The Great 'shrinking food and other items' Hunt

System

Someone else has said the smaller Cadbury's bars have shrunk in size.....but last night I noticed that the chunks in the large bars have thinned out a bit. I had a look at the pack and they've shrunk them from 230g to 200g, but the wrapper is still the same size so you wouldn't know (unless you're a dreadful chocoholic like me).

Winter_Phoenix

Sainsbury's changed the packaging of their 'Ultra Soft Tissues' from blue to brown - the box was the same size, but now there were only 80 tissues in it instead of 85.

A little later they 'shrank' the size of the box, and took the moral high ground - claiming that they were being ecologically sound by using 20% less packaging for the same number of tissues.

Hmm.

DCFC79

Noticed today 18 can packs of Pepsi are now can size of 250ml instead of 330ml, might have been like it for a while but only just noticed.

EssexGirl

Aunt Bessie's gravy granules have been repackaged into a longer slimmer container (that no longer fits it it's space in my cupboard :mad:) plus it's gone from 300g to 260g for the same price.

Edwardia

The Lindt Lindor big red truffle-filled truffle isn't as big this year and I'm sure it's more expensive at £15 (seen Sainsbury's and ASDA).

Ezmondino

Although Mr Left Twix and Mr Right Twix work independently and don’t know what each other does, they’ve both managed to reduce the size of their bars from 60g to 50g. Impressive. Perhaps they are psychic. I reckon they both had the same idea of removing caramel as well.

lovefullshelves

My favourite treat from Iceland, sweet and sour chicken has reduced from 263g to 255g.. I have lost a chicken b*ll! (yes I count them, OH is not getting more than me!!)

preciousillusions

Anyone recall when Muller Lights used to be 200g?!

fionajbanana

Sainsburys Piccalilli both the normal and sweet have gone from 400-425g down to 290g - between 37.8 - 42% shrink. Same price - £1 a jar and its on 2 for £1.50.

I was there this morning picking up buffet bits for a colleague's 50th birthday do this afternoon

Oscargrouch

tigerange wrote: »

Hovis Best of Both has reduced from 800g to 750g - but the price stays the same!

As I used to work a few moons ago in the Bakery of a large S/Market... this may be of interest..http://www.tradingstandards.gov.uk/cgi-bin/glos/bus1item.cgi?file=*badv609-1111.txt