Colorado Springs

Dollar Tree, Medium eggs=$1/doz or Safeway=$3.99dz. Gallon of Milk=$2.29

California SF Bay Area prices today.
Milk, 1 Gallon whole - Average at 3.91 (2. 80 - 5.00)
Dozen Eggs - Average 4.00 ( 2.80 - 6.00)

WOW! Milk and eggs at the 'discount' (Save-a-Lot) store are $2.99 for 2% milk and $.99 for medium white eggs. These prices have varied little over the past 2 years. I'm in middle TN.

I rarely buy milk or eggs at a grocery store so had to look at our Safeway ad. Organic milk, 1%, 2%, whole was 3.49 half gallon this week. 18 brown organic grade A eggs $5.99. I buy milk at Costco and just did on Friday, 3 half gallons organic per box was $10.79 so slightly more. I get eggs from a friend ( much better than store eggs ;0)) and don't pay for them, but do her favors and occasionally slip her $5 - $10 to help with feed. Washington coast.

Holy moly!! Eggs are $3.50 a dozen here! I'm in Canada so we buy our milk by the litre. 2 litres of milk costs around $3.50 (there are almost 4 litres in a gallon).

I'm in the same area as watchme. California's cost of living has long been high on the list of such things (together with several high cost eastern urban metro areas) and the Bay Area is generally the most expensive part of California. A consolation is that we do have access to the great produce.

California has a modified "cage free" law that prohibits the use of tightly confining cages that are common in other parts of the country. Producers might argue that the need to use more space increases costs but I can't imagine the impact is that great. We prefer organic eggs from pastured chickens for taste reasons and the cost is usually in the $5-$6 range. Even at that price, eggs are an inexpensive food item.

My Canadian family will be buying milk and eggs in MI today! My DIL's dad makes the trip weekly. He's 77 and drinks milk for every meal and snack. He doesn't know why since he didn't drink milk prior to retirement 17 years ago.

Our milk is sold in 4-liter bags and everyone sells it for $4.27 (except homogenized which is more). Our eggs used to be in the $4 range but they've dropped. Many stores sell them for $2 dozen for large.......which sure aren't very large.

We buy only organic eggs and milk. Eggs range from $3.99-$5.19/dozen, and whole organic milk is $3.49-ish per half-gallon.

Egg prices are all over here in Chicago. One market is offering 3 dozen for $1, some are 39 cents. All are large eggs and seem to come from "Hamilton Farms". I buy my milk at Aldi, last price was $1.29 for 2%/gallon. Prices have been like this for more than a year now. And yes, at least once a week it is eggs for dinner in some form. Carbonara, frittata, quiche, and breakfast style.

Milk and egg prices here (at Wal Mart) are about what Bay Area California is.

I buy by brand for milk, so ignore the ups and downs of the least expensive brands. It actually saves money, as with some brands one gal. would taste good and the next so horrible that no one would drink it. Alta Dena tends to be fairly consistent in taste.

Wow! We pay $4 for a half gallon of organic milk. Eggs on sale this week at 40 cents a dozen...usually more like $1.50

At ALDI the milk was less than $1.40 gallon and the eggs were less than 40 cents. I bought half gallon milk though for 79 cents. I like the convenience of half gallons. We are really getting spoiled on milk and egg prices.

Scrambled eggs in a cast iron skillet tonight. Yum!

We like Kirkland's brown organic eggs at Costco, so I passed on the $2.99/dozen white extra large mainland eggs and paid $7.39 for two dozen large yesterday in Kahului. Their 2% milk is just under $5/gallon, very close to what it is at Safeway, where we can get the 1% we prefer.

DH paid $8 for a gallon of 1% at Foodland recently, because, "They didn't have any other 1% milk." (OK, honey. Nevermind. Thanks for running the errand.)

Today at Safeway I saw Progresso soup at $4.39/can. I just bought that at the same store last week for $2.39/can. At home it's sometimes $1.50/can. Everything is at least 20% more on Maui, but this is ridiculous!

I remember my first trip to Hawaii as a recent college grad in the early 70s and, among other things, being surprised by how much more expensive everything seemed. There's no reason to expect that to ever change, on islands in the middle of an ocean whose major means of earning income is by being a tourist/vacation destination.

I noticed a price hike this week or quite recently, milk went from 3.59 to 4.20. This is in Arkansas.

For me, eggs fluctuate in price quite a bit. A year or two ago they were over $2 per dozen, now they are regularly about 75 cents per dozen. For some reason, I can never remember the price of milk. Around $3 per gallon, I think.

I pay $7 a dozen for pastured eggs. Normal eggs are in the $3 range. I don't really buy milk.