Are eggs really $6 a carton in California?

[garnet]

Omigosh. One of my co workers called today and was relating how much everythign costs in CA. She's staying with/caring for her sister who is dying of cancer. She's trying to pay her own way on her money she's getting from FMLA. She's apparently having a tough time. Anyway, we were brainstorming cheap protein and I said eggs and she said "$6 a carton" and I said no way!

So really are they? Thats robbery!

 

[Chef]

They are around $6 and probably are in a few stores, but you can find them cheaper. Thats for the free range, organic, bla lalala dozen. Hence the reason for my RIR's.

Chef

 

[kstaven]

The whole west coast is expensive. $6.95 in the stores here.

 

[PotterWatch]

There are places that are $6/dozen, but like someone else said, it's the fancy ones (organic, cage-free, etc.). I think a my local market they are about $2/dozen for regular commercial farm eggs.

 

[chickmamawannabe]

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WOW! I guess we're lucky here in the "middle". You can still get those fancy ones for around $3 here.

 

[garnet]

I can buy white medium sized eggs for abour $1 a carton here. The brown ones/organic ones are about $3.

 

[poltroon]

I have never even seen the fancy ones for $6 a carton anywhere in California. Maybe $4, $4.50.

The cheap eggs are more like $2.

Trader Joe's is her friend. They'll have the best prices on eggs (and on a lot of other stuff too).

 

[greyfields]

I know they're going for $7 at the famer's markets in Portland and Seattle now. In general, most things are far more expensive on the west coast. I buy chicken feed in massive bulks and it can be as much as $15 per 50# bag during certain times of the year. The egg prices are just reflecting the higher feeding costs and longer distances to drive to market.

 

[kstaven]

Yes you can always find cheap. But, you often pay for it in quality like anything else.

At $2.00 a dozen most would lose a lot of money having chickens.

 

[eggchel]

Id be shocked if I saw eggs for so low as $2 a dozen in the San Francisco area. It is double that for the cheap eggs and triple for the good stuff. Duck eggs start at $6 and go up to $12 a dozen.



chel