I had a previous post where I talked about how I dealt with eggflation. Unfortunately, the situation has gotten worse since then.
To summarize the current situation: Millions of egg producing birds, 36 million? or so? have been killed to contain a flu outbreak. Locally this caused eggflation (an increase in the price of eggs).
The first day I noticed this I managed to negotiate a much lower per egg price by buying many, many eggs.
This worked out well for me, as I have been out of the egg market for awhile, since I bought way more than I really needed.
However, my personal supplies are scheduled to egg out before the end of July 2015. Conservative estimates put eggcovery at sometime in 2017.
Prices continue to climb, and perhaps worse, supplies of eggs are dwindling. Yesterday at the grocery store, I saw that not only were the egg prices more than double what they were at the beginning of March, but the store had very few eggs. Usually there are a few hundred dozens, eagerly awaiting my skillet, but I counted fewer than 20 dozen in the entire store.
Between blue bell ice cream not being available and this egg thing, I'm starting to feel like capitalism eggself is failing.
As a practical consideration, one of the tenants of mustachianism is to not buy things when the price is temporarily high, and to stock up when it is low. But eggs have become a huge part of my food solution.
Does anyone have any ideas on:
1. An eggsubstitute, low calorie high protein easy to fix and cheap. Particularly that goes well with just about any veggie side.
2. An eggotiating opportunity, that is, an alternative way to acquire eggs without the high cost?
A few months ago I had extensively researched getting my own chickens to have my own eggs, but the math just didn't work out for it to be economical. I remember it felt close though, maybe the newer higher price for eggs just means that getting my own chickens has become an economical eggtunity.
March: $0.21 per egg.
May: $0.31 per egg.
July: $0.55 per egg.
If this situation continues eggsponentially, by early 2017 I'll be able to trade surplus eggs for fortune 500 companies. Of course, making such a claim would leave me with egg on my face.
I think I'm done.