The Great 'shrinking food and other items' Hunt

Fire_Fox

Sainsburys garlic chicken kiev with whole breast fillets (£4-ish). Disgusting new recipe anyway, so no worries it is smaller for the same price.

Nasty squeaky chicken. Could get the size and taste at half that price. _pale_

20aday

Sainsbury's have also seemingly shrunk some of their ready meals since the recent packaging rebrand; using the 'new' Nectar app I had XX amount of points for the 450g Cottage Pie but it's now 400g.

On the plus side I *think* they've reduced the price.

Westin

Noted that in Iceland that Flora have reduced the old 500g pack size to 470g and have the nerve to add a red flash on the pack saying ‘Value Size’.

MrsStepford

Korkers gluten free sausages seem to have shrunk. 

NaughtiusMaximus

Davidstow cheddar.

When I first discovered it the standard sized pack was 400g. A few years ago they downsized to 350g. Bought a pack at the weekend, seemed a little on the small side, I checked the label and it's now 320g.

20aday

Aero and Milky Bars are now 90g instead of 100g.

maman

20aday said:

Aero and Milky Bars are now 90g instead of 100g.

I'm sure things like this will be talked up as part of the anti obesity campaign but I think it should be investigated as profiteering. Shame the government is somewhat distracted at the moment. 😉

Farway

maman said:

20aday said:

Aero and Milky Bars are now 90g instead of 100g.

I'm sure things like this will be talked up as part of the anti obesity campaign but I think it should be investigated as profiteering. Shame the government is somewhat distracted at the moment. 😉

There's no law against profiteering in a capitalist free market economy like ours

The only law is supply & demand

od244051

New Covent Garden soup has reduced from 600g to 560g.

Noticed this when myself took the larger size to work and colleague bought a carton at lunch today at supermarket around the corner from work

Rosa_Damascena

Farway said:

maman said:

20aday said:

Aero and Milky Bars are now 90g instead of 100g.

I'm sure things like this will be talked up as part of the anti obesity campaign but I think it should be investigated as profiteering. Shame the government is somewhat distracted at the moment. 😉

There's no law against profiteering in a capitalist free market economy like ours

The only law is supply & demand

Ain't that the truth. 

Whilst I don't agree with capitalism, this one is designed to push us in the right direction. I was in my twenties when the Cadbury's super-sized bars were in their heyday and ridiculously low prices, eg £1.20 for 400g and I would scoff plenty. I stopped buying chocolate a while ago and that was an economic decision. Next up will be cheese if it the offers dwindle.