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Shouldnt people change their habits a bit if things are getting too expensive? For 9 bucks you can get a bag of high quality rolled oatmeal that lasts you over a month. Some peanut or almond better with fruits and you got a healthy and cheaper alternative.

Probably a dozen a week. Buy I could do zero if I need to. I ain't married to no egg

I eat a lot of eggs but theyre not expensive here so its fine.

I just bought three 18-packs the other day from Kroger for $4.99 each. If eggs are any more expensive than that, I will not be buying any.

21 a week for me.

Every morning, I have 3 eggs for breakfast.

Eggs are used in industry as well. A lot more eggs are used in industry.

High egg prices mean other goods made with eggs will also be going up in price.

I don't eat any

use at least 1200 per week at work though

I go through about 3 dozen by myself a week. But I'm fine with the prices. I mean sure I will always enjoy cheaper but I live in the #1 egg producing state in the US. Even if you buy from the grocery store you can still get real farm fresh eggs of varying color/size from small family farms that pasture raise them for $4 a dozen. It's still a really good value food for how nutritious, filling, and plain delicious they are. If you buy from a farmer it will be cheaper, and sometimes you may have neighbors or friends who have so many they give them to you. It's not uncommon where I live. Heavy farm country. Hell my whole state is.

I usually a dozen eggs a week. Im not sure if thats a lot but the highest Ill pay for eggs is about $4 or $5 a dozen, which is basically what its become right now

i aint been eating any eggs with the bird flu.

im not dying for a fucking omlet.

What, who doesn't like hard boiled eggs?

Wife uses a lot but she's a baker.

The human body is made up of mostly eggs.

If we you don't eat 1/3 your body weight in eggs every day you will die.

ive been eating 4 a day for like 5 years

A grown man should eat 5 dozen eggs every morning.

When I was a kid Id eat about four dozen a day so I could get large.

Now that Im an adult Ive added a dozen so Im about the size of a barge.

Eggs are kind of a staple food. But really, it's about to be pretty much every food that spikes in price, so eggs won't be as much of a concern

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I meant oatmeal WITH those toppings. Too many eggs WILL raise even your bad cholesterol.

3 or 4 at a time if I eat eggs. But there is no consistent pattern per week I follow so it varies.

ZMythos posted...

Eggs are used in industry as well. A lot more eggs are used in industry.

High egg prices mean other goods made with eggs will also be going up in price.

that.

it's pretty fucking naive to think the only eggs you consume are the ones obtained while still in their shell.

JuanCarlos1 posted...

I meant oatmeal WITH those toppings. Too many eggs WILL raise even your bad cholesterol.

His point is comparing eggs to oatmeal is at best weird as hell.

usually 2. I like scrambled eggs with sauerkraut added near the end of cooking. I also like making breaded foods like baked chicken tenders, so I'll go through a couple eggs whenever I make stuff like that.

they're one of my fav foods

FolkenRawr posted...

His point is comparing eggs to oatmeal is at best weird as hell.

Hows that? Both are staple breakfast items.

Less than or equal to five dozen daily.

I swear to god, if I have to hear about eggs one more time...

I find eggs to be disgusting

People like this eat a lot.

https://youtu.be/f4RNb3tt0LM?si=TthFCQ-7rPZv-uwM

For me, probably like 3 a week, counting fast food breakfast.

you have to eat all the eggs

I used to eat eggs a lot more frequently but prices here doubled during the pandemic and never came back down so now I eat them much more sparingly.

JuanCarlos1 posted...

Hows that? Both are staple breakfast items.

Eggs are a staple in FAR more than just breakfast. Eggs are one of those ingredients that's in a hell of a lot more things than people tend to think.

21 a week

Ive had 5 today

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Two teenagers that make eggs for breakfast most school days, the family of five has eggs with breakfast at least once most weekends, and we do a lot of baking. Probably go through 2-3 dozen a week.

JuanCarlos1 posted...

I meant oatmeal WITH those toppings. Too many eggs WILL raise even your bad cholesterol.

Maybe not?
https://iwillgetlean.medium.com/a-man-ate-720-eggs-in-1-month-heres-what-happened-to-his-cholesterol-bce3fb5cff4e

They have a big reputation as a breakfast staple. Also, a core component for a lot of baked goods such as cakes. Also, some mayonnaise recipes. This is really a more complicated question than just straight eggs.

BlueKat posted...

Maybe not?
https://iwillgetlean.medium.com/a-man-ate-720-eggs-in-1-month-heres-what-happened-to-his-cholesterol-bce3fb5cff4e

Everybody seems to react differently.

JuanCarlos1 posted...

Shouldnt people change their habits a bit if things are getting too expensive? For 9 bucks you can get a bag of high quality rolled oatmeal that lasts you over a month. Some peanut or almond better with fruits and you got a healthy and cheaper alternative.

The trouble is high quality rolled oatmeal is fucking miserable

Eggs are not miserable. Eggs are one of the most delicious things ever created.

Not everything is a financial transaction

Maybe like one or two a week from the breakfast sandwich I get from my local deli on Sundays. On the rare occasion I feel like a whiskey sour or an eggnog, then I mix a raw egg in with that obviously. Otherwise, my diet is pretty much just meat, vegetables, fruit, and rice.

BlueKat posted...

Maybe not?
https://iwillgetlean.medium.com/a-man-ate-720-eggs-in-1-month-heres-what-happened-to-his-cholesterol-bce3fb5cff4e

I mean, the article itself even admits that it is basically clickbait...

Really, your cholesterol levels have less to do with how much cholesterol you consume, and way more to do with what else you consume with that cholesterol.

i used 10 eggs the 2 days
4 to make carbonara for me and the wife
then the whites is used to flour some champignon mushroom and fry them
4 to make fried rice
2 to make sunny side up to top the fried rice.

tbh the fried rice is like 4 portion or so, i had a lot of leftover rice so i turned the all into fried rice

28 a week

pinky0926 posted...

The trouble is high quality rolled oatmeal is fucking miserable

Eggs are not miserable. Eggs are one of the most delicious things ever created.

Not everything is a financial transaction

I eat eggs once a week and oatmeal most days. I do rolled or steel cut oats with almond butter, chia seeds, ginger, cocoa powder, cinnamon and blueberries.

It tastes really good and you have the berries acting like a sweetener.

Anyway now I can see how going from $3 to $7+ plus is a big deal for some people. A dozen can last us over 2 weeks so it doesnt hurt me much.

JuanCarlos1 posted...

I eat eggs once a week and oatmeal most days. I do rolled or steel cut oats with almond butter, chia seeds, ginger, cocoa powder, cinnamon and blueberries.

It tastes really good and you have the berries acting like a sweetener.

Anyway now I can see how going from $3 to $7+ plus is a big deal for some people. A dozen can last us over 2 weeks so it doesnt hurt me much.

I actually like oatmeal and like to make a muesli like this every so often

But they ain't eggs, that's all

You realize switching to any alternative means demand increases so price increases there too

Personally I dont eat just eggs.

But I did, however, recently discover that I love making my own waffles from scratch. And of course eggs are part of the recipe

Raikuro posted...

You realize switching to any alternative means demand increases so price increases there too

Sure, but it shouldnt be that much as long as there arent production issues. Also that $9 bag contains like 60+ servings while that $7 dozen seems to last most of you less than a week. Im not advocating (Im TC) that people switch from one to other, but that it's financially sound to switch things up a bit.

When I started a workout routine I ate 3 eggs a day, but cut that down to 3 eggs every workout day, which is about every two days. So, maybe 9 or 12 eggs a week. I dont know how other people do it, but eating too many eggs a week irritates my stomach, otherwise Id eat more.

Family of five here. We typically only eat them on the weekends. So I guess about 14-16 per week