Disguising Price Increases(No Politics Please)

[worth1]

And the usual big bag of chicken leg thigh combo 10 pound bag for 5.95 at HEB.

[worth1]

HEB has chicken legs at 1.19 a pound for 5 pounds and a 10 pound bag is 9.35.

[worth1]

Bone in skin on split chicken breast for 2.06 a pound.
It's what they served once a week in school fried.

[worth1]

After looking at chicken I'm starving to death for pan fried chicken mashed potatoes and gravy.
It's on my weekly rotation.
Maybe chicken wings and ranch dressing.
I freezing and hungry.

[bower]

I ran across this last night - discussion of all the price changes over time, with explanations!!
Wouldn't I love to have a front page like this for the grocery pricing news in this country.
https://unn.ua/en/agronews

[Tormahto]

And despite the ridiculously high prices of eggs, I still see sales on chicken parts, like Aldi has this week - 89¢/lb for drumsticks, and lidl has the usual sale price on boneless skinless chicken breast for $1.99/lb. Make any sense?

Chickens for the meat market take 6 - 8 weeks to mature. Laying hens take about 6 months to start laying, and can continue for 2 - 3 years. So, there is a 4 month delay to build up numbers of egg layers and their eggs, compared to available meat chickens, after a large die off. While I haven't seen the death numbers between egg layers and the meat market, perhaps the short 6-8 week turnover of meat birds, compared to a year plus turnover of layers, might mean that the quick turnover birds are much less exposed to bird flu.

It's been more than a month since the local WalMart sale of a 5 pound bag of drumsticks for $1.98, marked down even further from the sale price of $2. When not on sale, the price has gone from $4.96 to $5.94 in the past year. At another local store, I pick up parts for between .69 and .99 when on sale. When I'm not shopping for meat to go in the freezer, I will monitor the expiration dates on the packages. Sales begin the day before the expiration date, so I know when to visit again.

[worth1]

I think it's pretty horrifying how the meat chicken industry had modified chickens to be the way they are nowadays.
Growing up all my life we never ate store bought chickens and thought they were disgusting.
We always raised plucked butchered and froze our own chickens.
They got to roam the hay fields and the farm to eat insects and had a house they roosted in at night.
We did the same with rabbits.
They darned sure didn't outgrow their bones and have heart attacks while growing up.
I think we put up around a hundred chickens a year.

[worth1]

I noticed the price of vegetable oil went down a dollar.
My favorite frozen frying fish has also dropped drastically to.
From almost 18 dollars to 12 something.

[worth1]

HEB large grade A eggs went to 6.21 a dozen.
That's 52 cents an egg.
Demand is also bringing up cost.
People are starting to hoard eggs.

[DavidO]

Cant even get eggs where I am. Went to 3 stores the other day all sold out.

[worth1]

Cant even get eggs where I am. Went to 3 stores the other day all sold out.

I read where people are getting caught smuggling eggs out of Mexico in Texas.

[MissS]

Turkey has found a niche to make money on this. They will be shipping over 33 million pounds of eggs to the USA.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/24/business ... index.html

[DavidO]

Cant even get eggs where I am. Went to 3 stores the other day all sold out.

I read where people are getting caught smuggling eggs out of Mexico in Texas.

Sounds like a good side business...I am only 2 hours away from the border lol

[worth1]

I literally talked myself out of stopping at the store on the way home.
I'll just eat out of the freezer.
By the time I had mentally added up the stuff I wanted I was past $50.00.
Nope not gonna do it.

[MissS]

Times have changed. In this instance you are getting MORE for your money.

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[karstopography]

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Fighting egg prices, one chick at a time. Barnevelder, Rhode Island Red, and Delaware chicks. My daughter will be selling her 14 or so current layers soon. “Ordinary” layers in laying condition currently go for about $20 per bird, barnevelders, $50. These are to be the eventual replacements. Takes about 4 months to start laying. These chicks are three days old.

[worth1]

If my math is correct and it might not be one dozen large grade A eggs are now 4 dollars a pound.
I just weighed a dozen and they weighed 1 pound 9 ounces at $6.21 a dozen.
To put things in perspective a boneless pork butt is 2.80 a pound.
A bone in pork butt is 1.76 a pound.
A USDA select untrimmed brisket is 4.12 a pound.
Unless the price goes down I won't be buying anymore eggs.
I have about a dozen and a half and that's it.
What used to be an affordable sorce of protein and vitamins has turned out to be too expensive and unaffordable.
They can rot on the shelves as far as I'm concerned.
I've heard in Southern California people can't even find eggs.

If people stop buying and hoarding them the price will have to go down.
Thankfully I live in a chicken friendly town and neighborhood.
I hear roosters crowing every morning.

[zeuspaul]

I don't know how someone hoards eggs? They only last three to five weeks in the refrigerator. We eat about 4 eggs every other day, about a dozen a week. We shop about twice per month. In our last Instacart/Costco order, about two weeks ago we purchased six dozen (about one month's supply) for $4.75 per dozen. Our local Walmart is about twelve dollars per dozen. Sometimes they're available and sometimes not. So far we haven't run out of eggs and I don't think we have paid more than five dollars per dozen.

[karstopography]

https://www.farmhouseonboone.com/water-glassing-eggs/

Water Glassing is not recommended for store bought eggs. Not recommended for any eggs, store bought or otherwise, but I’ve heard that some folks are doing this now.

https://extension.usu.edu/preserve-the- ... ggs-safely

People are freezing eggs, obviously, not still in the shell.

[worth1]

I've heard of water glass eggs all my life practically.
We never did it with our fresh farm eggs.
My Mom did freeze eggs but I have no idea how she did it.
There was always conversations around the farms about preservation of eggs.
The recommendations in the government instructions are always on the ridiculous safe side for obvious reasons.
I ran across one site or video about using mineral oil to preserve eggs some time ago.
You can even use store bought eggs.
Mineral oil is cheap and has many uses.
https://prepared-housewives.com/preserv ... ear-later/