<p>I just realized how little of packaged food we are buying, we do not buy any of the above with various counts. But I know that fresh salmon and fresh meat got much more expansive, while chicken is the same (we buy only cooked). Chicken is not our preference, looks like it is not in great demand if price is staying the same. However, peice of sushi at our favorite place has been the same for the last 20 years, both in size and price.</p>
<p>I’ve noticed the product shrinkage for quite some time. The monthly Consumer Reports often has a prime example on it’s last page - entitled "selling it’.</p>
<p>About the only thing that doesn’t seem to be shrinking is the size of the average American derriere. :eek:</p>
<p>I always look at the oz. and noticed this trend as well. It sucks.</p>
<p>Over the summer I was not buying groceries at all. Starting up again in Sept, I see a difference in many things. I wouldn’t buy Coca-cola at the new price, and now I weigh twelve pounds less myself. So there is an upside.</p>
<p>I noticed it with cereal…the boxes look the same from the front, but they’re definitely skinnier. I wonder how thin they can get before they don’t stand up? :D</p>
<p>And how small can tuna cans get before they give up and call them “single serving?” I told my D when I was little we used to get 3 or 4 sandwiches out of a can (with celery etc. added). She thought my mother was mighty skimpy with the tuna!</p>
<p>And it does mess up recipes. If the recipe say “one can” instead of so many oz., how are you to know how much to use?</p>
<p>What about the new Hersheys bars that are all puffed up with air (otherwise known as holes), and the commercials that seem to think we should be impressed with how light they taste?</p>
<p>^Haha–I am not impressed by Yoplait Whips yogurt either. Mostly air.</p>
<p>Not only have food container sizes shrunk, but what’s inside food containers has changed too. I was eating what I thought was ice cream the other night, but when I looked more closely at my Breyers Black Raspberry Chocolate shrunk down to 1.5 quart size container I noticed the stuff is labeled “frozen dairy dessert” on the container…not ice cream! The stuff I ate in the Breyers container apparently isn’t even ice cream.</p>
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<p>Yes, you have to be careful with Breyers. Some of the flavors are still real ice cream and simple ingredients, but many are not.</p>
<p>^^What an insult it was to discover that some of the frozen stuff isn’t really ice cream. I had a nagging suspicion one day in the freezer cabinets when I finallly noticed that the words “ice cream” appeared nowhere on a 14-0z “pint” package of Turkey Hill ‘ice cream.’</p>
<p>Well, I get satisfaction and combat shrunken groceries nonsense by purchasing the 59-oz half gallon of orange juice only when it’s discounted.</p>
<p>The thing is we all have veto power. Do not buy the product if you do not like it. It will work. Complaining will not.</p>
<p>Lots of packs of printer paper are no longer a full 500 sheet ream but 400 sheets. Baby wipes (no baby here for a long time, but I keep them in my car) went from 80 sheets to 72 and sometimes even fewer.</p>
<p>I just went to Subway and found that the subs have shrunk. They are still 12" long, but at least 1/2" slimmer in width, and about half as high (thin bread). I commented on it to the cashier and she admitted, “We got new molds.”</p>
<p>Oh yeah,it has been going on for years. If they keep making yogurt containers smaller, we’ll have to take a magnifying glass to the store to find it on the shelf.</p>
<p>Maybe these companies are just looking out for our health! I thank Dreyers Ice Cream all the time! Double the price and a smaller container. I never buy it anymore ( and I love it so).</p>
<p>Soup recipe calls for 16 oz. can of tomatoes. When I got the can out of my pantry I noticed that the can is 14.5 oz. now…ugh,</p>
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<p>The Aero bar has actually been sold around the world for over 80 years now. It’s has even been sold in the US a few times in the past.</p>
<p>Also, for the shrinking pastas. Not sure if anyone else feels the same way, but I feel like 12oz of the whole wheat pasta is actually more filling than 16oz of the normal stuff. I’d still really prefer to get 16oz since that’s the amount of sauce I’m used to making for.</p>