guess it might be time to look into that.
And these gop senators, some of whom are not staying in the Senate and feel free to say, “Eff you,” don’t give a damn how much your eggs or oil or natural gas costs as they voted for the Omnibus monstrosity.
OF all of them, I think Mitt probably gets the tingles the most, don’t you think?
“These Senators passed a monstrosity of LGBTQ projects, Ukraine cash and border security for foreign lands while disallowing border security for America”–Charlie Kirk
Blunt
Boozman
Capito
Collins
Cornyn
Cotton
Graham
Inhofe
McConnell
Moran
Murkowski
Portman
Romney
Rounds
Shelby
Wicker
Young
11:57 AM · Dec 22, 2022
Rubio must have changed his utterly mediocre mind.
Boiling eggs as we speak, JIC we lose electricity during the cold snap.
And yes, they were more expensive than usual.
I’m a light sleeper….my power went off every half hour last night.
I have no idea what was happening….it’s like Kentucky can’t handle 0° weather!
It only was off 5-10 seconds each time…Weird.
I have propane heat. But the night lights were letting me know power was off.
I paid over $13 for 20 eggs yesterday. Last year, the package contained 24 eggs for under $6.
Such a cruel yoke!
Yolk?
👉 I rather liked, “yoke(d)”. Indicates the bondage in food supply and $pricing$ we’re entering into at this point of time.👈
Other cost increases. In 2020 a box of belvita breakfast biscuits was 2.25-2.35. I picked up a box today $4.50!!! Had to pick up my prescription today at a local Walmart that has great Rx prices especially for us older folks it more than doubled from last time two months ago. $35. To now $74. I spoke with the pharmacist and he said he doubled checked but that was almost their whole sale cost. Walmarts egg section was nearly empty.
Luckily I found a small turkey & stuffing TV dinner and I can go out to my winter garden for salad and veggies. We need every cent in our treasury to help Americans later with the world’s grifters. Merry Christmas Peace and God’s love to all
A while back our very good doctor gave my husband two samples of an inhaler which changed his life, to see if it worked.
When he wanted a prescription for it (which was cheerfully written) we discovered that for a month’s supple the price was over $600!!
We were reeling. We told the doctor, who seemed shocked. He reached in his sample room immediately and gave him 4 months supply. I love that practice…
…and have nothing but hatred for Big Pharma which price something as necessary for breathing as this inhaler at a cost which is bankrupting. May they all rot.
Before my husband died several years ago, he got a MRSA infection. The antibiotic was going to cost $3500 for one round. I told the pharmacist that I reckon my husband is going to die. He promptly found a coupon and I got it for $50.
Humira injections cost that much per month.
It is criminal. 😡
Well God bless him for that show of compassion, Lindy. We have experienced the same once, though the prescription involved wasn’t a life or death issue as your husband’s was.
Pharma is a racket. And that they seem to put the highest prices on those medications which are most needed is criminal and inhuman . I’m thinking at this moment of Manchin’s Pharma CEO daughter who on a whim (it seemed) jacked up the price of their company’s Epi pen to $700. I remember exactly that was the price.
I remember the outrage. But I remember more specifically the desperation in the voices of those people who needed it for themselves or their children, but didn’t have the means to pay for it. It was awful.
And that is why I say may they all rot.
22 years ago my elderly mother lived with us. We paid about 1500/month for her meds. A friend whose father was a doctor gave us samples. It really helped.
Before she passed, she ran out of money and she went on state Medicaid. Then she only paid a dollar a prescription for the name brand stuff. She was on 20 meds at least. I thought this system is so messed up.
It is a dreadful system, Jazzbogie.
Our prescriptions in the UK were all £6, then about $10…it didn’t matter what they were. Outside of this there was nothing to recommend it. A disastrous example of socialized medicine. I always felt assured that should we ever move back to the US, our system was so much better.
But nothing stays the same, so when I returned I was horrified to find our medical system in the state it was in.
A wretched, expensive, metastasized abomination worse than the NHS. An amalgamation of government and corporate…fascist in design and execution with license to bleed the patient out financially, and now physically, if doing so adds to a hospital’s bottom line.
So yes, a system is messed up…on purpose. An inhuman one which truly has morphed into something that has nothing to do with health or curing. Rather it is all about money. Abominable…
I am sorry for your mother and what she and you went through. It shouldn’t ever be this way.
I remember President Trump explaining that pharmaceuticals in the U.S. cost more in order to make up the difference for the low cost in other places, like Mexico. In other words, we get to subsidize the lower drug costs in other countries. He wanted to equalize the prices.
He wasn’t wrong. But he was a businessman who looked at things from a profit/loss side. He worked on our behalf and took nothing for it…unlike every parasite that works in DC.
Their take first, their skimming off the top… leaving us to pick up the tab.
Among those to thank for our rising inflation include both Senators from Arkansas and that POS Arkansas Congressman Womack. Many former Slave States that started voting Republican in the 1980-90s but never forget how the leaders voted for the first 200 years of our country.
As for the price of eggs, time to get some laying hens if you haven’t already done so.
I sent Cotton an email “directing” him to vote against that omnibus bill. Obviously he did not. Boozman, the same.
I guess once they go across that Potomac bridge into DC, they forget everything they promised they would do. Seems like someone waits at the entrance and blows Blue Lotus dust in their face. They then become compliant to the uni-party’s directives. Psychoactive drugs.
If you live in a city or town, check the local zoning laws, but if you can, get a few laying hens.
Easy to care for, and the cost of grocery store eggs is so high now that it is cheaper, even much cheaper, to raise your own chickens. Plus a bit of food security eases the mind.
We have chickens in Texas but not in California. I split my time between the land of my ancestors (California) and my adopted home state of Texas.
I have warned people for over a year about the egg prices going to skyrocket. No one paid any attention.
Here we go again.
in colorado we just pd 8 at safeway. 2 wks ago they were 2.37
WHAT?????
That’s crazy!
🤔Sounds like a brief temporary “loss leader” to increase shopping traffic for the higher priced items.
✅️If I understood what Goldie Elaine meant regarding the drastic drop in egg 🥚 prices.
🤐My mistake
I misread what the order of pricing was.🤑
Loss leaders don’t work well (as far as the store’s concerned) when I’m shopping.
I walk deep into the store to find the one or two marked-down loss leaders items that I want to buy.
And then I pay for them and leave the store. Have done that for years.
End of story.
Do you know of anyone who is a backyard chicken raiser? Can you raise your own?
I wonder if dehydrated eggs from prepper stores might be cheaper?
Lots of backyard coops here in Santa Ynez.
Perhaps they increased to cage free egg prices already…. caught NPR news blip that Jan 1 2023, selling or raising non cage free eggs is punishable by fines, claiming that will only add 1 dollar to the cost…. yea… right.
I live where there are several egg production farms.
The people on these farms (growers) are just short of indentured servants on behalf of big poultry.
The growers raising the chickens and eggs aren’t seeing these increases in their margins. That is the cost of fuel to keep the flocks from freezing and dying in the winter.
Is it at the level shown here? IDK
But Big Ag needs the elevated prices to lock in another round of COLA increases for next year. That way, the prices stick.
Because Klaus knows that you can’t reset the economy with lower prices.
My sister and her husband have a small cattle ranch. They certainly aren’t benefiting from high beef prices.
Just got home from the grocery store, passed on buying eggs. Eighteen eggs are now $10+at my store. Walmart here they are $6+ as of yesterday. I won’t be baking as of yesterday.
Meat is surprisingly still reasonable. Whole boneless pork loin is $1.79 a pound, hamburger is $3.99 a pound for 80/20, family packs of chicken thighs and drums are $.79 a pound.
I’m so very thankful so far supplies of most goods I buy are still available and affordable.
Gasoline is under $3 a gallon, milk is over $4. Crazy, crazy 🤪
FJB
Swings and roundabouts we called this in Britain…give with one hand, take with another. It was ever thus.
Very happy, I watched closely..
Purchased 15 Chicks in May, NOW they are Laying regularly..
I get close to a DZN Eggs/Day..
I’ve given away (alot) of EGGS, to our Local food Bank..
Also friends & Neighbor’s In My small Community.
As Sundance has Opined before, develop contacts & friends Barter goods w/each other.
Very rewarding..
Being neighborly will weather any storm
Doing the same here, too, David. I have a small mixed flock of twenty chickens and ducks. Right now, feed is getting really expensive.
2020, 50lb bag of chicken feed was about $8/ bag.
2021, feed was about $12.00.
Now 2022, it’s up to $18.00. And each time I go to the store, it gets even higher.
I imagine that the cost of eggs at the store is a reflection of all processes that go into creating the eggs, i.e. cost of fertilizer, corn, wheat, diesel, etc. Then getting the eggs to market, styrafoam packaging and more diesel.
So in reality, raising chickens is not saving us money, and so I see it as a hobby and insurance that we will have something to eat and barter with when it all goes south.
feed here has risen also.. 18.00 per 50lb, (lasts about a month).
Though! theres a silver lining.. I let My chickens “Free Range” ALSO, My Eggs going to the Food Bank, I in RETURN, Lotsa (old) greens & veggies I can feed the chickens with, so the Math certainly works out too My favor.. 😉
Being thrifty does help, a lot.
Basically the same as a vegetable garden; you won’t save much money initially. Once you get garden or chickens established things become more affordable.
Even bartering has gone up.
We trade hay for eggs with a neighbor.
Our hay to her for her horses and get her eggs in return.
She told us last week she needed to raise her “price” ( how much hay we traded) because the price of her chicken feed went way way up.
We completely understood and accepted her terms.
So barter has its benefits but still we must pay the “going price” so to speak.
We will still have access to the goods when they become scarce or unavailable to others but the one providing the goods still needs to be paid for what they are worth and what they need to bring in to keep providing.
Everything does have a cost.
$4.11 per dozen at Aldi’s yesterday.
On Tuesday after PT I made a loop back home stopping at 3 stores since I was informed that supplies were kind of weird. On top of that there was a chance of bing snowed in.
Did manage to get what I wanted/needed without having to do anycrazy substitutions.
Took a chance on the eggs though since the ones at Wallmart and Safeway were all over $5.50 a dozen, even for the store brand. Last stop was at Family Fare which is usually chearper than the other two stores. Well I ended up saving a nickel, for prices were similar. Hey five cents is five cents.
Then there’s the issue of poultry farms mysteriously burning to the ground ( with birds inside) this past wear
UPDATED full list of food facility fires in the USA from 2020 – 2022
https://AFinalWarning.com/630260.html
More than 500,000 US farm animals died in barn fires in 2022Also consistent with previous years, chickens accounted for the overwhelming majority of farm animals suffering terrible deaths in fires (as reported by the media), representing over 98% of all casualties in 2022. A number of individual fires on large operations once again proved to have catastrophic consequences. The three largest fires — all of which involved poultry — killed a total of 480,000 birds, representing 91% of the overall number. Two of those fires occurred in Minnesota and one in Pennsylvania.
https://www.thepoultrysite.com/news/2022/12/more-than-500-000-us-farm-animals-died-in-barn-fires-in-2022
I remember the losses of millions of chickens and egg laying ones at that. My kids think I am paranoid.
I believe it is deliberate.
It not easy to find this stuff any more…Luckily I had in a file..
My theory is that the Bernie Bastards and Antifa have been the ones burning down the food plants. The haven’t had much to do since the summer of 2020 and moms basement walls have probably been closing in.
It’s criminal what our government is doing to us.
✅️ It’s also Treason 👍👌
The deeply evil logic underlying all of this is that rising prices drive the poor ever more into the arms of the State.
Capitalism and greedy rich people are to blame, and only the leftist politicians (representing the State) can protect you.
I recall the news reports when gas taxes increase, and State (truly) news reporters venture out to the gas pumps to interview the Democrat voters. They, of course, declare the greedy oil companies are to blame. It really is that easy.
✅️Especially when the sycophantic government propaganda “press” is influencing the narrative.👌👍
You made me think of a discussion I heard a few weeks back on CtoC. They were discussing the power station sabotage in NC and the guest made the point that the saboteurs would be watermelon energy proponents. By doing this and future sabotage attacks on the power grid they are helping to reinforce the point that the old grid is unreliable/easy to sabotage to help push the new Chinese controlled “Green” (watermelon) energy grid.
Your post also brought a personal observation that these price increases purposefully caused by their fradulent unworkable “Green” energy plans can be used against “capitalism” to help their mass formation psychosis afflicted followers be more for satanic socialism/marxism/globalism.
they better finish this country before Jan 2024 – or they are done.
the protest of the 2024 will be in every state, a lot of counties, all at once.
resignations, re-elections, new Red State Governement unites with other Red State New Governments – Push on the other Blue States and the FED OFF
I have a theory that they knew at a certain point their brainwashing was not going to work and enough to put it nicely “Heritage Americans” would wake up to it and thus had a long range plan to genocide and destroy Hertage America. The 1965 Immigration act which was never voted on, changed the National Origins of immigration which is a vital point, and increased it. Open borders NAFTA brought more, much more. I believe they knew their was going to be a point in time that Heritage Americans were going to finally see how they were being pillaged/plundered, and genocided and take steps to stop it and counter them. That is why for the VAIDS shot and this last desperate push for massive invasion.
My opinion with some references and watching their actions.
People laughed last year when informed folks were saying ‘Look out for 50 cent eggs’
In homage to Pope Francis’s Jesuit Leftism, I am cutting way back on donations to the church so to buy food for my family.
PS: South of Chicago, -24 wind chill right now. The power bill will be a whopper. Thanks UniParty.
😉 Now that’s an “homage” we all can participate together in making the point you’ve described 😎.
I was in Aldi on Tuesday. Regular white eggs were the same price as pasture raised brown eggs, $4.49. The pasture raised were sold out so I bought the organic eggs for $4.43. Spiral sliced hams were advertised at 95 cents a pound but were actually down to 85 cents, per the sign. If I had room, I would have bought another one but I don’t.
In addition to their “big” presents, I bought my daughter and son-in-law a basket of stocking stuffer type things – candy and puzzle books from Dollar and a Quarter Tree, a couple fancy food items, gift cards to Jersey Mike’s and Aldi and a book of stamps. She loves otters and I ordered the Otters in Snow online when I ordered stamps (which are going up in price on January 22 so order now – $1.50 service charge no matter how many you order online and have delivered to your house). I know they will use it all, especially the $50 at Aldi, and be grateful for it.
Jersey Mike’s is the only place I can get Prosciuttini. Kudo’s to them for that. Their Subs are decent.
Merry Christmass to you and yours Mari (and all Treepers and their families)
Merry Christmas to you, too! I first tried Jersey Mike’s a couple months ago after watching the Danny DeVito ads. He may be a raging liberal but as far as I can tell he’s not a above it down your throat liberal.
Costco for stamps.
We have our own egg layer chickens. This time of year they are not laying much, they’ve been molting and the low sunlight days affect their egg laying. My wife bought a dozen commercial eggs, uuuuuuuuggggggggggg puke puke puke puke puke puke. Come on spring.
I ordered hatching eggs for this year, I should get them next week. I refuse to pay $6 for a dozen eggs when I can grow my own for $12.
There’s a lot more cost than the price for chicks. The price for feed has been going up. You have to enjoy raising chickens to consider the feed cost to be budgeted into the entertainment column.
here’s an appropriate song written back in the 70s…almost like it was written today.
I am personally convinced that our corrupt politicians are being blackmailed by the Ukrainians who are demanding money or they will carry out the threat to release all the financial dealings with PrivatBank with out crooked politicians.
Such would implicate both the 100% corrupt Biden family as well as numerous other total slimebags.
I also believe (my personal opinion) that a high percentage of the billions of dollars being sent to Ukraine is being returned to our scumbag politicians as kickbacks, you know, 10% for the big guy!
As a final affront to hard working Americans, Mrs Zelinsky went Christmas shopping in Paris France. She spent €40,000 in one hour in a single shop before moving to the next one. That my friends was $42,384 of OUR MONEY!!!
Who the Hell are these people who have sworn an oath to protect us? Why are they not closing down the invasion of our southern border? I am personally am fed up with being lied to and screwed. What say you??????
any oath without consequence isnt an oath
Violation of a sworn oath is sufficient reason to terminate the employee, regardless of their position. But that requires a higher authority willing to take the required action. At the moment I don’t see anyone in this criminal government willing to take punitive actions against their ideological comrades.
I think you are in some measure correct also. There is more to all this of course. Go back and find all the incidents of PDJT, Ukraine, & the DNC & Uniparty……………………………
Thank you. In total agreement with your comment
Take that Biden, I have chickens!!!
I have had a small flock of chickens for years. I usually feed them for free with excess wheat from a research farm. The coop and pen gradually evolved updates into a fairly strong fortress due to the variety of predators that have plagued me over the years (foxes, coyotes, coons, bears, martin, mink, goshawks and neighbors dogs to name a few) . Underground water and electric right to the pen. Pen has gates to two large fenced yards that I can rotate between, for free range in summer and when I’m home. Self maintaining, just make sure they have plenty of food and water when you go away for awhile.
I never thought home grown eggs were cost effective at the old prices. I always threatened to get rid of the chickens, much to my wifes protestations and she always won. Now I feel pretty good about the whole thing. I average about 3 eggs a day now with 7 hens. This morning, all of them huddled around the heat lamp and still 4 eggs in the nest boxes at -34 F.
You have them well cared for. I’m into the steward thing, where you take care of your animal friends and livestock the best you can. It’s the way God wanted it. I enjoyed reading your post as I am into the Wildlife bio subject also.
Merry Christmass and nice avatar!
You have a smart wife.
I don’t like heat lamps, as I fear fire. I do like the heat plates made especially for chicken coops. A bit costlier outlay, but much cheaper to use, and much reduced chance of fire.
In February/March 2020 before COVID craziness eggs were .89 to 1.29 for a dozen. Last week I went to the store and that same brand is no $4.89 for one dozen. Even in the summer those eggs were about 2.99. As you can see the 8% inflation rate is a joke and in some cases it is 3-5 times that for many food items.
I was getting eggs for $0.54 a dozen at Aldi in early 2020 before the shutdowns. Today, eggs were $3.69 a dozen at Aldi in Central Florida. We bought three dozen. Two of them will be made into deviled eggs for Christmas.
welp…..
looks like i’m gonna have to get back into the chicken raising game…something i thought was behind me after we moved away from the farm, good thing we can have chickens in our small town !
plus a few hens will take care of the bugs in my garden for me and feed me breakfast… winner winner chicken dinner! 😀
I refuse to pay more and more and more, I will do with out or find a way around them.
Imagine if everyone just “stopped” all together all at once….. Oh what raw power we could wield !
Our girls decided to take a break from laying and we just used the last bag of eggs I froze from last year. Just bought my first dozen eggs in a few years. Wow, almost $5 for tasteless eggs. Needed them for baking, family informed us they will be here Saturday.
I cannot stand Biden.
We bought 18 eggs, today, on Long Island, for $7.99.
That’s cheaper than NW Montana.
Saw eggs at the grocery store for $8/dozen.
My hens are still laying, so I just walked on by.
Brooklyn, NewYork
eggs … $7.00/dozen
milk … $3.20 half gallon
small cans(3oz.) Fancy Feast cat food … $1.50
boneless/skinless chicken breast at butcher …$9.00/pound
single family houses on 30′ x 100′ lot …. $1.3 million
I get blue eggs from the ol’ boy down the street for a steady 3$ per dozen.
When my hens aren’t laying well, I get my eggs at Natural Grocers, a health food store chain.
I have one of their customer courtesy cards, and certain varieties of their eggs cost $1.99/dozen.
The egg prices are crazy, and not just because they are high. The store where I buy eggs is still $2 dozen and they were on sale last week for 2/$3. At $2, I bought 8 dozen. We use a lot of eggs because it is still a very efficient and inexpensive protein. Another store in town has them for $4.50 but had digital coupons for $1.50. I have seen no commodity eggs, the basic large grade A nothing special eggs, for over $4.50 and most stores are around $4. There is a story here that we are not seeing.
Okay folks look for repacks in your local grocery, sometimes you’ll get brown eggs and specialty eggs much cheaper.
we had the Rigged election 2020 and we are paying a Hectic price everything and everyday,
I started keeping receipts when Joe came in, it is stunning. Did load up on rib roasts for 5.99 lb , 5 over the course of 2 weeks so will have 5 darn nice meals this year! Also butter is down almost a buck overall. As some things come down I get what we need. Good sales right now if you can act on them.
I paid $6 for a dozen eggs at Publix in Central Florida yesterday. To add insult, got home opened the carton, 11 eggs.
…for The Big Guy.
$3.59 at Aldi At one point we were going to get chickens until I researched it. Just too much work to mess with them, unless you like them for pets.
The folks at Rural King were getting slammed today with people buying heaters and such to keep their chickens alive during this freeze event they are predicting.
Guillotine the traitors!
Just found this great article of suggestions for egg substitutions in various situations…might come in handy for holiday baking! MERRY CHRISTMAS!
https://www.tasteofhome.com/article/egg-substitutions-in-baking/
I’m still trying to figure out the Wall Street 30% egg increase when I’m seeing a 350% increase.. must be the new fangled math
Maybe they could print more money and have another inflation reduction bill