Parents in the US don't feed their kids eggs for breakfast, it's majority cereal or breakfast bars. Maybe some yogurt but that's almost always upper middle class or above.

"If you’re a typical HN user in the US you might be out of touch with the reality that costs going up $10/week can be a real hardship when you’re raising a family on limited income.".

Skill issue. Oatmeal is very cheap and filling. The aforementioned yogurt. Nothing, yeah nothing, because the average person is obese here and nothing is exactly what they need for breakfast. A piece of fruit like the perennial classic banana for breakfast. Complaining about egg prices comes from the camp of "I tried nothing and nothing worked".

The quintessential out of touch HN comment.

I agree, but for some reason there's huge mental inertia to the foods we eat day to day.

Paying more for staples that you've eaten your whole life (especially in a boiled frog way) is much more time/energy/mentally cheaper than experimenting with how you and your kids might like a bowl of oatmeal prepared.

That said, if you're having trouble making ends meet and you have kids, you don't have much of a choice.