More egg shortages and price increases expected. So will eggs become a luxury food item? or perhaps we will have to ration them until production is increased again.
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My local store in MI. Not a big box store, had a special last week. Buy a n English pot roast 3#or over, get a free bag of potatoes, carrots,onions and dinner rolls. Save 13.00. I needed onions 2.59 a bag. Looked at the 3 roasts available and the smallest / cheapest, just #3, was over 29.00. I got my onions n left. I had potatoes, carrots, rolls n meat already at home. Bought when it was cheaper.
Our Gabled Home YT channel has a recent video about how to make rye sourdough, which I haven't done, but I enjoy and recommend her channel. She has a lot of German-heritage kitchen wisdom.
I just checked the prices at my local grocery. The Grade A Large store brand eggs are $5.49/dozen and $7.99 for an 18-count carton (I usually buy those). A coop has just become my first priority for this coming spring.
In some areas eggs are already too expensive for some people. It is possible eggs will become a luxury food like caviar. One solution is raise your own chickens. Also many foods are too expensive right now, or unavailable.
Toni I hope you have camping stoves so if there is a power failure you will be able to can some the stuff in your freezer . Keep well until next time .
Chicken feed is pricy too.
Seriously consider Coturnix quail. They lay 300+ eggs per year, there is no salmonella risk, and the egg/feed ratio is actually better than with chickens. Also if you live in town, quail hens are so much quieter than chicken hens.
The only bargains I can find lately are the closeouts at Walmart. Check the end caps for a big yellow closeout sign. I have gotten boxes of name brand 24 K-cups in seasonal flavors for $4 (had been $17.48!) This week I picked up bags of Pepperidge Farm dressing for 75 cents. 25 cents for small cans of sliced olives. 25 cents for a 27-ounce can of Bush's kidney beans. I try to go look every time I am in town. We have a Spartan Nash store here that has "sales" for butter, coffee etc that are actually higher than their regular price. 😳 No wonder it is like a ghost town in there now. People who wouldn't buy at Walmart before are now shopping there because the Spartan Nash has become a shell game. I sure do miss having my own chickens. We would have to move from here to be able to get chickens 🐔 not allowed here.
I have been waiting to see what happens, but I have raised chickens,rabbits, pigs etc here before. I am waiting to see what animal feeds cost, but now that I am retired I will prob start chickens for eggs only and rabbits for meat. If you roast a whole rabbit in a bag like a turkey, few people can tell its not a turkey. I am finishing up building my rain gutter garden system now.
Chicken feed is going way up in price, so having ones own coupe may be hard to do
I am in a rough spot as far as chickens go. We have two flocks. Our personal flock, just for us, has 10 hens and we are lucky to get one egg a week (it's winter and we don't use lights or heat). Our 'market' flock has 6 hens and we are getting five eggs a day from them (same situation as our flock – no heat, no light. Actually in the same coop, just divided). Trouble is, we have orders for hatching eggs and chicks from the market flock, and waiting lists almost 5 months out. Keep in mind, these hatching eggs cost $20 a dz, and straight run chicks fetch $10/each. I have snuck an egg or two for recipes but just keep hoping my personal flock will get the idea and start laying more. Until then, I am avoiding the use of eggs in my meals. Tough to be swimming in eggs and not a one to eat!
Thanks for the video hope you have a blessed day 🙏.
You are 100per cent right things will only get worse.
God bless 🙏 you and yours.
When baking bread back in 90s. Using wheat and rye, even though you mixed with white flour, still had to add gluten
Jill 4 today has a good YT video showing how to freeze eggs, according to the USDA suggestions. She uses silicone muffin liners, scramble the yolk slightly to keep it from congealing, freeze them, pop them out into a pint foodsaver bag and seal. I didn't notice any difference in taste or how they were used in my baking.
Hi Toni 👋 ,, shopper drug mart usually have the eggs on sale Saturday and Sunday only for $ 3 .29
I just read a story that you can crack fresh eggs do not break the yokes and put into ice trays to freeze. When frozen remove from ice trays, and put in a plastic bag to store up to three months can be used for cooking and baking.
Not sure if I believe this avian flu issue. I think this is all part of the global plan! And yes I’m wearing my tinfoil hat!🤔
You can make pasta without eggs. I don't believe for a minute there is a shortage. This is all by design of the governments. They are creating this to push out the small farmers.
Hi Toni – you are right on with the price of eggs in the store. I haven’t been buying eggs from the store for a couple of years – I have been dealing with a local farmer. I’m paying about $2.33 for a dozen, since I buy 180 eggs in a month I have been freeze drying the extras – so have gotten quite a store of them. We have been limiting our eggs for breakfast to twice a month. We have also been buying our meat from local farmers and buy in bulk – then I cook and freeze dry meat, can it, and freeze it so our freezers are full. We have gotten into the habit of only eating twice a day, and if we had to to make supplies stretch we could go with once a day – we have tried that for several consecutive months, 4-5, and it is doable. The meal reduction was an experiment to see how we fared.
I paid $1.49 a pound for boneless skinless chicken beast this morning I'll be canning chicken tomorrow morning! 😉
I suppose that have a weird way of looking at things, but I see everything as a sale price now. Knowing that food prices are going up at the "official" forecast of 7% (and probably double that this year), and my money in the bank is getting five cents interest on $200……that same money spent on groceries would be worth $14 more. If we are out of anything, I get a good supply. If it happens to be on sale, even better. Right now, our biggest asset is time. So I am buying meats and canning it.
I watched a video from an egg farmer (on Rumble), and he said that they’ve had to cut back millions of chickens in breeding due to higher costs. They are not getting paid the higher prices from the stores they supply to (although the stores make us pay more) which makes it hard for them to breed and feed the hens. He said the avian flu is part of it but not a big part. They aren’t getting paid which forced them to cut back on production drastically so we will definitely see egg shortages in the near future. My husband and I purchased what we thought were 6 pullets as they were advertised, however, they all ended up to be roosters. We were cheated but we did learn a lot. So we will buy older chicks which are more likely to be sexed accurately. Thank you for your videos!
You're definitely right about chickens being more work than people realize. We have 13 hens and while they're not a lot of daily work, they do tie you down and require a decent monetary investment to get the infrastructure set up for them. Feed prices have also gone up. I haven't checked the egg prices at our local grocery store, but I have a handful of jars of lime-preserved eggs in our pantry that I put up when we had an abundance over the summer, which makes me feel a little more secure since our girls aren't laying much right now, and I'll definitely be putting up more this spring once they begin laying more abundantly.
I have been freezing eggs for the last 8 months. I use a 6 cup muffin tin. Put in the freezer until frozen(lately using silicone muffin liners). When frozen I empty them into a bag and put in freezer. After thawing as many as I need-I use an immersion blender to whip them up. I have used them in baking, omelets, scrambled eggs. I cannot tell the difference from fresh. Couldn’t be used for fried eggs. This is a hedge against inflation and shortages. Give it a try with a few eggs.
Some folks who live in areas where chicken-raising isn't allowed are considering raising quail. They lay eggs everyday which taste alot like chicken eggs and are smaller birds so less space is needed. I observed a nice quail set-up once in a garage. If that's not possible, don't forget powdered eggs are an option, too! (Check for them at restaurant supply stores if local groceries don't have them.) I would rather have fresh, grass-fed eggs but that's not always possible.
Haven't had a steak in years but that hasn't killed me yet! I say we should focus on this fact: only 65 days until the 1st day of SPRING! Yeaaay
You can dehydrate raw eggs at 115 degrees, mill and pack in an airtight container. 2 Tlbs of egg powder to 2 Tlbs water = 1 egg
I've been making homemade egg noodles and drying them to have on hand because I also believe I won't be able to make them in the future with the cost if eggs. I bought cans of and dry chick peas to use as an egg substitute, applesauce to use. Also, mayonnaise is made with eggs. Stock up mayo now as prices are increasing on mayonnaise too, and mayonnaise is another egg substitute.
In our area of central NC, our Wegman's eggs are no longer a cheap option for the 18ct. They were 2 for $3.99 last year, now they're $4.99 each.
Look for seasonal clearance coffee. I found some bargain starbucks and store brand pumpkin spice coffee. I'm not a huge fan of pumpkin spice, but it'll make a great iced latte !
I'm lucky. I have a doz hens that have been giving me half doz eggs a day all winter. In the fall I stocked up on ground beef on sale from a local butcher and stashed it in my freezer. I also bought packages of "managers special" cheap steaks from my local grocery store every time I went in. I figured cheap ok meat was better then no meat. I've got gas garden planned and in fact just started cold weather lettuce and kale seeds and my onion seeds in my laundry room. They will be moved to my small greenhouse. I've been watching and paying heed to rumors about food shortages and costs for the last year so have been tirelessly preparing and stocking up as well. Pays to listen to rumors sometimes.
In Niagara Falls NY Save Alot has large eggs for $3 US with a $30 purchase and chicken legs for 79C US a pound. A couple of weeks ago I paid $3.69 CA for large eggs and last week I paid $1.50 CA for chicken legs at Freshco. I haven't been buying a lot of beef in the last year because of the price but when I do it's eye of round roast which I will cut in half for a roast (slow cooked or smoked at about 190' F) and the other half cut into about 1 in thick steaks.
We have 43 laying hens and now that it’s a Wisconsin winter, we get 15-20 eggs a day. Our chickens are free range and fed organic feed, and we sell them for $4 a dozen; we’re now 69¢ cheaper than regular large eggs at Walmart. I had to take our sign by the road down because we suddenly have a large amount of traffic and can’t keep up with the demand. Some people wish to buy 6-8 dozen at a time, although we’ve started limiting people to make sure as many people can get some as possible. It’s crazy.
Even with the sign down people remember our driveway and still come up to the house anyway.
We don’t raise prices unless feed costs go up, and so far it’s stayed consistent, so we pretty much break even and we aren’t going to gouge people just because the demand is high and we could.
I'm in the UK and we had the Gov tell us about the avian flu. Trouble is, out in the country, there are plenty of eggs. I heard that it's the supermarkets don't want to pay the farmer's the going rate and the supermarkets imported eggs from abroad at a higher cost and expect consumers to pay it. The supermarkets here are destroying the UK farmers! Weaponising food and betraying their own people.
I saw a video that stated that the bird flu was a lie , just to cause a shortage .
I think they will and taught myself to dehydrate and powder recently
Enjoy all your videos Toni
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i'm afraid of that also eggs will get more expensive then ever
Hi Toni! It's really getting rough out there! I really have been trying to stock up on proteins lately. Mostly cheap cuts of beef for stews and chicken. Honestly, I am growing a little weary of keeping ahead of the game, but I know I'll be glad I did. Hang in there and keep your faith strong. Be blessed!
Reubens are my favorite sandwich! So good!
You definitely encourage me to do yogurt I need to try it
Coffee here has skyrocketed. The best prices are at my local warehouse store BJs. They have better prices on tea too. I actually found a dozen eggs for 2.72 at Walmart. I'm freezing them now.
Funny how eggs use to be taboo! Lol
They are the perfect food, always have been.
Tony it’s true to have chickens is both rewarding but also a lot of work! Rewarding for eggs and meat and fertilizer for the garden, cons are out out of money for chicken food and keeping the coop clean ! Tony have you tried fried egg sandwiches I love them with mayo! I have fried the eggs and frozen them in vacuum bags and they last for at least 6 Months that’s as far out as I’ve kept them myself! I just fry 1 egg and put parchment between each egg and freeze them ! When ready to use just take out the egg and put on microwave plate wrapped in paper towel and defrost and put on a piece of toast or bread with Mayo and enjoy ! Delicious ! God bless ❤️🙏🙋🏻