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Original poster

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

51 replies

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?

OP posts:
ilovepowerhoop · 20/04/2014 22:19

£1 for 6 is very reasonable

Shockers · 20/04/2014 22:20

I got 6 free range duck eggs for 65p (reduced price)from the Co-op yesterday. Look for ones near their sell by date.

ilovepowerhoop · 20/04/2014 22:21

6 of their everyday value ones are 89p so only 11p dearer for the free range ones

OooOooTheMonkey · 20/04/2014 22:25

I've not heard of LBTL before now either! I'm not sure I would be able to do it. Good luck bamboo!

TimeForAnotherNameChange · 20/04/2014 22:28

Iceland sell six large free range eggs for £1 too, I never buy eggs from anywhere else.

ineedsomeinspiration · 20/04/2014 22:31

Does no one sell eggs from thier own hens near you? Loads do here and they are yummy and cheap. Also our market does free range six for a £1 and I think you can have less if you want.
Perhaps look at where you do your shopping. Doesn't all have to come from a supermarket does it?

tabulahrasa · 20/04/2014 22:31

6 mixed weight free range eggs are 97p in Asda and £1 in The co-op as well

Caitlin17 · 21/04/2014 00:34

YANBU. Battery eggs and non -free range pork are evil.

TallGiraffe · 21/04/2014 07:51

There is a chicken farm near where I live that sells eggs under one of the expensive free range brands. There are 20,000 chickens in one barn, with one tiny door at the end. They can be sold as free range because they have access to the outside world. The fact that on any one day I have never seen more than 5 chickens outside is irrelevant. Unfortunately what we think of as free range and the reality are often quite different Sad

We're lucky enough to have our own chickens so I don't have to make a choice but I would really struggle to buy any eggs from a supermarket.

Original poster
DamnBamboo · 21/04/2014 10:13

That's useful to know tall
Doesn't all have to come from a supermarket but with my three littlies in tow, shopping around isn't something I relish the thought of.
I have never noticed signs saying 'eggs for sale' and I am semi-rural too... maybe I'm just always in a rush.
I may delay starting it until mid week (was going to start today) when my husband has finished his workathon and I can properly investigate my options.
Have lovely bank holiday everyone Smile

OP posts:
lionheart · 21/04/2014 10:30

Come and tell us how it goes, DB. I'd be at a loss to know what to do with just a pound a day.

Giraffeski · 21/04/2014 11:01

We have loads of local farms selling eggs, lots of them put carts of eggs at the entrances to the farm with honesty boxes.
I bet a lot of pulses is the way forward, I used to live on Dahl and rice, and veg curries

XiCi · 21/04/2014 11:09

There are no such things as battery eggs, they were banned in this country years ago.

As others have said free range eggs are really cheap in Iceland/Aldi etc. Even my local home bargains sells half a dozen free range for 89p

RuthlessBaggage · 21/04/2014 11:17

That's true about free range - hens are fairly lazy, and "access to outdoors" is irrelevant if they don't make use of it.

That said, barn hens do have a more natural lifestyle than caged hens, so I would never go below "barn".

Feminine · 21/04/2014 11:20

The type of egg farming that replaced battery...what is it like?

I only buy FR , but was abroad for years...(the law changed while I was away) :)

vjg13 · 21/04/2014 11:29

Eggs are still collected from caged hens, the cages are larger and the environment is described as 'enriched' whatever that may mean.

fuzzpig · 21/04/2014 11:39

I see the thread has moved on a bit but in answer to your OP, no I don't think you should, that'd be cheating IMO :o either buy battery type, or buy FR and deduct the entire cost from your budget, or go without. As that is what people really in poverty need to decide, you should too :)

Well done for doing this challenge though, I'd love to know how you get on!

differentnameforthis · 21/04/2014 13:23

Here (Australia) is $2 per day. You can't buy 6 eggs for $2, so no dilemma there, because you have no choice.

Although we have chickens, so would be an issue.

differentnameforthis · 21/04/2014 13:24

it wouldn't be an issue

Pipbin · 21/04/2014 13:26

I understood that no eggs to be sold in this country were battery eggs any more.

NewNameForSpring · 21/04/2014 13:47

Re what Tallgiraffe said about the so called free range eggs near her is very worrying. That is horrific and so dishonest.

RuthlessBaggage · 21/04/2014 14:01

Not dishonest in the slightest - that's the definition of free range. It's possibly a misleading name, but that's a different question.

The best place to get eggs, if one can, is direct from the farm/garden, tripping over the chooks on your way to the cash box. Trouble is, easier said than done in some areas

Welshwabbit · 21/04/2014 14:20

As others have already said, battery farming is now banned in the UK.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-24367878

Here is some info about the current minimum EU requirements:

www.legaleggs.com/page/eu-legislation

I'm not really in a position to comment as I'm not doing LBTL, and good on you for doing it, but it does seem to me that buying free range eggs (if you cannot afford them on the amount specified) kind of misses the point of the exercise.

AmericasTorturedBrow · 21/04/2014 14:27

I'd do without but then I only buy "pasture raised" after learning the truth about so called free range (I live in US where conditions are even worse) so can only afford eggs infrequently anyway.

I agree either buy the cheap ones, but the expensive ones and deduct from budget or go without, that's the point of the challenge

Purplehonesty · 21/04/2014 14:30

So is that £1 a day per person or £1 a day per family?!

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