a 252 FOOD FACTS No. 156 Dried Eggs are Cheaper! Eggs are one of the best body-building foods and therefore very important in our wartime diet. But the best of hens lays fewer eggs once May is past, and so there will be fewer and fewer eggs in the shops from now on. Fortunately we are getting very good supplies of Dried Eggs from the United States and Canada, and to make sure no one goes short of this fine body-building food the price has been reduced. The 12 egg package which used to cost 1/9d. now costs only 1/3d.