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Re: Eggspensive

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Post by nine_k »

davidkuennen wrote: post #13

I'm from Germany and in New York right now. Damn is everything expensive here. And everyone running around with a 10+$ Starbucks coffee all the time. Edit: probably not a fair comparison though since I come from the countryside in Germany where everything's generally cheaper than in the cities.

NYC is full of contrasts. Where I used to work in downtown Manhattan, there were 3 pizza places near the office, with prices ranging from $4-5 per slice in an upscale place with fancy pizza, to $0.99 for a reasonably tasty slice half a block away.

Same applies to most goods. You can get pretty cheap offerings if you know where to look; you can have expensive and fancy stuff if you are ready to afford it.

Re: Eggspensive

#102

Post by tzs »

OT: quite a few mentions of Walmart in the comments, so, speaking of Walmart, is search in purchase history working for any of you?

For me for at least the last month or two it reports no items found, unless I search for something that I purchased the one time I used delivery, which was in November 2020.

For purchases done in store with checkout via the app those still show up in purchase history, but search can't find anything in them.

Re: Eggspensive

#103

Post by pessimizer »

algoatecorn wrote: post #98
zeroonetwothree wrote: post #19

With the obsession over egg prices you’d think everyone is eating two dozen per day or something.

Yea seriously. The price increase is inconvenient, but hardly relevant in terms of calories/$. I eat 5-6 eggs each morning with some potatoes (my blood work is great btw, so take it easy armchair dietitians). Dietary cholesterol isn't what most people think. I digress. But that means my at-home breakfast went from: (5 eggs * $0.2) + (1 red potato * $0.20) = $1.20 to (5 eggs * $0.5) + (1 red potato * $0.20 = $2.70 I'l…

Your strange breakfast has increased in price by 150%. If this were happening across meals, that would mean that a family who formerly spent $400 a month on groceries is now spending $1000 a month on groceries.

edit: assuming a total 20% tax rate and a $15 minimum wage, that $600 represents 50 additional hours of work a month.

Re: Eggspensive

#104

Post by narag »

algoatecorn wrote: post #94
dylanz wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I read somewhere that you can manipulate the yolk color through different types of feed, but I'm not sure if that's true or not. I used to raise a bunch of hens and yeah... nothing beats eggs from healthy ones. I "did" however get sick of eggs for a while... they're almost too productive! I finally built a network of neighbors who were gladly willing to take them off my hands.

That is 100% the determining factor in yolk color. It comes down to carotenoid content of feed. Also, in reference to the original comment, there is no difference between GMO and non-GMO feed either. Some may claim that high carotenoid feed results in more nutritious eggs. That's debatable. Even super-cheap eggs are packed with nutrients. It's an egg, after all. However, the nutritional difference in conventional egg…

The differential nutrient contents are not significant and come in higher quantities in other foods that we all have cheap access to.

That's a fact that gets so often overlooked. Some food you eat just because you want a particular nutrient.

Anyway, there's a huge difference in taste. We had chickens when I was a child and later we bought from others that also fed weed to the chickens.

Re: Eggspensive

#105

Post by algoatecorn »

pessimizer wrote: post #103
algoatecorn wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yea seriously. The price increase is inconvenient, but hardly relevant in terms of calories/$. I eat 5-6 eggs each morning with some potatoes (my blood work is great btw, so take it easy armchair dietitians). Dietary cholesterol isn't what most people think. I digress. But that means my at-home breakfast went from: (5 eggs * $0.2) + (1 red potato * $0.20) = $1.20 to (5 eggs * $0.5) + (1 red potato * $0.20 = $2.70 I'l…

Your strange breakfast has increased in price by 150%. If this were happening across meals, that would mean that a family who formerly spent $400 a month on groceries is now spending $1000 a month on groceries. edit: assuming a total 20% tax rate and a $15 minimum wage, that $600 represents 50 additional hours of work a month.

It's a very normal breakfast for athletes. But your example isn't our current reality so I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.

To borrow a saying from the investment world - It's easy to double a small number.

I'm not defending the price hike. I'm just pointing out that it's a silly thing to get hung up on and most are not considering that eggs have been, and still are, a caloric and protein dense staple of healthy diets. We take that for granted.

Re: Eggspensive

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Post by rootusrootus »

Semaphor wrote: post #84
samstave wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What we really need is a digital copy of all our purchasing receipts via the following: An app which scans a QR code printed on receipts which leads to a direct json/table of the items purchased, location purchased, date, price paid. NO PERSONAL DATA - just the item, store name & location, price, date, tax %. People can CHOOSE to scan their receipt and have that data slurped into the app and uploaded to a national DB…

It requires handing over quite some data, but here in Germany, I can get a digital PDF receipt from my main supermarket. There’s a parser on Github [0] that I contributed to (found it when I searched before writing it myself :D), and I use it to track price changes of items I buy. The situation could be a lot better, but at least it gives me some fun graphs. [0]: https://github.com/bietiekay/REWE-eBon-Parser

That's pretty common in the US well. Kroger stores do it, I imagine any store with a membership program is similar. Home Depot does it too, without a membership program, if you give them your email address at POS the first time you use a new card. I'm sure they love the data.

Re: Eggspensive

#107

Post by jluxenberg »

voisin wrote: post #100
jluxenberg wrote: post #95

My wife and I started a vegan diet 6mo ago and while there was a transition period, it wasn't nearly as difficult as I expected. If you're feeling the egg prices I'd encourage you to find ways to limit or remove eggs from your diet. It's easier than you think! Egg replacers work wonders in baked goods and a tofu scramble is similar to scrambled eggs.

If you think eggs are expensive, tofu scramble is easily 5x the cost per gram of scrambled eggs!

Tofu scramble might be a little more expensive than egg-based version but 5x seems an exaggerated figure to me.

A 14oz package of tofu is probably the equivalent of 4 eggs and costs $2-3. So maybe 1.5x the cost of egg-based version. (Here's a great basic recipe https://www.budgetbytes.com/vegetable-tofu-scramble/)

Also, if you examine your diet you will probably find that you don't need to replace eggs with tofu 1:1. There are plenty of other ways to get protein (e.g. lentils, nutritional yeast, even whole wheat bread has protein).

Re: Eggspensive

#108

Post by babypuncher »

hammock wrote: post #58
babypuncher wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Eggs in my neighborhood went from $2.50/dozen to $4/dozen. I didn't even notice because that is still insanely cheap for how much food is in a dozen eggs, and I don't actually use them very often. Finding out that a different grocery story has them for a little less money would not change my shopping habits.

Perhaps not, but if you ordered your groceries online and all it took was a single click to get your eggs for $2.50 instead of $4.00, I wager you would. Ideally you don't even have to click, there is just the option of a click, which in and of itself would create the competitive environment needed to equilibrate the prices

Maybe, but I don't really like grocery delivery.

It's expensive, and it will only get worse as all these gig economy companies transition from growing their user base to making a profit.

It's already been happening with services like Grubhub. The delivery fees haven't changed much, but most restaurants by me charge 20-30% extra when you order through one of these apps instead of in store. This is to make up for the huge cut Grubhub takes. Consequently I order a lot less delivery than I did 2 years ago.

Re: Eggspensive

#109

Post by 29083011397778 »

zeroonetwothree wrote: post #19

With the obsession over egg prices you’d think everyone is eating two dozen per day or something.

Are you not? When I was a lad I ate four dozen eggs every morning to help me get large. And now that I'm grown I eat five dozen eggs (so I'm roughly the size of a barn).

Re: Eggspensive

#110

Post by rootusrootus »

matwood wrote: post #91
hombre_fatal wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let’s think critically for a moment. Coffee is cheap to brew at home and it’s usually at the office. You can even take caffeine pills if you wanted to liken it to narcotic addiction. You sure as hell don’t need to go to Starbucks to get your fix, which is the most expensive way to get coffee, so that can’t be the reason people buy from them.

Espresso isn't easy to get a home or the office. My pour over home setup makes great coffee, but I have to go to a coffee shop if I want an espresso.

You don't need espresso if you're addicted to caffeine, though.
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