The great food-shrinking crisis

Oh, Poptarts! I'm a child and don't like them unfrosted. I always break the "crust" off. I swear I am throwing away half the Poptart anymore instead of just a thin edge anymore.

On the opposite side, packaged hamburger meat drives me crazy. Sloppy Joe, tacos, whatever, usually call for a pound. None of the prepackaged is ever less than 1.4 pounds.

Tuna has definitely shrunk. They haven't even bothered to make the cans smaller. I have a recipe from the Seventies that calls for something like a 7 oz can of tuna. That used to be the regular size. It's now 5 ounces.

Mu husband did the same thing as you.  I commented on the fact that it wasn't that great of a deal since the can is smaller.  He didn't even notice.

This is my pet peeve too. I would rather pay more for a larger size than have them make it smaller for the same price.

The good shrinkage is called the two martini olive principle. Look it up and it will give you another reason to hate airlines.

Toilet paper. I swear if those rolls get any narrower a person might be better off using your fingers...

I hate the deceptive way they do it by shrinking instead of increasing the price. And nevermind that a lot of our recipes call for the old sizes so you're always having to open another package.

Unfortunately, the food-shrinking crisis has not resulted in any waist-shrinking success for me.

Sugar has been sold in 4 lbs bags instead of 5 lbs for close to 10 years now.  Some brands may have change a little later, but it's been awhile. 

 I remember having a fit when they changed it years ago, then I realized that the 4 lb size fit in my storage container where as with the 5 lb bag I'd always have a bag with just a bit of sugar in it taking up shelf space. 
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The worst offender I thought of was Mother or Mothers? frosted animal cookies. You open a bag of those and they barely cover the bottom.

Toilet paper and ice cream are the ones I've noticed the most. Have you guys noticed how expensive dishwasher detergent is anymore? I decided to switch it up and go to Cascade + Lemishine to try to help my dishes. It worked and my dishes look great but that Cascade was $4.99 for 12 tabs!!!

I'm another one driven crazy by the pound and a half hamburger packages. Give me a pound or a little less than a pound, I have no interest in 1.5 pounds. Most often now I go to the meat counter and ask for one pound of hamburger in two half pound packages.

This is SO true!  When my Grandmother passed away, one of my sisters made all of the grandchildren a scrapbook with memories of my grandparents, and with about 20 of my Grandmother's prized/secret recipes.  Luckily she wrote down everything, to the tsp!!   Every time I make her superb NY style cheesecake, we all say, "Thank you, Nana!"  

I went all the way back to boxed powder.  After doing so, I thought what the heck was I thinking that I needed tabs- it only saves like 5 seconds, yet costs many times more than the same in powder form.

Ice cream. Boxes of cereal. Bottles of soda, juice, gatorade, etc.

Bags of sugar. They sell four pound bags instead of five pound bags, but the price is the same/slightly higher.