The Great 'Shrinking Food' Hunt

Ezmondino

The one that annoys me is cat food sachets that have gone from 100g to 85g. Cats are used to a certain amount of food, so are we supposed to use 1 and a bit sachets? Doesn't really work. Just means I don't buy that make.

steviedeal

Nestle Matchmakers were 151g last year, 130g this year
McVites Victoria 600g last year 500g this year

alfista

Ezmondino wrote: »

The one that annoys me is cat food sachets that have gone from 100g to 85g. Cats are used to a certain amount of food, so are we supposed to use 1 and a bit sachets? Doesn't really work. Just means I don't buy that make.

Look on the bright side - you'll have a leaner / healthier cat.

Rolandtheroadie

Might have been mentioned before, but Mattesons smoked sausage down from 227g to 200g.

thor

It was an extremely sad day yesterday when I broke into my 6 pack of Mccoys chedder and cheese crisps to find that the packs have been reduced from 32g to 30g. The price naturally is still the same.
Very very sad.

RHYSDAD

I think the cadbury single finger 'Time out' bars were in packs of 9 for a pound. Now 8 in a packet, for a pound, naturally!

KxMx

Most of the standard Fox's biscuit packs seem tiny now. If they weren't 50p as Asda they wouldn't have gotten bought!

saverbynature

I've been buying packs of chicken thighs from M&S regularly for a couple of years now. At £4 for 1kg it was reasonable value but was often on a 3 for £10 deal which was even better. However when I went to stock up again this week I found they've reduced the pack weight to 750g but the price is the same. This amounts to a 25% increase - ridiculous!

Brockyman

My son has asthma and uses a Bricanyl inhaler fairly regularly.
He couldn't understand why he was suddenly getting through so many inhalers until he looked and saw that they now only have 100 doses in instead of the 200 they had previously.

Not sure who would have made that decision, wether it's the NHS who wanted to save some prescription money or the drugs company who want more profit but I think that is probably the most disgraceful quantity reduction I have yet seen. Effectively it has doubled the price of a prescription.

maman

Brockyman wrote: »

My son has asthma and uses a Bricanyl inhaler fairly regularly.
He couldn't understand why he was suddenly getting through so many inhalers until he looked and saw that they now only have 100 doses in instead of the 200 they had previously.

Not sure who would have made that decision, wether it's the NHS who wanted to save some prescription money or the drugs company who want more profit but I think that is probably the most disgraceful quantity reduction I have yet seen. Effectively it has doubled the price of a prescription.

That really is disgraceful. Have you taken it up with the manufacturers/suppliers? I'd love to know what they're reasoning is. Lighter to carry maybe?;)