The Great 'shrinking food and other items' Hunt

Rosa_Damascena

The Goodies and Anita Harris, I am loving this nostalgia!

Tins may have been bigger back in the day but catching up on TOTP 1984 last night was a reminder that the vast majority of people were extremely slim by today's standards. Chocolate was a treat and eating between meals not a norm then.

briskbeats

Rosa_Damascena said:

The Goodies and Anita Harris, I am loving this nostalgia!

Tins may have been bigger back in the day but catching up on TOTP 1984 last night was a reminder that the vast majority of people were extremely slim by today's standards. Chocolate was a treat and eating between meals not a norm then.

Same goes to takeaways and McDs. Back in the day, most people had them when they came back from holiday at 8pm, birthdays. Now some people have 2 takeaways a week.

motorguy

Barny1979 said:

Indeed     

Ah that old chestnut.

The tin sizes are now made down to a price point.  People want to pay £4-5 for a tub in a supermarket.  You can still buy the big tins.

wild666

Gobsh said:

Anyone remember when a tin of Quality Street and Roses weighed a whopping 7 pounds?

And the original tins weighed 5 Kg 

wild666

briskbeats said:

Rosa_Damascena said:

The Goodies and Anita Harris, I am loving this nostalgia!

Tins may have been bigger back in the day but catching up on TOTP 1984 last night was a reminder that the vast majority of people were extremely slim by today's standards. Chocolate was a treat and eating between meals not a norm then.

Same goes to takeaways and McDs. Back in the day, most people had them when they came back from holiday at 8pm, birthdays. Now some people have 2 takeaways a week.

Two per week try 2 per day that's why so many people are overweight, they make Roy "Chubby" Brown a favourite contender for slimmer of the year.

briskbeats

wild666 said:

briskbeats said:

Rosa_Damascena said:

The Goodies and Anita Harris, I am loving this nostalgia!

Tins may have been bigger back in the day but catching up on TOTP 1984 last night was a reminder that the vast majority of people were extremely slim by today's standards. Chocolate was a treat and eating between meals not a norm then.

Same goes to takeaways and McDs. Back in the day, most people had them when they came back from holiday at 8pm, birthdays. Now some people have 2 takeaways a week.

Two per week try 2 per day that's why so many people are overweight, they make Roy "Chubby" Brown a favourite contender for slimmer of the year.

Also there’s wasn’t the coffee shops too. You can have a latte with a slice of cake and that’s 800-900 calories depending on the type of cake! How many people order this and not realising that they are consuming 45% of their daily calories?

Troytempest

In ASDA today and lots of Tassimo pods on the usual 3 for £9 offer. However noticed that some of the packs were only 12 pods rather than the usual 16.

molerat

Quite a few seem to be moving down to the 12s / 14s now, Tesco and Asda have had them for ages.  The Tassimo site still has 16s but B&M had loads which is often a sign of something being discontinued.

Rosa_Damascena

briskbeats said:

wild666 said:

briskbeats said:

Rosa_Damascena said:

The Goodies and Anita Harris, I am loving this nostalgia!

Tins may have been bigger back in the day but catching up on TOTP 1984 last night was a reminder that the vast majority of people were extremely slim by today's standards. Chocolate was a treat and eating between meals not a norm then.

Same goes to takeaways and McDs. Back in the day, most people had them when they came back from holiday at 8pm, birthdays. Now some people have 2 takeaways a week.

Two per week try 2 per day that's why so many people are overweight, they make Roy "Chubby" Brown a favourite contender for slimmer of the year.

Also there’s wasn’t the coffee shops too. You can have a latte with a slice of cake and that’s 800-900 calories depending on the type of cake! How many people order this and not realising that they are consuming 45% of their daily calories?

I'm a fan of the oversize latte but I count that as a meal - eg a 2.30pm experience is lunch. Plus I can't bear to part with a couple of quid for the merest wafer of cake when I can get a "top end" supermarket brand that will give me 4 greedy servings for less than that.

wild666

Lower the quantity, keep the same price then supermarkets sell them in bulk with less pods per pack. I don't use Tassimo or any other pods but I like my coffee from beans that I grind myself.