The Great 'shrinking food and other items' Hunt

briskbeats

Maryland cookies. From 230g to 200g. As had to sort out the sizes. Larger were on clearance at work. 

Silvertabby

Barny1979 said:

briskbeats said:

Noticed this at work today - Go Cat dried cat food has reduced from 825g to 750g. 

There's the massive Public Health ticking timebomb of Chubby Cats in Britain!!!

Off piste, but the Go Cat story (which appeared in a cat magazine some time ago) still makes me chuckle.

A chap rang the maker of Go Cat complaining that their product was rubbish, and was making his problem even worse.  After a lot of confusion, it emerged that he thought 'Go Cat' was a cat repellent, and that he had sprinkled a whole box round his garden in a bid to deter the local moggies.......

20aday

Cadbury bars have shrunk again. Variants which were 200g are now down to 180g and variants which were 180g are now down to 160g. 

savefortherain

Dove soap bars reduced from 100g to 90g (in Asda). Also don't trigger the 4 for £3 offer on the SEL as presumably new barcode for the reduced weight product.

Soon we'll get the privilege of paying to wash with nothing. Seriously, what's the endgame here?

Rosa_Damascena

I pulled what I had assumed to be a large loaf of bread out of the freezer this evening:



Upon examination it turned out it was 650g - I am assuming that it started life at the full 800g? (I paid a silly YS price for it so am not aggrieved, just surprised by the weight).

pumpkin89

Rosa_Damascena said:

Upon examination it turned out it was 650g - I am assuming that it started life at the full 800g? (I paid a silly YS price for it so am not aggrieved, just surprised by the weight).

That particular one has been 650g since launch - according to Allinson's, it was designed for smaller households who struggle to finish an 800g loaf.

Primrose

I hinted to my OH recently that due to all the shrinking food packet sizes it might be a good idea if we proportionately "shrunk" our meal servings portions in view of mildly expanding waistlines     I don't think that idea was particularly well received!

20aday

The Cadbury Twinpot desserts have gone from 85g to 75g I notice. 

maman

Depressing that we've got so used to this that there have been no posts for 6 months. ☹️

Not food but, DD bought me lillies from M&S. I'd got used to 5 instead of previous 6 but now just 4 flowers in a bunch. ☹️ 

KxMx

Flora has gone from 500g to 450g.
Iceland frozen veg just 600g from 800g from 1kg.