RE: How much is does your breakfast cost? - Tell us in the comments
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It's a bit different for us since we raise our own chickens and bake our own bread.
In Spokane WA though:
With birds laying, a dozen eggs costs us less than a dollar in feed.
My bread loaves cost about a dollar in ingredients.
We do buy Almond Milk instead of cow milk and it is $2/half gallon
Bacon in the store is about $6/pound depending on the brand.
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Thank you for sharing, I knew it would be difficult to gauge for some, especially for those who grow their own food.
Something you didn't include in the price of your eggs, is the price of the land or the cost analysis of caring for birds.
I read your reply and automatically was wistful for a place where I can have bird laying eggs, then remembered the time and space I would need to do that.
The land is essentially amortized into the eggs, (or is it eggs into the land?) at this point, since they mostly free range the farm it is hard to gauge an exact value. My coop also houses my walk-in cooler for the farm so it has been accounted for long ago. My time is rather immaterial given they require VERY little care. All of this by design to reduce my costs and effort involved. If I were selling the eggs I would likely be profiting from the hens.
Now the meat birds are bit different story as they need much more care and feed so the costs on our chicken meat are about the same as the stores ~$2-3/pound.
If you have any yard at all you can have a couple laying hens at least since most cities and towns allow some form of backyard hens, just not roosters.