That’s true, you have to pay attention. I noticed that with the shredded cheese when I made Lasagna this past week. I noticed quite some time back that Northern had not only raised the price of their toilet paper, they also took about 1/4 inch off the width. That was the last time I bought their product.
We use the Costco/Kirkland brand. I did the math on it and it is WAY cheaper to buy that in bulk there.
Lasagna is a sore spot with me, and has been for a number of years. I'm obviously like you and make it from scratch, heck I've even been known to make my own noodles for it. However, so many people can't be bothered and just by the frozen stuff (Stouffer's is good, I will admit that) which is so much more expensive by portion. A couple years ago I offered to teach a woman I know how to make it (and a lot of other things) herself in order to save money. To this day she still buys all prepackaged crap and people wonder why she and her kids are obese and her husband has heart problems. She just refuses to learn how to cook. If it can't be thrown in the oven or the microwave she doesn't buy it.
She has a 12yo and a 7yo. The 7yo outweighed my 12yo when she was 4, and now outweighs me. Her 12yo outweighed me when she was 8 and outweighed my husband by the time she was 10.
And people wonder why I make so much from scratch, rather than prepackaged.
We use the Costco/Kirkland brand. I did the math on it and it is WAY cheaper to buy that in bulk there.
Unfortunately, I live out in the boonies and have no easy access to any of the "club" stores. The nearest Sam's Club is 50 miles and Costco is over 100 miles. I do what I can with my local supermarket and WalMart.
TP started downsizing way back in the 80s. The other day I was, uh, hmm, using some and noticed it just wasn't folding right. Yep, it was smaller widthways. Notice how much smaller the rolls are from the holder. Rolls used to fit the rollers nicely but now days they are thinner and shorter. The so called big double rolls are still smaller than what they used to be.
Oh, also noticed a cake mix box the other day that was shorter than others Pillsbury boxes. The yellow cake mix, store brand, I used today for the upthread pig cake looked a bit skimpy when I poured it into the pan and it took work to get it to cover the bottom. I just looked and some are 18 oz and others are 18.25 oz. I don’t usually buy cake mixes but it looks like they’re starting to short mixes now.
Yeah, my canister set is from the early 70s so the flour and the sugar both are sized for 5 lb bags.