Egg prices have skyrockets since last Easter, with prices more than doubling between February 2022 and February 2023. Now families are trying to balance their budgets with the Easter tradition of dyeing eggs.

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Skyrocketing Eggs Prices Compete With Easter Dyeing Traditions

Jessica mbale, a mom of four from Westchester County, New York has been dying eggs. All colors of the rainbow for Easter with her family for years. But this year the color that stands out for her is green. We need at least two cartons of eggs and then for the dye, those were $5 each pack. So we're at almost $30. Just Eggs. egg prices exploded in 2023 hitting an all time high in January of $4.82 for a dozen for families everywhere. It means digging deeper in their wallet to continue with family traditions. We've been doing it 10 years now and I'm sure when my daughters have their kids, they're going to want to do the same thing. They are colorful and they, and they are beautiful. The cost of eggs are slowly dropping but they're still up about 70% from this time last year. If you want to save some cash, this Easter, you can offer plastic eggs which go for about a quarter of a cent per egg versus the real deal, which goes for a dollar and five including the cost of a dying kit. I think that if you are a family and traditionally you die real eggs around Easter, you're going to continue to die real eggs around Easter. Brian Moscow Ghori with eggs unlimited. One of the biggest suppliers of eggs predicts people will react to the price of eggs like other grocery store staples. Sometimes you go to the store and you buy avocados and they're 50 cents an avocado and sometimes they're $2 an avocado if you want to eat avocado toast every day. I mean, you're going to deal with the differences in those commodity prices. Time will tell if families across the country will follow suit egg data for this Easter season will be available in the coming months. But for the Mira Bale household, this is a tradition that will carry on.