Spotted this eggcellent deal in today's West. :)
30 eggs for only $2.99 which is 10 cents per egg. It does comes in a tray, so bring empty egg cartons to store them in.
Shortcut bacon is also on sale for $5.99/kg.
Grab some cheap tomatoes/mushrooms/toast for a gourmet breakfast. :)
Cage eggs no doubt?
the chickens maybe, but the eggs look like they come in a carton…
That's just a cage made out of cardboard maaaaaan
A carton of certified cruelty.
they probably taste the same as cruelty free eggs. good find.
@whooah1979:
They sure do. No taste difference at all no matter how people will argue this point.
Same peeps will argue organic bananas have more nutrients.
@whooah1979:
I find all store-bought eggs taste and look exactly the same - caged, free range, vegetarian fed, whatever. The only eggs that are different are backyard eggs because they usually have much more bugs in their diet. Our chickens lay eggs with bright fluorescent yellow yolks (compared with the paler yolks of commercial eggs) and the taste is also a lot richer to the point it makes me feel sick if I eat too many.
@anonymoos:
Totally agree, people comment "Why are your eggs a different colour?"
I always respond thats how they are meant to look haha. I think they do taste slightly different when 'picked' freshly.
@XCelR8:
Yes! Its like tomatoes too… we're getting to the point where those horrible tasteless hard as rock things from coles and woolies are the new 'normal'.
@whooah1979: I can. The yolk is darker. Also the shell is stronger when you go to crack it. Nothing beats backyard eggs though, deep orange yolks yum
Omlettes, fritata, quiche, pavlova and souffle at my house for the next fortnight! Eggcelent!
Nice find OP!
Definately eggs for breaky!!
Cage eggs are evil.
Where did you read these eggs are from caged birds?
Says nothing on the box, so they're caged for sure.
First world problem.
Yes, most people in the first world can afford to pay a few extra cents for eggs that aren't produced by putting chickens through short lives of living hell but some still do. It's definitely a problem.
OW price match?
You've got to be yolking.
Pigs are treated fairly cruelly too, it's not just chickens being cooped up in small confined spaces all their lives.
http://m.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/video-shows-abattoir-sta…
The way I see it, unless you're prepared to pay a premium for meat and dairy products there will always be compromises on the quality of life of these animals on the farm. You can complain all you like and make petitions and get media attention but little action is taken - because nobody wants increased production costs and supermarkets don't want to sell expensive meat, people will just consume less meat and this hurts revenue.
TLDR vote with your wallet if you want ethical means of food production
As so often the problem is getting to a critical mass. There always will be some premium of course for ethical products that have to fulfil higher standards, but this is greatly exacerbated by the low volume they start out with and associated inefficiencies in production and distribution.
Eggs are a good example though, the price difference between free range and cage has been shrinking a fair bit over the last few years. I'd say that is Jamie's doing, he got enough people to demand free range eggs that big producers and supermarket chains became interested. Well done!
Specials like this one might be a sign of the tides turning - it would seem that cage egg producers have an oversupply and have to resort to desperate pricing measures to find customers. Let's hope that not too many of us fall for that and that those outdated production methods are on their way out.
Now if only they would actually regulate free range labeling! Even when well-intentioned people are willing to fork out the premium, its likely going straight into the producers pockets while the animals continue to suffer in the same conditions. Existing laws are inadequate to keep producers honest when labeling their foods 'free range'. I've scoured Spud Sheds free range selection in the past and not a single brand has any type of 3rd party certification that backs up their claims. I've even called Eggs by Ellah to enquire about their stocking densities and they blatantly refused to talk to me. What did they have to hide? Well, turns out they were investigated last month…
http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/dead-chickens-dumped-eggs-…
Pretty sure its just standard practice in the industry to hide as much as possible regardless of who is asking. This is presumably because even with certifications you are still talking something which most people think is "cruel" (so to speak) and due to animals rights activists.
Cage free essentially means an enormous warehouse packed with tens of hundreds of thousands of animals with very little room still. They are (might be) better off than in cages but it's still not the image producers want you to have which is free ranging animals outdoors on a field.
That might be true, but in this case they actually were hiding something illegal and are being prosecuted. I reckon if there was a chicken farm out there that embraced the current bad publicity on false labeling and general mistrust, actually treated their chickens well and opened their doors to the public/media, there would be a demographic willing to pay an even higher premium to make it worth their while. I would probably pay $10 a carton if I could see for myself the chickens running around outside with a bit of space. I pay more than that for my backyard eggs if you factor in the coop cost, feed, and time maintaining them.
You can both vote with your wallet and call people out for sponsoring cruelty.
Or take the no cost option and simply don't eat the products of any intentional animal exploitation at all.
Breakie for one sorted.
Mmmmm bacon and eggs= "A days work for a chicken, a life time commitment for a pig"
lol free range chickens are barely any better than their caged counterparts. Most of you city people probably picture them roaming green hills like something out of The Sound of Music. The truth is they are mostly kept in massive sheds.
Last time Spud Shed had a big special on eggs they all had an expiry date of around 1 week, so make sure you check them before you buy unless you plan to guzzle them in one sitting, of course.
^This!
Check the expiry of the bacon as well.
Bought a tray at Jankadot's spud shed, expiry date is 15 Feb.
yeh bought a tray from Jandakot too this morning, also exp date 15-Feb..
Will try these eggs out for breakfast tomorrow… hopefully ok…
Some of the meat for sale is fairly cheap, although expiry dates are very short..
The last lot of eggs we bought from the spud shed were green when you cracked them (yes I know you can have ham with them) seriously green - definitely not googy eggs they were bady eggs :)
We bought a chicken from Coles once that was green inside, maybe it was the one that laid your eggs ???
Great post, Thank you