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to substitute battery eggs with more expensives ones for my LBTL challenger

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DamnBamboo · 20/04/2014 21:51

I know I probably am but just thought I'd get views.
Am doing LBTL this week (will start tomorrow) and will buy some eggs out of the fiver you can spend.
I do not ever buy battery eggs and am wondering just how bad it is if I buy my usual ones, but only take off the cost of the cheap ones from the fiver!
I'm not getting any more food out of it, will actually get the same amount, but can't bring myself to buy battery eggs.

I will also donate the difference I pay to the cause too.

IABU aren't I?

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DamnBamboo · 20/04/2014 21:52

God, sorry for typos.

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DoYonisHangLow · 20/04/2014 21:53

Nah I don't think you're being unreasonable in those circumstances.

Good idea to donate the extra money too. Good luck!

Giraffeski · 20/04/2014 21:53

What's LBTL?

MisForMumNotMaid · 20/04/2014 21:54

Isn't this dilemma part of the whole thought process behind doing this kind of thing?

Its made you really think about how strongly you feel about battery and how for some there is no choice but cheapest.

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DamnBamboo · 20/04/2014 21:54

Live below the line

here

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DamnBamboo · 20/04/2014 21:56

Yes Mis that is true!
My understanding is that is largely about not spending more than £1 a day when you have so little to spend, I can't imagine ethics even comes into it.

It certainly wouldn't be my priority if I had such a tiny budget.

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WorraLiberty · 20/04/2014 21:56

If you were really living below the line, you'd have to either ditch your morals or do without eggs completely.

YABU

I'm sure you can do without eggs for 5 days?

Shallishanti · 20/04/2014 21:56

I have no idea what you are on about!
But I would not buy battery eggs under any circs
and would say so to who ever expected me to buy them
(puzzled)

Artandco · 20/04/2014 21:56

I don't think you can. Isn't that the point of the challenge ? If you spend £2 on eggs instead of £1 you have to see what you can do with remaining. Hence why many are forced into buying battery

Artandco · 20/04/2014 21:57

Oh and for the challenge I would go without eggs I suppose as wouldn't buy battery

Fairenuff · 20/04/2014 21:58

Well, you could do it but you would fail the challenge, so what's the point?

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DamnBamboo · 20/04/2014 22:00

I hadn't considered buying them, then it was suggested to me and I pondered it, although I agree with all of you.

I can of course do without eggs for a week.

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Giraffeski · 20/04/2014 22:01

Thanks for the link, I hadn't heard of it.
I have to say, I have been properly on the breadline in the past and yet even when I was counting my pennies to buy food I still couldn't bring myself to pick up the battery eggs. I chose to eat less eggs instead. So no, YANBU and if you have to buy less or no eggs instead then I think that it's part of the point.

Shallishanti · 20/04/2014 22:02

OK I get it
just don't buy eggs!

Giraffeski · 20/04/2014 22:03

Sorry, just realised I didn't read your question properly. I would not go over the budget for it.

mrsminiverscharlady · 20/04/2014 22:05

Battery farming is banned in this country and there is evidence to suggest that caged hens (which have replaced the battery system) have a better quality of life than many free range eggs. So I'd just buy the cheaper eggs tbh.

Giraffeski · 20/04/2014 22:06

I have seen battery eggs recently in shops though.

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DamnBamboo · 20/04/2014 22:09

Yes Mrs it's all coming back to me now.
The EU did get rid of it, I didn't think the next level of welfare was much better though.
Can't remember the term - will look it up.

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BrokenToeOuch · 20/04/2014 22:09

Does anyone you know have chickens? Our neighbours do, and they get around 30 eggs a week and often bring us some round.
failing that, buy higher welfare eggs and lose something else. Or go without eggs. As mentioned upthread, that's a lot of the point behind LBTL - when you're genuinely skint, your morals are compromised and you are 'forced' to buy things you don't want to so youc an feed yourself/family.
Good luck, we did it a year ago. A friend of ours has set up a school in Burkina Faso and we have all raised money (donated the rest of our usual food budget that week etc) - a fantastic way to see how cheaply you really can eat when you set your mind to it.

Shallishanti · 20/04/2014 22:09

Not sure what I think about this challenge though
people who are really living on £1 a day don't pay the prices we pay and/or have access to other food (that they've grown for example)
BUT will not have access to clean water energy shelter schooling healthcare etc etc 'a dollar a day'/'a pound a day' is a vivid image but doesn't really capture what poverty in a developing country is about.
I think it will give you a much better idea of what it means to be poor in the rich world though.

BrokenToeOuch · 20/04/2014 22:10

Aren't they now described as ' eggs from caged hens'?

OooOooTheMonkey · 20/04/2014 22:12

Box of 6 medium free range eggs are £1 in tesco at the moment. Grin

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DamnBamboo · 20/04/2014 22:14

Of course Shalli, it would be nigh on impossible to replicate the conditions that those in extreme poverty have to endure in the third world..
But I think better awareness can only be a good thing.

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DamnBamboo · 20/04/2014 22:16

I don't know if £1 for 6 is good or not?

I'm not egg crazy BTW, but it is the only animal produce that I eat.
I eat no meat, fish or dairy.
Eggs are the last frontier for me... maybe I can kick my habit!

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DamnBamboo · 20/04/2014 22:16

And thanks OooOoo

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