Cost of Living - Shrinkflation is speeding up at an alarming rate

some E number providing attractive colours - just like wild berries in nature (but they can sometimes be traps)

b0rn2sk8 said:
All your link shows that snack food is hyper processed. OMG :eek: literally a surprise to no one.
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link/chart shows non-snack foods are misleadingly branded too - it's pervasive.

I didn't mention, but one of the signatures on ultra processing is that food stuffs are over liquidised(like the smoothie meme) which is destroying nutritional benefit -
all was discussed in a radio 4 food programme podcast, several weeks ago, which discusses how babies micro-bio gut development is hindered by that and predisposition it can give for obesity.
all seemed very much a man is defined by what he eats as a baby.
 
Noticed Morrisons have smaller and bigger juice cartons, but they both hold 1l, basically another example of shrinkflation whilst preserving (the supposedly expensive) packaging size.
 
b0rn2sk8 said:
All your link shows that snack food is hyper processed. OMG :eek: literally a surprise to no one.

Who would have thought trash food like rusks are hyper processed?

A mini blender can be had for next to nothing.

There is a time and the placed for quick and easy solutions but they should be the exception and not the norm, the issue is they have become the norm.

Don’t get me wrong, I like snack food like the next person, they are literally designed to give you that dopamine hit. However, I’m under no illusion it has anything other than a negative impact on my diet. To the point that complaining that long life convenience foods are hyper processed is like complaining the sky is blue.

Stop feeding kids that trash (and they are trash empty calories with little substance) and it stops being a problem. There was a reason Jamie Oliver got a bee in his bonnet over school dinners.
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You talk though as if it has to be a choice of manually prepping everything manually along with the cleanup afterwards or convenience with high processing.

I believe its possible to provide a convenience product without all this processing, they just dont want to do it, because of profits.

So there is nothing with pushing for improvement.
 
some people are just damn lazy but throwing ingredients into a ninja takes maybe a minute and they even self clean. my mum always batch cooked from fresh and then froze and still does.
I do partake in the odd vegan pizza or sausages but you can still have an overall healthy diet keeping to the fresh stuff the majority of the time ,just need to reign in my red wine intake now
Also a bag of frozen veg is like 90p still
 
supermarkets could have just told Competition and Markets Authority/CMA they were cross-subsidising food prices with additional petrol income -
taking from the rich and giving to the poor. (who wasn't already using petrol prices app)

Equally , wouldn't mind seeing Sadiq's money grab on expanded ULEZ being rejected in court , unless they have a clear explanation of where that money will go - will he be in court.
 
I would very much rather pay more than have to pay the same for less.

Nothing does my nut in more than when they make deceptive packaging. Such as having a divot underneath so it looks the same volume but is actually less.
 
one solution to avoid shrinkflation

Russia seized control of the Russian subsidiaries of France’s Danone SA and Denmark’s Carlsberg under a decree by President Vladimir Putin aimed at companies from “unfriendly” countries.

According to Sunday’s decree, shares in Baltika Brewing Company, owned by Carlsberg, and in Danone Russia JSC will be transferred to Russia’s Federal Property Management Agency for “temporary management.”
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pasta seems to have come down in price - stockpiling that was a false economy
dairy: milk/shrunken-butter still expensive though, like olive oil; green veg poor maybe that's seasonal, but,
becomes hard to remember pre-brexit times - we need our own Perestroika
 
Value is not to be had anymore.

Everything you can buy is either crap quality or considerably overpriced for what it is and its all about profiteering.

The once mighty cadburys chocolate fingers are now half the size and the chocolate coating so thin you can see the biscuit god dammit.
 
Not necessarily shrinkflation but a few weeks ago I had an out-loud exclamation in Lidl. I buy their 10kg bag of Basmati Rice. In the past it's always had a handle at the top for carrying (juts holes in the plastic bag, but it worked fine) and then the last time I picked up a new bag, no holes. SO now you have this 10kg bag of rice which is an utter **** to hold on to because the plastic is also slippery. My out loud vent was a simple "Why the **** does everything get *******?!?!"

Going to a supermarket now is just... demoralising. I have a good job, cheap accommodation and decent savings. Yet I bought a certain pack of eggs today because they were 13.3p(mixed size) per piece rather than 23.3(large) per piece(Lidl)
 
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NooBish AbbZ said:
Not necessarily shrinkflation but a few weeks ago I had an out-loud exclamation in Lidl. I buy their 10kg bag of Basmati Rice. In the past it's always had a handle at the top for carrying (juts holes in the plastic bag, but it worked fine) and then the last time I picked up a new bag, no holes. SO now you have this 10kg bag of rice which is an utter **** to hold on to because the plastic is also slippery. My out loud vent was a simple "Why the **** does everything get *******?!?!"

Going to a supermarket now is just... demoralising. I have a good job, cheap accommodation and decent savings. Yet I bought a certain pack of eggs today because they were 13.3p(mixed size) per piece rather than 23.3(large) per piece(Lidl)
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Profits profits profits, probably subsidising another country.
 
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