to think that eggs are too flippin' expensive

[shrimponastick]

Just been to buy some - Free Range - medium - box of 12 £3.09.

How is it that they seem to go up each week almost?

I like eggs - we have got through the dozen I bought on Monday already.

£1.20 for 6 at most of the local farms here. That's 20p an egg. I think that's really good value. I think supermarket fr eggs have really gone up a lot though.

I meant they cost me a tenner to buy them, sorry

Feed costs me £7 for 3 months and I have them in a tiny garden OP, not much more than a patio.

Definitely avoid supermarkets for egg. We get 2 and a half dozen (30?) eggs from our local butchers for £3.90. Sometimes that doesn't last a week!! I have considered keeping chickens instead as we go through so many.

We buy free range eggs at the farm shop we can see the hens in the paddock-we pay£1.55 for half a dozen and they are wonderful worth every penny.

Lidl - 95p for 6 British free range.

You should definitely get chickens. DS5 sell the eggs to earn pocket money, £1 for 1/2 doz

Nooooo, Don't buy them get your own chickens obviously I appreciate not everybody has the space, time etc but they are so lovely.

We have 22, we started with 4 about 18 months ago and are completly addicted so will probably just keep growing the flock.

We sell them to friends and the children keep the money.....to spend on buying more chickens!

We charge £1.30 for 6 but ours have the name of the chicken that lays them and the the date they were laid written on them

We get through 18 a week - veggie family of 4. They're £1.80 a box from our local organic box scheme which I think is cracking value :) as 6 will form the basis of a really nutritious and filling meal for us

Chickens are horrid. DF has three as pets. I hate them. Evil creatures.

We either buy the Lidl British Free Range ones (less than £1 for 6) or, alternatively, some of the supermarkets do Free Range ones in their value ranges. I can't quite work out how they differ from the non-value range other than the sizes vary within the box. Surely a free range egg is a free range egg?

Go and look for someone local with chickens. I pay 50p per half dozen.

I agree, eggs cost a lot. They seem more like a luxury than a staple these days. Can't do without them though. Fortunately my son's nursery sells them for 20p each. Certainly cheaper than the supermarkets, bit precarious without the box though!

You are buying your eggs in the wrong place........On the other hand if you had to lay eggs-what would be your market rate?

Think of the underwear you would go through!

Totally agree, just today I bought eggs £2.09, lurpak £3.10 !!!! and bread £1.45 ! Wth ? When did egg and soldiers become so expensive? I do shop in Aldi for some stuff but I can't comprise on butter (taste wise) and eggs(morally), I rather not have them

Doreen brings my eggs every Friday. £2.20 for 12 local, free range. I would like to get chickens though but I either wait until after the summer or spend a week chopping the nettles down. Do chickens mind nettles? Maybe nettles are their favourite thing. I should investigate.

Iceland and Aldi £1 for 6 large free range

I wouldn't mind paying for them if they were the basis of a meal but when you're going to chuck em in a cake it grates a bit. I need a value cheapy egg, like the value butter etc

We have 5 hens at the mo, a bag of layers pellets or corn lasts at least a month if not longer (costs £5 ish) and they eat all the kitchen scraps and bugs in the orchards. We have at least 3 eggs a day, that's at least 21 per week or 7 dozen a month. Cost id therefore £5/7 = 77p per dozen. We often have 4 or 5 a day, so that will make it less.
Hens cost about £8-10 each here and hybrids will lay well for a good few years.
The only time we have few eggs is after the end of November, so I save them up for Christmas (never in the fridge!) and as soon as the solstice turns and the days lengthen a bit in early January they start laying again.

I'd love to get chickens. Have dreams of a vegetable patch and a few chickens!! However we rent so doubt we would be allowed and our garden often floods so much so that next door has ducks swimming in hers. Hopefully when we buy I can do it or maybe I should get my name down for an allotment.

They ARE expensive! I couldn't bring myself to eat caged hens' eggs and the cheapest frre range/barn eggs I've found at any supermarket is Sainsbury's basics (89p for 6 eggs). HOWEVER, I saw a sign in my local butcher offering 12c for £1.19 for free range eggs. Check your local butcher's out to see if they offer the same!

We pay £1.50 ish for 15 free range eggs in aldi. Aldi rocks for veg also.

£1.20 half dozen from Thomas' Grandad's allotment. They are massive and make bright yellow sponges. Yum.

yellow, how on earth do know which hen lays the egg, unless you have them caged [stern look]

£2 a dozen from my friend with free range hens roaming in her garden - so many people round here (The Sticks) have hens and sell eggs on the gate that I wouldn't buy them in the supermarket. Poor miserable battery hens; you can taste the difference in proper free-range eggs, and they make sponge cakes delicious.