I recall when we purchased these #10 cans of egg crystals for $30 a can (and I thought that was crazy expensive)
If you look at the price of them here
Ova Easy egg crystals dehydrated premium eggs: Quality & service are found at PHG.
pleasanthillgrain.com
They are selling for $140.00 for 2 (#10 cans) which is 144 eggs (total) or which is a little under $1 an egg). This price has been set for a few years in these cans. I am glad I purchased most of them before they reached this price. And so this price has been holding for for awhile, even before there was a shortage.
And we were wavering between getting more chickens or not a while back (because we used to have them but we dont anymore). The chicken hawks got what we had left. But when we considered the cost for the building, a larger caged in fencing, feed, and dealing with predators (and the typical time span for laying eggs) and a few other things made us change our mind. So we did opt to take what we would have spent on all of that and just rolled it into buying those eggs.
Obviously, you cannot enjoy fried eggs with these but you would have enough to make the various recipes that call for eggs and at least have scrambled eggs (they taste amazing, as if from fresh).
But even if just came down to rationing (for a time) and you got a hankering for fried eggs you can still let you enjoy a few of those if you had to (without breaking the bank) offsetting the current cost of eggs now. And if you live rurally, you can always head over to a neighbors house who has egg laying chickens and see if you can buy or trade something for some fresh eggs.
I just saw a video of what someone called "crisis actors" in the stores trying to get people to panic buy and raise the price of eggs further. So much of this is manufactured its hard to believe what you watch isnt manufactured just to get people worked up further.