Yup. Foods high in beta carotene, carrots, red peppers, etc will make your chickens’ yolks deeply yellow. But the color itself won’t make the eggs TASTE any better. I can’t find the article, but there was a whole study that while more colorful yolks are often associated with better eggs due to a more varied diet, it’s possible, and apparently many producers DO feed their chickens high carotene feed to color the yolks with little to no impact on the nutrition or taste otherwise.
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Oat o was out of eggs yesterday except for the few packages with a broken egg. Maplewood MN
I was able to get 18 large at target for$7.99 which is what 12 are going for at cub down the street
We had eggs benny for dinner tonight. A special occasion splurge . . .
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Like you, last week I found Target egg prices to be best in our MN neighborhood - shelf said 4.19/dozen, I got charged 4.59/dozen and asked them to honor shelf price, which they did.
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Quick stop at Ralph’s (Kroger) here in SoCal. One dozen large eggs - $8.49. 10 days ago I paid $2.99 for similar eggs at Trader Joe’s.
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$5.49 for a dozen large, cage free brown eggs. Shoprite bowl and basket brand in Westchester Cty, NY.
Not terrible, considering the conventional eggs are $2-3 more per dozen.
That was Costco. Silly auto correct
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Yeah they did a blind tasting and there was no correlation between rich, vivid, colorful yolks to how they were perceived in taste. We eat with all of our senses.
It’s def more about feed, i.e. a varied diet and access to pasture.
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since i don’t eat a lot, so i can afford to buy meat from local farmers. but i do eat a lot of eggs, and the local prices were just too high. but with this shortage, i took a look at the eggs at my local market and got a dozen jumbo for $4.50.
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I was in my local Market Basket today at the Tewksbury/Lowell line and they had plenty of eggs. Perhaps not as much as usual, but still a lot.
Prices were $2.99 for a dozen medium (with a sign advertising such), $3.99 and up for large eggs of varying brand names, including MB. It was crowded (noontime and another impending snowstorm) so I didn’t get the highest price. They are stll limiting to 2 dozen per shopper.
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good to know that market basket is holding the line on prices. i needed to pick up a few things before tomorrow and didn’t have time to make it to the somerville market basket. so, i was happy to find the locally raised jumbos for $4.50.
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THAT is a decent price for jumbos!
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That’s 1.25 million dozen large eggs, or 15 million eggs. The average American eats 1 egg a day so that will hardly make a dent - though it may look good to some.
Edited many times to exclude being political.
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I don’t think I’ve ever used up a carton of eggs before their best by date. But I don’t bake , and I’m not much of a breakfast eater.
I find it ridiculous something as perishable as eggs would be exported from Turkey. I wouldn’t trust that they’re kept between 0 and 4 ⁰C on their journey.
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A quick bit of research shows that, to my surprise, international shipping of eggs is fairly common. USA imported eggs must meet USDA guidelines.
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I find the idea sort of scary and off-putting.
I don’t really trust that the Canadian food inspectors are really able to keep a close watch on the quality of eggs or meats raised outside North America, especially those being exported by some countries which have a lot of poverty or a lot of corruption. I think the Canadian food inspectors check the quality somewhat randomly, as opposed to checking every shipment.
Over the past 3 months, there are a ton of new imported pantry goods from Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Georgia, the Philippines and elsewhere, at my regular grocery store. I am sure most is safe. The idea of who to sue and how to enforce a judgement if something went wrong with an imported good prepared in a country that is at war or lack of regulations, compared to suing Nabisco or Nestle, boggles my mind.
Same here. I know it is supposed to be ok, but between Vietnamese shrimp exports and Indonesian crab meat exports I am not sure which I trust less.
I never even considered imports of eggs… I always assumed the eggs I bought (Eggland’s, usually) were produced in North America.
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In USA - egg source needs to be printed on the retail carton. My guess is that the imports are used by commercial bakers / restaurants.
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