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You could eat three eggs ~150g for ~20g protein, ~200 cals and it would cost you about a dollar if you buy by the dozen. Going by UK prices, we pay <£3 for a do
by joshvm 11y ago
You could eat three eggs ~150g for ~20g protein, ~200 cals and it would cost you about a dollar if you buy by the dozen. Going by UK prices, we pay <£3 for a dozen large eggs so 75 pence for 3.
If you fried them up as an omelette, you get a healthy breakfast with very few carbs. Chuck in a tablespoon of olive oil (again, we assume bought by the litre) and you've got another 100 calories.
Fruit is expensive because, per your locale, it's almost always out of season. Supermarket apples in particular are massively marked up; we pay £2 a bag here. Any orchard will sell you apples (seasonally) for much much less.
- justinator 11y agoWow, £3 is a lot for eggs. Over here, they used to be around $2/dozen (~£1.30), and then this happened, http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/04/21/401319019/5-million-chickens-to-be-killed-as-bird-flu-outbreak-puzzles-industry http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/04/21/401319019/5-m... http://nypost.com/2015/06/07/eggs-prices-on-the-rise-due-to-avian-flu-outbreak/ http://nypost.com/2015/06/07/eggs-prices-on-the-rise-due-to-... All of a sudden, buying eggs isn't the cheapest way to eat animal protein https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/07/23/eggs-are-no-longer-the-cheapest-source-of-protein/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/07/23/eggs-...
- joshvm 11y agoTrue, that's probably on the high side, I had a look on mySupermarket and it's around £2.00-2.50 depending whether you want factory/free range. Since all the supermarkets price match these days, they've settled on £2.25. Oraganic will set you back over £3.50. It seem the eggs I buy now from Morrisons are "Very Large" which have a slight premium for the size. If you shop at Waitrose then you're looking at £3-4.50. When I can, I buy from farms which sell by the roadside and you can normally get a half-dozen for £1.30 or so.