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How much are eggs in your area of the USA?

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$1.99 per month for 4 months at 7.05% APR, over here in Tallahassee.
- Wow what a great interest rate, better than a mortgage!
  
  Yeah, but I got hosed on my lunch today. 10% APR for a pizza.

Looks like the cheapest at my local HEB is $4.34 for 12 eggs.

South West suburbs of Chicago:
Farm eggs: $4:50
Cheap eggs: $4:50
Mid eggs: $5
Primo eggs: $6-8

$9 in Northern California. I have not seen them this high previously, and some places have even been running out. Honestly I’m wondering if I should cut back and replace them with something else.
- Honestly I’m wondering if I should cut back and replace them with something else.
  If there isn't enough supply to meet demand at the current price, the price will rise until the demand at that price matches the available supply, so someone will drop buying them.
  For some egg uses -- baking, scrambled eggs, etc -- I expect that powdered eggs work, and unlike fresh eggs, they can be stored for years, so as long as someone's stockpiling them, I'd expect that the price would be less-volatile.
  looks at Amazon for a powdered eggs example
  https://www.amazon.com/POUNDS-Cage-Free-Powdered-Freshest-INGREDIENT/dp/B087HBG615
  This is $1.53/oz.
  http://convert-to.com/732/powdered-eggs-nutrients-details-and-converter.html
  US cup of powdered eggs = 85 grams = 3 ounces net weight = 16 eggs
  So for each ounce of powdered eggs, that'd be equivalent to 5.333 fresh eggs.
  So a dozen eggs would be 2.25 oz of powdered eggs.
  That listing is for $1.53/oz, so that's equivalent to $3.44/dozen eggs.
  According to CamelCamelCamel, the price has risen, though: it's gone up and down, but the low point had that particular listing at half that in spring 2021.
  https://camelcamelcamel.com/product/B087HBG615
  It does beat $9/dozen if it works for a given application and if the reconsititution isn't too much effort, though.
  
  For some egg uses – baking
  Depending on what, exactly, you're doing here you don't necessarily need eggs.
  There's a shocking amount of shit that'll react the same was as eggs - the liquid from chickpeas, flaxseed, applesauce, banana, arrowroot powder, soy protien powder, even freaking tofu - in a lot of recipies, so it may be worth figuring out why eggs are in the recipie and find an alternative that'll end up doing the same thing.

$16 for 2.5 dozen in PA

Rural American West. $4.53/dozen
Edit: I'm allergic to eggs though, so if I want scrambled eggs in the morning I get to pay the disability tax. Just Egg is $7.36 for 16oz.

$8/dozen SoCal
- Yummy.com (home delivery groceries) has Veg-a-Fed Cage-Free at $5.49, and Organic Pasture-Raised at $8.99 in West Los Angeles.

Central Appalachia. I'll know tomorrow, but when I went shopping 2 weeks ago, they were like $4.50 or so for a carton of 18. I buy the cage-free ones, though, so the cruelty eggs would prob be a bit less than that.

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