price of eggs report -just for fun

[noobiechickenlady]

Here too. Not everything I buy is organic, not even close.

Eggs by the dozen are
3.99 for cage-free, vegetarian fed (HA!)
2.99 for factory brown
2.39 for factory white
Free from my chicken owning friends when they have them to spare

Bell peppers are 1.50 each, not priced per pound, tomatoes are "through the roof" at 2.89 lb.

I bought a 25lb bag of sugar in January I think, for $12, we've used less than 1/4 of the bag, and that is giving some to my mom.

 

[hwillm1977]

Green Peppers: $4.99/pound
Chicken Breasts: $11.29/pound (a package of 6 chicken breasts is usually around $30-35)

Yikes! and I thought food was expensive here. The green peppers and chicken breasts are about a third of that here. Your prices for eggs are only a little more.

I'm always shocked when they have turkeys in the US for .69 cents a pound... that's almost worth the drive across the border if you load your trunk up with turkey... we pay $2.89/pound... or sometimes $1.79/pound at holidays when it's on sale.

 

[miss_thenorth]

Went into town today and looked at the price of eggs. The most expensive was $4.99 for freerange brown eggs, and we all know what their dif'n of free range is.

 

[DrakeMaiden]

Sugar was $4.99 for a small 5lb bag!!!

I havn't had to buy eggs in a while, thankfully! However I remember buying some in December for about $3.50 per dozen (organic "cage-free"*).


*Yes I know that is not good enough, sadly that is all I could find around here at the time.

BBH, you should have called me up. I was and still am selling organic chicken eggs for $3/dozen.

 

[TanksHill]

Hwillm -----Is everything more expensive in Canada? And why?

 

[ORChick]

I can't offer any prices at the moment, as I haven't been to the store for a week or so. But I do have a comment or two. May I say that of course peppers and tomatoes are expensive - its March people! Nowhere near pepper/tomato season. You're paying shipping costs as well (from who knows where). One reason that Canadian prices differ from ours is that the Canadian dollar is not the same. (OK, I thought I was being smart here, but I just looked, and the US dollar and the Canadian are just about at par - 1 Can = .985 US.) And hwillm1977, may I suggest, if whole chickens are cheaper (and you can use the rest of the bird) that you think about cutting up a whole bird instead of buying just the breasts. For a very little bit of work you can save quite a bit of money. If the rest of the bird isn't something you normally would use, just ask here and I am sure you'll get lots of suggestions (personally I prefer the thigh meat).

 

[hwillm1977]

I have bought whole chickens, but usually I just wait until the breasts go on sale (usually $4.88/pound) and buy a TON...

Whole chickens are a lot cheaper, they'd only be about $3.00/pound, buying local grown cage-free organic meat chickens is about $6.00/pound for the whole bird

My solution was to order 25 day-old meat birds from our farm store, so they'll be arriving sometime in mid-late april... then I'll have my own chickens Much cheaper than store bought...

 

[miss_thenorth]

No, not all of Canada is that expensive. Chicken breasts down here sell on sale for about $2.49/lb, sometimes, very rarely, 1.99/lb Whole chickens, the cheapest I have seen them is $1.99 . Peppers I think were $1.50/lb Mind you , we have greenhouses just down the road form us that gorw peppers and cukes.

I haven't bought meat, ('cept bacon and pepperoni ) for over a year, but I am an avid follower of grocer store flyers. ( I get very upset if I don't get my grocery store flyers in the mail on Friday )

ETA, yes, with Detroit being just across the river, sometimes it is tempting to get groceries over there, and I have done it in the past. The prices over there can be ridiculously low. But I found that most of the really cheap stuff is "food" that we don't eat, like processed foods.