As egg prices shoot through the roof, Walmart has made a notable omission from its Easter meal kit — eggs.
On Wednesday, Walmart announced its annual cheap Easter meal kit, which contains nine items — a double-glazed ham, Kraft Mac and Cheese, dinner rolls, and various vegetables — for $43.
But for a holiday that puts eggs front and center, the 2025 Easter meal kit is missing that crucial household staple.
The retailer’s announcement touted its Easter promotion prices, saying that the meal kit can feed eight people, bringing the per-person cost to around $6.
“Back by customer demand, Walmart is proud to again offer incredible savings on top of its Every Day Low Prices with an entire Easter meal at an even lower average price than last year,” the announcement read. Walmart’s website wrote that the meal kit is available until April 20.
The price of the meal kit has certainly gone down. The 2024 Easter meal kit, cost less than $8 per person, according to Walmart.
In 2024, Walmart listed an 18-egg pack of Marketside’s cage-free large brown eggs in its meal kit. Upon BI’s checks, the carton of 18 eggs cost $8.04 in New York at press time.
Walmart’s omitting eggs from its Easter meal kit comes as the price of eggs skyrocketed in the US in recent months, partly due to an H5N1 bird flu outbreak in the country.
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics found that the average price of a dozen large Grade A eggs reached a high of $5.90 in February.
A box of a dozen Great Value cage-free eggs — to be delivered to a New York address — cost $4.97 at press time.
The egg price crisis has seen supermarket chains like Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, and Costco imposing limits on the number of cartons each customer could buy.
The price hikes have also affected restaurants. In February, Waffle House started charging a 50-cent surcharge on every egg it sold.
Shake Shack’s CEO, Rob Lynch, said in an earnings call in February that restaurant chains with big breakfast businesses might reduce their egg-related offerings and offer more beef and chicken products instead.
Representatives for Walmart did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.
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