Where do you live? Eggs around here are around $3 per dozen. Box of the oatmeal is around $3.
I’m in California where everything is expensive.
I’m in Oregon and live in one of the suburbs around Portland.
I usually buy my eggs in bulk at Cash and Carry (5 dozen at a time for $5.99) or when I can get them on sale as a loss leader at a regular grocery store. Sometimes they also sell eggs at Cash and Carry for 95 or 99 cents a dozen on sale. During the holidays I usually buy the larger box of 15 dozen eggs there(usually about 8 cents an egg) since we do a lot of baking then because we usually give lots of homemade goodies as Christmas presents to family and friends.
Eggs go on sale here at the regular grocery stores as loss leaders a lot for 99 cents a dozen or $1.79 for an 18 count. I watch the weekly ads like a hawk! We also had two nearby Target stores that recently remodeled and they mailed out coupons for a free dozen eggs to encourage people to visit the store soon, so we picked those up as well. With a family of 5 we can easily go through 5 dozen eggs in a month with two hungry guys in the family, especially since I usually make cookies from scratch about once a week for the familys’sack lunches or some kind of healthy muffins for quick breakfasts that can be taken with you out the door in the morning. Even my nearby Grocery Outlet sells 5 dozen eggs for $6.99 which is still significantly less than the normal price at the regular grocery store.
The Instant Oatmeal and Quaker Oats I buy at a Grocery Outlet store. When I buy oatmeal in bulk I pick it up at Winco where bulk foods are much cheaper than regular grocery stores. The bulk oatmeal there is always less than $1.00 per pound.
Since we are on such a tight food budget and we all eat breakfast at different times due to our diverse schedules, I fix breakfast for dinner once or twice each week, and include eggs in the meal in some form or another then.
I alternate between our family favorites; a breakfast casserole served with toast and fruit or home made freezer jam on the side; French toast, German pancakes, regular pancakes, or waffles with bacon or sausage and some kind of fruit; biscuits and sausage gravy with fried eggs and a side of fruit; scrambled eggs or a fritata with some veggies and cheese thrown in served with kielbasa and grilled onions and toast with fruit or home made jam the side; or fried eggs with grits, bacon or sausage and toast with home made freezer jam.
About once a month or so I make up some egg salad for lunch sandwiches and I always hard boil some eggs for an add on if we have a salad night, and every once in a while I make up a tray of deviled eggs.
You can see how easily my family of 5 can go through 5 dozen eggs in a month. A dozen eggs per person each month really isn’t that many eggs per week since it only works out to 3-4 eggs per person each week.