I’m getting mighty sick of these packages shrinking - I know they are doing it to keep costs down (after the initial spending on re-packaging)and the prices keep going up anyways...*sigh* (Just think of how bad prices would be without the shrinking food....)
Recipes are starting to get messed up with the packaging shift - I think we may all end up weighing stuff like they do in Europe instead of saying ‘a can of this’ ‘a bag of that’ - the amounts are all off now....getting worse everyday.
Even messing with the sodium/fat contents on packaged items in recipes screws them up - they don’t act like they once did in recipes.
I am getting tired of the changes as well. Every once in a while when I am too tired to cook dinner from scratch, I will cook up some pasta roni and just throw some cooked chicken, bacon, or some other leftover meat and some frozen veggies in with it for our dinner. There was a time many years ago when I could feed the whole family on just one box of pasta roni. Now it takes 3 boxes to feed the family.
They also have done something with their recipe over the years as I find that the fettuccini noodles seem to get rather mushy unless I shorten their cooking time and use a little less water when I cook it.