Eggs are one of the cheapest and cleanest proteins; They're also used extensively in baking from breads, brownies, cakes, and pastas.

I eat 3 eggs a day for breakfast, 4+ days a week for the last 25 years.

That's 12 eggs a week. So if the price of a dozen eggs has gone from $2 to $5 you are out... $150 a year. And that's for a sizable outlier in egg consumption. It isn't hard to see how this doesn't push overall inflation very meaningfully.

Most store-bought dried pasta has zero egg in it.

An entire homemade cake has like three eggs in it. So the price of an entire cake is up less than a dollar. How many cakes does the average household bake in a year?

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- Cleanest (High Protein, Low fat)

- Cheapest (Cheaper than pork and chicken per g of protein)

- An important ingredient (as a lectin) in many baked goods

You then turn this into an absolute number for 1. But your absolute number of a $150/person/year would certainly approach 10% of my annual grocery spend... which lines up. Your absolute number would be frightening for a family of 4 making the median income.

Inflation is not personally affecting me negatively - for the record, I think it's a reversion to the mean and 10 years of fed targets finally being achieved.

Ok so one carton of eggs a week.

Also, it seems pretty silly to talk about a dollar of extra cost as a problem in the context of making homemade pasta. Homemade pasta is a time intensive luxury.

Everything on the outside of the store has increased in price in the last year. Produce is way up.

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