Jim's Cafe - Saturday - July 11, 2026

[Angie]

Hello SF family, I hope this finds you as well as can be.

Just curious today about the cost of a couple food items in your area:

Loaf of bread
Dozen eggs

I've had to switch from my favorite bread because it is now $4 USD and go to Walmart's brand for $1.50. The quality is poor but affordable. Eggs here have come down from $5-6 to $1.50 per dozen. Minimum wage here is $7.25 (thank you @Pebble mouse for including that valuable bit of data in your response).

 

[Lane]

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[Lane]

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[Lane]

Good morning. Ill have to check prices when I go to store. I dont buy a lot of bread, once in a blue it'll be rye or pumpernickle, the store brand, which i think is like $3.

 

[Lane]

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[Kaya]

It really depends on the bread but on average an entire loaf costs €3 for average whole wheat of decent quality from the supermarket, I can get really cheap bread that'll be more like €1,50 but it's poor in nutrition and very fatty.

Eggs heavily depend if they're free range eggs and size. Medium size from egg batteries that don't let the chickens outside cost about 3,75 for a dozen. Free range about 6 a dozen and those are checked by organisations to ensure decent living standards for the animals.

 

[Pebble mouse]

For a loaf of bread, you are looking between (depending on what you want) $3 - $5AUD. For eggs, around $ 6 AUD. The minimum wage here is $26 an hour.

 

[AvidFan]

I bought a small branded loaf for £1.25 yesterday. It's generally £1.50 for the larger loaves - white or wholemeal. Some a bit more. Haven't bought eggs in over 18 months as far as I can remember so can't comment on the price of eggs!

 

[LumberJack]

cheapest eggs: $ 1.60; “bougie” eggs (free range, organic, chickens get pedicures in the evenings) $7.50 per dozen.

I don’t buy a lot of bread because I mostly eat cereal instead. Since covid, the price of kellogs or post cereals have gone up to $7 for approx 20 ounce box, previously $4. However, I have figured out that sometimes they go on sale for a lot less and I can get 4-5 boxes at a time with some ridiculous deal like buy 2, get 3 free. Only problem is that storing that much in my studio apartment is awkward. I also like muesli (think granola, but hot), and it is around $6.50 at the supermarket. I have gotten it from Amazon at 4 bags for $20 which means I can have it more often.

 

[cymbele]

Bread is $4-5 for a small good quality loaf. Eggs I don’t buy anymore.

 

[MrCellophane]

thank you for tagging me Lane, i appreciate it

i dont go to the regular shops much, i mostly have been eating fast food. if i do i often go to the dollar store, which doesnt have eggs and i havent bought those in a long time even if i do go to the regular store, so im not sure. i havent bought bread in a long time either but last time i did it was the dollar store for 1.50. i think it costs more then that at the regular store but not sure how much exactly.

 

[Inastorm]

Thanks @Angie for opening the cafe and @Lane for tagging me

Minimum wage here is $7.25

Thats terrible!, no one can live off of that. In the UK its $17 if your over 21.

$3.35 for dozen free range eggs and i only eat decent bread (sourdough) so about $3.35 again.

 

[seabird]

@Angie

Minimum wage is 17.13 USD an hour. that's pretty good compared to some other staes but it's counteracted by housing being extremely high priced.

I don't buy bread, instead, I make it once in a while, my guess is it works out to about a dollar for a loaf.

Eggs are expensive. The pasture raised organic can be as much as $13. a dozen at the bougie shops but I've seen the exact same ones for $7. at other shops and online. The local big stores have standard eggs for about $1.50 oer dozen.

@Lane ty

 

[1Lefty]

I bought eggs last week, they were a local brand, about $1.50. The organic or free range were quite a bit higher, but I didn't pay that much attention.
i bought a half-loaf of multigrain bread for$4.00. a full loaf was $6.00. The kind I prefer is multigrain, with nuts and seeds. That's usually 2 for $7.00 at the big warehouse grocery chain.
Something of a tangent, I generally haven't seen mold on a loaf of store bread, even after being on the counter for weeks, makes me wonder how much nutrition is really there if mold can't survive. When I bake bread, it's only good for a few days before spoiling.

peace

 

[KM76710]

I can't remember those costs from recently, but I did fill up with gas a couple of days ago, almost $40.00 for a near empty 12 gallon tank. I believe I was at the 50 miles to empty warning.

 

[SillyOldBear]

Heck, I pay over $5 a gallon of gas in Washington State. Thanks to our tax hungry leaders.
@KM76710

 

[FFurry]

Thx @Angie ! I usually pay $5.99 for my loaf of bread, which is rye. But that's just one brand. You can pay as little as $1.50 or so when something else like a store brand is on sale. Or you can pay $10 or more for the "gourmet stuff."

Basic eggs would probably be around $3 a dozen here. But these might not be from the happy chickens. The happy chickens, organic and free-range and seed-fed and whatnot, are at least $4.99 at Trader Joe's, which is what I usually get.

So, in a nutshell: $5.99 and $4.99 😂

 

[Gard]

Hi, everyone.
I calculated the prices in dollars in Ukraine:
Large eggs (10 pieces) — 60 UAH ≈ $1.35
Bread (350 g) — 26 UAH ≈ $0.58

Minimum wage in Ukraine (after taxes and military levy):
Monthly: 6,658 UAH / ≈ $150
Hourly: 40 UAH / ≈ $0.90

I got curious, so I did a quick comparison of how long you’d have to work in different countries to buy 10 eggs and some bread. I wanted to put this in a table, but it looks like the SF forum doesn’t support HTML.

I hope I didn’t mix anything up with your answers.

Ukraine

• Minimum wage: ≈ $0.90/hour

Food prices:

• Bread: $0.58 (350 g loaf)
• Eggs: $1.35 (10 eggs)

Working time required:

• To buy a loaf of bread: ≈ 39 minutes
• To buy 10 eggs: ≈ 1 hour 30 minutes

Australia

• Minimum wage: A$26/hour

Food prices:

• Bread: A$3–5 per loaf
• Eggs: A$6 per dozen

Working time required:

• To buy a loaf of bread: ≈ 7–12 minutes
• To buy a dozen eggs: ≈ 14 minutes

United States (Minimum Wage)

• Minimum wage: $7.25/hour

Food prices:

• Bread: $1.50–4.00 per loaf
• Eggs: $1.50 per dozen

Working time required:

• To buy a loaf of bread: ≈ 12–33 minutes
• To buy a dozen eggs: ≈ 12 minutes

United Kingdom

• Minimum wage: ≈ $17/hour

Food prices:

• Bread: $3.35 sourdough loaf
• Eggs: $3.35 per dozen free-range eggs

Working time required:

• To buy a loaf of bread: ≈ 12 minutes
• To buy a dozen eggs: ≈ 12 minutes

United States (State Minimum Wage $17.13/hour)

• Minimum wage: $17.13/hour

Food prices:

• Bread: $1.00 homemade loaf
• Eggs: $1.50–13.00 per dozen

Working time required:

• To buy a loaf of bread: ≈ 3–4 minutes
• To buy a dozen eggs: ≈ 5–46 minutes

 

[Angie]

@Gard thank you for the additional information!

 

[Pebble mouse]

I got curious, so I did a quick comparison of how long you’d have to work in different countries to buy 10 eggs and some bread

Interesting info. Thanks @Gard 👍