I was making tuna salad the other day, and had to open three cans instead of my usual two. We’re being charged double for the packaging that holds less—
Same here. Someone on FR mentioned a few months ago they'd noticed it and sure enough there's less and less in a small can. I'm having to open twice as much. It's all water. I used to just have enough drained water to give to the cat, but now there's enough for the two dogs as well and we're talking bowlfuls. That tells me a lot.
We only have one grocery here in podunkville and there seems to be less and less variety. We've lived here forever so I know to keep the grocery list to just the basics but I've been coming home with 2/3rds of the list not filled. Twice in the last two months I've had to travel out of town to try to complete my plain simple boring grocery list and I still can't find some items. During the past 6 months, they've also been playing at not having advertised specials. This is HEB, which is a Texas chain so they should have what's advertised. Something else, they've been cutting back on the "regular" two brands (HEB and Hill Country Fair) and adding their higher priced "big city gourmet" brand (Central Market). Excuse me, but this is a retirement community and the customers have limited incomes and can't afford these higher priced products.
I've been trying to stock up on .50 cent canned goods but it's been hit and miss if they have any stocked that week. One week they may have corn but not peas but the next week they may have peas but not green beans. It's all rather strange and aggravating.
And prices ARE going up. The Blue Diamond almonds I was getting for $1.98 are now double what they were three weeks ago. Milk and eggs are up. Meat is out of this world. Any weekly ads on meat are also in tight supply as they'll put out 2-4 packages and that's it.
But the freezer is full. Now, please don't let the heat kill the freezer.
Lot of that going on right now. Been switching to generic/store brand, over name-brand, on lots of products lately because of it.
(such as....the incredibly shrinking Bay's English Muffins)
I agree with you on that statement. With the older cans I could squeeze the water out and the lid would be just over 1/4" from the top. Now it is about halfway down. I noticed the cheese in plastic jars was almost totally sold out at our local grocery store after church today.
What’s a good brand of tuna?
The other day, wanting to make a tuna sandwich, I opened three cans of ‘white CHUNK albacore’ and it was all practically the consistency of soup. How can they get away with this rip-off?
My wife taught me to shake the cans softly from side to side and listen to the amount of liquid in each can.
More tuna= Less liquid.
I still don’t know why I didn’t think of that first.