ι΄PieFedHow many eggs do you eat in a week?
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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.
It's because the current avian flu, chicken and egg farms are having to kill a metric fuck ton of their chickens. π’ Meanwhile spray tan is already vowing to gut the CDC and leave WHO.
maybe if we just stop testing for avian flu it will go away
/s just to be sure
That is 100% how he'll deal with egg prices, if he ever cares enough to pretend to help the common man.
Jokes aside, over here in Europe a dozen large eggs cost between 5.16 and 7.80 β¬ (for cheap barn eggs and pricey organic eggs respectively. Cage eggs have been outlawed for quite some years already)
Have you actually seen what a cage-free barn is like? They still spend their entire lives touching at least one other individual, choking on ammonia, never seeing the sky, never expressing any of their natural behaviors. There is no compassionate advantage to cage-free vs caged as it is practiced in the UK.
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.
Iβm sure the entire problem is government over-regulation. If we fire half the cdc and not allow them to use the word βgenderβ, they wonβt be ble to enforce regulations and the price will come down
Wait... I thought it was because of Biden.
Who do you think infected the chickens?
Asintomatic avian flu chickens are being sacrificed? Poor creatures.
Realistically, how can you control the spread? Even assuming there are treatments, in what world is it practical to provide repeated direct medical attention to millions of chickens?
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.
I have two boys. I can't imagine feeding twice that!
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. π
I guess the "you can always trust a vegan to tell you they are a vegan" stereotype is true.
OP was asking?! π€·
If you just want to mock me, think of something more original... I mean, come on. You call that a "joke"?
I really don't get the downvotes. There was a question. You posted an answer and an explanation to go along with it.
There was no high and mighty attitude anything. Are people just downvoting because you're vegan? Lol
Probably. Some people are fragile. π€·
My son makes that joke about himself - if you're vegan and in a band, which one do you talk about first? We all talk about the things that are important to us.
As a vegan cyclist, I know the pain. π
And you are right. The topic is important to me, so tend to talk about it. π
What/where do you ride? We used to ride 3-4 times/wk, just hybrids for fun on local bike paths or we would take them on road trips to ride in little towns. I've been away from it for a few years with knee issues. Miss it.
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"How many eggs you're eating per week?"
"I'm vegan."
Bruh I can't.
I can't either .... eat eggs anymore. π
They were literally asked how many he eats. What should they have done, just ignore the question?
My son goes through a ridiculous amount or fake eggs! I wish i could get him onto food instead of meat substitutes.
A little advice: You're not going to gain any ground with him by saying what he eats isn't food. Try a more understanding approach. That said, I think history is going to side with your son.
He's an adult. I just wish he would eat things that are less processed. I see it right now because he's living with us for a couple of months.
Eggs because:
Vance gave a quote bashing the price of eggs, but he cited a number much higher than the sign he was standing next to.
Dems pounced on this, mocking the blatant exaggeration and dismissing any concerns about a cost of living crisis.
It stuck around because itβs emblematic of the overall situation:
Repubs donβt give a shit about facts, just vibes, and wanna paint as dark of a picture as possible.
Dems only care about being correct on paper, and donβt give a shit about listening to the problems of ordinary people or doing anything that could be called βradicalβ.
Itβs not just inflation. Eggs are experiencing a supply problem due to avian flu.
About 12 every 2 days on my keto diet. I buy 18packs for like $5
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!
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.
Yeah. We made a lot of egg bites when we were low carbing. Probably need to go back to that.
About 14. I'm not particularly price-sensitive about it given the absolute cost is low relative to many food options.
Eggs keep getting cited by people trying to blame their political opponents for increases in food prices because they have increased to about 2.5x from five years ago, which is a bigger increase than most foods. The bulk of the increase is due to the ongoing bird flu outbreak, but that fact doesn't seem to have great distribution among the general public.
I don't really eat eggs. I have ducks that lay eggs and if I really want some, I eat what they produce. I might try selling their eggs as a side hustle but a lot of people are grossed out by the concept of eating duck eggs for some reason lol
How are they compared to chicken eggs?
Richer flavor, they have higher levels of fat and protein. I much prefer them to chicken eggs.
Mostly yolk, a richer flavor, and GREAT for baked goods. My girls are a variety of breeds, so I get an assortment of different sizes. Used to get blue eggs from my mallard until she stopped laying when she hit duck menopause lol
8-12. They
arewere inexpensive, versatile protein.I haven't eaten eggs in a decade, they're surprisingly easy to avoid.
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My pancakes never use eggs, but waffles so.
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.
It's not inflation, it's bird flu reducing supply.
Itβs a combination of greedflation and bird flu. Itβs amazing we still donβt have an RNA vaccine for livestock yet.
It's almost like the president doesn't directly control the prices of things like gas and eggs. Looking at you "I did this" sticker gang...
You're right that it's principally bird flu, but it'll still count towards inflation. CPI -- what people are typically referring to when they say "inflation" -- has a basket of goods which I strongly suspect includes eggs. If the price goes up, that's inflation.
*goes to check*
Yeah.
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.t01.htm
Though that whole category, which is not egg-exclusive, only makes up 1.737% of the weighting for the basket. So it's not as significant as, say, the cost of housing in calculating inflation.
Yes, *it counts toward inflation*. The price is not *caused* by inflation. At least not significantly.
Yeah, but mostly it's something to yell about on tv and 'news' radio to distract us from what's really going on.
Around 12.
Eggs are incredible nutrition value and I'd still pay 12$ for 12 eggs. In fact I do splurge on local market eggs that come from free range chickens and here they are around 5$ for 12 which is double the factory price but still and an incredible steal.
That's why the great American egg whine of 2024 is so confusing. Min wage in the US is still like 24++ eggs an hour which is an insane thing to complain about. Y'all need financial literacy not cheaper eggs.
Which US are you from that minimum wage is $24 an hour?
Avg 12 egg price in US seems to be around 4$ and federal min wage is 7.25$ and that's extremely generous cause federal min wage is not even remotely representative of actual min wage. So 24 eggs / hour is the bare minimum an American earns.
It doesn't matter cause no amount of math or finance logic will make you guys whine less.
Sorry, I misunderstood what you were saying.
I'm vegan BTW
How do you know if someone is vegan?
Literally everyone else in this thread: "I'm not vegan! I think it's fine to abuse animals." But yeah, vegans are the ones who are always talking about it...
no one is fine with abusing animals
I'm pretty sure that's the joke they're making.
It doesn't match up with my personal experience, but it's the common view.
Yeah, but how many eggs do you eat? /s
zero, vegan
Donβt forget that most baked goods and other foods rely heavily on the eggs in their recipes. Most food sectors are affected.
??? Did you mean to say eggs instead of gas?
Itβs possible premade baked goods will switch to substitutes. And if those substitutes turn out to be cheaper, then the egg industry is really screwed.
lol yes, eggs not gas. My bad!
Yes, but the fixation on the price of a dozen...
As many as possible. It's one of the perks of my new job, free eggs.
I didn't know there was afree egg job. Farm? Breakfast restaurant?
breakfast restaurant indeed
https://unitedegg.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Facts-and-Stats-Summary.pdf
According to this, as of 2019 -- which is a couple years back, though probably good if you want a pre-avian-flu number -- Americans had a per-capita rate of 279 eggs consumed a year, up 16 percent over the twenty years prior.
EDIT: according to this, numbers are about the same in 2023, dipped a little bit over the past couple years, but looks like there's a pretty low price elasticity of demand.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/183678/per-capita-consumption-of-eggs-in-the-us-since-2000/
EDIT2: On a non-statistical note, eggs are goddamn delicious.
We use 4 every weekend for breakfast tacos and sometimes one or two more for fried rice or baking. I really don't love the texture or smell. A few times per year i boil some just for something different.
Cause eggs are in fucking everything.
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.
Zero because I donβt have chickens and fuck animal abuse.
You fuck animal abuse?
You eat another speciesβ menstruation? Byyyyye
Lol what? I didn't say that. Are you suggesting that you eat human menstruation? I hope it's at least consensual.
chickens don't menstruate
Whatever gets put in pad Thai once a week.
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Normally around 6. Ill make scrambled eggs with 3 eggs for breakfast twice a week
This is me. I make a default breakfast a few times a week but only 2 eggs per meal, along with sautΓ©ed greens with cherry tomatoes, a small tortilla wedge, blueberries and some sausage.
So it's costing you $1-2 more per week?
Maybe. I feel like the brand I get maybe has went up .50-$1 the past couple years
8 per day so 56 per week; please keep them cheap
you eat 8 eggs EVERYDAY?
We are chatting with a dead person's sentient cholesterol.
Fun fact: the main source of cholesterol in the human body is said body's liver.
Yet there are nutritional and behavioral actions that significantly affect blood cholesterol level and proportions.
Eggs are a great example, my understanding: - eggs have a lot of cholesterol - cholesterol is mostly broken down when you eat eggs - however is also a significant source of saturated fat - liver βbalancesβ blood cholesterol by making it and digesting it - saturated fats, such as from eggs, increase liver production of cholesterol
LOL
lol yep, every day for breakfast; scrambled with some butter, sour cream, salt and pepper π
You ever try throwing some green onions or mushrooms in there? I used to eat almost the same except for the sour cream
I've mixed in different stuff over the years though I usually don't as I'm after a quick and filling breakfast to get me through the work day
8 eggs for breakfast alone? Daily?
Correct. I have a minimal lunch and moderate supper with no snacks or desserts. Breakfast is my primary meal of the day.
If itβs your primary meal, why the lack of variety?
Feta and jalapenos
Yum!
Gaston just doxed himself
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.
My problem is we have three teenagers of our own plus an extra one who lives with us 60% of the time. Two of them are vegetarian but eat eggs for protein. The rest of us just like eggs. We go through about 3-4 dozen a week.
My son ate a ton of eggs when he was veg. Now he's vegan and eats fake eggs which are much more expensive.
Yeah I eat quite a few plant-based meals but I'm glad they're vegetarians who are okay with dairy and eggs and not fully vegan. I don't know if I could afford two vegans in the house on top of the other four of us. Food costs are crazy right now. I think having hand raised backyard chickens who love to be held and love to give their eggs, that made the difference. Not all poultry farming or milk production is traumatic. If I could get a little more land I'd think about a few milk cows so I could make my own cheese.
Fancy processed meat replacements are insanely expensive. Vegan diets? Man that's the cheapest shit there is. Most of the world lives off a similar diet due to poverty.
Eggs still only 3 something where I am. Don't eat em much but maybe a dozen each month or two.
I can eat up to a dozen boiled eggs a day if I'm particularly craving them. They're my fave source of protein!
A fourth of the way to Cool hand Luke.
Zero. The animals we create are morally equivalent to our own children in that they are owed the exact same unconditional love and protection. Consuming eggs is shameful.
So raising your own chickens and giving them a fine life as long as they live is immoral?
People like you are why vegans are fucking hated, can't even *talk* compromise.\
Best part is, you're too fucking stupid to see when you're acting *against* animal interests. How's that rhetoric working out for you? Winning hearts and minds? Or turning more and more against you?
I will say that I'm also vegan and don't agree with the approach they made. On high moral shaming doesn't get us anywhere. My mom constantly telling me to clean my room did not make me a tidy person as an adult.
We need understanding, conversation, and education otherwise it's just a pissy exchange like this and no one is better from it.
Oh yes. It's quite horrible that adult animals need to work to survive.
It's also quite horrible that I had kids and doomed them to a life of work, suffering from wrestling with mortality, and ultimately ending in death.
Treating animals like people isn't the great thing you think it is.
At least chickens don't have to do taxes.
Do you drink water? Or breathe air? Do you know how much bacteria is floating around in the water you drink and the air you breathe? You consume millions of micro organisms everyday, how dare you deprive them of their full life cycle, shame on you!
Damn, its a shame every animal (besides herbivores) eat other animals. Shame! Shame! *Game of Throne bell ringing noises*
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.
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.
I have like four every six months.
Eggs themselves, not many if at all. The issue is when it comes to baking, while not often, can consume through a whole dozen or more in a single week, specially in the winter. Wanting to find alternatives, I hear applesauce is good.
I feel like it all depends on what you're cooking and what the egg is meant to do. For brownies/cake applesauce is pretty good, when I make desert breads I use a flax egg. If whole point of the egg is to help hold things together (which it usually is) and i know my fake egg isn't gonna cut it I'll throw in a dash of corn starch along with whatever egg substitute I'm using.
I eat 3 eggs every morning. 21 a week.
Eggs are too expensive.
Six; 42 a week! Easy way to hit my protein goals everyday and maintain those gains :D
Lots the chickens are liking the weather it seems.
And ironically the latest egg price rise in the states is because of h5n1 and the stock market taking bets because of that. As much fun as it is to blame trump it would be misinformation to claim its his fault.
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.
Depends where I am with training, but up to 70 a week.
Now I have the rocky montage music stuck in my head
Wow! That's a shitload of eggs! Do you do anything with the shells, like composting?
Nah, I live in an apartment and my city doesn't have green waste bins :(
Varies a lot. Sometimes weeks can go by without me eating a single egg. But when I start, I go hard. It's not unheard of that I go through an entire carton as a late night snack with boiled eggs.
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.
42 a week, or 6 a day.
However, 30 eggs is only $3 where I live.
Most weeks maybe just un oeuf. I think since I stopped eating breakfast and found out my body hates gluten (so heavily reducing baked goods, my other main use of eggs), my egg consumption went way down. The one weekly is generally from going to get sushi and there being some tamagoyaki in there. I guess the odd exception is throwing one (boiled or raw) into soup and the rare occasion that I knock out a fried rice.
Edit: I think 10 local eggs are around 500 yen, at least the last time I checked. More expensive than non-local, and the price has definitely gone up generally in the last few years.
I make a bunch of deviled eggs maybe once or twice a year. I don't care for most other types of "easy" egg preparations and there are plenty of cheap beans, chicken, and cheap bits of pork for my protein needs.
Tbh I don't understand why people don't just buy something else. There are several good alternatives available.
Other things arenβt βbreakfastβ. While I understand that itβs only tradition that makes foods be for a specific meal, itβs hard to get around. Chicken is not a breakfast food.
So where do you get protein in foods that identify as breakfast? Cereals and grains are mostly carb or fiber, not good sources of protein. Sausages and bacons are not lean and are not healthy foods. then there are eggs, and there are many ways to prepare eggs
Sure, butterfly a chicken breast and fry it over high heat. Or eat cheese. Or make succotash, or lentil soup.
All of our cultural defaults for breakfast are terrible for us anyways, we need to eat other things regardless.
5-6, and eggs arenβt expensive yet. I guess wherever we get eggs from donβt have avian flu yet β¦. Although itβs 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.
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.
Almost none. Allergies.
That sucks. Do you have to do egg free vaccines?
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.
Eggs are not healthy to consume.
about 3 fiddy
That's a lot of eggs!
Probably like 2 dozen a week. I like eggs lol.
Zero now that the price has gone up.
How much had the price changed where you are?
I last bought eggs around $3.50, now they're just shy of $5/dozen.
A few a week, apparently 3 to 4 a week is optimum for health.
Prob 4-5. I mix up breakfasts with oatmeal or cereal.
Zero. I used to have a fried egg for lunch every day but many years ago something switched in my brain and now the flavor of them really puts me off.
I havenβt had eggs since they were $2/dozen, so zero in like 8+ months, but when I have eggs (starting chickens and quail) Iβll be eating probably 2-4/day. When they were cheap I was averaging 3/day, including baked goods and such.
I really donβt eat much meat (canβt afford that either, but my digestive system doesnβt do well with a lot of meat anyway), and my mushroom cultures are taking foooooooorrrrrreeeeeeevvvvvvveeeerrrrr, so.. need protein somewhere.
I guess around 8-12, sometimes more, rarely less.
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.
Probably about 6 to 8. Poached eggs on toast drizzled with sriracha and baked beans with a dollop of chipotle paste is my go to lunch.
12ish if were talking simply fried eggs, if you consider all the baked goods and stuff it probably closer to 24
When I was younger about 14 eggs a week. Now about 9.
Where I am eggs have only gone up about $0.20 in the last few months. Still under $6 per dozen for cage free eggs. Maybe $3.50 for caged eggs?
About the same here. I think sprouts had large cage free for $4 this week.
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)
If we count fast food breakfast sandwiches and meals at places maybe 6 or 7 a week. If not, zero, as I usually make regular ol sandwiches at home.
I forgot to count those - i do grab a breakfast burrito or sandwich for lunch about once a week.
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Somewhere between 4 to 8, depending on how productive we are in the morning.
i eat one to two eggs per day, so anywhere from seven to fourteen a week. it's about $1 per egg.
... hong kong $.
I just don't really like the taste, so about 1 per week in my fried rice.
~30
As many as I feel like.
between eating and baking i use about a dozen a week. i generally get Extra large or Jumbo eggs.