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Posted on 01/24/2011 7:55:30 PM PST by wrrock
This has been going on for years. The really telling point for me was when they changed Ice Cream containers and the previous container was five quarts, but the new container is almost down to four quarts. But even the size of bread loaves has been adjusted downward. Another tactic is to reduce to near nothing any ingredient which is expensive (like real vanilla) and substitute an artifical copy (vanilla flavoring?... a chemical that just happens to taste like vanilla!). I noticed that one ten years ago, with frozen key lime pie.
Standard sidearm use to be .45 caliber. Now it's 9mm or .40 caliber! And, the guns cost more!
The only thing getting better are Obamas poll #s
Frankly I dont understand it.
It is like there is mass delusion going on.
Someone pass the SOMA....
Well I was only off by 25 years..at my age that’s close. Jimmy Carter stikes again, moonshiners sad..
IIRC, Walmart doesn't tolerate their suppliers making packages bigger while keeping the same or less amount of food inside. And a big part of Walmart's success probably has to do with them being one of the largest non-government users of technology in the world.
Campbell’s is ridiculous as of late.
They have more than quadrupled the price of some of the offerings.
Did you notice how the container industry has helped this by ‘innovating’ the new ‘handle stamped into the shape’ containers which reduce the volume for contents in measured amounts? I try to clip them back by making ‘cannisters’ out of the palstic popoff lid containers with built in handles. Keep my coffee beans in the original bag, but store then in the ‘Folgers’ handle cannister/container. I store pantry amounts of wheat and oat flour, sugar, cake flour, and two types of rice in these pop off plastic containers. If critters are a problem, place a sheet of clingy plastic wrap on top before closing the lid.
20 sodas in a case? Unamerican!
The kneepad wearing media whores are faking the popularity polls for barry the bastard. The fools want the Republic to fail so they can high five that they are so effective.
So how much on all groceries (including paper products and cleaning supplies and all that) should a family of basically six adults spend per month? No eating out.
Wasting your breath, Larry.
This pimp has several blogs he posts from, presumably all his own, most notably one called “Butasforme..”
He’s been posting on FR for over two years, but he hasn’t commented on any threads, his own or otherwise, since January of last year. Evidently discussing his threads with FReepers here doesn’t give him the kind of traffic he wants.
I haven’t bothered to check for additional instances of plagiarism, but what are the odds?
Go ahead wrrock - if I’m misjudging you, prove me wrong.
People on fixed incomes are going to be screwed.
Here, take the blue pill and go home to die.
Sadly, blogs are about the only thing that can be posted at FR without threat of a lawsuit anymore.
It might surprise you how many of us ‘old timers’ were born into less than middle class goodies, and we will figure out how to go back to living the way our parents raised us. Shucks, for every ‘Hardee’s breakfast club’, a guy like me, at my age, can manage to cook up a substitute for like-aged friends to attend and eschew the three-times-per-week coffee clutch at Hardee’s. Might be a good idea anyway! Get a morning Bible study going instead of passing around pix of the grandkids.
Oh, and BTW, we all carry, men and women, even if it’s just a 38 owlhead. Getting hard to find that ammo now though.
One benchmark I have kept track of is the price of a 50 pound sack of long grain white rice grown in the USA. A year ago it was selling for about $16 and now it is selling for over $20.
I had heard about the portion size changes that were an attempt to hide the price increases. Every time there is an inflation report it always has a caveat that energy and food prices are excluded because they are too “volatile”.
That is exactly like leaving hydroelectric power out of the equation that tries to show how cost effective wind turbines are...
Well, yes.
I live a frugal life, but I made onion soup This weekend, It was $12 for onions, bread, beef broth and bacon.
(I should have asked for beef bones vs broth)
I used wine I already had, and cheese I already had. and I only used a 1/4 of the bacon, so the rest goes toward breakfasts.
$12! believe me I was frugal.
Got a bigol pot of delicious soup though.
Wha’s an owlhead?
Like a lemon squeezer without the squeezer?
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